role of presiding over the senate vice president mike pence could just unilaterally decide basically who won the election, which electors to count and not count, a concept clearly completely inath muto the entire notion of self-rule and self-determine agds. but remember donald trump basically wanted mike pence to pull off a coup. he said as much on the morning of january 6th. >> i hope mike is going to do the right thing. i hope so. i hope so. because if mike pence does the right thing we win the election. all he has to do -- this is -- this is from the number one or certainly one of the top constitutional lawyers in our country. he has the absolute right to do it. all vice president pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify and we become president and you are the happiest people.