of people that included roger stone and steve bannon urging trump to declare victory regardless of the results, the actual legal results, of the 2020 election. now the january 6th select committee cites a memo that fitton wrote for trump in the run-up to election day, i think the summer before the election, as evidence that in the words of committee member zoe love gren friend the big lie was untensional, promeditated and a plan concocted in advance. here s a snippet from the january 6th select committee s final hearing. a few days before the election, mr. trump also consulted with one of husband outside advisers inside activist tom fitton about the strategy for election night. the select committee got this pre-prepared statement from the national archives. as you can see, the draft statement, which was sent on october 31st, declares we had an election today and i won, and the fitton memo specifically indicates a plan that only the votes counted by the election day deadline
lawyer about terms of a cooperation agreement and the next thing that would happen is he would sign, it go into the grand jury and say everything he knows so they flees him in and they have him where they want him, so either this very, you know, exciting and concrete step, preparery to testify about trump or one more talking with fbi about what he knows and doesn t know and not so noteworthy and separate from everything else, if that s the way they are going now. it s basically in his call, but you can expect that smith is redoubling and re-redoubling efforts to get cooperating witnesses which seems you don t count cassidy hutchinson because she s an honest witness, in other words, to put leverage on potential people who face criminal charges to testify against trump. that s the big piece missing right now. i think an email that says on
preparery station stage to do something really bad to other nations as well as ukraine. could be a nuclear weapon. it could be something. so, look, there is always in risk is there. we didn t we didn t ask for the risk. but we do have to be proactive. we can t sit back passively and wait for things to happen to us. we ve got to keep ukraine in the fight. so injury getting those polish aircraft over there and in the hands of the ukrainians is a first step. i think it s a very important step. and it s certainly a risk we have to take. mr. putin is going to use a nuclear weapon when he wants to no matter what we do. if he wants to do it he ll do it, because, look, he is impatient. this was supposed to be over. his army is bogged down. there riots in the streets in moscow. people are saying, vladimir, maybe you re not the right guy. and he has a big plan here. this is not just about ukraine. this is about following on into the balt iks and moldova and we re holding up the show here in
that he needs to resign, he needs to focus on getting his own personal issues in order and focus on his family. the list of other democrats who are calling for the resignation grows by the hour but the bottom line, the ethics committee has this, and do not expect quick results. it usually takes years and they have the option of preparery manned or expulsion which is rare. the last time it happened with a guy you know very well, trafficant who committed seven felonies including tax fraud so it is a very, very high bar indeed. neil: or low bar. whatever. very good job, thank you. so have you had it with the weenies or with all congress american, is it time for more