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Acting as a private counsel to then vice president pence and he played a positive role in terms of the pouring water all over john eastmans fantasies. you know, everybody on the trump side understood that there was no merit to anything that eastman was saying and of course, more than 60 courts had already rejected all of the claims of electoral corruption and fraud. you know, it was based on. i guess i would say, you know, their problems historically with the electoral count act but its too easy...

Mob prosecution where you start with the foot soldiers until you get all the way to the top to the godfather. you know? really? i wouldnt give up any hope on them figuring out all of the conspiracies that were involved in is very complex set of activities that were designed to overthrowjoe bidens majority in the electoral cartilage and foresee election into a so—called contingent election under the 12th amendment. there was a whole purpose because our constitution says if nobody has a majority...

Into a so—called contingent election under the 12th amendment. there was a whole purpose because our constitution says if nobody has a majority in the electoral college when the votes are counted and they were trying everything they could do to prevent a majority from forming, then it goes into the house of representatives. the reason they wanted it there is because they knew we dont vote according to one member, one vote but according to one estate, one vote under the electoral college system...

>> im not sure all the allegations out there were baseless. im not confident. the reality is the constitution role of the vice president of the united states. he was following the 12th amendment and electoral count act. and doing his duty. which is what hes required to under the oath to the constitution to defend it. >> well beyond inflaming the big lie. on friday the rnc called the ngs into january 6 a quote persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse. yep. joinin...

Side, as he has done unilaterally, that president trump was wrong. theres too much ambiguity. ambiguity in the 12th amendment, ambiguity in the electoral count of 1887. >> i want to turn to another piece only because we have discussed some of that before. but to put a final note on this section, it would follow from your contention that you think vice president harris will ultimately have the call over who should be president regardless of the results in the next election? >> see, you have misco...

Brought against the 0ath keepers for its seditious conspiracy. as far as i can tell, we will co—ordinate with the department ofjustice but as far as i can tell they are working their way up like in a mob prosecution where you start with the foot soldiers until you get all the way to the top to the godfather. you know? really? i wouldnt give up any hope on them figuring out all of the conspiracies that were involved in is very complex set of activities that were designed to overthrowjoe bidens ...

Trump side understood that there was no merit to anything that eastman was saying and of course, more than 60 courts had already rejected all of the claims of electoral corruption and fraud. you know, it was based on. i guess i would say, you know, their problems historically with the electoral count act but its too easy to say, well lets make a few adjustments to electoral count act and call it a day. i mean, we have a movement thats based on fascist politics and ideas, and just declaring what ...

Committee believes that mr. trump and others may have, thats important, they are being careful, engaged in criminal and/or fraudulent acts. thats a very big deal to put on paper and submit to a federal judge. >> what kind of crimes are we talking? >> the two main crimes, obstruction of a federal proceeding. congress counting the electoral votes as required by the 12th amendment. also conspiracy to defraud the united states. people hear defraud, they think of money. here the fraud is defrauding t...

Electors and then using out as a pretext for shutting down the proper counting of electors under the 12th amendment and the constitution. and third, just common law fraud. so, the whole thing was basically an attempt to perpetrate the scam the president was talking about stopping the steal. he was trying to perpetrate the steal of the election. and john eastman was very much part of those plans. >> you and your colleagues strike me as fairly savvy about all this. you know what youre doing. yeste...

The department ofjustice but as far as i can tell they are working their way up like in a mob prosecution where you start with the foot soldiers until you get all the way to the top to the godfather. you know? really? i wouldnt give up any hope on them figuring out all of the conspiracies that were involved in is very complex set of activities that were designed to overthrowjoe biden�*s majority in the electoral cartilage and foresee election into a so—called contingent election under the 12...