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Maggie haberman: on december 18, three people, one of them trump's former national security advisor mike flynn, his lawyer sidney powell and patrick byrne, the founder of overstock.com, were let into the white house by an aide to peter navarro, another trump advisor. trump saw them, called them into the oval office, and they start arguing the case where everyone else is failing trump and that trump can take aggressive actions to keep himself in power and to try to impact the results of an election that he had already lost. they suggested that he use the apparatus of government to seize voting ...

Was that pat cipollone thought the idea was nutty and had, at one point, confronted eastman, basically, with the same sentiment. speaker: what were your prior interactions with eastman? eric herschmann: he described for me what he thought the ambiguity was in the statute and he was walking through it at that time. and i said to hold on a second. i want to understand what you're saying. you're saying that you believe the vice president acting as president of the senate can be the sole decision maker as to, under your theory, who becomes the next president of united states? and he said, yes. and...

And we were asking one simple question as a general matter. where is the evidence? speaker: what response did you get? pat cipollone: a variety of responses like, what do you mean where's the evidence? you should know-- speaker: there was discussion of, well, we don't have it now, but we will have it or whatever. eric herschmann: derek and i both challenged what she was saying, and she says, well, the judges are corrupt. and i was like, everyone? every single case that you've done in the country you guys lost. every one of them is corrupt? even the ones we appointed? and-- speaker: what's-- er...

And that reminded me that yes, in fact, you're primarily-- you're an environmental lawyer. how about you go back to your office, and we'll call you when there's an oil spill? jake tapper: donoghue also informed president trump that u upon clark'k's appointm, justice department leaders would resign en masse. steven engel: the president turned to me and said, steve, you wouldn't leave, would you? i said, mr. president, i've been with you through four attorneys general, including two acting as attorney general, but i couldn't be part of this. jake tapper: finally persuaded, trump decided against ...

And that reminded me that yes, in fact, you're primarily-- you're an environmental lawyer. how about you go back to your office, and we'll call you when there's an oil spill? jake tapper: donoghue also informed president trump that u upon clark'k's appointm, justice department leaders would resign en masse. steven engel: the president turned to me and said, steve, you wouldn't leave, would you? i said, mr. president, i've been with you through four attorneys general, including two acting as attorney general, but i couldn't be part of this. jake tapper: finally persuaded, trump decided against ...