john eastman, michael kerik. they're all afraid to tell the truth under oath. we've seen that with jeffrey clark the doj official who last week started hiding and steve bannon before that. i think it's good news, we've finally gotten the long awaited john eastman subpoena, which only raises the question is john eastman a bad enough lawyer to rely on and trust steve bannon a second time and his advice? you know, eastman last week said that he couldn't even remember who told him to write the coup memo. i mean, come on, a coup memo. if the guy couldn't remember last week, i don't think he's going to remember all of a sudden with the congressional subpoena. so i unfortunately think this is also something that will go to federal court and to the merrick garland justice department for criminal enforcement. >> just to underscore, neal, in all your time with doj, you were never asked to author a coup memo. >> no, it turns out i don't think anyone in 200 plus years has been. you know, and that just demonstrates just how absurd this is. the idea that this man stood in th

why john eastman is so interesting and so important to the committee.hat it has to do with pressure, the pressure campaign from the white house to not only the vice president, but also involving the department of justice as well. and so they look at it in that bucket in addition to pressuring election officials and t just t public statement that there was a real campaign involving the department of justice to overturn the election results, hallie. >> in the 30 or 40 seconds we have left, betsy, give you the final question on this. the open question now, as you all alluded to, who cooperates? who plays ball? how much do they talk? and how d resistant are they to talking? that's where this story goes next. >> one thingy people should kn about the way congressional subpoenas worke is that there a wide variety of different types of responses people can have. some people stiff arm the probes and can't nothing to do with them. but there is a weird category of people who actually kind of want what is often referred to colloquially as friendly subpoenas. people

john eastman, others. this is where we are tonight with outstanding subpoenas for angela mccallum, who by the way, i hope she has a lawyer, she definitely should get one, miss mccallum if you're watching. john eastman, michael flynn, and bernard carrot, as well as steve bannon who has made no moves to comply despite the contempt vote against him. so we wait to see what the newly subpoenaed trump allies, january six committee and department of justice will do next. congresswoman is the member of the select committee, to just issued these subpoenas, and she joins me now. zoe lofgren, is there a unifying the here in these folks, or should we interpret this as the committee making its way through the main players? >> i think it is just part of our plowing through to get all the evidence about everything that happened. we clearly, these are individuals who were heavily involved, trying to overturn the election, of being involved in the so-called war rooms of the willard hotel. we need to find out everything the

you had john eastman. you talked about the eastman memo.tire scenario. kt mcfarland michael flynn's deputy at the national security council, she is part of the team laying out again how law enforcement aided by pro trump law enforcement and irregular posses of proud boys would win the 2020 election in the streets. i think that is why this bears much more scrutiny than it has gotten. >> find it online. thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> ahead the conservative fury over giant yellow bird just trying to do his job. what it reveals about the tangible consequences of the right wing messaging on covid, next. when you hear, cough cough sneeze sneeze. [ sneezing ] it's time for, plop plop fizz fizz. alka seltzer plus cold relief. dissolves quickly. instantly ready to start working. so you can bounce back fast with alka-seltzer plus. (vo) wildfires have reached historic levels. as fires keep raging, the need to replant trees keeps growing. so subaru is growing our commitment to protect the environment. in partnership with the national forest fou

and you see in the scene president trump saying to try to listen to john eastman. listen to john. listen to john. and eastman has this memo think it's constitutional and legal for pence to essentially walk up on january 6th and then walk away. so this is president trump having a pressure campaign of his own vice president and using the legal conservative community and his allies there, the political committee, allies on the outside like judy only -- rudy giuliani and steve bannon, all listings are happening behind the scenes and that's what matters in the reporting as much or probably more than just president trump sitting there on january 6th watching tv. >> that's faceting. let's talk for a minute about vice president pence. whom president trump urged to listen to eastman. he says it's legal, he says you can do it. ultimately, the vice president decides based on the legal advice he is getting that no, he couldn't just throw out the votes. meanwhile, i believe it was senator lee who had come have taken it on himself to call the election officials in some of the states and learned

people that were at the willard hotel running the command center, people like mayor rudy giuliani, john eastman, bernie karrick, they were simply thely ahsans in

one thing that jumps out to me is john eastman.mo explaining how trump should try to maneuver within the law, or i would argue outside the law to steal this election. that seems to be where the january 6th committee is really aiming. >> some of these folks, i'm thinking of michael flynn, some of the other names, are not known as the most cooperative. what happens if they don't show up? >> these are people very close. michael flynn and bernard carrick received pardons. this is a group that's going to be loyal to trump, ready to put up a fight with the committee. if that happens, the committee needs to be ready to act quickly to go down the same road we've seen with steve bannon and jeffrey clark. vote for contempt in the committee. send it to the full house and over to the justice department for a potential criminal prosecution for contempt of congress. >> it's been 2 1/2 weeks since the bannon referral went over and still we've not heard from ag garland. so would you have expected to hear something there and what does this portend

. >> let's talk about the john eastman memo. tion when you first heard about it? >> just breathtaking that you would have laid out such a clear game plan that so clearly violated the constitution. >> the eastman memo detailed a six-step plan for pence to throw the election to trump during the january 6th certification. it also called for pence to throw out all electors from seven states. and gavel president trump as reelected. eastman has since publicly tried to downplay his memo and his role in attempting a coup, but he told a very different story in recent undercover video from a progressive activist. >> so giuliani and me met with 300 legislators on january 2nd via a zoom conference call. and they all spinelessly wouldn't do anything. >> and in appearances in past right wing media. >> are we to assume that this is going to be a climactic battle that will take place this week? >> it depends on the spine of the individuals involved. >> would that be a nice way to say a guy name d vice president mike pence? >> yes. >> this level

merit on any of these. >> in comments, preet, unearthed by cnn's k file, the conservative law john eastmanlied that if then vice president mike pence, quote, had enough courage and spine, he could overthrow the election. does this further underscore the need for eastman to testify? >> yeah, i think eastman's testimony is incredibly important. he's emerged as a central figure in this and only in the last few weeks even though it's been ten months since the insurrection, have we come to understand reporting from other information, how important he was. not just the thing you just mentioned. with respect to the conversation on january 2nd. it's come to light that as violence was already happening and as all these people worried about massively increased violence in the city, locking down the city potentially, john eastman was apparently communicating with the lawyer for mike pence while pence was being protected in a safe zone in the capitol, e-mailing pence and his lawyer to say even though this is all happening, he should still desert fi some of those states and turn the election to trump.

also subpoenaed, attorney john eastman who drafted that six point plan to have mike pence invalidate the election results and michael flynn, trump's national security adviser who discussed invoking martial law after the election. >> if he wanted to, he could take military capabilities and he could place them in those states and basically rerun an election. >> now that the committee has issued subpoenas, the big question, will these folks comply? will they take a page from the playbook of steve bannon, the trump adviser who has refused to testify and the justice department has yet to decide, they had three week, they have yet to decide whether to charge and prosecute him for criminal contempt. >> joining us now is bob woodward, associate editor at "the washington post," co-author of the new book "peril" which chronicles the fraught transition of power from donald trump to joe biden. you bring some new information as well, i know that as we were looking at these subpoenas, let's talk specifically about john eastman, the attorney with that six-point plan at first. tell us what you disco

when i asked john eastman about the email, when he said everyone is under siege because of your boss' say that mike pence was running for his hilif. that's some of the listeanguage sources had run by us. 8:00 p.m. on the day of the insurrection, after the violence, after vice president pence had retaken the senate floor to preside over the electoral certification, and people had died because of the insurrection, john eastman said, by the way, you can still do this. you've already violated the electoral count act by having debate go over 2 hours, so it is nullified. you now have the constitutional authority to go ahead and send this back to the state legislatures. >> amazing. he asked, what would james madison do? we also know he asked, what would dan quayle do? >> right, exactly. >> he consulted with dan quayle. >> when in doubt, call dan quayle. >> and james madison. >> you'll get an answer more quickly than if you ask james madison. jackie, terrific reporting. join jake tapper for a special report, "trumping democracy, an american coup," friday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. >>> s

among that group, they want to hear from john eastman, a lawyer and loyalist, who helped draft a strategy to overthrow biden's win. eastman is in the committee's cross hairs after it emerged he outlined possible strategies for overturning the election in a memorandum presented during a meeting at the white house on january 4th, just two days before the rally. eastman ran through the memo that detailed how at the joint session of congress on january 6th, pence might refuse to certify and thereby hand donald trump a second term. given that information, you can see why investigators would want to hear from eastman. only time will tell if any of the former president's allies will actually choose loyalty to democracy. i wouldn't hold my breath. bennie thompson is weighing criminal context charges for the ex-trump era man jeffrey clark. it may seem like progress is moving at a snail's pace for the committee's investigation, there's actually fresh evidence indicating that things are moving faster than we might think. the ranking republican member on the committee, liz cheney, says, quote, member

angela part of legislatures and bernie in the willard hotel war room with rudy giuliani and john eastman the day before the insurrection. what was going on? six key players added to the growing list of the former president's insider's target by the january 6th committee. they know a whole lot. but the question is will they cooperate or will they stone wall like steve bannon? that is happening as president joe biden's approval rating is upside down in our brand-new cnn poll. take a look at your screen now. 58% say that he's not focused on the right issues. and the issue the american people care about the most, that's the economy. by far. remember, it's the economy, stupid. still is. you see it in the polls. you saw it in last week's ele election. people care about soaring gas and energy prices right now that's what they care about and it's going to take time to feel the effects of the $1.2 trillion or trillion bucks for infa structure. republicans are facing a moment of truth right now will a disgraced twice impeached former president be their standard? >> the answer is people are in the

john eastman we talked about a lot.flynn was in this meeting on december 18th at the white house, accompanied by sydney powell, who was working in some capacity president trump campaign as a lawyer at that point, of the apparatuses seizing the voting machines and rerunning the election. you're deal winning a broad group of people. it's not tied to one event. there were many different prongs. this wasn't just a meeting the night before january 6th. they'd hit a benchmark, and a deadline would pass. they'd move to another thing. trump had various irons and fires and one of the people who knew what was going on. >> one thing they have in common is none of them worked for the government at the time. legally, as i understand it, none of them have a remote claim to refuse to testify under executive privilege. but they can delay things in court if they want to tie things up. that's what this goal seems to be here. and you have the simultaneous situation of the justice department dithering on steve bannon. you know, steve banno

john eastman has a job with the claremont institute. fact that they haven't fired that man tells you about that institute. we need to start arresting people. i am telling you right now, if we do not start showing consequences to the coup, then a failed coup is a practice run. what you are going to see is it's going to happen two ways. indep number one, there will be a physical bump, overthrow of the government or it's going to be one that's going to be done by legal means such as, you know, voter disenfranchisement, you know, overturning the votes of, you know, certain counties to make sure that, you know, candidates like donald trump or other candidates like that win. we are not taking this serious enough now. we are nearly at defcon 5 and no one is really, you know, look at this serious. >> talk to your party. >> they don't listen to me anymore. >> we are talking about things that are really serious. i mean that. i said it over and over on this program. the only party operating in reality and our democracy is going to be saved, it's g

barnes firm injury attorneys ♪ ♪ call one eight hundred, eight million ♪ . >>> protrump lawyer, john eastmanpence for the capitol riot because he refused to block the certification of joe biden's win. eastman wrote "the siege" because you and your boss did not do what was necessary. pence is chief council in collided in eastman's remark in an opinion article of trump's outside team that he wrote later in january but chose not to publish. nbc news had not seen a draft, article or e-mails. he tries to help donald trump overthrow an election where 150 million plus people voted and he says he didn't mean to do it and he was not blaming mike pence. who does that sound like? >> we got the e-mail. this is very clear that this is exactly what he's doing. he's blaming mike pence for not committing sedition against the united states of america and not stopping a constitutional act that's required by the united states. this guy keeps looking, i will use the word, i will use it comfortaby because i am in the right here. he keeps looking more deplorable by the day. if somebody tries to overthrow the unit

annoyed by an ill-timed email that you get at work, just remember you don't ever have to swat john eastman out of your inbox in the midst of an armed riot. eastman wrote an article saying that kamala harris was ineligible to serve as vice president because her parents were immigrants. and between that and his now eastman's pence memo, i'm pretty sure that this guy just stays up at night making up random things that a vice president can and can't do. i mean, what's next? he's going to write a memo saying the vice president can't, like, enter the west wing without a hall pass? this guy is preposterous when it comes to constitutional law and the idea that anyone let alone the president of the united states would be taking advice from this guy calls i think that former president's judgment into serious question. >> yeah, i think that's fair. then you have the clash that we relied on your expertise for that you've been guiding us and viewers through, which is this executive privilege claim. here's what we're now learning that the trump folks actually want to try to hide a record of the presiden

then, there is john eastman, the president's attorney who put together that memo which amount today a step-by-step guide to the former president sparking a coup. >> and all we are demanding of vice president pence is this afternoon at 1:00, he let the legislatures of the state look into this so we get to the bottom of it and the american people know whether we have control of the direction of our government or not. [ cheers and applause ] >> rudy giuliani applauding him on. that was eastman at the rally leading up to the insurrection laying out the essence of a memo that would only come to light months later, and might never have seen the light of day had the scheme actually succeeded. now, the select committee wants to know more. the question, though, is will they get it from him? or any of the other five? or any of the others they have subpoenaed? tonight, it's hard to see how. on friday, former-justice department official jeffrey clark, whom the former president wanted to take over the justice department, appeared before the committee but refused to speak until the question of exec

john eastman has a job with the claremont institute.t they still haven't fired that man tells you a lot about the claremont institute. and, you know, we really need to start arresting people. like, i am telling you right now, if we do not start showing consequences to the coup, then it is a practice run and what you are going to see is it is going to happen either two ways. number one, there is going to be a real coup where there is a physical bumper or overthrow of the government or it is going to be one that is done by legal means, such as, you know, voter disenfranchisement. you know, overturning the votes of, you know, certain counties to make sure that candidates like donald trump or other candidates like that win. we are not taking this serious enough right now. it is -- we are literally def con five and no one's really, you know, looking at this as seriously as they shall. >> like i said, talk to your party. >> trust me. >> no, no, i mean we are talking about things that are really serious but i mean that because the democratic p

>> i mean, why did you do that will be the question for the ages for one john eastman. phil rucker, the "post" series gives us really clear pieces of evidence about the eastman efforts ahead of january 6th to pressure pence, which seems to be sort of at the heart -- i mean, adam kinzinger called it the blueprint for a coup, the eastman memo. let me just put this up. these are from your series. the eastman draft memo arguing that pence could ignore the electoral college vote starts circulating. it argues that pence could delay it to allow any legal challenges to come out. we've since heard voicemail messages being left by other trump advisers to target the michigan slate. we know all too much about the effort to overturn the georgia slate. on january 4th there was a meeting on pence's legal we'll call them options to disrupt the vote. on the 5th trump had a conversation with pence asking him for the delay. that's leading up to -- this points so clearly at premeditation to do exactly what transpired on january 6th. i read your series and came away checking off how many thi

you read john eastman's memo and they cite the two-page version and the six-page version.wo-page version, it's important, that is the one that circulated to mike lee of utah and others within the white house and eastman is at the nexus of trump's desperation in the final days of the presidency to try to come up with some strategy, some gambit to stay in power. eastman provides it. trump pushes eastman on pence on january 4th and a new question now that may even go to the supreme court is will john eastman be able to claim executive privilege protection in this situation? he has been speaking publicly to reporters in recent weeks, and this document memorialized his own memo, has been reported publicly. so, will he be able somehow to avoid testimony? he may try to prevent it for the time being, but that may go all the way to the high court. >> i want to read to you something that is going to need a little contextualizing, tim miller, and this is sort of the mythology and we'll get to tucker carlson in a moment. we started there with liz cheney's remarks but the bulwark has s

john eastman. he's the attorney who helped craft trump's argument that the election was stolen. his argument has already been debunked by many legal scholars. mike flynn who was involved in meeting about how the trump campaign wanted to promote the lie that the election was stolen. angela mccallum, executive assistant to former president trump's campaign, and bernard kerik, who participated in a meeting at the willard hotel centered around overturning the election results. all six of these people are being asked to turn over documents by november 23rd, and then they have depositions scheduled any time in the last week of november to mid-december. >> quite a rogue's gallery there. any word if they'll abide by the subpoena and testify? >> it's not clear but we know so far this committee has had difficulty getting top trump aides to offer meaningful cooperation with their investigation. we've seen in that first round of subpoenas the top trump aides like scan scavino, mark meadows, steve bannon. they've not been able to obtain any meaningful cooperation. steve bannon just completel

discraced lawyer john eastman: the accessorizer. campaign manager bill stepien: bland master flash.tive assistant angela mccallum, the spare tiffany. and're and stephen miller as the honey trap. these trader joes was huddle together in a set of rooms and suites in the posh willard hotel in downtown d.c. their room bar tab must've been huge. it's, like, 20 bucks a pop for those mini molotov cocktails. ( laughter ) these guys did anything they could to stop biden from taking office, including putting pressure on mike pence to delay or even block certification of the election. well, good luck. pence is a master of withstanding peer pressure. even in high school, his friends couldn't get him to experiment with un-gartered socks: "no, thank you. elastic is the devil's reach-around." ( laughter ) the committee is especially interested in michael flynn, because he publicly called for the military to intervene and seize voting machines, and encouraged the president to impose martial law to force new elections in battleground states. sending in the u.s. army to change the results of an elect

john eastman, he was actually an attorney who helped craft trump's argument that the election was stolen. also mike flynn, a former trump administration official who was also involved in a meeting about how the trump campaign wanted to promote the lie that the election was stolen. angela mccollum, an executive assistant and bernard carrick, centered around trying to overturn the election results. now all six of these individuals have been asked to hand over documents by november 23rd and then they have depositions scheduled from the end of november to mid december, but wolf, it's just not clear if any of these people are going to participate. what we've seen so far is that the committee has had some difficulty getting meaningful cooperation from trump administration officials who they have subpoenaed and we saw just last week, former trump justice department official, jeffrey clark, he did show up for his interview, but he completely stone walled the committee. he cited ongoing litigation between the committee and trump and privilege concerns and of course, this is the first round of sub

. >> can i talk to him about john eastman? blueprint for how mike pence could overturn the election on january 6th that mike pence did not follow on january 6th, he is the president's lawyer or at the center of a lot of what happened on the insurrection. he gave an interview to steve bannon on january 2nd, four days before the insurrection, that's revealing. let's listen. >> is there an alternative way you see the power through this using either the electoral control act or some decision that made that the vice president of the united states grows a spine and understands his constitutional duty as you interpret it, mr. eastman? >> those slates of selectors are invalid. those states would at least agree because the ongoing contests have not been resolved, we can't count those electors. >> what do you think of that? >> it's shameful. he in recent weeks has gone back, eastman said well i wasn't saying the election should be overturned. he couldn't have been clearer in that interview that he was saying the vice president should no

give the election to trump and uc in dissing the president trump is saying to pets, listen to john eastmansten to john, listen to john and he has is momo is constitutional legal for mike pence to walk on january 6 and walk away and so this is president trump having to pressure campaign of his own vice president and using the legal conservative community and his allies there in the political community like giuliani and bannon who were together in january for than all of these things are happening behind the scenes and that is what matters in the reporting as much or probably more than just president trump sitting there in january 6, watching tv pretty. >> let's talk a minute about vice president pence, president trump urged to -- them all and he said it's legal and you can do it and ultimately, the vice president decide to's on that legal advice that he was getting said no they cannot just throw out the votes and meanwhile witr senator lee, who had taken on himself to call the election officials and some of the states and learn that none of the states was going to toss out and select force

john eastman, bill stepien, jason miller, bernie kerik, michael flynn, and campaign executive assistantela mccallum. they were all ordered to testify and provide relevant documents to the committee. all six took part in discussions about challenging the 20 election results, according to "the washington post." eastman and kerik participated in the so-called war room meetings near the white house. they plotted the investigation on the electoral college votes. and it was claimed mike pence had the authority to block the votes. the january 6th committee previously issued subpoenas for top advisers including steve bannon who the house voted to hold in contempt after he refused to testify. the decision whether to file charges against bannon is up to merrick garland. in his new book "betrayal: the final act of the trump show" carlson reports on the conversation he had with trump. he told mcdaniel he was leaving the gop and creating his own political party and he didn't care if the move would destroy the republican party. trump reportedly told mcdaniel, this is what they deserve for not stickin

among them, form are national security adviser michael flynn, conservative lawyer john eastman and former new york city police commissioner bernard kerik, closely tied to rudy giuliani. eastman and kerik are believed to have attended meetings at the command center, a posh suite at the willard hotel where a block from the white house "the washington post" reports trump's most loyal lieutenants were working day and night with one goal in mind, overturning the results of the 2020 election. the committee also sent subpoenas to three members of the trump reelection campaign, campaign manager bill stepan, senior advisor jason miller and the executive assistant angela mccallum. mccallum apparently made calls to michigan lawmakers in december of 2020 urging them to override the state's votes and appoint more loyal electors. >> we want to know when there's a resolution in the house to appoint electors for trump, if the president can count on you to join in support. >> the committee wants these six witnesses to provide documents before thanksgiving and appear in person for testimony in early decemb

the john eastman memo is short but from a constitutional law perspective really stunning. the plan was to have mike pence as president of the senate basically cancel or ignore the electoral college certifications from seven states. that means all of the votes in those seven states that went to the electoral college for joe biden, every human being voter in america would have been canceled in that moment. and then there would have been a contingent of 26 republican-led states that would then hand the election through a series of maneuvers to donald trump. and it was mike pence who standing alone said no to that. it is a pretty stunning thing that he did frankly given that they were hanging gallows outside the capitol shouting for his assassination. yes i think his loyalists probably want to tell his side of the story and have him have his place in the history books for as controversial as he is politically i really think we could be in very dark waters right now. and we could be in dark waters again if the january 6th commission doesn't get to the bottom of what donald trum

john eastman earlier. this is a lawyer who honestly most people didn't know much about during the campaign but he is the one who drafted the six-point memo to donald trump outlining what mike pence could do to overturn the election. so, he's the memo author. obviously, huge interest in him. same kind of thing, documents by november 22nd. jason miller. he was a coms guy, communications guy, he had stayed on with trump afterwards. you heard ryan mention the will l lard hotel. january 5th, there was a meeting the day before, a meeting that jason miller was at, the top advisor to trump about what they could do the next day. that's why they want to talk to jason miller. angela mccallum is probably a name most people don't know. she was not as out front as michael flynn or jason miller or steve bannon but she was trump's executive assistant. now, there's a phone call out there, to a michigan state legislator, that a woman saying she's angela mccallum wants that legislator to consider overturning the results in t

wrote and john eastman he was an outside, you know, lawyer.lines the effort to essentially have a coup, a document written by a lawyer on the trump campaign payroll. >> let's talk about why that was done, why we haven't heard more about this and a name, again, it is a little bit embarrassed. i'm shocked at the name i'll introduce you to with jonathan karl where the man came from, wound up and was instrumental to derail our democracy. stay with us. woman: i have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. now, there's skyrizi. ♪ things are getting clearer ♪ ♪ yeah i feel free ♪ ♪ to bare my skin, yeah that's all me. ♪ ♪ nothing and me go hand in hand ♪ ♪ nothing on my skin that's my new plan. ♪ ♪ nothing is everything. ♪ woman: keep your skin clearer with skyrizi. most who achieved 90% clearer skin at 4 months had lasting clearance through 1 year. in another study, most people had 90% clearer skin at 3 years. and skyrizi is 4 doses a year, after 2 starter doses. ♪ it's my moment so i just gotta say ♪ ♪ nothing is everything. ♪ skyrizi may increase you

wrote and john eastman he was an outside, you know, lawyer.ntially have a coup, a document written by a lawyer on the trump campaign payroll. >> let's talk about why that was done, why we haven't heard more about this and a name, again, it is a little bit embarrassed. i'm shocked at the name i'll introduce you to with jonathon karl where the man came from, wound up and was instrumental to derail our democracy. stay with us. we strip in the community garden. i've been stripping here for years. i strip before take-off. breathe right strips open your nose for relief you can feel right away, helping you take in air more easily, wherever you are. [ marcia ] my dental health was not good. i had periodontal disease, and i just didn't feel well. but then i found clearchoice. [ forde ] replacing marcia's teeth with dental implants at clearchoice was going to afford her that permanent solution. [ marcia ] clearchoice dental implants gave me the ability to take on the world. i feel so much better, and i think that that is the key. sustainability is essen

john eastman for example? will he come forward and testify to the committee or is he going to try to hold the line, will he try and raise funds for legal support like many of these people have been doing to give money from trump supporters to actually pay these mounting legal bills as they try to fight against the subpoenas that from congress. there is a lot to watch in the next couple days and weeks. >> we were talking yesterday at great length about payment family leave, it has a chance of surviving or expanding in the build back better bill. as you know, hayes, america is one of six or eight countries in the world that doesn't guarantee paid family leave and if we get the four weeks that's currently in the bill, we're at the bottom of the pile. you wrote something interesting about joe mansion. i get the feeling mansion's biggest fear isn't that americans will reject democrats if that happens again but the biggest fear is they will embrace democrats rendering mansion's shifting criticism obsolete. he's not

he listened to people like john eastman, and even john eastman actually eventually conceded to pence'sy he had told jacob in these conversations that not one supreme court justice would ever agree with the decision if pence did reject the electoral count and send it back to the state legislatures. you're exactly right. i think the after portion of our project is what i think is more terrifying for american democracy, that such a substantial part of the republican electorate has embraced these claims of election fraud and believe that joe biden is not the legitimate president. >> and then a slice of that group is willing to go even further. this is a survey poll from the public religion institute poll. do you agree that patriots, use the term patriots, may have to resort to violence to save the united states? 30% of republicans say that that's a possibility. 17% of independents and only 11% of democrats. of that 30% of republicans who say you may have to resort to violence, look where they get that information. 40% trust far right news the most. 32 trust fox news the most and 22% trust

former new york city police commissioner,er york city police commissioner/ ex-convict bernie kerik, john eastman who devised the strategy that was the reason trump summoned his supporters to washington on january 6th. he's the one that basically wrote the strategy that said vice president mike pence magically had the power to overturn the election on january 6th. also a trump campaign staffer named angela mccallum, she was u according to the committee subpoenaed because she apparently called state lawmakers in at least one state and told them on behalf of the trump campaign that they should appoint trump electors, even though trump had lost in that state, lost in michigan.to b ctn all six of these trump world officials have been subpoenaed today, and along with the subpoenas, they got letters providing supporting documentation about what their alleged roles were laying the groundwork for the january 6th attack.le these six people are being asked to hand over documents and records within the next couple of weeks. they've all been subpoenaed to give testimony early next month. so that's a big high

they include attorney john eastman and former national security adviser michael flynn.lie that the 2020 election was stolen. >>> aaa predicts thanksgiving travel is about to bounce back in a big way. more than 53 million americans are expected to be on the move. that's a 13% increase from last year and just 5% below pre-pandemic 2019 levels. >>> some senate democrats calling on president biden to tap the nation's emergency oil stockpile to keep gas prices down. on sunday the energy secretary told cnn the president is considering the move after major oil producers declined to increase output. >>> pfizer is seeking emergency use authorization from the fda for the coronavirus booster shot. right now boosters are technically only approved for adults with underlying health conditions and those who work in high-risk areas. >>> the trading platform robinhood confirms it was hit by a data breach exposing the personal information of millions of customers. it says no social security or bank account numbers were exposed. >>> state farm standing by packers quarterback aaron rodgers

attorney john eastman was one of the six subpoenaed. he is the author of the infamous and utterly false legal memo claiming that vice president mike pence had the authority to reject electoral college votes. angela mccallum, who worked in the trump 2020 campaign was subpoenaed to testify about her part in attempting to steal the election. the evidence of her attempts to commit election fraud were actually left on voice mail. >> my name is angela mccallum. i'm calling from trump campaign headquarters in washington, d.c. tomorrow, as you might be aware, mayor giuliani will be presenting experts and witnesses from michigan who will be able to show that the vote totals are fatally flawed and do not accurately represent the will of the voters as well as your constituents. you do have the power to reclaim your authority and send us a slate of electors that will support president trump and vice president pence. we want to though when there is a resolution in the house to appoint electors for trump if the president can count on you to join in s

the architect behind trump's plan to overturn the election, john eastman. former-campaign officials jason miller, bill stepien and bernard kerik who participated in a meeting about overturning the election. this is a who's who of trump's big lie. and trump, no doubt, paying a lot of attention right now because they know a lot. and they said a lot. i mean, they said a lot even that we heard. just listen to eastman speaking to steve bannon on january 2nd. bannon warning of a climactic battle if pence didn't step up and refuse to certify the election results. >> are we to assume that this is going to be a climactic battle that's going to take place this week about the very question of the constitutionality of the electoral count act of 1877? >> i think a lot of that depends on the courage and the spine of the individuals involved. >> that would be a nice way to say a guy named mike -- vice president mike pence? >> yes. >> climactic battle. and here's flynn. he met with trump at the white house in the weeks before january 6th pushing the former president to inv

of attention this week outlining how pence could h throw out you see in this scene listen to john and eastman has us memo saying to walk by january 6 and walked away. the political allies like guiliani and steve bannon who were together on january 5 happen in a that reporting looking on january 6. >> let's talk for a minute cesiabout vice president pence urged to read the memo talking about ultimately the vice president decides, based on the legal advice he was getting that no he could h not just throw out the votes. meanwhile has taken it on themselves but bob woodward, talk a bit about was he tempted perhaps to see what he could do to satisfy he'd served so loyally for four years? how do we end up seeing him find on what you guys out? >> it's complicated and multidimensional. pence wanted to accommodate trump it was so obvious i can report forru the first time were trump and pence are in the oval office and trump is saying to him don't you wish you had this power? wouldn't this be great? pence is resisting. he is a back and forth. he had lawyers and counselors who are identified in the book

. >> also subpoenaed is john eastman, who is the lawyer that crafted that six-point plan of trump's for having vice president pence overturn the election, and helped whip up the crowd into a frenzy ahead of the capitol riot. >> and all we are demanding of vice president pence is this afternoon at 1:00 he let the legislatures of the state look into this so we get to the bottom of it, and the american people know whether we have control of the direction of our government or not. >> finally, there's former trump national security adviser michael flynn, who floated invoking martial law after the election. >> if he wanted to, he could take military capabilities and place them in those states and basically rerun an election. >> the big question is how far will the committee go to enforce these subpoenas if, like others, steve bannon, in particular, will not comply? >> joining me now, cnn senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, state and federal, he's done it all, elie honig. >> big, controversial names in this new batch of six people who have received subpoenas. first of all, mich

he wrote it, when they read it, what did they say, how did they react and john eastman famously saidked him to write the memo which is just ludicrous on its face. both of us owe lawyers. any client who asked us to write a memo on a boring thing like bankruptcy, we're going to remember let alone a coup memo which is what this was. this is a tep in the right direction. this is a long time in my review, but at least it is moving in the right place. >> i hear you on that. first of all, lawyers, even crappy ones, have a formal duty if they are representing any clients. and so to say that you don't know who requested the memo and who you wrote on behalf of is to suggest you're not minding that duty which is separate from whether this lawyer committed mal practice or force if he was knowingly stating falsehoods or spurring things that may have been a criminal conspiracy. i want to play for you the georgia secretary of state who was on the other end of that infamous call who was on msnbc today discussing all of this. take a listen. >> and end of the day president trump came up short and ever

they include national security advise or michael flynn, jason miller and attorney john eastman.early 700 people have been charged with relation to january 6th. it has been nearly three decades since the three main ethnic groups signed a u.s.-backed peace deal. now, demands for more autonomy from bosnia. >> it's been a the gloomy few few weeks in bosnia with dark clouds fill thing sky and the country's political horizon. after three decades of peace, the prospect of war is being discussed by many people. statements and apparent attempts by leading politicians here in bosnia enclave threatening to withdraw from state institutions including national army, pave thing way for cessation. after the u. inner's top official warned the country could break break apart, the united states sent its envoy to the region meeting bosnia's three-member counsel as well as other serb leaders. the message from them there bowled no war. but the visions are clear to see. and it's a struggle to find bosnian national flag raised anywhere not even in government buildings. instead a flag adopt bid skr circ

john eastman is in the oval.n the oval but bannon's ally is. one important point about it's not just bannon, it's trump. one thing we kept finding in our reporting for the book it's trump driving this. watching tv, that's like the an iceberg, he was driving it with bannon, with giuliani and pence trying to pressure pence, pressure lawmakers on capitol hill. bannon is part of the story but not the story. the story is the president was driving this to defy biden, to block biden from taking power. at the end of the day, if this is a conspiracy it's trump at the top not bannon. >> we need to go to break, but i want to ask you, bob, and michael smith and you, john lemire because of your knowledge of this in the white house at the end of the day the question is i understand joe biden wants to get along with everybody. i understand merrick garland doesn't want to be going after political opponents. will the justice department have the courage to follow the law? >> well, they have set in motion the quest for more and mor

. >> speakers at the rally including john eastman, the ather of the memo about how to keep trump in officetunity in joining in on the big lie. >> are you willing to do what it takes to fight for america? start taking down names and kicking ass. let's have trial by combat. >> but as he put the marquee speaker was the president himself. >> president donald j. trump. >> meanwhile inside the chambers of congress, the certification of votes paused? >> i would object to further reading. >> with objections from republican senators and some republican house members. >> i rise to support the objection. >> i rise to support the objection. >> i rise to support the objection. >> earlier that day vice president pence said he was not going to follow trump's instruction us. which upset the president as he conveyed to the massive crowd. >> mike pence, you stand up for the good of our constitution and for the good of our country, and if you're not, i'm going to be very disappointed in you. >> trump continued toe rile up the crowd, demanding they take action. >> we'll never take back our country with weakne