authority because the state courts are not under his authority. i really look at the state court cases as being the ones that can be the most effective if they are to have convictions, if he is convicted in those courts. dean, what did you make of the message discipline of some of the trump defenders, especially in the media, the wall street journal, fox, the new york post, national review, all of conservative media this week, they leapt almost with unanimity to pick up on, this it s an attack on free speech from the trump legal, team it was kind of standing to watch, but it can be effective when it comes to prosecuting. not a. as it can be to the gop base. that one defense i, love john moreau said it wasn t critical that trump what was doing, aspirational. he just aspire to overturn the election. it s like me going back in, going i have a gun in my pocket and i like all your money. that is aspirational. i m aspiring to have the banks money. i can have a dream, can t?
authority because the state courts are not under his authority. i really look at the state court cases as being the ones that can be the most effective if they are to have convictions, if he is convicted in those courts. dean, what did you make of the message discipline of some of the trump defenders, especially in the media, the wall street journal, fox, the new york post, national review, all of conservative media this week, they leapt almost with unanimity to pick up on, this it s an attack on free speech from the trump legal, team it was kind of standing to watch, but it can be effective when it comes to prosecuting. not a. as it can be to the gop base. that one defense i, love john moreau said it wasn t critical that trump what was doing, aspirational. he just aspire to overturn the election. it s like me going back in, going i have a gun in my pocket and i like all your money. that is aspirational. i m aspiring to have the banks money. i can have a dream, can t? i i believe
all the time, the lawyer and his attorney general in a general counsel, they all told him that he lost the election. we look at everything if he s trying to create another situation, that is not what the law required by law doesn t prescribe that his half bait lawyers running up the tab. he is grabbing anything that he can, but ultimately the law of the law already. donald trump knew he lost, but he decided that he would move forward and permit to promote the big lie. the big lie you know was the fact that he said he didn t lose, but every individual said that he lost. we have thousands of pages of
lying about election results, mailing personal insults at its critics. making famously veil threats towards those who seek to hold him accountable. but none of trump s can change the cold, hard fact that the former president now faces serious criminal charges in three separate cases. in the coming days and weeks, it could even be one more. we start tonight with congressman benny thompson, democrat of mississippi. the former chairman of the january six commission. congressman, thank you for joining us. it s always good to talk to you. let s talk about trump s lawyer, john moreau. he did it washington and said recall the full ginsburg today. almost a little bit about what he had to say bècho and get
on the crucial conversation in the indictment with the vice president. and, by the way, the vice presidents chief of staff is there as a witness to this, the vice president s counsel was there, as a witness to this. many witnesses to this conversation. and john lauro decide that would make an entry into that conversation right now, which are learning from andrew weissmann is admissible in this case, which is what i was wondering about as soon as i heard him say it. it makes no sense, lawrence. i mean, what i hear when you play that clip of john moreau saying, you know, donald trump just said let s go with option d, donald trump said let s go with criminal option d. what i appreciate about the way jacks mitt structure this indictment, with the six coconspirators, not named but largely identified in substance, five of them are lawyers. so ordinarily there is a