parties in the country. which is to say that faction is just a coin flip away from seizing card anytime. so we have dodged a bullet of the 2020 election. but we are still getting the reminders of just how close we came to losing this democracy. and how active the threat remains going forward. yesterday another document underlining precisely that threat became public. now this one actually is from that period between the election in january six. it is a memo written by a right-wing lawyer by john c. eastman he is a member of the society, actually he recently coauthored an opinion piece for fox news with none other than john who. was the legal architect of the torture regime under president george w. bush. now john c. eastman i'm going to try to put this as charitably as possible, john c. eastman is somebody who's willing to argue for views in positions that the vast majority of constitutional scholars would not just reject. but left it.