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Contrast, from mark meadows to steve bannon. >> representative schiff is 100% correct, so, you know, there was a difference between meadows and bannon in that bannon never even worked in the white house during the relevant events of january 6th, so the idea that he was acting by executive privilege is, you know, just a joke on its face. meadows, at least, was the white house chief of staff. but on the other hand, meadows wrote the book. he turned over this information, ayman, as you were saying ...

January 6 became such an important day for would-be coup plotters to use that as a quasi-legal question about his upcoming presidency. there were no documented problems to support those allegations. there was no widespread fraud, nothing that affected the outcome of the votes in any of these states, but this person was with meadows pushing these conspiracy theories. maybe china took over the entire voting system and you could just get enough americans to believe that. or maybe venezuelas hugo ch...

Gets to make that call under nixon versus gsa. the former president just isnt in a position to do that. and then you say well, lets look at the documents to see if they are executive privileged. it doesnt matter. >> why should the former president be the one to make that determination? if we are looking at this as a who decides kind of question. is there a circumstance in which the former president ever gets to make this kind of call and why should he? >> so you can hear the skepticism there in ...

Quickly enough. i think the clock is ticking. i think if we get to the election next year and there hasnt been clear action and the republicans win, theyll get rid of the january 6th committee. i think as we move towards 2024, the ability to prosecute a case thats got such political components going to become much more difficult. so weve got a limited amount of time and furthermore, by not taking action against the coup plotters, trump, the people around him, the people who funded this we are en...

Learned just this week that some of the coup plotters were using burner phones when theyre committing crimes. so they were committing a crime. they were attempting a coup against congress to interrupt the resolution of the 2020 election. so just sort of to end on a slightly more hopeful note, the battle for democracy is on, and it does have its defenders and all of us have to kind of buckle up and get ready for defining people in our politics, whether theyre as either pro-democracy or anti-democ...

That, because it seems to give some legitimacy to the military, to the coup plotters, who overthrew and aborted the democratic transition. so it will be difficult to convince international partners and the protesters that this is the best deal they can get and they can stop protesting. so far it seems the cause for civil disobedience will continue until the civilians get full control of what they want. a civilian-led transition and trial for the military who led, who took over their democratic t...

High-ranking members of the military resisted trumps efforts to personalize their power. if they had gone along with that the outcome of trumps self coup couldve been completely different. other government institutions also held, firm for instance throughout his tenure, with the help of republican lawmakers, trump filled more than 200 federal court vacancies, with what he kept calling, his judges. trump judges, all the way to the supreme court however, respected their oath of office, is they rej...

Preordained. ultimately it was thwarted only by key individuals at the institutions that could typically be involved in executing such a plot. high ranking members of the military resisted trumps efforts to personalize their power. if they had gone along with it, the outcome of trumps self-coup could have been completely different. other government institutions also held firm. for instance, throughout his tenure, with the help of republican lawmakers, trump filled more than 200 federal court vac...

They rejected the presidents appeals to overturn the legitimate election results. state and local government election administrators also refused to be swayed. throughout history, coup plotters have seized control of the main communication channels. trump did not physically take radio and tv by storm, but he continuously discredited the mainstream media who were critical of his behavior. he directly messaged 88 million people who followed his twitter account to propagate false, self-serving narr...

0 mask. so a little bit longer. hanging in there means those who dont really want to get vaccinated, are more likely not to get vaccinated. an overwhelming majority. people looking out for each other. and i think because they see it is working. >> well we will see, your >> thanks, chris. that is "all in" for tonight. "the rachel maddow show" starts now with ali velshi. good evening, ali. >> chris, we have not crossed paths in the last year and a half, so we caught up a little bit. >> nothing l...