do you know who lauren windsor is? lauren windsor is an activist, sort of a gorilla journalist who has been turning republicans inside out. "the new york times" actually profiled her a couple weekends ago. "the liberal activist who targets republicans with a maga masquerade." generated headlines by coaxing conservatives into making revealing statements about their views.er lauren windsor is the person who before january 6th actually published the first evidence that republican senators were going to be part of this plan to try to get the electoral votes rejected. it is one thing for that to happen in the house. it is a much more serious thing constitutionally for it to happen in both the house and the senate. it was lauren windsor who first showed us the evidence it was going to happen in the senate, too when she got alabama senator tommy tuberville to admit that republican senators were going to object to electoral votes just like the republican members of the house were going to as well. >> are you going to fight to

do you know who lauren windsor is? lauren winter is an activist, a guerrilla journalist, who in recent months has been turning republicans inside out. the new york times actually profiled her a couple weekends ago under this headline, the liberal advocacy who target republicans with a maga masquerade. pretending to be like-minded, she has generated headlines by coaxing statements about their views. lauren windsor has been before january 6th actually published the first evidence that republican senators were going to be part of the spines of get the electoral votes rejected. it's one thing for to happen in the house, it's a much more serious thing constitutionally for it to happen in both the house and the senate, and it was lauren winter who first showed us the evidence that it was going to happen to when she got albino thunder tommy tuberville to admit for the first time and on camera that they were going to reject electoral votes just like the republican members of the house were going to as well. >> are you going to

he willingly admits this in a series of undercover videos filmed on saturday by lauren windsor at an event for the claremont institute, the right wing think thank. windsor identified herself as a trump supporter who had taken part in the insurrection and here is what he said in a portion of her video that we've edited down. >> i read your memo and thought it was solid in the single arguments and i was floored that the mike pence didn't do anything. i mean, why didn't he act on it because you gave him the legal reasoning to do that. >> i know. i know. >> all your legal reasoning is totally solid. >> no question. >> just supported a supporter, why do you think mike pence didn't do it? >> because mike pence is an establishment guy at the end of the day. >> in the same conversation, eastman confirmed to windsor and her colleague that it was indeed trump's intention to accompany the mob to the capitol and the only reason he didn't is because the violence had already begun and appears to speak in solidarity with the right wing militia claiming that the fbi set them up. >> what do you think

plan, and blaming mike pence in a series of undercover videos shot by a liberal activist named lauren windsor. she said she was at the rally on 1/6, and was one of his supporters. >> i read your memo, and i thought it was solid in all of its legal arguments. >> yeah. >> i was floored that mike pence didn't do anything. why didn't he act on it? because you gave him the legal reasoning to do that. >> i know. i know. >> why do you think that mike pence didn't do it? >> because he's an establishment guy at the end of the day. >> nbc news reached out to eastman, and he had no comment. she posted more segments of the video with eastman. >> i don't know, because the breaking of the windows stuff had already started before his speech was over. if he got down there, all of that would have been blamed on him. they're still blaming it on him. they would have had more basis for it. so, you know -- >> but he had been planning on coming down, though. >> i know. >> it goes on kind of like that. earlier on this network, two january 6th committee members said the video bolstered the case for a subpoena to eas

and blaming mike pence in a series of undercover videos shot by a liberal activist name lauren windsor. she approached him at an event on her own, not on behalf of nbc news, saying she was at the rally on one six, and that she was one of his supporters. >> i read your memo and i thought that it was solid and all of his legal arguments. >> yes. >> i was just floored that mike pence didn't do anything, i mean why didn't he act on. it because you gave him the legal reasoning to do that. >> i know. i know. >> but i mean, you know from supported to support, or why do you think mike pence did it? >> nbc news reached out to eastman and he had no comment. today winds herself posted more of the video from her conversation with eastman who described trump's plan to walk down to the capitol after that speech he cave on january six. >> yeah i don't know, because the breaking of the window had already started before his speech was over. and if he got down there then all of that would've been blamed on him. i mean there's no blaming him but they would've had more basis for it. so you know >> but he'

we should know the person who's asking the questions is a progressive activist lauren windsor, knownan ally, make flattering comments, and record them making candid comments. let's listen to part of it. >> i read your memo, and i thought it was solid in all of its legal arguments. >> yeah. >> i just -- i was floored that mike pence didn't do anything. i mean why didn't he act on it because you gave him the legal reasoning to do that. >> i know. i know. >> supported and supporter. why do you think mike pence didn't do it? >> because mike pence is an establishment guy at the end of the day. >> nbc news reached out to eastman who had no comment, but your takeaway, taryn, from these comments and the role that eastman may have played and could play, really, in providing insight as to what trump was doing that day. >> yeah. i'm not sure we'll be able to. obviously when we subpoena him and hopefully he will tell the truth on the stand, but i've already seen in some, you know, articles him trying to distance himself through all of this. it's really hard when you have something like that on f

he was approached by a progressive activist named lauren windsor.tended to be an enthusiastic trump supporter who was there on january 6th and surreptitiously recorded this conversation. >> i just -- i was floored that mike pence didn't do anything. i mean why didn't he act on it? because you gave him the legal reasoning to do so. >> i know, i know. and now in a piece in "the atlantic" two days ago, they're already anticipating trump winning in 2024 and they're using my arguments from that memo that they all said had no credibility that kamala harris can block electoral votes. >> basically everyone is going to say you're being proven right. >> exactly, exactly. except they're not saying that. >> but that's what they mean. >> exactly, exactly. >> like all of your legal reasoning is totally solid. >> yeah, yeah, there's no question. >> it really seems like john eastman very much believes in his memo, which is that is the ackum's razor. today windsor posted more of the video in which he discusses trump's plans to walk down to the capitol after his spee

lauren windsor created the under current tv was on the same flight. she went up to her and see many she would respond to questions and she said she doesn't negotiate in public. it doesn't seem like she negotiates in public, private, the white house or anywhere. do you have insights into what is up with this woman? >> you know, i have tried for months to figure out what is up with senator krysten sinema. it's difficult. i went to arizona for a week and talking to dozens of people who have known her, some of them dating back several decades to try to get some sense of what her calculous was in washington right now and what she really sees as kind of her mission and what she's trying to get done. you know, i saw these negotiations looming. the story that you mentioned i wrote back in may. i don't think it's more clear now than it is now what her end game is. there might be private negotiations between her and the white house i will say in washington most things do not stay a secret for very long and we really have in more insight into what kyrsten sinema

abbott having overturned row versus wade in the state plans on going further, take a look at what lauren windsoreator of under current tv got abbott to acknowledge. acknowledge. >> birth control or not abortion pills. the justice department asked the fifth court of appeals to place a pause on the abortion ban three days after the court reinstated the law. with me now is matthew dowd lieutenant candidate for governor of texas and country over party. thank you both for being here. let's start, matthew, with the governor because i feel like a lot of what he is doing is purely performative. starting with this vaccine mandate ban, he knows that joe biden, that the federal government has already put in place a vaccine mandate and he used to be attorney general. he knows that federal lawsuit precedes state law. american and southwest airlines, the former based in the state of texas with 170,000 workers combined say what i just said. federal rules supersede state rules. they're going to compile with the feds. so it feels to me like what abbott is doing is purely performative. he gets the benefit to the

he was caught by a legal activist lauren windsor who approached him at a event saying she was at the rally on january 6th and that she was a sporter of his. watch. >> all your legal reasoning is totally solid? >> no question. it was a set-up. unfortunately, our guys walked into the trap. >> he would have gone down there if it hadn't been for the violence? >> yeah. >> like he decided not to go because people were engaging in violence and breaking stuff? >> yeah. >> raises more questions than it answers, doesn't it? nbc news reached out to him, that was eastman, and he had no comment. little fact check here, though, for him, capitol attack of course was not a set-up. you just have to look at the hundreds and hundreds of hours of videos that were shot or the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of pages of federal indictments that make clear at this point that it was not antifa, it was not the fbi. this was donald trump supporters and right-wing extremist who is stormed the capitol that day. eastman's remarks in that video, though, coming soon after he called the memo, quote crazy only ra