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Spoke up again, mr. president. i think you should appoint sidney powell your special counsel on these election matters and make general flynn your field marshal over the whole effort. can i imagine that? sidney powell, special counsel. general fynn, field marshal. he would probably get to wear a uniform he could design himself or maybe his son. back to the draft order. item seven calls for appointment of quote a special counsel to oversee this operation, institute all criminal and civil proceedings as appropriate, based on the evidence collected and provided all resources necessary to carry ou...

Allowed then president trump to authorize the secretary of defense to send national guard troops to seize voting machines around the country in the weeks following the 2020 election. now, "politico" also reports the draft order would have given the defense secretary 60 days to write an assessment of the 2020 election. that suggests that it could have been a gamut to keep trump in power until at least mid-february of 2021, end quote. nbc has not reviewed these documents. in a moment i'm going to speak with betsy woodruff-swan, one of the reporters to break the news. and focusing on whether the ...

Highest levels of government. we can only imagine what the military thought about this kind of meddling. >> let's think about the context of the moment. the date of the draft of this executive order shows bill barr had already designed. i think you also had white house counsel also threatening to resign if they were going to replace acting a.g. rosen at the time. so trump was looking for anybody he could lean on, anyone, and cue these players who probably shouldn't have had audience with the president or access to that information. and it shows the desperation of trump to do anything because w...

>> i want to ask you about that in a moment, should trump run and win again, gloria, the "new york times" says trump was in these executive orders, that he asked former attorney general bill voss whether they can seize voting machines and directed rouge rouge to calm and say could the dhs do it and that became a subsequent draft order. it isn't because trump believed it and people were doing it. he was actively driving every step of this. >> right. that's very important. that is exactly what the january 6th committee is going to look at. what was the president's intent here? you know, we tend ...

President, it still has to go to the military commanders, and having been a former military commander, i will tell you, there's always a lawyer by my side when i was making decisions on whether an order was illegal or legal, and i got to tell you, it would have stopped there as we've seen several other times during the trump administration. but this is just, as john just said, this is just flabbergasting that it even got that far, that a draft order would be written and that there were some people willing to carry it out. >> so, renato, the general makes a good point about how far this went an...