rebuttal is proof that the big lie will not die. in their defense of trump you don t just see a disservice to justice but clear proof they are in service to him and his lies about the election. starting with their defense. trump didn t do anything wrong because the coup didn t happen. this is the same lame defense, the same people gave trump on that ukraine shakedown. well, ukraine didn t comply with putting out dirt on biden to get the meeting and other goodies from trump and the united states government so no harm. you know an act does not have to be completed for there to be a crime. right? a crime can be incomplete. aka attempted. for example, if i try to rob you but i fail, it s not okay. we all get this. and so do trump s defenders. but this is not about logic.
executive privilege and block the january 6 committee from getting information from those subpoenaed. lie, deny, and now defy. remember, we define that as the triple play of trumpery. according to the washington post a trump attorney instructed his former advisers not to comply with congressional investigators and with good reason. they clearly may have damaging information. the senate judiciary committee just made that obvious in a new report about january 6th titled subverting justice. nearly 400 pages and they have the receipts. we ll give you some of the biggest headlines tonight but i argue that the obvious headlines about the main report aren t the real thing to focus on. the rebuttal from the gop is what you must look at. why? because those who empowered this, ignored it, also empowered it, but all of them collectively. they are still in power and the
nixon case that the privilege is the property of the nation. we only have one president at a time. so trump was able when he was in office to tie people in knots. now it is not your father s white house or justice department and whether trump goes to court or congress pursues civil or criminal contempt, these executive privilege claims are not going to hold water. so okay. if that s not going to happen then they re going to come in and talk but they re going to limit what they say as best they can and they ll be coached. then you have what we saw in the rebuttal which is that the republicans i m telling you i ve never seen anything like that rebuttal before. i know this story is the main report, the nine times he tried to use doj. that rebuttal would never make it through a law school class for any kind of moot court situation.
how much money to put in this plan how worried are you that your mid-term elections are marred before they begin? that any race they don t like they ll say is rigged and half the country is ready to believe it? chris, that is one of the ways in which i see our democracy steadily being undermined from within. by republicans who know better being willing to stay onboard with president trump, former president trump s big lie about the 2020 election. even bill barr, his incredibly loyal former attorney general, has in print said that he knew that the claims of fraud in the election were bs and what you re seeing today in this report from the senate judiciary committee is that president trump didn t try to inappropriately muscle the acting leader of the department of justice into buying into his fraud claims about the election once not twice not three times nine times. if it hadn t been for a few folks like pat cipollone who refused to go along with this,
we might have had a different outcome. we came very, very close to a terrible and tragic outcome to the election in 2020 and you are absolutely right. the midterms of 2022 i think we ll see false claims of election fraud widespread throughout the country that undermines the strength of our elections and credibility of our democracy. thank you very much for your insight into the goings-on and people s business. appreciate you. thank you, chris. let s go deeper into this. executive privilege. what does it mean if trump asserts that? we have a former impeachment counsel to take us through the dos and don ts when it comes to executive privilege and what the options are in getting past the wall of silence in trump world, next. it s sleep number s fall sale on the sleep number 360 smart bed it helps keep you effortlessly comfortable by sensing your movements and automatically responding to both of you. and, it s temperature balancing to help you stay comfortable all night. it even trac