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Understand. >> judge luttig, another risk oversimplifying for the non lawyers who are watching, is it feel fair to say that the 12th amendment basically says that two things happen, the vice president opens the certificate, and the electoral votes are counted, is that straightforward? >> i would not want that to be my testimony before the congress of the united states. the language of the tournament is that sentiment. >> thank you, judge. mr., jacob i have a question for you. i believe that duri...

Authority if any at all. the 12th amendment, the single sentence that mr. jacob refers to, says in substance that following the transmission of the certificates through the congress of the united states, and under the electoral count act of 1887. the archivist of the united states. that the presiding officer xiao open the certificates in the presence of the congress of the

He used some language to strongly infer that the president disagreed with that tape. i dont remember with that language was. >> did he dictate the statement? >> we, he dictated most of it. typically on these, typically on these i might have a couple awarding suggestions or maybe i have a sentence or a framework or something like that. but i know with specifically on this one that it was me and him on the phone talking through it and ultimately what came out was the way that he wanted to. >> the ...

12th amendment. in order to construct for the country a process for the counting of the sacred process. for the counting of the electoral votes, from the states. thats neither our original constitution, nor even the 12th amendment, had done. the irony, if you will, is that from its founding until 1887, when congress passed the electoral count act, the nation

Co-panelist he said and i believe impartial response to one of the select committees questions. that the single sentence in the 12th amendment was he thought in artfully written. that single sentence is not in artfully written. it was pristine clear. that the president of the senate on january 6th, the incumbent vice president of the united states had little substantive constitutional

And so here you have an amendment that says nothing about objecting or rejecting, and yet we did have some recent practice of the happening within the terms of the electoral count act. so we started with that text. we were called in that discussion with the vice president, who said, i cannot wait to go to heaven and meet the founding fathers and tell them, they work that you did in putting together our constitution is a work of genius. thank you. it was divinely inspired. there is one sentence t...

This election. and so, it would be a disaster situation. i said i think the courts will intervene, i dont see a commitment in the constitution of the question of whether the vice president has that authority to some other actor to resolved, there is arguments about whether congress -- jointly have a constitutional commitment to generally decide electoral vote issues. i dont think they had any authority to object or reject them. i dont see it in the 12th amendment, nonetheless, and i concluded by...

Legal and that trump was in the room. can trump say, well you know i dont know, i was getting mixed advice. it is very difficult to contemplate that that could happen here. and i think the bottom line analysis is this, it defies common sense that anyone could believe that the 12th amendment, and the 1877 electoral college act, mean that the vice president gets to pick who wins a presidential election. we know that that is not how the system works, we know in the words of judge looting that that ...

Select committee has obtained evidence suggesting that dr. eastman never really believed his own theory. let me explain. on the screen, you can see a draft letter to the president from october 2020. in this letter, and idea was proposed that the vice president could determine which electors to count at the joint session of congress. but the person writing in blue, eviscerates that argument. the person who wrote the comments and blue wrote, quote, the 12th amendment only says that the president o...

And what the two hearings this week have done is shown essentially two separate but -- related but separate and independent ways to show criminal intent. monday, they showed that donald trump didnt give a hoot about what the truth was, about the facts. you had attorney general -- former attorney general barr saying that no matter what you said to trump, trump did not care about what the actual facts were. you heard richard donahue, the acting deputy attorney general basically say, wed shoot down...