overturn a free and fair election, whether that s part of other criminal acts, potential criminal acts, conspiracies would be the fodder for a justice department investigation which is now completely appropriate to undertake. what he s admitting to is this scheme to submit these alternate electoral slates in at least seven states here, actually submitted them and said, hey, these are the actual electors. in other words, donald trump won these states even though he didn t win these states and these electors will vote for him in the electoral college. is it clear exactly what law might have been broken there? it s not clear exactly, but here is what we know. think about this in the broader context of what we recently learned about this draft presidential order. in one respect, that order is comical, like an executive order version of the infamous rudy giuliani press conference at four seasons landscaping. in other respects it s chilling.