coast. we have a new special report for you right now, focusing on the specific plans for the bloodless coup during the postelection period after trump lost in 2020, as president elect biden prepar to take power, few people knew then how this coup plot wa working. the new report details a comprehensive effort, much o it unseen by an unknown to the general public to overturn the votes. the idea was to do it throug politicians, not violence. and that trump would attempt t stay in power in a way tha might have worked. had enough officials gone alon with the plot. winning candidates don t nee to change results when the have a victory trump and his team had a loss. this report is new testimony from trump s campaign manage or - as the ap called the race fo biden, i think some surroundin the president looking for thes different avenues to pursue. that s when he remembered th first time the concept o having to overturn - came up. a white house aide was pushing a truly bananas plan
[inaudible] break the line we need backup there they went we know how it went from there nick question joins us now. welcome. thank you for having me absolutely. we show that line, i worke briefly in the united states senate those are areas and building that are so fortified that eve watching it back it is not fully capture what a breach it was, how unthinkable was tha day now that we ve all lived through it you are there. and i m curious as we look a this report how much of it you might have been through. how much do you think this committee s work, which you ve been a direct witness for, has
to steal the election with a made-up slate of electors. maybe that s how you say, vote fraud if you speak newsmax but there is no alternat competitive slate of electors. there s a state biden won, there s a lawfully certify the electors and then there s these guy coming in doing fraud. everyone knew biden won in the streets. so how would sending in that fraud or that would return fraud or imagin electors in michigan i pennsylvania, how does tha actually help trump stay i office we have not got into tha tonight. and much of the coverage has not got to that i m gonna do it for you now the special report it s part of the criminal case and it s what doj needs to decide this new report makes the trut point that the plotters did no think sending around elector fraud would magically delive trump to win having a bunch of made-up could drive the chaos this is all weeks before trump was pushing the january 6t
first time the concept o having to overturn - came up. a white house aide was pushing a truly bananas plan to ge republican officials, in state that biden won to basically ri it that s the way they talk that was the idea. rick an election that ha already occurred commit massive elector and voter fraud and, get quote every ray red state legislatur to slate zero electors meaning you re gonna replace biden but they just won t slate hi electors to do this, he wrote, we hav to jack it up to the ninth degree as a battle of tribes now, whatever you think of the rhetoric, it was not just on rogue aide the new report shows the backe of the plot, including trump s son, chief of staff, lawyers former cabinet members, former house speaker, gingrich, and other loyal aides. when you look at this crew a
free and fair election and he began as soon as that election was overt working t make sure the next electio would not be free and fair he had a series of plans, he had planned plan b the coup attempt is plan b plan a was to put muscle on th government of ukraine to manufacture a scandal to besmirch the likely opponent joe biden. and for abrogate a bogus accusation of some kind of corruption i think, therefore, there actually a powerful coincidenc of this report being release immediately after the visit to washington of the intended - of that blackwell project, the president of ukraine if volodymyr zelenskyy hav been a little less brave facin donald trump, and we now kno the measure with bravery he would ve yielded back wit the first plan and then trump would not hav had to do the coup because he would ve had a fixe scandal that he could have attacked joe biden with that was plan a. and he was driven to plan