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Hes not involve the special counsel cases but he is here with me tonight jessi im glad to see you thank you. im sure youve been asked a great deal but what the other lawyers are saying about the defenses. i dont question on the trial team but you know these cases quite well. there was one from one of your colleagues who made the comment that look pin his comments regarding vice president pence the word he used was aspirational. listen to this. >> what president trump did not do is direct vice pr...

So im giving you that look it doesnt really look like i put this person to make me look good. first of all i think its important to say what he said that and thats when his lawyers came and talked him about. >> as the vice president said the lawyers came and asked him to do that everything vice president trump did it was under the advice of counsel and talking about the 12th amendment actually requires something that is up to legal debate and has been something that has been debated legally for ...

More than the assembly clause. the first amendment has the petition for -- . and so in this case that means you can always ask a government act or to do something. that is something that is a key amendment right. its not just mentioned in the first -- it goes right to the heart of what the founders were looking at when they decided to set up a constitution and our first amendment rights so doesnt matter if youre the president of the united states you can always ask government officials to do x o...

From him if you could share? >> i think it is important? his assertion that he has protection under the speech or debate clause is pretty weird. the constitution does provide that the vice president serves as the president of the senate. of course the 12th amendment has the president of the senate opening the office of the show than be counted. even if you assume serving as president of the senate somehow makes him a legislative branch officer, which i think is quite a stretch, opening the avalo...

I am? i know your ball trained in the law? >> this is wrong headed at many levels. first, geologist stand up and tell the truth and not try to evade the. it looks very bad. number two, this is unprecedented. i dont think theres any case on this, but its not that hard to decide that speech or debate does not apply in this case. all you need to do is look at article one section three, article one section six and the 12th amendment. basically those sections say the vice presidents president of the ...

Order. >> i totally agree with that. just one of the points you made, to go back, in those for criminal referrals or says idea that the documents case is fairly straightforward, which is true for certain reasons. not completely, but true for certain reasons. but the four -- that you have at the top of the apex of complexity, and severity -- the other ones though are sort of more discreet and also seem to be they speak to what the president did most jane dress way. >> the whole purpose of stop th...

>> tucker: you said if youre going to remind the entire military force what its job is, which is to defend the constitution -- >> its to know the constitution. >> tucker: thank you. >> so if i asked the question, secretary austin, chairman of joints of chiefs, if i asked you, general, what are you going to do when the 25th amendment is violated? oh, you dont know what the 25th amendment is. what are you going to do when the 12th amendment is violated? you dont know that one? what about article 2...

>> tucker: you said if youre going to remind the entire military force what its job is, which is to defend the constitution -- >> its to know the constitution. >> tucker: thank you. >> so if i asked the question, secretary austin, chairman of joints of chiefs, if i asked you, general, what are you going to do when the 25th amendment is violated? oh, you dont know what the 25th amendment is. what are you going to do when the 12th amendment is violated? you dont know that one? what about article 2...

Still think that there are some polls, and i dont have any question that kamala harris is not gonna throw this election. and she will be presiding and the next opening. and we will have another opportunity to straighten out and define language as it should be really tied to the 12th amendment, and not left to the vagaries of potential insurrectionists. >> congresswoman, so lofgren, thank you so much! >> thank you very much. happy new year! >> you too. coming up, the evidence accumulated by the c...

Still think there are some holes. i dont have any question. kamala harris is not going to throw this election, and she will be presiding the next opening. well have another opportunity to straighten out and define languages. it should be really tied to the 12th amendment and not left to potential insurrectionists. >> congresswoman, thank you so much. >> thank you very much. happy new year. >> you too. coming up, the evidence now fueling one of the many investigations into the ex-president, the...