the effort to overthrow the government revenue present from taking power. first in the states, jim and up for the production regularity to justify the election results in those states where trump. they actually forged paperwork for claiming themselves to be the electors of that state, even though they weren t. that paperwork was sent into congress in the national archives to make it look like those states for electoral votes when they were not. that will happen in the states, level one is no states. level twos at the justice department. what they try to do is try and use the u.s. justice department four u.s. attorneys all the way up to the attorney generals office. they tried to use the justice department to give some kind of arab authority to these fake claims about fraud from the states. and to encourage the legislators and falsify the
it was about nixon s vice president and him running a bribery and extortion ring out of the white house. these young federal prosecutors, marilyn basically stumbled chiraz on a croak. it s an envoy up of cash in being a public official, they put together this criminal case against him even though he was the city vice president. it was all right in the middle of water creating, only things to those prosecutors that we didn t end up with president egg knew when nixon resigned in disgrace. it would ve been after the national trauma and disgrace of watergate. it would next have been president agony with a felon, presumably taking on both full of cash in the oval office instead of his vice presidential office. how does prosecutors not follow their case to the end and for stagnant to resign, that is what would ve happened. i still think it is just an absolutely amazing story. and it also turns out to be the very surprising origin story of
so number one was at the state level, two at the justice department, level three of the plot, which is the one that we saw the most of on january 6th, was the targeting of mike pence. specifically in his role actually opening and counting the electoral votes in congress on january 6th. it was all this pressure and intimidation directed at vice president pence personally from president trump and others part of the plot. the whole mob that stormed the capitol on january 6th, they were shouting, hang mike pence and trying to find mike pence, because they were directed to go pressure mike pence. they were the muscle. they were the physical intimidation behind that part of the scheme that targeted pence. the former president, former president trump, just last night put out one of his oddly punctuated statements with random words capitalized in which he said outright bluntly that he did want and expect pence to use that role in counting the electoral votes to actually overturn the election r
absolutely amazing story. and it also turns out to be the very surprising origin story of why the justice department thinks a sitting president can t be criminally indicted. even if they definitely commit terrible crimes where they are in office. it s under the twice impeached president that we just had. that whole construct that we just had that you can t indict a sitting president actually came from this bureau aga nightmare in the 1970s. i m so fascinated by the story, i ve learned a lot more in-app watch that podcast. the reason i m telling you this is because it is now going to be a movie. ben stiller s going to direct, it he is incredible. one of the producers of the film is lorne michaels, yes that lorne michaels. this is been in the works for a while now but it looks like it is going to happen. i am super excited about it.
basically played out in three place, on three levels, first was in the state where they ginned up these stake claims of fraud and election irregularities to try to justify throwing out the election results in those states where trump lost. in at least five states republicans actually got together and forged paperwork proclaiming themselves to be the electors from that state, even though they weren t. that paperwork was sent in to congress and to the national archives, to make it look like those states were casting their electoral vote force trump when they were not. so that all happened in the states. well level two at the justice department. what they tried to do was use the u.s. justice department from u.s. attorneys all the way up to the attorney general s office, to try to use the justice department to give some kind of air of authority to these fake claims about fraud from the states, and to encourage republican state legislators that they really should falsify the election result