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Eric herschmann and many others were appalled. jason miller: the way it was communicated to me 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 a...

And then the president, said, ok, i'm naming her that, and i'm giving her security clearance 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 c...

A real investigation. mr. clark responded by saying that he's been involved in very significant environmental law briefing before various courts 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 upon clark's appointment, 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 att...

Of the fraud claims, and they quickly concluded that fraud did not take the election from donald trump. voters did. the news was told to trump's chief of staff at the white house, mark meadows, in mid to late november. alex cannon: i remember a call with mr. meadows, and i remember sharing with him that we weren't finding anything that would be sufficient to change the results in any of the key states. jake tapper: during a meeting, several weeks later, the president got the same message from his white house counsel, pat cipollone, and another white house lawyer, eric herschmann. derek lyons: ...

And did they think what they were doing was legal? maggie haberman: in one email, a lawyer working in arizona literally describes them as, "fake electors". it says so what we would be doing is sending these fake electors-- he has fake in quotes-- to go cast ballots. in another email there was a discussion about fear from some officials. this would be seen as "treasonous". jake tapper: what might have happened had pence tried to go through with this idea that he could reject electoral votes and send them back to the states-- biden won such as arizona, pennsylvania, wisconsin, georgia? michael l...