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It should come as no surprise that polls show americans don't like the idea of of congress messing with he a state's electoral results. and yet that's what we saw republicans try to do on january the 6th. so how can we ensure the safety of our democracy by preventing that from happening again? solutions are not out of reach. john avlon has tonight's reality check. >> that's right, michael. look, there should now be no doubt that the united states suffered an attempted coup. but there's still a lot of doubt about what can be done to stop the next attempt. and without real legal accountability a...

The constitution. of course, i'm co-counsel with the maryland and d.c. a.g. in the case. it's a case that says the president can't get benefits. the constitutional forbids it. the hotel is a giant benefit that he's getting from the government. why is he personally involved in the meetings at this level of detail about a potential mess across the street and competing hotel seems to me he's there. the inference is what does he have to hide? he wants to line his pockets like everything. he's turned the white house into a giant trump piggy bank. and the people aren't going to stand for it, don. we...

Aga -- inspector general sites two meetin meetings. it's unclear but the report says employees receive instructions not to share any statement trump made at those meetings and some of those said they were told or believe the information was subject to executive privilege. so not only did trump intervene, he then invoked executive privilege to block the inspector general from learning what he said at the meetings. what does that tell you? >> well, first, it tells me that they don't understand the elements of executive privilege. how can you invoke it against your own administration within the e...