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Amendment. so, im not sure where that privilege is there. and i think scotts point, it could be a lock, right? seven hours. clearly the committee had a lot to go through. and mr. cipollone clearly also, unlike eastman, giuliani, mitchell, still recognized those ethical obligations that you have as a lawyer. it could be a little bit less though too because it could well have been that, you know, sometimes in a deposition or otherwise, you spend an hour trying to get an answer to one question. so,...

>> right, its the office itself. >> and the president had nothing to do with the meeting of congress pursuant to the 12th amendment. so, im not sure where that privilege is there. and i think scotts point, it could be a lock, right? seven hours. clearly the committee had a lot to go through. and mr. cipollone clearly also, unlike eastman, giuliani, mitchell, still recognized those ethical obligations that you have as a lawyer. it could be a little bit less though too because it could well have b...

Even if Trump wants the Florida governor as his vice president, electoral college rules make it inadvisable for the president and VP to be from the same state.

Writes quote, while trump with his lazy persona projects lack of seriousness, desantis has an intense work ethic of formidable intelligence and granular understanding of policy, articulate, fast on his feet described as trump with a brain. piers morgan last august tweeted desantis has blood on his hands for cavalier approach to covid. now wrote republicans could dump the donald and run with the ronald. scripting a perfect republican presidential candidate the list of preferred requirements would...

Likely matchup that is going to mature in the next couple of months probably if trump should decide that hes going to run and if desantis decides hes willing to take the doctoring is that with gary has some great insights from florida, from the sunshine state. keep your eye on that 12th amendment thing. if they can put their differences aside, people say thats the natural ticket, right? no. somebodys got to move. i cannot see desantis, fsu guy, i cant see that he ever leaves the state. nor can i...

Centerpiece of o p pointed to overturn the 2020 election. it was the historical precedent in the years and with the vice presidents that ive named guy. as congressman raskin understands well. and the effort by mr. eastman and others was to drive that historical precedent up to an under that single sentence, single pristine sentence in the 12th amendment to the united states constitution. taking advantage of if you will

Of an independent commission, that commission had to resolve itself. the purpose electoral count act making 87 had been to resolve those latent ambiguities. im in complete agreement with judge lucia. it is an ambiguous at the vice president doesnt have the authority to reject elections. there is no suggestion of any kind that it does. there is no mention of rejecting or objecting to electors, anywhere in the 12th amendment. and so the notion that the vice president could to do that certainly is ...

What many have said is the inartfully wording on that sentence in the 12th amendment. scholars before 2020 would have used that historical precedent to argue not that vice president pence could overturn the 2020 election. by accepting non-certified state electoral votes. state electoral votes. they would have made arguments as to some substantial of, not merely procedural authority, possessed by the press president of united states on

Conversation with the vice president about the 12th amendment in the electoral count act was in early december, around december 7th. the vice president called me over to his west wing office and told me that he had been seeing in reading things that suggested that he had a significant role to play on a january 6th. in announcing the outcome of the election. he told me that he had been first elected to congress in 2000, and that one of his earliest memories as a congressman was sitting in on the ...