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General investigators were trying to get these key documents, we know the secret service had been undergoing this data migration, and in the process lost text messages in the many weeks that were leading up to january 6th. and what this detailed draft memo said was that the secret service wasnt up-front with investigators about the totality of the loss. so the point here, poppy, is that inspector general investigators were prepared as of april of this year to go to congress, with these detailed ...

More about the roadblocks they were encountering as they were trying to get really crucial detail out of the secret service. this is according to a draft memo that was obtained by the project on government oversight. it was shared with cnn. and, poppy, it lists several ways that investigators believed the secret service was stalling, really stalling the efforts from the inspect general investigators to try to get these key documents, these key text messages. so the document listed several ways t...

The possibility that roe take a big hit but isnt totally over turned? >> thats always a possibility. remember, this leaked draft memo was drafted back in february. a lot could happen. i remind people its may. it could be that only a couple eyes are going to be removed and ts uncrossed. it could very well be but the whole lift of roe v wade, the whole history of planned parenthood has been about the trimester frame work and when the state has a compelling interest in the unborn child. versus what...

Should have access to them, and up until this point, the judge has really leaned in favor of the committees being able to access this information. and theyve already allowed the release of more than 100 pages of documents, including an email that included a draft memo that eastman helped to craft in association with rudy giuliani that was related to vice president mike pence standing in the way of the certification of the election results. the problem here for the committee, though, of course, a...

Make the pentagon seize voting machines in key states, in the quote, air quotes, hunt for evidence of fraud. here is draft memo that they got. effective immediately, the secretary of defense shall seize, collect and retain and analyze all machines and material records required for retention. i mean, that is -- the lengths that they were willing to go every day, we learn more. and as astonishing. and hes gotten more dug into his election lies so what do we need to learn from that. what guardrail ...

Back. this was all of the people under trumps command, the department of defense, the attorney general and by the way sydney powell no less a person would have been the special council if he would have done it, he would have been it to keep things on his side for at least a couple months. this is bone chilling because it relied on the executive branch alone which is what happens in the worst banana republics. what guardrails? it tells us that we have to rely ultimately on the good faith and inte...

And its not right. people need to know that democracy works. that both count and its honest and being counted honest. >> on that somewhat of a related note as we talk about things that are being done that undermine confidence in the election system i want your reaction if you can to this new reporting from "politico" we takd about at the top of this show that unsigned draft memo that was apparently prepared for former president trump that would have authorized voting machines to be seized in the...

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...

Think his legal theory will work. pat cipollone, the white house counsel, explodes, you have been arguing this to the president, youve been arguing this to the vice president and now you think the legal theory isnt really solid? why did you do that? >> i mean, why did you do that will be the question for the ages for one john eastman. phil rucker, the "post" series gives us really clear pieces of evidence about the eastman efforts ahead of january 6th to pressure pence, which seems to be sort of...

You have been arguing this to the vice president, and now you think the legal theory isnt really solid? why did you do that? >> i mean, why did you do that will be the question for the ages for one john eastman. phil rucker, the post series gives us clear evidence about the eastman efforts ahead of january 6th to pressure pence, which seems to be sort of at the heart -- i mean, adam kinzinger called it the blue print for a coup, the eastman memo. let me put this up. the eastman draft memo arguin...