takeover of the election process. um, what we ended up with on january 6th was the attempt at what the political scientists call a self-coup, where the president launched an attack on the vice president in order to coerce him to deny joe biden s majority in electoral college and try to kick the election into the house of representatives for a contingent election. and there, of course, he might have invoked the insurrection act as general michael flynn, his disgraced former national security adviser, had been urging him to do. so the military could have been brought back into it at this point. but for whatever reason, they decided not to go with the direct seizure of ballot boxes around the country. and and um, so i mean, yeah, because it is direct seizure of voting machines around the country by secretary of defense. i mean, it is quite, um, sort of stom stops you in your tracks to be honest. it is very sobering to read this but you don t have any sense as to why what played ou
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does it matter? i mean, isn t what we know already bad enough? i guess that would be what we know is bad enough. it does matter and that s what this january 6th committee is trying to find out just to spin away from that a little bit. that s what s going on here with meadows and his unwillingness apparently to testify claiming privilege. it s one thing to say, i don t want to incriminate myself or there s certain things i can t discuss but it s another thing to say as a former member of congress, i m not going to appear before congress as they try to find out if it was worth. i am a lawyer and i will say that even this is a situation where executive privilege, reasonable minds can debate whether it applies in this or that situation. i don t think reasonable minds can debate whether it applies to an attempted or a discussed or played footsy with self-coup,
this morning, politico has details of what donald trump and his team are specifically trying to keep out of the january 6th committee s hands. among the documents he is trying to block are speech drafts and handwritten notes and aides notes and including talking points from former press secretary. trying to prevent the call logs which are of great interests for months. the house select committee said mr. trump is as of now a case of one. he is as of now the only failed presidential candidate not to concede. to spend months spreading lies about the election and encourage a self coup to keep him in office or inspire a mob to attack the capitol. no one more important study to determine how legislation can
compelling about her testimony were her explicit warnings. she repeatedly warned that what the president and his allies and some of the very members of congress who were sitting on that impeachment committee were doing was dangerous. they were pushing wild conspiracy theories about american election and about trump s political enemies that were in many cases manufactured by foreign intelligence agencies with the goal of destabilizing the united states. she warned that pumping that poison into america s political bloodstream was a danger to democracy. fiona hill knows something about dangers to democracy. she is, after all, an expert on russia. well, now fiona hill has written a book. it is called there is nothing for you here: finding opportunity in the 21st century. i want to read you what she writes about the january 6 insurrection. quote, the failure of trump s slow motion, in plain sight attempt at a self-coup was not