he would maybe be the best person to have. i mean, how mad can you get that joe biden? and a remarkable scene inside the capital, warehouse members protested senators on their way to vote down a federal right to abortion. all in starts right now. good evening everyone, i m ayman mohyeldin, in new york, in for chris hayes. the ex president knew the conclusion he wanted. he wanted to overturn the results of a free and fair election. he wanted to install himself as the winner. he just needed to manufacture a way to get there. and that is where john eastman comes into the picture. eastman, of course, is a lawyer, and a die hard trump ally who was the architect behind much of the attempted coup and in fact he even spoke at trump s january 6th rally at the lips, the one where trump incited the insurrection. all we are demanding of vice president pence is an afternoon at 1:00, we are in he let the legislatures of the states look into this, so that we get to the bottom of it, a
insights. i am ayman mohideen in new york. don t forget to catch me sundays at nine. with my good friend ali vouch. good, evening ali. good evening, my friend. we ll see you again tomorrow. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. the winner of the 2017 2016 election was donald trump. you will recall that while he won the electoral college, he did not win the popular vote. and in fact, in the weeks after election day, the margin of his popular vote loss kept growing. every day, every week, hillary clinton s lead in the popular vote kept increasing. it was one and a half million. it was 1.7 million. it was 2 million. ultimately, hillary clinton would win the popular vote by nearly 2.9 million votes. and the reason for this was california. you see, california famously takes a very long time to tally all its ballots because there are a lot of ballots there, for one thing. and as they counted their ballots, hillary clinton s popular vote margin kept increasing. this
insurrection. all we are demanding of vice president pence is an afternoon at 1:00, we are in he let the legislatures of the states look into this, so that we get to the bottom of it, and americans will find out whether they have control of the government or not. we no longer live in a self governing republic if we cannot get the answer to this question. this is bigger than president trump. it is a very essence of our republican former government and it has to be done. and anybody that is not willing to stand up and do it does not deserve to be in the office. all right, so, that is what eastman was saying publicly. but more notably is the work that he summoned was doing behind the scenes. he altered the now infamous coup memo, where he actually urged then vice president mike pence pence to literally throw at the results from seven states that joe biden had one before he, quote, gavels president trump as reelected. in order for that scheme to have work, trump and eastman n
stop them. they don t bow to public pressure. they are not a collective. and you now have people on the court, five of the nine are there because of people who didn t even win the popular vote. they are pushing for an agenda that doesn t respect the president. even some of them said before congress, so there is nothing to stop it. this is indeed an invasion of privacy issue, at least for the courts, on abortion. there are a lot of other decisions that are based on the position of privacy. what stops the court from pulling back? yeah, that s exactly the question i think is on everyone s mind as the story continues to develop. we charles blow, michelle goldberg, thank you very much. we greatly appreciated your
brilliance, they made them terribly flood decisions about our government. that s why originalist, those who believe the judgment by the court must conform to how the founders understood the constitution when it was written, are so dangerous. the original lists know that they can turn that clock back. they know the horrendous history of the court, and they want it to rise again. some very powerful words there. but what are you most concerned about as we sit on the precipice of losing abortion rights in america? and what that might mean for originals on the court? there s nothing to stop them. the supreme court is a counsel unto itself. there are very few checks on it other than to replace members when they die or resign. so there is nothing really to stop them. they don t bow to public pressure. they are not a collective. and you now have people on the court, five of the nine are there because of people who