The violence at the capitol on january 6th, 2021 was just the most visible part of Donald Trumps attempt to hold on to power. Tonight, we talk to those who witnessed the whole plot unfurl and tried to stop it. The lines this election was stolen from you, from me, from the country. If you ask how Many Republican congressmen believe donald trump was reelected, i would say maybe a couple. But 60 of our base does. Conspiracy theories that could have been mickey mouse. This is the craziest thing ive ever seen. And people just bought it. Lawsuits. They tried to not have your votes count. They did not want your vote to count. Potentially illegal Pressure Campaigns. I just want to find 11,780 votes. What he was asking for wasnt supported by the facts. Wasnt supported by the constitution. Extraordinary scheming. Lets talk about this. Just Breath Taking that you would have laid out such a clear game plan that so clearly violated the constitution. And all too many in the Republican Party we belie
republicans acknowledged his defeat. he tweeted, too soon to give up. increasingly concerning paths forward. i got a tip from someone that there had been a really intense, bizarre oval office meeting. sydney powell had been offering a conversation being made special counsel within the house to investigation election fraud. i found out that mike flynn, the former lieutenant general and national security adviser was fired very early on in the trump administration, was talking about seizing the voting machines and rerunning the election. it was incredibly jarring that there was a conversation in the oval office with a former military leader talking about a seizure of voting machines. and flynn publicly spoke about this. he said a version of it at
and his chief of staff mark meadows broke with longstanding policy and pressured the doj to look into election fraud claims. the wildest theory was this thing called italygate. mark meadows sent an email to the acting attorney general at the time asking him to look into this theory that there was some italian contractor who was using satellites to change vote tallies on machines, voting machines, in the united states. on a december 27th call with the new acting attorney general, jeffrey rosen, trump pushed him to, quote, just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressman. trump knows, if the justice department goes out and raises questions about corruption or fraud, just saying that they re investigating, looking into it, that allows republican