to be, quote, the duly elected and qualified electors from their states, which they emphatically were not. well, since we ve been reporting on this this week, we have learned that one of the people who apparently signed one of these forged documents asserting he was an elector appears now to be a republican united states senate candidate in arizona, a man named james lamon. he wants to run against mark kelly. he appears to have signed this forged document asserting he was a dually elected elector from the state of arizona when he was not. we have reached out to mr. lamon for comment but haven t heard back from him about his apparently role in this forged document scandal. we also have tracked down some footage of the proverbial crime being committed, footage of the republicans who took part
what they called quick reaction forces, just outside the district whereio they stockpile weapons presumably ready to be able to access them on short notice and come blazing in. and these you know, these stocks of oath keepers began heading toward the capitol and up the capitol steps, become a sort of point of the spear for actually breaking into the seat of the nation s government. according to today s indictment there was not one but two stacks of oath keepers who breached the capitol different places. apparently one part of one of those stacks was specifically looking to try to find speaker nancy pelosi.om ksadhevetoh ffe the indictment says, quote, just before 1:30 p.m. in response to a claim by an oath keeper a affiliate that antifa breached the capitol. mr. rhodes said, nope, i m right here. these are patriots. rhodes wrote, pence is doing nothing. all i see trump doing is complaining.te i see no intent by him to do anything. the patriots are taking it into their own hands. they
i mean, it s not illegal to have crazy ideas. it s kind of illegal to forge election-related documents, right? was it illegal in any of these states to forge these kinds of election-related documents and to try to pass them off as real? asked to comment on that this week by the detroit news, a spokesperson for the attorney general s office in michigan told the detroit news basically stay tuned, quote, that matter is part of an investigation into election-related matters. we are not currently in a position to share specifics as the review remains ongoing. an ongoing investigation, do you say? really. count me intrigued. both the attorney general of the great state of michigan, dana nestle, and the secretary of the great state of michigan, jocelyn bessson, are going to join us live here next. stay with us. bessson, are going live here next stay with us
we know further that michigan republicans who signed the forged document claiming to be electors from that state, they actually did send it to the national archives as if it was a real don t. we know that because on january 8th last year, two days after the attack on the capitol, the national archives in washington sent a copy of that forged document back to michigan, sent it to the state government in michigan, quote, for your awareness. quote, for your awareness we received today unofficial certificates from the republican electors who were not appointed by the governor. i have attached a scan of what we received for your information. because this did not come from the michigan secretary of state s office, we will not be adding the documents to the electoral college website. again, that s the national archives this time last year letting michigan s real elected officials know that this forgery had been senten in purporting to be michigan s electoral votes, and the archives made clear
tuesday and go into session on tuesday to vote on voting rights. he just said on the senate floor, quote, make no mistake, the session will vote on voting legislation beginning on tuesday, and if the senate republicans choose obstruction over protecting the sacred right to vote as we expect them to, the senate will consider and vote on changing the senate rules. that will happen on tuesday. that s just news. nator schumer said it on the senate floor. that is not how anybody was expecting it to go. i don t know. more ahead. stay with us. more ahead stay with us