eastman i don t remember why he called me, or he texted me or called me, wanted to talk with me. and he said he couldn t reach others. and he started to ask me about something dealing with georgia preserving something, potentially for appeal. and i said to him are you out of your f-ing mind? i said i only want the hear two words coming out of your mouth from now on. orderly transition. i don t want to hear any other f-ing words coming out of your mouth no matter what other than orderly transition. repeat those words to me. what did he say? eventually he said orderly transition. i said good, john. now i m going to give you the best free legal advice you re ever getting in your life. get a great f-ing criminal defense lawyer. you re going to need it. and i hung up on him. in just a moment, we ll be joined by maryland democratic chairman jamie raskin who serves on the committee. right now we want the take a closer look at another key item the committee highlighted
money, and he didn t want to it stop. and you could see even from the report you just made, that money continued to go to different members in his political entourage, including mark meadows and others who were still supporting the trump political network. but, you know, eastman really was the final card that they played, the so-called base sweep. essentially to deny and overthrow the electoral college majority that joe biden had assembled. and to overthrow that required vice president pence to step outside of his proper constitutional role and function and declare unilateral lawless powers to nullify electoral college votes that had been certified by the governors of the states and sent in. and then they thought that either trump could be declared