department and whether trump goes to court or congress pursues civil or criminal contempt, these executive privilege claims are not going to hold water. so okay. if that s not going to happen then they re going to come in and talk but they re going to limit what they say as best they can and they ll be coached. then you have what we saw in the rebuttal which is that the republicans i m telling you i ve never seen anything like that rebuttal before. i know this story is the main report, the nine times he tried to use doj. that rebuttal would never make it through a law school class for any kind of moot court situation. they basically say, well he didn t succeed at any of this. what is the big deal? he didn t use the doj. he just tried. this coup attempt wasn t unreasonable. just think of the words, norm.
will do anything to hide. one guy is literally in hiding. dan scavino and now cnn has learned trump may try to block the january 6 committee from getting information from those subpoenaed. lie, deny, and now defy. remember, we define that as the triple play of trumpery. according to the washington post a trump attorney instructed his former advisers not to comply with congressional investigators and with good reason. they clearly may have damaging information. the senate judiciary committee just made that obvious in a new report about january 6th titled subverting justice. nearly 400 pages and they have the receipts. we ll give you some of the biggest headlines tonight but i argue that the obvious headlines about the main report aren t the real thing to focus on. the rebuttal from the gop is what you must look at.
ranking member chuck grassley s office put out this report, the president pro tempore emeritus of the senate defending trump s coup attempt multiple times as, ready? not unreasonable. do you think they would therefore offer what was a reasonable basis for him to question the election let alone try to overturn it? they don t. but again, this is not about logic. the proof of grassley s perfidy bad faith is clear from the past. after the capitol attack senator grassley said this. the courts didn t back up trump s claims. he belittled and harassed elected officials across the country to get his way. he encouraged his own loyal vice president mike pence to take extraordinary and
board with the big lie. while you guys are arguing over how much money to put in this plan how worried are you that your mid-term elections are marred before they begin? that any race they don t like they ll say is rigged and half the country is ready to believe it? chris, that is one of the ways in which i see our democracy steadily being undermined from within. by republicans who know better being willing to stay onboard with president trump, former president trump s big lie about the 2020 election. even bill barr, his incredibly loyal former attorney general, has in print said that he knew that the claims of fraud in the election were bs and what you re seeing today in this report from the senate judiciary committee is that president trump didn t try to inappropriately muscle the acting leader of the department of justice into buying into his fraud claims about the election once not
aka attempted. for example, if i try to rob you but i fail, it s not okay. we all get this. and so do trump s defenders. but this is not about logic. ranking member chuck grassley s office put out this report, the president pro tempore emeritus of the senate defending trump s coup attempt multiple times as, ready? not unreasonable. do you think they would therefore offer what was a reasonable basis for him to question the election let alone try to overturn it? they don t. but again, this is not about logic. the proof of grassley s per fid bad faith is clear from the past. after the capitol attack senator grassley said this. the courts didn t back up trump s claims. he belittled and harassed