In his signature style, Lawrence O Donnell goes into depth on the latest news developments and offers his take on the political stories driving the national.
entered paraded and temper interpreted. finding the votes like he s asking him to do something wrong, improper, a legal. there s a legitimate explanation that what he meant was, just do a recount and see what you can find. when you combine that with his efforts that were wet he said through the department of justice around the same time, to just say the election was corrupt without any factual basis, forget about whether it was or not, just say it, then you can apply that to what he said to brad raffensperger, just as you said. and then becomes more nefarious. that s why these notes, and i m sure there s more, lawrence washington report said he was calling over every days before january. 60 think brad raffensperger was the only republican official in any of the states that he was trying to overturn in which he
that the president committed various acts that if with criminal intent, could amount to a crime. the real question here is what did donald trump know in the lead up to january 6th, and what did he intend through his speech on january 6th, his inaction after the capitol was storm, and what did he know in advance of it? these notes really shed a lot of light on what was in his head which is always the most difficult to prove an any prosecution. the fact that he is demanding that the department of justice just say that the election was corrupt, with no factual basis to support that, demonstrates that his intent in imposing the election, and in everything he was doing, was done with
is using that kind of performance art in a number of realms i think to overturn the rule of law and democracy. tim, i always want to talk to you when new inside information about donald trump emerges, especially when it is quoting donald trump in operation. you know him better than almost all reporters and you ve had dealings with him unlike any other reporter has. i have a feeling that when you read those notes, the doj notes, it s a very different thing than when i read them. i never had a conversation with the guy. you read those notes, what does it tell you about the donald trump that you know? that, you know, i don t think anybody or enough people, understand when donald trump got elected, the extent to which he is willing to corrupt everyone around him into overthrow
incriminating and very informative that might not actually be in the right notes. that s always possible. the fact that donahue is a professional it took him temporary medias notes it s very helpful. it will allow him to refresh his memory. he make a good point, lauren. so there is more in the notes we aren t even talking about which is, donald trump admitted he was a keen observer and leader of the internet. you and i know now that before january 6th, there was a lot of internet chatter about plans to storm the capital on january 6th. the big question on the impeachment two point oh wasted donald trump read those plants? there was no witnesses, no way to figure it out. he is here admitting that he is very attentive to the internet, far more so than the department of justice. i don t think that gets you all