people that he brought in and listened to who tried to convince him and did convince him that there were ways to steal the election. and that's what this memo is about. it's about totally thwarting the constitutional process of the election of the president of the united states by the electoral college. trump wanted to make sure that he remained the president of the united states through hook and crook. and this was hook and crook. and he had hooks and crooks around him from giuliani to eastman, all up and down he brought in these people who were willing, along with him, to goad him and get him to accept these preposterous notions. >> yeah. listen. there were some very vivid examples of what was happening of the description of what was going on inside the white house and while trump was acting. in the book "peril," they describe a tense oval office meeting on january 5th where trump continued to pressure pence to overturn the election.