subpoenas, document requests, and court filings, the panel has demandedur information about an trump administration plans to use presidential emergency powers to invoke martial law or take other steps to overturn the election. interviews with committee members and a review of the panel s information requests reveals a focus on emergency powers that were being considered by trump and his allies in several categories, invokingal the insurrection act declaringvo martial law, using presidential powers to justify seizing voting machines, and using the military to require a re-run of the election. again, the post reporting that those efforts to use presidential emergency powers to overthrow the election is a new and largely sort of overlooked publicly, publicly overlooked part of the january 6th investigation. what does this new reporting mean? and is this a whole new level of seriousness we haven t really considered t before? joining us now is elizabeth, co-director of the liberty and natio
document requests in court filings, the panel has demanded information about any trump administration plans to use presidential emergency powers to invoke martial law or take other steps to overturn the election. interviews with committee members and a review of the panel information requests reveal a focus on emergency powers that were being considered by trump and his allies in several categories. invoke me invoking the insurrection act, using marcia, awe easing presidential powers to justify seizing voting machines, and using the military to require a re-run of the election. again, the post reporting that those efforts to use the presidential emergency powers to overthrow the election is a new and largely sort of overlooked, publicly overlooked part of what the january 6th investigation is looking at. what does this new reporting mean? and is this a whole new level of seriousness that we have not considered before? joining us now is elizabeth martin, she is co-director of the libert
these screaming matches with lawyers who were just having probably the same reaction we re having. except, like, they re actually having to deal with donald trump. the notion that someone that that anybody could take this seriously would raise real questions about their own state of mind. i mean, i think one of the one of the hidden things and i think i am going to write a column about it next week about what the january 6th committee is doing or has to do is to start talking about, you know, the need to reform the 25th amendment. which deals, in part, with presidential which deals in part with presidential disability, including mental disability. the notion that donald trump was listening to these people and taking them seriously, and notion that these people got even within a mile of the west wing is completely bananas and one of the things that they ask about in all these a lot of these document requests is about
one of the things that they ask about in all these a lot of these document requests is about the 25th amendment and the mental state of the president. and i think this this this all raises those questions. you know, what seriously? what s interesting is, you know, you can imagine him in this meeting just kind of watching it all play out. and with the idea of, you know, maybe he thinks these people are nuts but he also thinks, you know what? maybe, let s just see how it all plays out. you know, just as he watched the capitol being attacked, and didn t do anything for so long. probably, thinking let s just see what happens. let s just watch where this might actually go. and he is still out there today saying that the real insurrection was on november 3rd. i mean, that s just crazy stuff that he says, day in and day out to this day. it s just it s just bananas. he was pathologically lying about the election before the election was even conducted. yeah.
have made some progress in recent weeks putting together a better portrait of trump inside the white house on january 6 and who vuz itted with him. in doing so they relied in part on lower level staff members. document requests and the testimony of hundreds of witnesses is allowing the committee do an end run around the trump dead enders. and in the case of the latter text messaging including of meadows to the committee before that sudden about face revealed that the white house chief of staff was a clearinghouse for half-baked ideas how to go about overturning a election. the washington post is