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Outpacing whatever the doj might be doing? could it be the justices only focusing on prosecuting those who carried out the actual riot? what do you read into this new information? i think the committee is reacting to a really unprecedented stall destruction strategy by the trump white house. it started with them trying to destroy the documents trump reaping them up. he didn t rip them up in small enough pieces that the archives were able to put them back together. then he asserted executive privilege over the documents trying to prevent them from being turned over to the 16 committee. he lost that in the supreme court 8 to 1. so now the new tactic is to say well, they forgot so that s no surprise that the justice is using a bunch of serious techniques to try to get at that. in fact the most serious technique we just got word of today, which is steve bannon s attorney, a guy named robert ....
0 he left office. the archives released a statement saying quote, in mid january, 2022, the national archives and records administration arranged for the transport from the trump mar-a-lago property in florida to the national archives of 15 boxes that contain presidential records following discussions with president trump s representatives in 2021. the statement continues. they are continuing to search for additional presidential records that belong to the national archives. the washington post was first to report on this writing quote, trump advisers deny any if areas intent and said the boxes contained momentous, gifts, letters from world leaders, including kim jong-un own and barack obama. tonight, the new york times reports the retrieve documents also included a map that mr. trump famously drew on with a black sharpie marker to demonstrate the track of hurricane dorian heading toward alabama and 2019 to backup a declaration he had made on twitter that contradicted weather forecast. ....
Depending on whether he had the courage and spine to do it. are we to assume that this will be a climactic battle, but will take place this week about the very question of the constitutional iot of the of 1877? i think a lot of that depends on the courage and spine of the individuals involved. when you said courage and spine, we know louis he is a pure honey badger, down from texas one. that, this guy is tough as texas boot leather, okay? are you talking about the other side of the football, that will be a nice way to say, a guy named vice president mike pence? yes. so all of this this morning from the washington post, about an email that eastman allegedly sent to pence s team, alleging the vice president ordered the attack, while the attack was taking place. while pence was hiding from the mob, because he did not overturn the election, apparently. eastman confirmed the mail, including a non published draft opinion article, and told the ....
And my sort of eyes on this. i want you to take a listen to that episode and hear what he said. are we to assume that this is going to be a climatic battle that s going to take place this week about the very question of the constitutionality of the electoral count act of 1877. it depends on the encourage and the spine of the individuals involved. that would be a nice way to say, a guy named vice president mike pence? yes. reporter: so just a couple days before january 6th, what eastman is suggesting here is that if pence doesn t object to the electoral college votes from the seven states, thus throwing this whole process over to the house because it brings that threshold under 270, he lacks the courage and a spine. i want to read you a part of the email that the washington post is reporting on. it says in part, the siege is because you and your boss did not do what was necessary to ....
Withholding of ukraine security assistance. and he said yes. and just yesterday the white house budget office put out a statement saying everything that happened with this aid happened with legal consensus and routine standards and practices were followed. you don t tend to have not one but two people who resigned at least in part because they re so concerned if everything is going according to normal order. one other thing we learned from the deposition we saw the transcript from today, mark sandy after he complained about his concerns about this, he in fact had his job responsibility of overseeing the spending of this kind of money yanked away from him, given instead to his boss, a guy named michael duffy, who s a trump plolitical appointee. thanks for your reporting and nice job reading that entire transcript. joining us now is jamey raskin from maryland. congressman, welcome. ....