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Chris. they adopted the question that doesn't constrain them in any way. they are going to decide whether to affirm or reverse. the colorado supreme court. there are many exit ramps. there are many approaches. what is interesting is that if you are a strict textualist, you really read the words of the 14th amendment section 3, or if you are a so-called originalist, a historian, someone like jack recall of of stan stanford, a pulitzer prize -winning historian leaves no doubt that the right answer would be the one that conservatives would give. it is more prudential, moderate, and liberals like ...

Your glasses on for this, because i'm gonna show you some photographs, but they're going to be so small that you're going to want to look at them. a new lawsuit in pennsylvania is a need to ban the republican congressman scott perry from appearing on the states primary ballot, using the same insurrection clause of the 14th amendment, that's been used against the former president, donald trump. the seven-page lawsuit asks the pennsylvania court to declare that perry is ineligible to run for office, because of his efforts to keep donald trump in power. the filing states, quote, the effort to uti...

Pardons against insurrectionists and providing them comfort. so i think there is a long and established record here that shows that the former president engaged insurrection, he sent people to the capitol that he wanted view lens, he knew there would be violence here -- >> you are saying the tweet is not enough. you think there is enough in the public record -- >> there is more than enough. we put through our extensive hearings over the summer establishing this record, a record that was relied on in maine in part, relied on in colorado in part. i think that record is what people should be stru...

Controlling here. moreover, congress has passed statutes. there's 18 usc 2383 the insurrection statute where they specifically incorporated this 14th amendment section into the criminal code and gave it a procedure, which is indictment and criminal trial. and in fact, they expanded the definition beyond the 14th amendment to basically anybody, not just officers of the united states, anybody who engages in an insurrection is permanently barred. >> but that's part of his argument, right? in part, marcus. that hold on a second, the constitution has areas where they discuss directly what should ha...

But the real meat of this is not until page 689, and it lays out about let's see 11 different recommendations this committee is making. i want to highlight a few for people. and laura you were asking before where can people go to actually read this entire report. it is up on the committee's website. it's january6.house.gov. the big take away from this is interesting. they're autlining several steps that many different bodies whether it's congress, bar associations within different states or law enforcement agencies, the steps that they should take as a result of this comprehensive report from ...