hayes tonight on this special two hour edition of all in. it was an hour-long shouting match in the oval office which nearly ended in a fistfight. there was almost a physical brawl between a top white house aide and former trump national security adviser michael flynn. i am referring of course to that now infamous a white house meeting in december 2020. flynn, along with a crew of trump s lawyers like rudy giuliani presented an avalanche of baseless claims of election fraud while the white house lawyers debunked all of them. at that meeting, sydney powell presented trump with the draft executive order that would have directed the military to seize our nation s voting machines. part of that plan we have also been by sydney carroll herself, a special counsel and could have impose martial law and required everyone run of the election. obviously that didn t thankfully end up happening. they mutinous ideas pitched in the oval office meeting a date not exist in they are part of a
here is astonishing and i think that one of the things that jack smith and his team are trying to do is show that whatever trump was trying to do to overturn the election, whether it was raising money under fraudulent pretenses or going out and sending alternate states of electors to congress, under similarly false pretenses, that the entire time he was advised repeatedly by people in his campaign and people on the white house staff that the underlying facts of the alleged fraud weren t facts at all and they were dead wrong and if there was nothing wrong with the election results they were trying to overturn. and i think that s the importance of sauce in some respects of the meeting the talk about a moment ago. so paul, if jack smith can prove that donald trump s lawyers knew that they were pressuring both these claims, what kind of repercussions could they be up against? some lawyers have already face repercussions from the
says, quote, reflects arguments that john eastman, a lawyer allied with president trump, was making about vice president mike pence, namely that he had the power to refuse to certify the electoral count. in addition to what politico is reporting, the national archives confirms it is compiling documents on fake electoral college certificates from republicans in arizona, nevada, wisconsin, michigan, and georgia, who would have been trump s electors had he won. you are looking at video of some of these electors actually signing those certificates that claims they, the trump electors, were legitimate and qualified to cast their electoral college ballots for donald trump. here is the catch. they were not. all five of those states were won by president biden. and still more evidence that these false claims of fraud weren t just words but for some a call to action. today the fbi arrested a man who made numerous threats to