before appendix. this week we ll examine one pernicious aspect of trump s efforts to stay in power, in chapter five, cool in search of a legal theory. the chapter details the lengths to which donald trump, his lawyer john eastman, knowingly pushed an illegal scheme to have then vice president mike pence unilaterally throw out joe biden s victory and hand the presidency to trump s. yesterday we spoke to committee member jamie raskin of maryland about the criminal referrals the committee made against trump in some of his closest allies and why he thinks trump is likely to go to prison for his attempted coup. and while the report does an excellent and thorough job of centering donald trump s culpability, as the main first, as the man first and foremost responsible for the attempted coup an insurrection, it also extensively catalog several some of his key enablers played in facilitating his corrupt scheme. like the aforementioned john eastman, the cool mentioned earlier, as well
this could be the storm that we have hoped would never come to our shores. the one thing i hear most common after these disasters is if i had only known it would be this bad. and so i think that s my message to them is we re trying to communicate to you that it can be that bad. okay. many in florida are heeding those warnings with long lines for water, fuel, sand bags and other supplies. schools and parks are closing and tampa s international airport is set to suspend operations entirely tuesday evening. hospitals meantime are transferring patients and putting up these large barriers to protect them from the potential storm surge. now the nags wall weather center has a storm surge in effect for large swathes of florida. they re bracin g for the storm s. people need to heed the warning and get out now especially where the storm-filled waters surge and affect them. we re not going to have the ability to come out and get them. then there are these images from the gran
the many text messages meadows turned over the committee before performing on a crucial bright about-face and decided he would no longer cooperate, which otherwise made their way to the media. texts would portray him, would betray him as something of a gatekeeper, collecting truly bonkers election conspiracy theories from trump allies on behalf of his bat. so surely trump is the most responsible for the attempted coup coup, and my next guest has been warning for warning for years, the ex presidents grounds itself people are culpable as well. congressman adam shift, democratic california, sits on the geniuses committee. he s chair of the house intelligence committee and he joins me now. congressman, good to have you. i wonder, as we read through the report and we look and meadows role, how do you understand his role and his culpability in this? i think the reason meadows had staying power in the trump administration is that he would
saving our republic. our last hope is looking invoking martial law. please urge to president to do so. he of course is referring to the debunking conspiracy voting theories about dominion systems a lot of these tax, where discussions began without clear context. and also seem to drop off without out of nowhere. also situations, notably with congressman scott perry, talking about on balance, we saw a lot more messages to meadows than from him. one obviously is reason that might be the case, these are the text messages meadows and his legal team provided to the january six committee, that were later by talking points memo. this was curated by him and his
on donald trump s former chief of staff to testify in the state of georgia. mark meadows was on a phone call between the former president and a georgia state official in january of 2021 in which trump asked that leader to find more votes to put him ahead of joe biden in the election. cnn is also learning new details about text messages meadows had in december of 2020 revealing his direct communications with phil waldron, pro trump operative behind a plan to seize voting machines. the texts shed new light on the extent to which meadows was kept abreast of accessing those machines. we have more now from cnn s sarah murray. reporter: waldron hunting for proof told them arizona was the lead domino and complained opponents were using delay