Will the support in the party continue to grow. The fake charges put forth by Thet Biden Sham indictment, i would assume hes mentally ill. Will his top rivals rally around him or start to attack and can our democracy survive this challenge . My guests this morning, john lura and jamie raskin, a member of the january 6th attorney and the former lead january 6th impeachment manager. Joining me for insight and be analysis are hallie jackson, peter baker, republican strategist al cardenes and Kimberly Atkins stohr. Welcome to sunday. Its Meet The Press. Announcer from nbc news washington, the longest running show in television history, this is Meet The Press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. Voters next fall may be faced with an unprecedented choice, whether to put former President Donald Trump back into the white house or to essentially sign off on his sentencing if he is convicted and send him to a prison or a Secret Service protected home. The latest indictment accuses trump to defr
finish. all of this was lit at this gated. you re likeit the biden don t get into politics with me. i m getting legal with you. mr. lauro go ahead. you re trying to create a confrontation for no reason but go ahead. no. i don t want to, chuck, i m just trying tohu let you know that t criminal rules are different than whatal you re talking abou. in a criminal case the government has a burden of proof. we don t have any requirement to prove anything.re all we have to do is put the government to its test and one of the things that we ll be showing at trial is there were these institutional anomaies where state election officials unlawfully broke the law and mr. trump was entitled to petition l government and assert that he s right. that s part of the first amendment election. we don t have to prove fraud. all we have to do is president trump was acting with his
to use his ceremonial role to fraudulently not certify the election t results and he still tried to persuade members of congress to prevent pr certification. in many ways, the predicate was set here on day one of the trump administration. the president directed his aides to insist on a lie about his inaugural crowd size and a day later here on meet the president the president s counselor, kellyanne conway, offered this awkwarday explanation. you re saying it s a falsehood and they re given sean spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that. okay wait a minute. alternative facts? alternative facts are not facts, they re falsehoods. his presidency began with alternative facts and apparently ended with alternate electors.