and she says, well, the judges are corrupt. and i was like every one? every single case that you ve done in the country, you guys lost, every one of them is corrupt? even the ones we appointed? and what s i m being nice. i was much more harsh to her. the meeting very nearly devolved into a physical fight. flynn screamed at me that i was a quitter and everything, kept on standing up and turning around and screaming at me. and then a certain point i had it with him, though, and i yelled back, either come over or set your ass back down. i m going to categorically describe it as you guys are not tough enough. or maybe i put it another way, you re a bunch of . excuse the expression, but that s - i m almost certain the word was used. i mean, if it had been me sitting in his chair, i would have fired all of them that night and had him escorted out of the building. the january 6 committee discovered text messages sent
declared this a riot, trump tweeted out a link to his speech on the ellipse, the very one that had helped incite that riot. realizing the severity of the situation, white house counsel pat cipollone rushed to mark meadows, the president s chief of staff. and i remember pat saying to him something to the effect of the rioters have gotten to the capitol, mark. we need to go down and see the president now, and mark looked up at him and said he doesn t want to do anything, pat. it s over! you better run, cops! right as the violence surged, trump tweeted mike pence didn t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution. it was the last thing that was really needed in that moment. it pretty much painted a target on the vice president s back by tweeting that out. hang mike pence!
soon after the call ended, trump would repeat his dangerous lies and put a target on vice president pence. i hope mike is going to do the right thing. i hope so. and mike pence is going to have to come through for us. as that speech neared its end, inside the capitol the senate and house of representatives are meeting in joint session to verify the certificates and count the votes of the electors. but outside headed their way i ve got three men walking down the street carrying ar-15. g everyone!.hey! buy one pair, get one free for back to school. visionworks. see the difference. at the alzheimer s association walk to end alzheimer s, this is why we walk. they re why we walk. we walk in the alzheimer s association
the united states take a moment to mark your ballots. - on december 14, 2020, all 50 u.s. states formerly certified their results as their citizens had voted. the resolution is unanimously adopted. and that, according to the january 6 committee, is what led to a boisterous white house meeting where the former president considered horrifying action. on december 18, three people, one of them trump s former national security adviser mike flynn, his lawyer, sidney powell, and patrick byrne, the founder of overstock.com, were let into the white house by an aide to peter navarro, another trump adviser. trump saw them, called them into the oval office, and they start arguing the case where everyone else is failing trump and that trump can take aggressive actions to keep himself in power, and to try to impact the results of an election that he had already lost. they suggested that he used the apparatus of government to
bowers says giuliani wanted him to hold an official arizona house hearing to air these claims publicly. and then i said, but what s the whole purpose of this? what are you trying to achieve? and they said, well, we ve heard that there s an arcane law in arizona that if you have sufficient cause, that you can throw out the biden electors and put in trump electors. and i said, that s a new one to me. i have never, ever heard of that. and so now you re asking me to do something that s against my oath. and i m not going to do that. but bowers says he told giuliani he had good lawyers and would be happy to put the former mayor in touch with them. i don t do anything of this magnitude without having strong legal counsel and proof. and the president says, rudy,