strategy? i assume this was not a random selfie, he got the magic word in there. threat. the default position is don t ever say anything to law enforcement. don t say anything like this. don t put a video out, but at the same time, sometimes if managed well, you might be able to get in front of an issue, and in this case, as long as he gets the magic words in, that he felt threatened, that is the key. it is critical to his self-defense. and in new york, new york has a very very defense favorable self-defense law, they call it justification. the burden is on the state to disprove self-defense beyond a reasonable doubt. but the issue is also that penny has to show that he believed, he was going to use force, the victim was going to use force, about to use force, that force
piece entitled the election that could break america, gellman reported that the trump campaign was discussing contingency plans to bypass election results, and appoint loyal electors in battleground states where republicans hold with it justification based on rampant fraud, trump would ask state legislators to set aside the popular vote in their state and exercise the power instead to choose a slate of electors directly. does that sound familiar? trump claiming victory on election night, claiming fraud when it started to look like he lost, and trump using those fake fraud allegations to stop the counting vote electoral votes. gellman wrote about the plans for all of that in september of 2020. weeks before the election. why does he now think biden will be impeached by a republican congress? joining me now is barred gellman, staff writer at the atlantic, and former thank you for having me.
the house are going to impeach joe biden. that is a major assertion. they ve been, right and he has been right early about big things like this before. and september of 2020, in a piece entitled the election that could break america, gellman reported that the trump campaign was discussing contingency plans to bypass election results, and appoint loyal electors in battleground states where republicans hold with it justification based on rampant fraud, trump would ask state legislators to set aside the popular vote in their state and exercise the power instead to choose a slate of electors directly. does that sound familiar? trump claiming victory on election night, claiming fraud when it started to look like he lost, and trump using those fake fraud allegations to stop the counting vote electoral votes. gellman wrote about the plans for all of that in september of 2020. weeks before the election. why does he now think biden will be impeached by a republican congress? joining me now is
relations problem. this is what the former ambassador to ukraine said. i think that s an indication that the kremlin is of little worried that the russian people will not support an invasion, false flags, and these other tactics that they hope will generate this enthusiasm for an invasion. it s just not there. here with us tonight, former deputy national security adviser for president obama. his latest book, after the fall, being american in the world we have made. great to have you here tonight, ben. look, at the white house is no longer calling war between russia and ukraine imminent, but when you look at things like, oh let s just make up a story and then maybe we will have it justification for what i want to do here, is it your sense that putin recognizes he may have a weaker hand then he would like?
i think that s an indication that the kremlin is of little worried that the russian people will not support an invasion, false flags, and these other generate this enthusiasm for an invasion. it s just not there. en here with us tonight, formr deputy national security adviser for president obama. his latest book, after the fall, being american in the world we have made. great to have you here tonight, ben. look, at the white house is no longer calling war between russia and ukraine imminent, but when you look at things like, oh let s just make up a story and then maybe we will have it justification for what i want to do here, is it your sense that putin recognizes he may have a weaker hand then he would like? well, i think chris, the certainty is if there is a military operation by russian they will use we have seen this pattern before when you are covering the white house back in 2014,