Page 6 - Draft Executive Orders News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Said. and obviously, you know, the one, mike pence did his job as everyone who knows anything about the law or about how the presidential succession is supposed to work. mike pence did the only thing that was available to him under the law and the idea that donald trump is saying he should be investigated for that instead of praised for it tells you more about donald trump than it does mike pence. >> all this is coming as we're learning about the extent of the trump coup plot. how disturbing is it that there were these draft executive orders at the ready to have both the pentagon and departmen...

Automatic impulses. before the election we were again assured by allies that he didn't really mean it. of course trump would gracefully concede, they said. by now we should all know better. it is still stunning to see the same partisan staouper continue, the same cult-like mirror that trump tried to overturn an election and destroy our democracy from within the white house. but this will be seen as villainy in the eyes of history. not even nixon tried anything as usually and unconstitutional. and the facts just get more damning. like the presence of two draft executive orders revealed this wee...

Andrew, i -- it -- i don't know. every time, it just seems to get worse. when you hear that trump was prepared to seize voting machines with draft orders or with -- with these draft-executive orders to use the power of the government to overturn the election. i mean, it -- it's what we have seen from tinpot dictators. what if he had signed them? >> don, this is the slide of democracy into fascism. i mean, that's what we are loo looking at here, right? and the -- and the irony, or maybe i should say hypocrisy of this coming from the conservative -- um -- you know, side of our political life and...

To do it using three different federal agencies. try the justice department. try the military. somebody call homeland security. put rudy on the horn. but one of the strangest things about these draft executive orders is that they all include a long detailed section giving all of this background information on one small county in michigan. it's near the top of all of these drafts, quote, i donald j trump president of the united states find that the forensic report of the an trim county michigan voting machines and other evidence supported to me in support of this order provide probable cause su...

It shows the length the trump advisers were willing to go to as a part of a broader effort to undermine the election results. >> thank you very much. i want to bring in mathew travis. he served in the trump administration as deputy texter of the cyber security infrastructure agency which, of course, is a lead federal agency responsible for elections security and our chief political analyst gloria borger. two draft executive orders to seize voting machines. first they try the pentagon. then the dhs. clearly, there were a lot of efforts made. is there any possible way to get this done? is there ...