and member. judiciary committee, democrat patrick leahy of vermont. senator leahy, does this sound like a threat to you coming from the former president? it sounds definitely like a threat. i cannot believe i would ever hear this from somebody running for office or in office. i was a prosecutor for eight years. to think that somebody would run for a high office and say, you can conduct any kind of criminal contact you want. don t worry. if you re doing it to support me, i m give you a pard on wheni get there. you know, as prosecutor, i d say, this has to be, somebody s making this up. it couldn t be real. and yet when you were there on january 6th, as i was, look out and i see them putting a noose up to hang the vice president, if he didn t throw the election out. i see people storming through, i could smell the tear gas, could see the i could see the