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A newly-released legal memo providing Trump's White House with advice on how to overturn the 2020 election offers insight into how the GOP might try again in 2024.

Election. the conduct of elections. it requires in the conduct that you conduct yourself honorably. you treat ef voter equally and provide access to the right to vote for every eligible voter. this is what iowa likes to say it stands for which is being first in the nation. whether youre first or last, when you go to vote, you should be able to vote with the same quality of democracy that every one else expects. thats why the freedom to vote act is essential to the protection of our democracy. >>...

Protection of our democracy. >> stacey abrams always nice to have you on, thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> constitutional law expert at harvard law school has written his book extensively on the attempted 2020 coup, what we can do to prevent the next one, and he joins me now. lawrence, i feel like weve all learned a lot about the plumbing of the electoral college, and the complicated system by which under both the united states constitution, the 12th amendment, and the electoral college...

Youre going to need to have rules that make it harder to engage in false claims that the vote total was what it was, but legal change wont be enough we also need to have a political strategy because its not clear that these changes are going to come either from congress or the states and that there are going to be enough next time >> the big federal law here is the electoral count act, which was passed in 1887 it was ten years after one of the most contested elections in american history in 1876...

The electrical count act, which is actually passed in 1870, it was ten years after one of the most contested elections in american history, in 1876, in which the person with less votes, the popular vote got to be president of the united states. . john eastman and the famous eastman memo is him basically saying we can use gaps in that law and its tension with the 12th amendment to get our guy in. how important is it to change that? well i think its essential. , and im hoping that after the januar...

Pence then gavels president trump as re-elected. eastman lays out plan "b." writes this, howell, of course, from the democrats now claim that 270 electoral votes is required. so pence says, fine. pursuant to the 12th amendment, no candidate has achieved the necessary majority. according to the amended version of the plan, pence would delay the certification until states could send an alternate slate of electors was pitched by pence to eastman in the oval office. trump tells pence, quote, you rea...

Close this off and let bygones be bygones. steve made the point he is the front-runner for the nomination in 2024. >> well, the constitution has no law against electing crazy people president. thats unfortunate. by the way, the book seems to make speaker pelosi another hero of the last four years, where she stepped forward and tried to inquire about what are the possible things that an extreme sociopathic president could do. but, again, i would come back to i think there are constitutional refor...

Giuliani at four seasons landscaping, or talking about the ghost of hugo chavez in the voting machines. this is a possible path to stealing the election. luckily, it took them a while to get. there and i frankly dont have the words to describe why the cataclysm this all wouldve been. if that letter had gone out and state republicans had taken to signal in a number of these states and sent their electors. because then you would have two states of electors that were sent to congress on january 6th...

The electoral-college votes coming from arizona and georgia and pennsylvania. and they thought, if all -- if all -- the only thing they needed to do was to get pence to repudiate those votes. kick it to a contingent election in the house and donald trump would win because they controlled 27 of the state-congressional delegations. we dont vote one member, one vote, under a contingent election under the 12th amendment of we vote one state, one vote. so they were very close to conducting and perfec...

Kick it to a contingent election in the house, and donald trump would win because they controlled 27 of the state congressional delegations. we dont vote one member/one vote under a contingent election under the 12th amendment. we vote one state/one vote. so they were very close to conducting and perfecting that coup. now, there were right-wing elements like the proud boys and the three percenters who had an insurrection in mind, and they also were talking about violence against pence and nancy ...