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Nightmare of mass street violence and a fascist movement, and the coup plotters thought that they had a much more delicate, chess-like arrangement on the inside. they thought that they could thwart bidens electoral college victory of 306 by rejecting arizona, georgia, and pennsylvania, lowering it below 270, and kicking the whole contest into the house of representatives for a so-called contingent election under the 12th amendment. so it was inevitable that people like peter navarro would end up...

0 preserve his communications related to the january 6th attack on the capital, including his communications with former president trump, and others at the trump white house. they are asking him to come in for a transcribed interview, asking him to commit a transcri interviewed. they are not subpoenaing him, nor are they raising that prospect, of course, that kind of prospect looms in an investigation in which lots of other people have been subpoenaed. in this letter to the cable news host, they...

Meeting in this period, where trump holds out the invitation to power. hey, mike, if -- wont it just feel great, wouldnt it be cool to have this power, to decide who the next president is and at this point pence will not play. but that -- it is in the constitution. it is the 12th amendment. it said the president of the senate, who is the vice president, we forget this, will look at the certificates of the states and count the votes. that is it. >> up nexter more from this conversation with bob w...

Holds out the invitation to power. hey mike, would it just feel great, would it be cool to have this power to decide who the next president is and if at this point pence will not play but its in the constitution. its the 12th amendment that it says the president of the senate whos the president forget this will look at the certificate in the states and count the votes. >> up next for conversation of bob woodward and bob costa. if someone asks you to write a memo on how to overthrow a country. >>...

We have? this is all built into the constitution on one statement in the 12th amendment. there is nothing else to act it up really except the electoral count wall which was from 1887. there is work to be done in terms of understanding. what happens in 2024, we have to try to fix it. >> john mccormick, final thoughts. >> there is a lot of unanswered questions. i dont know how far that committee will get. >> okay, john mccormick, thank you very much for your reporting, bob woodward and robert cost...

January 6. but it doesnt seem that you can change the direction of the republican party where it is now inconceivable that the next republican vice president that we have would participate in a process that would give the electoral result to a democrat in a presidential election. >> well, one of the things were looking at is the electoral account act which was drafted in the 1800s, and is not very specific and is not really -- it is not required in the way its drafted by the 12th amendment. so w...

Inconceivable that the next republican vice president we have wouldnt participate in a process that would give the electoral result to a democrat in the election. >> one of the things we are looking at is the electoral -- act in the 1800s and is not specific and not really -- it is not required in the way its drafted by the 12th amendment. we are going to take a look at crafting the law so that the room for mischief is quite minimal. the vice president actually doesnt have any rule in the consti...

Pence, so this will live on forever in the trump/pence dynamic which will carry over into 2024, but the idea that this has so taken root in the republican party is even more stunning in many ways. >> thats exactly right, john. in all seriousness, pence was receiving advice from a very serious and well-regarded cadre of lawyers, people like greg jacob who actually was under siege with vice president pence when the insurrection happened, but we uncovered in our reporting over the weekend by a grou...

Post he was not blaming pence for the violence. a trump spokesperson to not respond to the posts comments, and estimates news has not yet seen the article, eastman by the way could get a subpoena unless you voluntarily cooperate with the committee. msnbc legal analyst glenn kirschner joins us this morning, along with democratic strategist crystal night. welcome to both of you. glenn, what stands out to you when you listen to that? you see the piece and you hear that little clip from the radio sh...

Says "ive got extremely relevant information, but im afraid that i may have committed a crime," then i would say they could enter into a conversation with our lawyers about use immunity. congress has statutory power to grant whats called use immunity. we wont use against you what youre telling us if you tell us everything you know and you tell us the truth. >> i want to ask you before we let you go about reporting i have with my colleague jeremy herb. it is that the select committee is targeting...