coast. we have a new special report for you right now, focusing on the specific plans for the bloodless coup during the postelection period after trump lost in 2020, as president elect biden prepar to take power, few people knew then how this coup plot wa working. the new report details a comprehensive effort, much o it unseen by an unknown to the general public to overturn the votes. the idea was to do it throug politicians, not violence. and that trump would attempt t stay in power in a way tha might have worked. had enough officials gone alon with the plot. winning candidates don t nee to change results when the have a victory trump and his team had a loss. this report is new testimony from trump s campaign manage or - as the ap called the race fo biden, i think some surroundin the president looking for thes different avenues to pursue. that s when he remembered th first time the concept o having to overturn - came up. a white house aide was pushing a truly bananas plan
Katy tur picks things up. Im not sure that donald trump can speak fluent japanese. We have a team of reporters working on finding that out. We also have a team of reporters to break down Donald Trumps second bilateral meeting. That Press Conference that we justaw between donald trump and the Prime Minister of japan, shinzo abe. It has been a gruelling week for the new president. His major policy and major policy point, Executive Order struck down at least temporarily by the courts. That Press Conference we just saw touched on that. Lets get our viewers up to speed with the highlights and then well talk all about it on the other side. Im curious about yesterdays ruling in the ninth Circuit Court. Has it caused you to rethink your use of Executive Power and pow will you respond and will you sign new Executive Orders and perhaps a new travel ban . We are going to do whatever is necessary to keep our country
safe. We had a decision which we think will be very successful with. It shouldnt h
Consensus to change the rule given that everybody seemed to repudiate this behavior, i just seemed unnecessarily to go after the symbolic figure this broken man. let him live on his life none of that applies today we re in a situation where, in fact, donald trump - the majority was in his ow congressional party. he was able to determine nomination fights in 2022. and there is a broad mood amon many of his supporters tha what he did was permissible. that election shouldn t coun there should be other ways t overturn the state legislature there has to be a kind o reckoning with the top man in way that there did not have to be in 1974 yeah. you laid it out really well.
Ever going to return to public life. the federal government and the states were in the middle of passing a whole rash of new laws to ensure the kinds of things that led to watergate couldn t happen again. given that there was no prospect of richard nixon return to power. it just seemed unnecessarily punitive to go after this symbolic figure, this broken man. let him live out his life. none of that applies today. we re in a situation where in fact donald trump maintained to the end two impeachments basically the same crime. the majority support within his own party. he was able to determine nomination fights in 2022. he continues to raise money on a massive scale. and there is a broad mood among many supporters that what he did was permissible. and indeed, you see in many intellectual areas a more and
Court nomination fights? i have to say first of all, i wish i had as much hair as as i did back then. i do think it was a watershed moment but not for the reasons everyone tends to state. it was a watershed moment because it was an opportunity for the country to hear competing views of basic constitutional questions, like the one i was testifying about there about whether the constitution even though it doesn t say anything about bedroom privacy or sexual choice or the right to raise your children or any number of other rights is broad enough to encompass them. that was the first time the country, on national television, heard all of those ideas ventilated and the fact that judge bork was ultimately rejected because he rejected all of those rights and, in that way, frightened the american people many of them about his philosophy, represented a kind of turning point, a ratification of a broader view