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Jake tapper: the next day, john eastman called white house counsel eric herschmann to discuss an appeal in georgia. eric herschmann: i said to him, are you out of your effing mind? now i'm going to give you the best free legal advice you're ever getting in your life. get a great effing criminal defense lawyer. you're going to need it. and then i hung up on him. jake tapper: and the president released a second video condemning the violence more forcefully on january 7th. donald trump: like all americans, i am outraged by the violence, lawlessness and mayhem. [indistinct shouting] jakeke tapper:...

Where the former president considered horrifying action. 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...

And then shortly before we left was when cipollone and/or herschmann and whoever the other young man was said you can name her whatever you want to name her and no one's going to pay any attention to it. speaker: how did he respond? how did the president respond to that? sidney powell: something like, you see what i deal with? i deal with this all the time. jake tapper: the meeting was extremely heated with cipollone arguing against the special counsel idea and against seizure of voting machines. pat cipollone: that's how the federal government sees voting machines, that's a terrible idea. tha...

For the leadership change and everyone else advocating against it. it was a very blunt contentious conversation. herschmann and i were on the same level of being the street fighters of the meeting. eric herschmann: when he finished discussing what he planned on doing, i said good fucking-- excuse me, sorry-- a-hole. congratulations, you just admitted a first step or act you take as attorney general would be committing a felony and violating rule six you're clearly the right candidate for this job. jake tapper: 49 37 white house counsel pat cipollone was vehemently against the plan as well. ric...

President mike pence on january 6 while presiding over the opening and counting of electoral ballots. sara murray: what you can do is you can say, due to these disputes in these seven states, we're going to send this back to the states and the states would then be able to help donald trump win the election. liz cheney: it was a lie. in fact on december 19th, 2020, just four days before dr. eastman sent this memo, dr. eastman himself admitted, in an email, that the fake electors had no legal weight, referring to the fake electors as "dead on arrival in congress". jake tapper: trump campaign aid...