the court and went up to the supreme court which was rejected ultimately. but imagine them now having the administrative function of certifying an election. one of the things we learned in 2020 is that there is an assumption of good faith, amongst these officials, the numbers come in, and the person overseeing it, the secretary of state says yes this is the tally. it s going to be hard to have faith or trust in that person dispatching that duty in good faith if they have gone around saying the 2020 election was rigged? yes, that s a really, really important part of the story here. after 2020, my team and i beat donald trump and his allies in court more than 60 times. the reaction from republicans looking forward to 2022 is to do exactly as you said. not necessarily to engage in the courtroom, but in the places where ballots are counted. the places where votes are certified. you have to look no further than the situation in
and on and on. we can only imagine that this last term was the most consequential right-wing term many say in 70 or 80 years, perhaps ever. again, i know it sounds a little weird to ascribe this one basically anonymous dude all this power, but it really is true. don t take it from me. two of leonard leo s longtime close friends, justice clarence thomas and his wife ginni thomas have spoken publicly about his vast influence. leonard leo has single-handedly changed the face of the judiciary under the auspices of ed meas and many of the people who started the federalist society. he wears many hats, he doesn t really tell all that he does but i know enough to know the man is a force of nature. it s great to have you here today. well thank you. you know leonard, since you re the number three most powerful person in the world [laughs] right, god help us. god help us. now in context, that s a
most important investigation the justice department has ever entered into, and we have done so because this effort to upend a general election, transferring power from one administration to the next, cuts at the fundamental root of american democracy. we have to get this right. now that s in addition to what appears to be another doj investigation into donald trump, the one we just referenced a moment ago, that of course led to the execution of that search warrant at his florida golf club two weeks ago. that search was linked to the recovery of allegedly classified documents, the investigation itself and trump s public meltdown in response, just further reminds everyone what s at stake. it highlights how dangerous, just how wildly reckless, unacceptable it would be to let this man, this individual once again have access to the power of the american state and the
president. anyway, that sounds a lot like lake s fellow arizona republican, another nominee for secretary of state mark finchem is also saying. i did not know that a little over a year ago the act of standing up for you about a suspicious election that has since been proved to be irredeemably compromised would ignite a nationwide populist movement to regain control over our governments, and to trigger my pursuit to be your next secretary of state. ladies and gentlemen, we know it and they know it. donald trump won. [applause] we do not in fact know it because it s not true, because donald trump lost by millions of votes. then there s doug mastriano, the trump endorsed
was not aware. what i can tell you definitively and for sure, he was not aware of this. he was we were nobody in the white house was. we were not given a heads up and we did not know about about what happened yesterday. jesse: this explains why joe has been hiding from reporters since the raid. he okayed a raid on his rival s house and then went on vacation. the raid doesn t even cut it for from a legal standpoint. but don t take it from me. two highly respected lawyers who work for bush 41 and reagan wrote in the wall street journal today that it had no legal basis. quote: the fbi had no legally valid cause for the raid. the materials to be seized included any government or presidential records created between january 20th, 2017 and january 20th, 2021, ie during mr. trump s term of office. virtually all the materials at mar-a-lago are likely to fall within this category. federal law gives mr. trump a right of access to them.