attempted coup is key tailed in this nearly 400 page senate report. trump directly asked justice department officials nine times to undermine the result and when the former president considered replacing then acting attorney general jeffery rosen with loyalist jeffrey clark a doj lawyer who supported the election lies white house counsel pat sip loney threatened to quit. he spoke up and said he thought this scenario and what they were trying to achieve was a murder-suicide pact and the president should not do it. reporter: the committee report is the most comprehensive account so far of trump s wide ranging plot. new revelations include accounts from inside the oval office on january 3rd when trump blamed former u.s. attorney for failing to find mass election fraud in georgia and wanted him fired. that prompted acting deputy attorney general richard donahue to call him that night to tell him to resign which he did. republicans have already issued a rebuttal to the report dismissing
former president trump s ability to overturn inability to overturn the election was not for lack of trying. rioters stormed the capitol and had every intention of inflicting violence on members of congress, former vice president mike pence, but again, former president trump is the figurehead of the republican party. you know, they ve already made their bed and now they just, this is a never ending cycle we ve been talking about for six yoers and because january 6th and the idea the election was fraudulent is so central to trumpism republicans will continue to go along with it. the last point on this, it is unbelievable how many of the republicans who are pretending this was normal, didn t happen, or that there was fraud or whatever, unbelievable how many of them who are participating in this lie to their voters were on the same ballots elected by the same people the same day but somehow their elections were fine. thanks one and all. appreciate it. pfizer asks the fda to authori
are going to decrease as less haitian migrants come to the border but they are hanging on to this authority publicly and in court. i should note too homeland security secretary mayorkas will be in mexico this week and immigration enforcement is you said it s a bipartisan condemnation of the biden administration, but would you also agree that there are people in congress and in the media who might be a little bit more exercised right now if this was going on under trump as opposed to biden? that s a great question, and that is a question that actually comes up in the hearings, and republicans and democrats are going to use either administration to condemn the policies. in fact, we saw this on the border yesterday with texas governor greg abbott who said the biden administration needs to bring back trump era policies. the trump era policies are in place. these are crises that keep happening and they re being aggravated by the covid pandemic. and the fact that people want to blame a
result from this? how do you prevent it from happening again? that is really what a lot of this ultimately comes down to is it is not just about investigating and producing a report. it is actually coming up with some kind of meaningful consequences so that you don t end up with another constitutional crisis especially since former president trump may well run for office again and may well be in the white house again. absolutely. i have to admit i am still capable of being shocked if not surprised. the fealty shown by republicans on the senate judiciary committee today ranking member chuck grassley who in the past has stood up for moral causes and been one of the biggest boosters of whistle-blowers in the history of congress out there saying, you know, yes he basically, i m paraphrasing, yes, president trump talked about committing a coup but he didn t really actually do it. you have something you call the