familiar, remember, that s not the theory when the justice department use when it first opened the pro. it wasn t even the original view of congress, hence the name january 6th committee. so was this just a riot that got out of control? was it ultimately a trump ploy that mike pence heroically stopped? those are common explanations we have heard overtime. they are wrong. the evidence available now enables us to report tonight something that we could not go to air with, say, in january 2021. this was a full coup conspiracy. american democracy may turn on whether enough people know that fact. and this evidence were gonna go through tonight, it cuts to the heart of accountability for that coup conspiracy. for its leader. and it s premeditated plotters and enablers. most of whom never to take a physical step into storming the capital that they. which brings us back to the difference between an attack on one day, on january 6th, and a wider coup attempt.
and we now know another republican was texting trump s top aide also in november, encouraging the state legislators to do that plot. and mark meadows, that chalk chief of staff to trump at the time said, quote, i love it. at the time, giuliani s briefings to state legislators that seemed to many as another desperate misdirection, or reduced as pr. the memos were not public then. now, it looks different. now, it is clearly a part of an organized written coup conspiracy, getting local republicans to go toss the votes. and, if the narrow other paths narrowed by december 7th, there were working on another clue about this elector fraud, as meadows, not only saying that he loved it, now saying, quote, he was working on that as of yesterday. mr. meadows thought that that
this intensified, lawyers arguing that mike pence could abuse his ceremonial role, not just to open votes on this, but to count them. they argued pence would be the ultimate arbiter. a point that trump advocated in public and that the evidence suggests would be discussed when he then held a meeting with republican lawmakers on december 21st for hours about what they would do. those plots are the context for trump s seeking doj interference with, but i will, say wasn t absurd kind of last-ditch conspiracy, where a more junior doj official, mr. clark, who had his home searched, was then demanding that the whole to doj should toss their own voters the decision back to biden. very few people think that would ve worked. but the reason it failed is because the doj resisted. pat cipollone, said, yes
needed to build on, and then he summons to people to be d.c. for the first time, quote, big protest on d.c. on january 6th. we ll be wild. that s the first time trump ever told supporters there was a place to come join this fight. and none of this happened in isolation. the evidence of trump s criminal intent is worse when all the facts are shown about the plots. so let s take a look. trump began the public operation to sabotage january 6th as a certified vote, which was criminal, only after hitting this dead-end in the field plot of the military coup. his lawyers warned him of the criminal issues here. the criminal intent and actions of the military plot. and he still moved continuously from that conspiracy to this one. now that s damning evidence if prosecutors are indicting a broader conspiracy. and the white house aide
and they could cancel their own citizens votes. g that they would be thif that s famils to something else under investigation, but that might make more sense together pence epithet. because he demanded georgia s top officials to join him in the kind of voter fraud. this, remember, all the arrows? this is on the same day as the call to the state legislators. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. so that was trying to get states to overturn. you have the seven pots, we ve mentioned the report, and then you have the u.s. congress. states rejected trump s demands, we do know that. even very red states. trump was left then pushing what was operationally an incomplete conspiracy. but a conspiracy not molest. because as the states, found the congress would be faced with the same sort of menu that wasn t really public evidence,