good afternoon. this is almost no idea more un-american then the notion that any one person could choose the american president, no idea more un-american. i agree with that. which is unusual because former vice president mike pence and i don t agree on much. these are his words spoken a few months ago about donald trump s attempt to pressure the former vice president pressure him into going along with an unlawful and unconstitutional scheme to overturn the 2020 and give dawn trump a second tournament office. today, the select committee is going to reveal the details of that pressure campaign. but what does the vice president of the united states even have to do with the presidential election? the constitution says that the vice president of the united states oversees the process of counting the electoral college votes. the process that took place on january 6th, 2021. donald trump wanted mike pence to do something no other vice president has ever done. the former president wa
position in a historical example jefferson. in fact, he conceded in that meeting jefferson did not at all support his position that in the election of 1800, there had been some small technical defect with the certificate in georgia. it was absolutely undisputed that jefferson had won georgia. jefferson did not assert that he had any authority to reject electors. he did not assert that he had any authority to resolve any issues during the course of that and so he acknowledged by the end that there was no historical practice whatsoever that supported his position. he had initially tried to push examples of jefferson and adam was, he ultimately acknowledge the did not work as we ve covered. he acknowledged it would lose 9 to 0 the supreme court. he again try to say but i don t think the chorus will get involved in this. they ll invoke the political question doctrine, and so if