To use deceit to impair a function of the lawful function of the united states government, by the fact that trump was told repeatedly that the legal theory on which he thought he could get vice president pence to defraud electoral votes was completely bogus. let me take a step back here. this isn t the only way you can prove donald trump s criminal intent in that regard. on monday, we had the hearing where it was shown that trump was repeatedly told that all of his electoral fraud claims, the facts on the ground, were false. he was told repeatedly that he lost. he was told repeatedly that, no, dominion thing is bull as bill barr said. he was told that by multiple people, he lost 60 lawsuits, he had no reason to believe that factually he had won that election, he had won those contesting states. now, yesterday, we saw he knew,
President in our history. if you look at the timeline that bob has just referred to, that the committee has developed involving what happened for the certification that was supposed to take place at 1:00 p.m., on january 6th, this was a coordinated effort by the lawyers around the president, by his chief of staff, by the president himself, to really enact, commit to a coup to overturn an election, a free and fair election. so what you have, really, is the first seditious president of the united states in our history. sedition in the form of a president himself, trying to obstruct the transfer of power from the duly elected successor to donald trump, joe biden, trying to ensure that that did not happen. nothing in our history comparable to this, undermining of democracy such as we have never seen by any president in
Evidence, zero, not just minuscule, but zero evidence that the election was rigged, that there was fraud. everyone knows, even trump whose agreed to he s not hanging around the white house trying to get in, he s gone back to mar-a-lago and joe biden is president and as we know all the evidence, again, all of the evidence supports that joe biden won legitimately. carl, what did you learn yesterday that you didn t know before? the intensity, nothing terribly new, just builds on this record that makes it very clear that donald trump and others around him led a conspiracy to undermine the electoral system itself, but worse than that, the president of the united states, donald trump, is the first seditious
Resources and support, but they are a professional bunch. yeah. look, they re worried about their families and this is certainly not what they signed up for with these jobs. sean, thank you so much. and new day continues right now. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it is friday, june 17th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. we have new evidence that donald trump and his allies knew their scheme to overturn the 2020 election was unconstitutional and illegal. still they forged ahead with it anyway. that s raising some new questions this morning about the former president s legal jeopardy. his exposure here. images also that we are seeing for the first time showing former vice president mike pence sheltering in a secure location