before appendix. this week we ll examine one pernicious aspect of trump s efforts to stay in power, in chapter five, cool in search of a legal theory. the chapter details the lengths to which donald trump, his lawyer john eastman, knowingly pushed an illegal scheme to have then vice president mike pence unilaterally throw out joe biden s victory and hand the presidency to trump s. yesterday we spoke to committee member jamie raskin of maryland about the criminal referrals the committee made against trump in some of his closest allies and why he thinks trump is likely to go to prison for his attempted coup. and while the report does an excellent and thorough job of centering donald trump s culpability, as the main first, as the man first and foremost responsible for the attempted coup an insurrection, it also extensively catalog several some of his key enablers played in facilitating his corrupt scheme. like the aforementioned john eastman, the cool mentioned earlier, as well
hundreds. i don t get it. i m glad i made it back to nyc especially with that epidemic that the hallmark channel keeps covering. so, let s talk about the latest twitter files. earliest this we are it was shown the government went against twitter classifying content as misinformation. it was easy to miss if you started the week like i did it sing mashed potatoes and drinking beer in your bathrobe. thanks for the tip, julie. any time. you re so lucky it was too cold for hotel staff to put knew a manger. anyway a lot of us had already figured the government was influencing covid content on twitter so it s not shocking to see it confirmed. but, much like the 49th time tristan thompson got busted che cheating on chloe the fact is not making is what makes it egregious. i didn t come up with that kardashian analogy. i got it from kudlow news letter. he s into it. the government shouldn t be able to get away with manipulating narratives because we are so used to hearing about it
just maybe things in this country would snap back into something resembling a pre-trump normal. dangerous elements of the far right would crawl back into their dark caves and corners that want harm done to the foundations of our most prized institutions, relentlessly maligned for years under donald trump would repair themselves. maybe even overnight. simply because trump is no longer the person sitting behind the resolute desk. sadly it appears that any of those hopes were in vain. more proof this afternoon that the destruction he left in his unhinged wake, the moral wrought he spread quietly continues to spread to this day inside some of our most important and revered institutions. considering chilling new reporting in today s the new york times, cataloging attacks on the fbi. the piece centers in part on a somewhat dishonest effort by a group of former agents calling themselves the suspendables. they wrote a letter earlier this month of accusing the fbi from discriminatin
the january six committee went ahead and did it, they published and released the lon awaited final report productive 18 months of work nearly 1000 pages on the par that i ve read shocking, revelatory laying out the crimes of donal trump and his coconspirators i a clear fashion. crown for one of the off - he told in interviewer tha trump could quote, spend the remaining days of hi misanthropic life behind bars. presumably secret servic agents that s a crazy numbers show madeleine. a bold statement from someon who is fairly measured so, what makes the report make raskin say that given the sheer volume of material, those of us who haven t read through all of it can be forgiven. i assume that you re not - using the same boat i am that s why we re gonna g through the final report here. looking at who s read it closely. obviously a ton of information we re gonna get to we want to start tonight with particularly revealing section it s chapter five which is titled a coup in searc
decides with another group of passengers to rent a car drive 20 hours to their destination together. that is exactly what some of our guests tonight did. in a little while, i will introduce you to this group of total travel total strangers, who had a quite an adventure when they decided to drive from tampa to cleveland together and they reported their trip and it went viral. meanwhile, ten billion people across the south are under freeze alerts. and the death toll from the storm is dry saying. at least 49 people have died across the country. 27 of those are in the buffalo area. authorities fear that they will find more bodies in cars as they begin to dig out from what is being called the worst storm in the region s history. you can see some of it there. while police have their hands full with rescues, stores are being looted. i will talk to a supermarket messenger who spent christmas eve washing his store who got broken into. i want to bring in now cnn s miguel marquez, he s