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And so here you have an amendment that says nothing about objecting or rejecting, and yet we did have some recent practice of the happening within the terms of the electoral count act. so we started with that text. we were called in that discussion with the vice president, who said, i cannot wait to go to heaven and meet the founding fathers and tell them, they work that you did in putting together our constitution is a work of genius. thank you. it was divinely inspired. there is one sentence that i would like to talk to you a little bit about. so then we went to structure. and again, the vic...

This election. and so, it would be a disaster situation. i said i think the courts will intervene, i don't see a commitment in the constitution of the question of whether the vice president has that authority to some other actor to resolved, there is arguments about whether congress -- jointly have a constitutional commitment to generally decide electoral vote issues. i don't think they had any authority to object or reject them. i don't see it in the 12th amendment, nonetheless, and i concluded by saying john, in light of everything that we've discussed, can't we just both agree that this is ...

Legal and that trump was in the room. can trump say, well you know i don't know, i was getting mixed advice. it is very difficult to contemplate that that could happen here. and i think the bottom line analysis is this, it defies common sense that anyone could believe that the 12th amendment, and the 1877 electoral college act, mean that the vice president gets to pick who wins a presidential election. we know that that is not how the system works, we know in the words of judge looting that that is not how the founders intended for this system to work. the american people vote, the electoral c...

Select committee has obtained evidence suggesting that dr. eastman never really believed his own theory. let me explain. on the screen, you can see a draft letter to the president from october 2020. in this letter, and idea was proposed that the vice president could determine which electors to count at the joint session of congress. but the person writing in blue, eviscerate's that argument. the person who wrote the comments and blue wrote, quote, the 12th amendment only says that the president of the senate opens the ballots in the joint session. and then in the past, voice but the voids shal...

And what the two hearings this week have done is shown essentially two separate but -- related but separate and independent ways to show criminal intent. monday, they showed that donald trump didn't give a hoot about what the truth was, about the facts. you had attorney general -- former attorney general barr saying that no matter what you said to trump, trump did not care about what the actual facts were. you heard richard donahue, the acting deputy attorney general basically say, we'd shoot down one factual claim, and he'd just throw down another. he was willfully blind to the facts. and tod...