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Columnist for the boston globe and jason johnson is back, politics and journalism professor at morgan state university. all three msnbc contributors. hi there, john heilemann. what do you make, its only wednesday. feels like dog years, right? seven days have been had each one of the news cycles weve already lived through. but what do you make of the newly sort of corroborated and confirmed picture of not just trumps hands on the effort to seize voting machines, but his direction of those plots a...

Be seriously considered by people in position of responsibility and authority in the united states government. in america, as we know or should know, its our voters who decide who wins and who loses, not specific people in power who are sort of peddling lies because they cant accept that they lost. >> it wasnt carried out, we should point out. i wonder if you think that matters, if it was repaired and you have here two eos awareness, dod and dhs, does it matter that these werent carried out? >> ...

Much safer today but the world is much safer today. >> and a quick follow-up too, chris. that evidence. should we expect u.s. officials to release that in the coming days? >> i believe as more data is collected dod has said that they will release any information that they can around that raid, yes. >> all right. well, we feel like we were just getting started, theres so much to get to. chris meagher, we are out of time. we appreciate you being here today. hope you will come back soon. white hous...

>> i think hes a very per pertinent witness. cnn uncovering that two executive orders were drafted. one directing the departments of defense and the other homeland security to seize voting machines in states trump lost. rudy giuliani approached dhs but was told the department didnt have that authority. as for dod, giulianis attorney said he shot the idea down. the plan to seize voting machines just one of many investigative threads for the committee. the committee combing through a trove of docu...

Activity to get these folks over there. go ahead, karla. >> thanks for doing this, john. most of my questions were answered, so i just need a couple of clarifications. the 8,500 forces that now remain on heightened readiness, that means that 2,000 additional troops were put on readiness. where are they located? and my second follow-up is concerning the national guard forces that remain in ukraine. does that mean that since youre not sending anymore and theyre not pulling out, that d.o.d. does no...

Go to court after the -- in this investigation, so that the national archives could potentially give them over to the house. theyre doing that now. trump was unable to stop them. so the house is looking at them now. >> by the way, the records required to be kept by law. thanks so much to both of you. what does this all mean legally? joining us, jennifer rogers, jennifer, i know for folks at home, it is difficult to follow all these developments, the january 6th committee proceeds because there...

If its anything like the dod calling it a hair brained plan is too kind. its absurd and sinister, absurd because on face of it, its unconstitutional, article 1 section 4 gives the authority over federal elections to the states. and in terms of authority, most americans dont realize how many law enforcement authorities and regulatory authorities homeland security has. it doesnt have this. when i was at sisa, we were looking to strengthen the election security, we had to get concept, per mention t...

Thats what happens in banana republics, not in the united states of america. >> lets talk more about the d.o.d. because were seeing these draft orders that would have pressured the d.o.j. and the dhs. he had allies in the doj 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. ...

Outside advisers, these kind of ad hoc advisers such a as sidne powell and michael flynn and others were able to get into the white house and flotilla float these really nutty ideas what should be happening. as maggies reporting says, when giuliani went to ken cuccinelli, it was smacked down. when the attorney general barr was asked about it, it was smacked down. to the best of my knowledge, nobody at dod had ever heard about this at all. these memos were being circulated to ad hoc groups. >> bu...

There is some weird disturbing parallels here given what the dhs and the dod is s saying now. no, americas leftist elites are envious of the chinese system and the ability it provides them to control tat the population. what is truly terrifying rightio now, laura , is that the left has gained control of the secure state. in other words, between doj with the fbi, cia as well as of course the department of homeland security, theyre able to use the security apparatus tore police speech and to polic...