prince charlie stewart raised his standard in the islands of scotland intent on enforcing his catholicclaim to the throne that had once been his grandfathers. the army defendant as far as darby in the heart of england sewing panic and london. although it was eventually crushed the rebellion revived the appetite for books documenting the barbara pharisees of the roman church. the sufferings of john's free masonry complete with engravings of all of the torture he had endured was published at the perfect moment. he became a celebrity, the book was widely translated here was a martyr for free masons and it's inviolable secrecy. except, things did not quite go in the way he said. over two centuries later, the inquisition's transcription of his interrogation served from the archives to reveal he did give away free masonry that he vowed to protect. there he sensibly, faced with the prospect of the torture chamber he told all. indeed he rarely waited for them to open their mouth before answering all their questions. not that his confession saved him from being tortured, portuguese inquisitors

charlie savage. you've done great reporting on this. thank you. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> for more on this over attempt to overturn the election i'm joined from claire mccaskill and stewart stevens -- willd stewart steven -- how the republican party became donald trump. clare, let me start with you. i read this letter a bunch yesterday when it came out. it kind it's a my breath away, i think if it didn't come out there's odds it would've been such a scandal, that related precipitated a backlash, greater than it's a fact. but, it's a coup attempt in black and white. that came pretty close. >> chris, as i read the letter, i kind of got sick to my stomach. because this was a lawyer at the highest level, of the department of justice. in what he laid out, there as a lawyer, is so offensive. you have to remember, for lawyers, really the law is a slave to evidence. the law has to serve only in the context of factual evidence. what's really stunning about this letter is there's not one drop of evidence in. there is not one solid obligation of anything. we know the bar, which is in the hall of fame of trump lackeys, the attorney general, had said clearly, there was no fraud that