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Jake tapper: the next day, john eastman called white house counsel eric herschmann to discuss an appeal in georgia. eric herschmann: i said to him, are you out of your effing mind? now im going to give you the best free legal advice youre ever getting in your life. get a great effing criminal defense lawyer. youre going to need it. and then i hung up on him. jake tapper: and the president released a second video condemning the violence more forcefully on january 7th. donald trump: like all ameri...

Where the former president considered horrifying action. maggie haberman: on december 18, three people, one of them trumps former national security advisor mike flynn, his lawyer sidney powell and patrick byrne, the founder of overstock.com, were let into the white house by an aide to peter navarro, another trump advisor. trump saw them, called them into the oval office, and they start arguing the case where everyone else is failing trump and that trump can take aggressive actions to keep himsel...

And then shortly before we left was when cipollone and/or herschmann and whoever the other young man was said you can name her whatever you want to name her and no ones going to pay any attention to it. speaker: how did he respond? how did the president respond to that? sidney powell: something like, you see what i deal with? i deal with this all the time. jake tapper: the meeting was extremely heated with cipollone arguing against the special counsel idea and against seizure of voting machines....

For the leadership change and everyone else advocating against it. it was a very blunt contentious conversation. herschmann and i were on the same level of being the street fighters of the meeting. eric herschmann: when he finished discussing what he planned on doing, i said good fucking-- excuse me, sorry-- a-hole. congratulations, you just admitted a first step or act you take as attorney general would be committing a felony and violating rule six youre clearly the right candidate for this job...

President mike pence on january 6 while presiding over the opening and counting of electoral ballots. sara murray: what you can do is you can say, due to these disputes in these seven states, were going to send this back to the states and the states would then be able to help donald trump win the election. liz cheney: it was a lie. in fact on december 19th, 2020, just four days before dr. eastman sent this memo, dr. eastman himself admitted, in an email, that the fake electors had no legal weigh...

Eric herschmann and many others were appalled. jason miller: the way it was communicated to me was that pat cipollone thought the idea was nutty and had, at one point, confronted eastman, basically, with the same sentiment. speaker: what were your prior interactions with eastman? eric herschmann: he described for me what he thought the ambiguity was in the statute and he was walking through it at that time. and i said to hold on a second. i want to understand what youre saying. youre saying that...

And then the president, said, ok, im naming her that, and im giving her security clearance and then shortly before we left was when cipollone and/or herschmann and whoever the other young man was said you can name her whatever you want to name her and no ones going to pay any attention to it. speaker: how did he respond? how did the president respond to that? sidney powell: something like, you see what i deal with? i deal with this all the time. jake tapper: the meeting was extremely heated with...

A real investigation. mr. clark responded by saying that hes been involved in very significant environmental law briefing before various courts and that reminded me that yes, in fact, youre primarily-- youre an environmental lawyer. how about you go back to your office, and well call you when theres an oil spill? jake tapper: donoghue also informed president trump that upon clarks appointment, justice department leaders would resign en masse. steven engel: the president turned to me and said, st...

Of the fraud claims, and they quickly concluded that fraud did not take the election from donald trump. voters did. the news was told to trumps chief of staff at the white house, mark meadows, in mid to late november. alex cannon: i remember a call with mr. meadows, and i remember sharing with him that we werent finding anything that would be sufficient to change the results in any of the key states. jake tapper: during a meeting, several weeks later, the president got the same message from his ...

And did they think what they were doing was legal? maggie haberman: in one email, a lawyer working in arizona literally describes them as, "fake electors". it says so what we would be doing is sending these fake electors-- he has fake in quotes-- to go cast ballots. in another email there was a discussion about fear from some officials. this would be seen as "treasonous". jake tapper: what might have happened had pence tried to go through with this idea that he could reject electoral votes and s...