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Reveal a plot by theex-presidents aides to use the military to overturn election results. the order empowers the defense secretary to seize, collect, retain and analyze all machines, equipment, electronically stored information and materiel records required for retention under a u.s. law that relates to preservation of election record, military. the draft order would have given the defense secretary 60 days to write an assessment of the 2020 election. that suggests that it could have been a gamb...

That would have directed the defense secretary to seize voting machines and calls for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the 2020 election. the executive order, whose author is unknown, is dated december 16th, 2020. thats more than two weeks after trumps attorney general william barr said the justice department had found no evidence of election fraud. politico also says the draft order would have given the defense secretary 60 days to write an assessment of the 2020 election. no...

A way to count the votes in a way where their favored candidate would win. now, it is true this didnt happen. but the idea that the president was considering this, that it got as far as a draft order, is just a chilling demonstration of how close we came to something that is literally un-american. >> and, jeff, if the former president had actually gone through with these insane executive orders at the time, would they have even been remotely legal? i mean -- >> well, i mean, this -- they certain...

So. cbs news confirmed the committee is conn firming a draft order that would have ordered the pentagon to series voting machines from several battleground states where they allege fraud took place. >> we are concerned our military was part of this big lie on promoting that the election was false. >> reporter: the order which was never signed by former president trump would have also involved the department of justice. thompson revealed sunday former attorney general bill barr halls had a volunt...

Be the guts of the draft order. now, with him, sidney powell and a businessman named patrick burn, who blogged about the meeting, quoting him now, i spoke up again, mr. president. i think you should appoint sidney powell your special counsel on these election matters and make general flynn your field marshal over the whole effort. can i imagine that? sidney powell, special counsel. general fynn, field marshal. he would probably get to wear a uniform he could design himself or maybe his son. back...

Spoke up again, mr. president. i think you should appoint sidney powell your special counsel on these election matters and make general flynn your field marshal over the whole effort. can i imagine that? sidney powell, special counsel. general fynn, field marshal. he would probably get to wear a uniform he could design himself or maybe his son. back to the draft order. item seven calls for appointment of quote a special counsel to oversee this operation, institute all criminal and civil proceedi...

Allowed then president trump to authorize the secretary of defense to send national guard troops to seize voting machines around the country in the weeks following the 2020 election. now, "politico" also reports the draft order would have given the defense secretary 60 days to write an assessment of the 2020 election. that suggests that it could have been a gamut to keep trump in power until at least mid-february of 2021, end quote. nbc has not reviewed these documents. in a moment im going to s...

Highest levels of government. we can only imagine what the military thought about this kind of meddling. >> lets think about the context of the moment. the date of the draft of this executive order shows bill barr had already designed. i think you also had white house counsel also threatening to resign if they were going to replace acting a.g. rosen at the time. so trump was looking for anybody he could lean on, anyone, and cue these players who probably shouldnt have had audience with the presi...

>> i want to ask you about that in a moment, should trump run and win again, gloria, the "new york times" says trump was in these executive orders, that he asked former attorney general bill voss whether they can seize voting machines and directed rouge rouge to calm and say could the dhs do it and that became a subsequent draft order. it isnt because trump believed it and people were doing it. he was actively driving every step of this. >> right. thats very important. that is exactly what the j...

President, it still has to go to the military commanders, and having been a former military commander, i will tell you, theres always a lawyer by my side when i was making decisions on whether an order was illegal or legal, and i got to tell you, it would have stopped there as weve seen several other times during the trump administration. but this is just, as john just said, this is just flabbergasting that it even got that far, that a draft order would be written and that there were some people...