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Oig report, and putting them in law and codifying them to make sure our supply chain is not weak, particularly in the area of pharmaceuticals and particularly in the area of the d.o.d., to make sure that our soldiers and sailors and airmen et cetera, are secure and safe in the supply chain of medicines in particular. so im hopeful this will be able to move forward. either independently or part of our ndaa process. >> and one more for you, obviously the presidents build back better act has stalle...

Staff. they were taking three under secretary positions at defense and putting their people in in an acting capacity. that is very odd. it has always seemed very odd. now it jumps into relief when we note there was a plan afoot to use dod to seize machines, to announce this investigation. it all begin to make sense. is it a criminal conspiracy? you know, we dont know yet, but doj had better be getting its act together and going to work based on what the january 6th committee is uncovering. >> we...

To write a assessment of the 2020 election. that couldve been a gambit to keep trump in office until at least mid february of 2021. nbcs not reviewed documents earlier on this threat -- that recalled the 2020 election, the most secure in history, had this reaction about politicals report. >> there is a very clear violation of the -- act, which means that the -- you can use federal troops for law enforcement. asking d.o.d. to seize these machines is a clear violation of the law. it is pretty craz...

Or would the chain of command have authority to say no? >> when i worked at the department of defense, we made a very deliberate effort to keep politics out of the very important work of national security. you know, for us, national security issues, you know, politics ended at the waters edge. and we were also very, very careful about dod involvement in anything at the domestic level. it manifested itself in somewhat of a slow response to hurricane katrina because we have to clear so many hurdle...

Security issues, you know, politics ended at the waters edge. and we were also very, very careful about dod involvement in anything at the domestic level. it manifested itself in somewhat of a slow response to hurricane katrina because we have to clear so many hurdles, and get the right authorities for dod to, um, engage domestically. and so, this -- if, you know, if this order were to have been given to the department of defense, i think that we have civil servants who understand their constitu...

Make rosen head of the justice department and have the -- the eastman memo lays this out and it will get thrown to the house or whatever. its more of a plot, more of a plan. its a somewhat chaotic and haphazard plan maybe but its a plan. violence and pressure is part of it, what happened with the electors is part of it, the eastman memo is part of it, doj, dod is part if the and the combination of the january 6 committee and the justice department are beginning to expose this in a way we didnt q...

They cant believe their good fortune. they watched as the entire political leadership class of the united states runs at full speed in the wrong direction. away from asia, which is so clearly the future, and towards the murky past on the fringes of eastern europe. ukraine, russia! and the chinese must be wondering how could these people be so stupid and so self-destructive? warning about this for a very long time, former trump administration dod official and we are happy to have them join us ton...

Committee after the supreme court decided that they would. im sure theres shocking stuff, but that one made my jaw drop that the president was using the military to seize voting machines. >> you know me, i tend to be cautious about evidence, and i look at this memo, its a draft memo. we dont know who wrote it. we dont know how widely it circulated. we dont know, for instance if trump looked at that time. maybe it was enacted, and maybe he looked at it as clearly illegal and this would be unconst...

Executive order to literally seize the voting machines, the dod, to seize the voting machines. but it didnt happen. again, the exact legal culpability would be very much in question. you say you want doj to investigate that and, i imagine, this alternate slate of electors. investigate what exactly? >> well, we have a fact pattern now where the people around the president of the united states were seeking to bring to bear yiets military forces to seize voting machines. thats the fact pattern i us...

Thats what happens in banana republics, not in the united states of america. >> lets talk more about the dod, because were seeing these draft orders that would have pressured the doj and the dhs. he had allies in the doj trying to do his bidding. he was telling pence to overturn the election in congress. was there any part of the government that he didnt want to use to overturn a democratic election? >> no. in fact, hes the head of the federal government. we have a federal system in this country...