Evening. And the Rachel Maddow show starts right now. You. Just lived my nightmare. I know. This was going to come out while i was live on the air. Your staff had a betting pool on it. We did. Whoever won the betting pool was supposed to get tacos. You got tacos anyway. We got tacos for everybody at 8 00 anyway. I couldnt wait any more. It worked, because i got it. We brought the tacos, we did not bring your staff any tacos, well make that up to you tomorrow. Usually when i start this show at 9 00 p. M. Eastern, i have a script that i have written because there are things in the news that i would like to tell you about. Tonight there is no script because im going to go through what we just learned from the special Councils Office, im going to go through it with you,
basically as i am learning this. This just came out within the last 30 minutes, god bless chris hayes who was able to very ably digest this, handle, go to the i think the key elements of it right away, bring in lots of Expe
and secondly, his date for producing documents was november 23rd. there doesn t seem to be any urgency to the committee taking any steps to get him to respond to that or taking any other steps in view of that. so the judge basically says there s no urgency here. secondly, she says his lawyers failed to follow the federal rules of the way you would normally do this sort of thing. so back to the lawsuit, what flynn is trying to do here is get the subpoena thrown out. he says, as you note, it would violate his first amendment rights. he says it inquires into his political views. he says it touches on matters that might involve a criminal investigation, so it violates his fifth amendment rights. and then he also says that the house committee doesn t have the proper legal authority to do this because of the way it was set up under house rules and because it doesn t have a legislative purpose. those are all similar arguments to what are being raised in these lawsuits that have been filed by
capabilities and he could place them in those states and basically re-run an election in each of those states. it s not unprecedented. i mean, these people out there talking about martial law as if it s something we ve never done, we ve done martial law has been instituted 64, 64 times, greg. barb, has horrifying as that is to listen to now, as horrifying as it was to listen to at the time he said it, he s talking seizing voting machines and invoking a national emergency. what do you think the panel is seeking from him? i think they want information. what was he saying to donald trump? who was involved in the planning of the january 6th attack on the capitol? who was involved in financing that? what was the end game here? so i think flynn is a witness. he is somebody who knows a lot about what was being said at the willard hotel, what was said at the oval office meeting.
can yield if there is a more significant public interest, like joe biden has found with regard to the documents in the archives. attorney/client privilege is also out there. but the fifth amendment is strong, it s a right that all of us have. i don t impute any guilt to anybody, but you have to have a well-founded fear of criminal prosecution and two, you have to assert it on a question by question basis, you can t just say therefore i don t have to show up. it s not all over because they ve asserted the fifth. mike flynn is scheduled to be deposed tomorrow by the committee. listen to what flynn said last year, roughly six weeks after trump lost the election. he could order the umm, within the swing states, if he wanted to he could take military
happen here. former national security adviser appearing to endorse a military coup here in the united states. trump won! he won the popular vote here and he won the electoral college vote. michael flynn spent memorial weekend at a conference in dallas, attended by the supporters. so, too, did sidney powell, part of the former president s election legal team. powell who represented flynn said monday that media had grossly distorted flynn s comments. she denied flynn had encouraged violence or a military insurrection but she didn t explain what flynn had had meant. powell herself spoke of removing biden from office over the weekend. we re definitely in unchartered territory. there are cases where elections have been overturned. but there is never been one that the presidential level which everybody will jump to point out. that doesn t mean it can t be done. it should be.