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Select committee has obtained evidence suggesting that dr. eastman never really believed his own theory. let me explain. on the screen, you can see a draft letter to the president from october 2020. in this letter, and idea was proposed that the vice president could determine which electors to count at the joint session of congress. but the person writing in blue, eviscerates that argument. the person who wrote the comments and blue wrote, quote, the 12th amendment only says that the president o...

>> i appreciate that. in our investigation, the select committee obtained evidence suggesting dr. eastman never really believed his own theory. let me explain. on the screen, you can see a draft letter to the president from october 2020. in this letter, an idea was proposed that the vice president could determine which electors to count at the joint session of congress. but the person writing in blue eviscerates that argument. the person who wrote the comments in blue wrote, quote, the 12th amen...

Dozens of courts refused to do it. trumps own attorney general, bill barr, refused to do it. donald trumps own lawyers and advisers refused to do it. so as a last gas, they tried to get the ultimate, the u.s. department of justice, to sign off with this lie of election fraud. trumps inside guy at doj, jeffrey clark, a bit of a charlatan, wrote up a fraudulent letter, a draft letter that said hey, we at doj have found evidence of significant election fraud in georgia. but if they had done so, tha...

That insane letter was apparently created last december. dates december 28th, 2020, that letter explicitly describes these forged slates of electors from multiple states. it says in the middle of the letter, the department believes that in georgia and several other states, both a slate of electors supporting biden and a separate slate of electors supporting trump gathered on december 14th at the proper location to cast their ballots and that both sets those ballots have been transmitted to washi...

Mike flynn recommending that trump should use the military to go seize ballots, sees election machinery. declare martial law. but now from bernie kerik, of all people, weve got this new revelation. a lawyer of some stripe drafting a letter for trump about seizing evidence related to the election. again, this dated mid december 2020. brittani kerik says that he has this document but doesnt want to hand it over. what do we expect that will happen next. joining us now is nicholas wu, congressional ...

2020. and thats a day before trump held an oval office meeting with mike flynn and sidney powell and other trumpworld allies about ways to potentially seize election machines and other things trump saw as proof of fraud in the election. so its unclear exactly if these two are linked. but, i mean, thats quite a coincidence with the timing. >> in terms of the sort of nature of these documents and the likelihood that theyll ever see the light of day, obviously mr. kerik has described this document,...

Basis for withholding, documents drafted and or edited by attorney. date, december 26 to 17 2020. draft, buddhist letter. meaning draft of a letter from the president of the united states. but look at the subject matter of that document, again, bernie says that he is not handing over. quote, draft letter from potus to seats evidence in the interest of national security for the 2020 elections. a draft letter to be released by, then president trump, voted for him by an attorney. a letter explainin...

Letter that you brought up just now, the timing in the data it is the most interesting. so that is dated december 17th 2020 that is a day before trump held an oval office meeting with mike flynn and sidney powell and other trump world allies about ways to potentially seize election machines and other things that trump saw as proof of fraud in the election. and so it is unclear how these two are linked. but it is quite a coincidence with the time. >> in terms of the sort of nature of the document...

Of electors supporting joseph biden, and a separate slate of electors supporting trump gathered on december 14th at the proper location to cast their ballots. both sets of those ballots have been transmitted to washington d.c. to be open by vice president, pence. in fact, i dont know why the justice department believes that to be true, but that was correct. we now know. multiple states, republicans in multiple states, had sent in false assertions, forged documents claiming to be the electors for...

All people, weve got this new revelation, a lawyer of some stripe, drafting a letter for trump about seizing evidence related to the election. again, this dated mid-december 2020. and bernie kerik says he has this document but doesnt want to hand it over. what do we expect will happen next? joining us now is nicholas wu, a congressional reporter for politico, the first to report that bernie kerik had handed over documents to the january 6th investigation. mr. wu, thanks very much for making time...