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Jack Smith is zeroing in on a meeting in December 2020 that spanned multiple locations, extended to after midnight and at one point nearly erupted into a brawl.

A possibility exists that Matt Gaetz, controversial U.S. representative from Florida, MAGA squad, MAGA caucus and Freedom Caucus might attend the La Plata GOP Lincoln Gala in September in support of L...

Include mark meadows, rudy giuliani, and sidney powell, and exactly what was discussed in that meeting when folks like eric herschmann, and pat cipollone, and derek lions, part of the white house staff. >> team normal, they call themselves. >> team normal who had already been at wits and with him crazy, sydney powell and flynn, almost coming to fists with them. what happened after team normal left, i think is of central interest to prosecutors here. >> it is meaningful because it shows this 80, ...

The meeting came days after Trump lost the 2020 election and it was attended by Mike Flynn, Rudy Giuliani, and Sidney Powell.

>> and who is it that they are focusing on, the participants in the meeting? rudy giuliani, obviously? >> rudy giuliani was somebody that was there. he was called into the meeting after it was underway. sydney powell, the attorney that you saw at the press conferences with rudy in the aftermath of that. also patrick byrne, the former ceo for stock.com, and mike flynn, the former national security advisor. they were the people who got into the oval office for the meeting, and then you saw the tru...

Against the special counsel idea and against seizure of voting machines. >> to have the federal government seize voting machines, its a terrible idea. thats not how we do things in the united states. we dont have the legal authority to do that. the three of them were sort of forcefully attacking me verbally. eric, derek and we were pushing back, and we were asking one simple question, as a general matter, where is the evidence. >> what response did you get? >> a variety of responses. like what d...

Had already lost. they suggested that he use the apparatus of government to seize voting machines. as this meeting is taking place, another lawyer in the white house, eric herschmann figures out whats happening, calling in the white house counsel, pat cipollone, mark meadows at some point, derek lions, and the staff secretary on his last day at work joins, rudy giuliani gets called in. and this goes on for hours. >> how much time did you have alone with the president, and i say alone, you had ot...

Institutions are fragile. >> the appointment of the special counsel was not hypothetical. trump wanted sidney powell, a prominent peddler of election lies in the spot. >> he asked pat cipollone if he had the authority to name the special counsel, and he said yes. and then he asked him if he had the authority to give me whatever security clearance i needed, and pat cipollone said yes. and then the president said, okay, you know, im naming her that, and im giving her security clearance, and then s...

These seven states were going to send these back to the states, and the states would then be able to help donald trump win the election. >> it was a lie. in fact, on december 19, 2020, just four days before dr. eastman sent this memo, dr. eastman himself admitted in an e-mail the fake electors had no legal weight. referring to the fake electors as, quote, dead on arrival in congress, end quote. >> trump campaign aides and outside lawyers shared their concerns about the scheme in e-mails reported...

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. >> during a meeting several weeks later, the president got the same message from his white house counsel, pat cipollone and another white house lawyer, eric herschmann. >> eric and pat told the group, the president included, that none of those allegations had been substantiated to the point that they could be the basis for any litigation challenge to t...