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Performing his constitutional duties. he wasn't engaged in that attack. . >> that's not all that the fourteenth amendment section 3 says. i think that is up for debate if that covers your client. it says, given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. i think that is -- >> it requires conduct. what they say he said at the rally, and no other place. he didn't go and join the mob at the capitol. >> then let's listen. james, let's listen to what he said at the rally january 6th. let's listen to that first. we will listen to some of the other things that he said. . >> all right. >> wow. this crowd h...

Amendment, protects the right to run for office. so any activity that would restrict, you know, governmental activity that would restrict that would be subject to strict scrutiny. and of course we have both a procedure and a claim here that both violate the first amendment and other due process rights. so that's the reason we have filed a suit in federal court to injoin this effort to really undermine democracy by preventing people from running for office and therefore denying the voters their choice. >> but let's pull up this fourteenth amendment section 3 again, the disqualification clause. ...

"if January 6th wasn't sedition or insurrection, what the hell is?" John Avlon demanded.