outside game legal strategy is using his house republican allies to manufacture those alternative facts. trump smears the justice department as, quote, weaponized and voila, you have a weaponization committee. that appears in the house. trump then describes the criminals who are serving time in prison after having attacked at the capitol on january six, as hostages. voila, congresswoman elise stefanik uses determine hostages too in her eternal quest to embarrassed and the base herself for donald trump's favor. that appears to have been a bridge too far for at least some republicans, with texas senator john cornyn pointing at the obvious, quote, somebody who's been duly convicted of a federal crime is not a hostage. that's an important point. it was not the justice department that convicted the january six criminals, it was mainly juries. ordinary citizens who heard the evidence and unanimously agreed that these insurrectionists were guilty and donald trump was indicted in new york,