ripped their lives apart, their devastating personal stories were revealed today in the most emotional january 6th hearing yet. plus, new details on trump s highly illegal campaign to pressure state elections officials to install fake electors. just a few hours ago the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection laid out in clear terms just how broad donald trump s thirst for power and how deep his acceptance for violence really went. the committee outlined how trump knew he had lost but plowed ahead anyway with a plan to get what he wanted. part that have plan included a cordnated campaign of harassment where he and his allies repeatedly bullied state elections officials in key battleground states to reject ballots outright while also targeting local election officials with unfounded claims of fraud. privately he and his allies led by an unmoored rudy giuliani hounded officials while publicly waging a smear campaign fueled with lies that led to a wave o
trump. perhaps it shouldn t be too surprising that trump and his columns are looking to make eastman their guy for the filth quota. two people familiar with the matter told rolling stone that in recent weeks, trump has complied to people close to him, that this is no reason to publicly defend eastman. and another telltale sign that trump is prepared to throw eastman under the bus. rolling stone ads that trump has repeated an excuse the often uses when backed into a corner, as investigators confronted him with an associate misdeeds. he barely knows eastman. joining me now, rolling stone senior politics reporter who broke the story, it s good to see you. it s been a long time. let me just throw up this tweet, because john eastman, here he is, you cite this in your article in 2019, calling him a brilliant constitutional royal lawyer, and he was very excited at the time eastman said that mueller should have never been appointed. how is this guy authored the whole the whole plan, ending up