together. it s very nice to see you, i hope you had a great holiday. and look for a great new year. you too, my. friend thanks to all of you for joining us at home this hour. i m nikole all us two days after election day in 2020, before the result of the presidential election, president donald trump s chief of staff received a step message laying out a very detailed scheme. for keeping donald trump in power. attacks was from donald trump son, don jr.. it described in detail the plot to use republican legislature to keep trump in office. regardless of the actual and if that failed, republicans in congress could keep trump in power. the description pretty much matches up exactly, with a scheme that trump s allies did try to carry out. trying to replace biden electors with fake trump electors, in states that joe biden won. today, the committee investigating the deadly january 6th attack release the transcript of its interview, with donald trump junior. and donald trump g
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
good evening from new york, i m chris hayes one week after its release, we are still digesting the final report from the january six committee. in almost 900 pages before appendix. later this week, we examined one particularly pernicious aspect of donald trump s attempt to stay in power as outlined in chapter five of the report, titled, search of the legal theory. that chapter details the lengths to which donald trump, as the lawyer of john eastman, knowingly pushed and illegal scheme to have then vice president, mike pence, unilaterally throw out joe biden s victory and hand the presidency to trump. yesterday, we spoke to committee member, jimmy raskin, of maryland about the criminal referrals the committee made against trump, 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 and foremost, as the man first an
so i asked nick akerman in the last hour have trump boxed himself in by making that claim, or least his representatives speaking on television. look you can t have your cake and eat it. that s how the special master responded to teen trump harry. his excuse for not handing over that evidence. this is candidate trump s lawyers, that s what they put forward, so how do you think that is sitting with the former president? you know, the former president has wanted to say this in the public sphere. he hasn t wanted to say it in court where you make a false statement, that s a separate crime. i think he is as always completely brazen and indifferent about saying any old thing when he s talking on the hustings, but not in court. look, the courts overall have done a pretty good job all the way through. it takes a while to get to them, they re not perfect but most of the time you really gotta come with the goods or lose. and that s what happened today. a conservative reagan appoint
himself in by making that claim, or least his representatives speaking on television. look you can t have your cake and eat it. that s how the special master responded to teen trump harry. his excuse for not handing over that evidence. this is candidate trump s lawyers, that s what they put forward, so how do you think that is sitting with the former president? you know, the former president has wanted to say this in the public sphere. he hasn t wanted to say it in court where you make a false statement, that s a separate crime. i think he is as always completely brazen and indifferent about saying any old thing when he s talking on the hustings, but not in court. look, the courts overall have done a pretty good job all the way through. it takes a while to get to them, they re not perfect but most of the time you really gotta come with the goods or lose. and that s what happened today. a conservative reagan appointee but a solid judge just said, i m a judge, one side has ev