. >>> then, as louie gohmert sues mike pence to keep trump in the white house, there any doubt about the maga takeover of the republican party? >>> and another vaccine heads for approval. why estimates for hitting herd immunity are creeping upwards. >> i say between 75 and 80, 85% of the population. if we get that, we would develop an umbrella of immunity. >> "all in" starts now. good evening from washington, d.c. i'm mehdi hassan in for chris hayes. we still have 23 more days of donald trump as president. 23 more days where he will continue to do great damage to this nation, and that damage will extend well into the future. just today, president-elect joe biden said that trump and his political appointees at the department of defense and elsewhere are even now refusing to share crucial information with the incoming biden administration. >> right now we just aren't getting all the information that we need for the on -- from the outgoing administration in key national security areas. it's nothing short in my view of irresponsibility. >> trump has spent the past four years flooding the

that's really what the president's ally in congress, louie gohmert, is trying to do. and it's potentially not even the most madcap scheme that the president and his allies are cooking up. it certainly is not the most dangerous. for the past few weeks, the president has been signaling his support for a protest planned in washington, d.c. on january 6th, the day that congress will make joe biden's victory official. the protest is expected to be attended by armed right-wing groups, conspiracy theorists, and white supremacists who all support the president's bid to overturn the election. trump told his supporters to, quote, be there. it will be wild. never give up. see everyone in d.c. on january 6th. these are his tweets. experts on far-right movements say the protests could spark chaos and violence in the nation's capital. that in itself is scary. but it's how the president is reportedly considering wielding that violence that is raising real alarm bells. earlier this month, the president's disgraced, newly pardoned national security adviser, michael flynn, suggested in

and it's not like louie gohmert can give that tooth to the tooth fairy. she's going to be like, "nuh-uh, i didn't sign up for this shit. i buy teeth from kids, not a middle-aged cabbage patch doll." and i love how he tried to move on like nothing happened. did you see that? tried to move on. my man. i don't care what side of history you're on. if your tooth, falls out mid-speech, your argument is over. i know it's not fair, but it's the way it is. if that happened to f.d.r., even he would have been like, "december 7, 1941, a date which will live in infam-- oh, shit my tooth. forget it. congrats, japan, you won." but let's move on. as we enter the second year of the coronavirus pandemic, there is one thing on top of everybody's holiday wish list: a playstation 5. and after that, a vaccine. and santa's working hard to make it happen. great britain has already begun states. is close behind, and is close behind, and china has just announced that its new vaccine is 86% effective. but the first country to start mass vaccinations was actually russia. and the rea

and louie gohmert is still taking marching orders from trump tweets.emocratic presidential candidate had an election rigged and stolen with proof of such acts at a level never seen before, the democratic senators would consider it an act of war and fight to the death. mitch and the republicans do nothing, just want to let it pass. no fight. >>> well, that kind of thing has happened before in the year 2000. democrat al gore famously lost an extremely close election by way of a margin of 537 votes in florida. and a legal battle that ended with a supreme court essentially handing the election to george w. bush despite accusations of dirty tricks and voter disenfranchisement. al gore was the vice-president on january 6, 2001, when congress counted the electoral votes. painfully he had to preside over counting of the senate. there were protests from some democrats back then, upset about the nature of their party's loss, but al gore, of course, played by the rules. >> mr. vice-president, i rise to object to the fraudulent 25 florida electoral votes. >> is th

. >> god, sarah palin and also louie gohmert. listen to louie goeme oie gohmee said. >> some of us still have hope. and that is a hope that endures despite the intimidation we see from the other side. they intimidate. they harass. they try to destroy people. >> so you talked about how this has been an existential argument by republicans. louie gohmert playing the victim card in that front. what are you seeing on the ground? it's an uphill climb for democrats to win special elections in the south. but on your crystal ball and tell me what you think is going ahead. >> i don't know what's going to happen. nobody knows what's going to happen. that's why -- >> how close is it? i mean, do democrats have a real shot at this? >> everybody has a real shot at this, john. this state is 50/50 right now. i do think that joe biden was just the right candidate at just the right time for democrats down here. donald trump was also the right candidate for democrats to run against and even some moderate republicans went with joe biden instead of don

who has won the election, and what the justice department is saying in the filing is basically louie gohmert should have sued the house and senate since it's up to them to certify the votes, not the vice president. even acknowledging he doesn't have an outsized role in this as the president is asking people whether or not he does and could make a difference next week, and it is just another notable development in as we have seen this ongoing saga of what's going to happen when congress does meet next week. >> yeah, i feel like i'm in a hall of mirrors with the vice president is seeking to throw out a lawsuit brought by louie gohmert to overturn the election. it's hard to keep up at times. stay with us, as we bring in cnn political correspondent mj lee. cnn congressional reporter lauren fox, and analyst david gergen. david, i want to begin with you. we were talking to bill cohen, former republican senator bill cohen in the last hour, and he was talking about the republican effort led by senator josh hawley to challenge the election results next week. mitch mcconnell now giving his members roo

there's also this lawsuit now by louie gohmert saying that vice president pence is the only one that should be allowed -- which electors should be allowed to actually cast their votes. how much pressure is mike pence facing right now, who is i believe currently on vacation in colorado? >> sources close to the president who have discussed this with him tell axios that the president views pence doing his job, the role that he is supposed to do on january 6th, as the ultimate betrayal to him. he's taken issue, sources say, with a lincoln project ad that has depicted pence as not being a good enough fighter and not being in president trump's corner enough. and we all know over the course of trump's presidency we've seen how he's really kept folks close to him who want to go out and be fighters for him on tv and otherwise, in press conferences and different ways we see. and mike pence has sort of been behind the scenes sort of staying quiet throughout this process, and now he's got the job again that's described as the ultimate betrayal because he could be the one to certify the election

. >> about that lawsuit, john, that brittany is referring to, that's congressman louie gohmert who is suing vice president pence to overturn the will of the american people and it's going to go before a trump-appointed federal judge in texas. will this be dismissed out of hand or is there any way that this gums up the works somehow? >> this lawsuit is a crack pot lawsuit filed by a crack pot member of congress and it's going straight in the trash can, i don't know how fast, maybe there's some preliminary step in which a trump sympathetic judge moves it say long, but there is no scenario in which the vice president of the united states of the sitting administration can on his own steam reverse the electoral votes of states that voted somewhere else. it's simply not the american system. but this indicates the lengths to which some members of the republican party are willing to go to try to either perform tifl demonstrate to trump supporters that they're with them and willing to fight, to raise money from them, to gain a profile, or maybe some of them are actually crazy enough to believe

the great louie gohmert. they will voting against georgia.ime completely canceling how your voice in washington forever. like david perdue, i will never forget it, he got hit by a piece of a hurricane. the farmers got hit so hard. with went with sonny and david and other great people from georgia and i said is there way we can pay these people? their orchards were wiped out. one of the men said this was going to be the best crop i ever had. i was a week away from after 10, 12 years making some money. and a week at half early he gets hit by the remnants of that big hurricane from florida. e, great place but he got hit and david we took 100% care of those people, right? we took 1% care. we're going to help with sonny perdue, secretary of agriculture. what i meant them. there were 33 of them standing and they were all in line. what do you do? it was a tragic -- and nobody wanted anything. they did not even want it. they said if we could borrow it. they did not want to. these are incredible people. they just won a level playing field, but we took

a friend of mine, one of the toughest guys you will ever see, louie gohmert of texas. louie. thank you, louie. and a young up and comer who has taken washington by storm, dan crenshaw. where is dan? i didn't see you, dan. the first time that ever happened to me. because you do stand out in many ways. thank you very much, dan. the next senator from tennessee just got elected. did my endorsement help? you better believe it. we love tennessee. bill haggerty. he will be a great senator for a long time. your former governor only left because of a thing called term limits. if i had known i would have tried to end those term limits. but he went to the department of agriculture. he has done a tremendous job. we hand out $28 billion to farmers. i said how badly have we been targeted by china? sonny perdue said 28 billion. i put the tariffs on china and gave it to the farmers. and we had money left over and put it into the u.s. treasury. state representative, a friend of mine, a great gentleman. he saw what was happening -- he happens to be a democrat, but we love them. i am trying to

gregg: brach news, congressman louie gt has sued vice president mike pence. gohmert is seeking a court order forcing the vice president to acknowledge what gohmert claims is pence's power to disregard states' chosen electors and instead select competing slates of gop electors when congress meets on january 6th to certify the electoral college vote. >>> also breaking, obama-appointed judge james bosebrg has delayed the sentencing of former fbi attorney kevin clinesmith until after inauguration day. he pled guilty in august to falsifying a document used to gain a fisa warrant to spy on the trump campaign. the judge is also the presiding judge on the fisa court. he will wait until january 29th to determine clinesmith's sentence. joining us now, tom fitton, president of judicial watch. and, tom, i'm deeply suspicious of this move by bosewith berg who's -- boseberg who's an obama appointee. are you suspicious this case is now being postponed until after inauguration day, will fall victim to political influence? >> in my view, he's a victim of the crimes we're talking abou

conservative members, staunch trump defenders like congressman mo brooks, jim jordan of ohio, louie gohmert of texas, paul gosar of arizona, all meeting with the president and vice president and rudy giuliani, talking about trying to overturn the election. which has no chance of succeeding. but they're talking about on january 6th, when the joint session of congress meets, if one senator were to join the republican efforts in the house, then it would lead to two hours of debate on the senate and house side, then there would be a vote in each chamber to determine whether or not to uphold that. that is not going to succeed. i talked to john thune, he said that would go down like a shot dog. so republican leadership on the senate side don't want to do it, because it puts them in a difficult spot, choosing between the president and the will of voters. but nevertheless, the conservative voters are pressing ahead, and the president is doing whatever he can to undermine faith in the elections, and he has some willing partners. at the very least, he can prolong debate on january 6th, potentially in

he was there, jim jordan was mr., mo brooks was there, matt gaits, louie gohmert.ir plan, apparently, is come january 6th when congress convenes to challenge the electoral vote tally. isn't that a bit of a long shot? i mean, that's been tried before in our history. it's the never worked. a long shot? >> well, it might be, but this was an unprecedented election. never before have we had one individual spend more money than the federal government to duck tate how elections will be -- dictate how elections will be managed at the local level. and government, it's a core function of government to manage these elections. you can't privatize it. we can't have elections brought to you by coca-cola or the koch brothers or mark zuckerberg. that is putting your thumb on the scale and buying government offices to run the elections according to private interest dictates. i think all of that and the lawlessness, the admitted lawlessness that occurred everywhere zuckerberg money touched, the loss of suggest requirements, the elimination of witness requirements, the breach in the

that's why his minions like congressman louie gohmert -- that's why they're suing. they're suing the vice president of the united states right now, mike pence. suing pence in a ludicrous attempt to get the vice president to ignore electoral college votes from five states that the president claims he won, but he actually didn't win. he lost them. and he lost them over and over and over again. then he keeps losing them, thereby making joe biden win over and over and over again. he also lost the popular vote. he lost the electoral college vote as well. he lost the courts. it is really, really pathetic. he's so desperate to avoid looking like a loser that he repeatedly argues that the votes of the american people should be thrown out. but by doing that, he's looking like a loser. and even his ride or die allies are getting sick of the chaos. his hometown newspaper -- look at the screen. this is his hometown newspaper, the one that he used to pretend to be his own p.r. person. he would call in to them and say, oh, i got some good news about donald trump or whatever. this

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and on top of all of that, republican congressman louie gohmert has now filed a lawsuit against the vice president, mike pence, and another far-reaching attempt to try to overturn the results of the election that, of course, has basically zero chance of being successful. basically, arguing that what pence's role is on january 6th, when congress does meet, is more than a procedural -- procedural one when, of course, we know that is certainly not the case. but the question is what kind of pressure does this put on the vice president, who is trying to balance his future, political ambitions with, of course, his loyalty to the president, who we have seen, has lashed out at people who have crossed him by acknowledging reality, lately. kaitlan collins, cnn, traveling with the president in florida. >>> so, u.s. president-elect joe biden, meantime, is sharply critical of the trump administration's handling of the transition, thus far. with just over three weeks until he's sworn in, biden says his team is getting stonewalled by key agencies, and it's affecting their work on national security and

as i understand it, it was you, matt gaetz, i think louie gohmert was there, jim jordan.s -- what's the plan? what was discussed? >> we had a put good crew there, even more than you named. i'll let them come out on their own and say who was there, but i will tell you this, we discussed process. that's one of the key things here because in 2017 when maxine waters tried to prevent trump electors from being seated, she didn't do it right. but in 2005 when you actually had a contest, we saw how it was done, what was approved by the then-sitting vice president and the way it worked. so you have to understand the process, you have to also review the election issues like you just it rated about pennsylvania, you have to know what's going on in arizona and georgia, nevada and wisconsin, michigan. and you need to find out what's going on and make sure you understand that. and i think that was the discussion at a high level. gregg: congressman, i'm no expert on the rules, but as i read them today, in order to even entertain a debate on a challenge, you've got to have somebody on th

though texas congressman louie gohmert is trying a last-ditch effort to overturn the election, by filing a lawsuit against vice president mike pence, attempting to force pence to ignore the electoral college results from five states when he oversees the congressional certification on capitol hill next week. legal experts say the lawsuit stands no chance. democrats calling it a spectacle. >> this crazy, frivolous lawsuit, of course, will fail. whatever stunt they have planned for the joint session of congress will fail. >> and jake, there are two things here that are glaring. number one that the president is spending his days mostly on the golf course. the white house giving no indication that he's personally lobbying these republican senators to taking his side on this issue. we've gotten no indication from white house sources that he's actually personally reached out to senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. all that we've seen are these tweets, where he doesn't actually name mcconnell, he just goes after the generic republican leadership. secondly, important to point out, president tr

amy: republican congressman louie gohmert of texas has sued vice president mike pence in a long-shoteffort to overturn joe biden's election victory. the suit alleges that pence has "exclusive authority" to decide which electoral votes count when he presides over congress on january 6 for the counting of the electoral college vote. the trump administration says it will open a u.s. consulate in western sahara following its recognition of morocco's claim over the territory earlier this month. morocco has occupied western sahara since 1975 in defiance of the international community. to see our documentary "four days in western sahara: africa's last colony," go to democracynow.org. in news from honras, the indigenous environmental activist felix vasquez was assassinated saturday by armed, masked men in front of his family. vasquez was a member of the indigenous lenca community and was planning to run for congress in 2021. his killing comes 4.5 years after the assassination of berta carceras, who was also a lenca activist. the city of columbus, ohio, has fired the police officer who shot a

you've got people like louie gohmert suing mike pence to force him to overturn the election. it would be comical if it weren't so existentially risky for the future of the country and it weren't so damaging to the traditions and norms of this country. >> do you foresee any republican senator deciding they're going to reject the electoral college? >> well, look, i mean there are a lot of ambitious young men. marquee rubio, josh holly, ted cruz, tom cotton and a number of others inside the senate in particular to prep for 2024 and they want to run for president with donald trump's love and support and encouragement. and they recognize he's a spiteful, petty, vengeful man if they don't play the ball game, he will punish them down the line. so it's going to be very interesting to see how they balance their future ambitions with the reality donald trump is completely insane and wants them to do something insane on his behalf. so they're in a tough spot but i don't pity them at all. they bought the ticket and now they're taking the rides i like to say. >>> let's take a quick break.

this texas case because, you know, i would not have -- look, there are always going to be the louie gohmerts of the house. who say crazy things. 103 members of the house might be changing my opinion. >> what does it mean -- the other thing about this set of lawsuits is, you know, electoral college is like when someone comes into an old house and they tear a panel back and they turn to you and say, oh, my god, the wiring is a mess, who did this? i feel like we've all become intimately familiar with the pressure points that do seem like vulnerabilities for democratic integrity now that they have been exposed. >> yeah. again, i want to distinguish the 2020 situation from the future. for 2020, the system has held, the system has worked. states met their state of harbor, the electoral college is going to meet on monday. joe biden will receive the votes and that's going to be the end of it. but in the future, i think you're right. you know, part of the voting rights litigation that i focused on in the last few months was trying to find the friction points in the system where voters ballots didn't

even if you think about the lawsuit that louie gohmert is trying against mike pence, the idea that mike pence somehow can overthrow the votes of 20 million people and that he has absolute authority, it isn't democratic. it isn't anything like america. american democracy. and it certainly isn't anything like we're used to seeing from republicans more broadly. listen, we do know that the republican party has talked about voter fraud for decades and decades and decades and they've used the idea of voter fraud to then really i think clamp down on people voting, widespread voting, whether it's closing polling stations and all those kinds of things. in that way it is in keeping with, my goodness, going along with donald trump in this way is very odd given the history of the republican party more broadly, saying that they stood for democracy, they didn't like authoritarian leaders or dictators, and that's certainly what they're doing now in going with donald trump on this authoritarian idea and overthrowing the votes of millions of people. >> right. and kaitlan, it seemed like mitch mcconnell

i do want to talk about your league louie gohmert who is trying to overturn the election by suing the vice president. >> would be my pleasure. >>> coming up next -- new this morning, dr. fauci says january will be worse than december when it comes to new cases of covid-19 and deaths, but some hospitals are now allowing visitors. we'll take you live to michigan to see exactly how it works. >>> plus, the georgia senate runoff election is just one week away. and more than 2 million georgians have already voted. steve kornacki will join us to break down where the race stands right now. we'll be right back. hi sabrina! >>hi jen! so this aveeno® moisturizer goes beyond just soothing sensitive skin? exactly jen! calm + restore oat gel is formulated with prebiotic oat. and strengthens skin's moisture barrier. uh! i love it! aveeno® healthy. it's our nature.™ five blades and a pivotingglide flexball aveeno® designed to get virtually every hair on the first stroke, while washing away dirt and oil. so you're ready for the day with a clean shave and a clean face. if your child doesn't seem themse

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it's reported that trump met today with republican congressman jim jordan, matt gaetz, and louie gohmert. it's a conversation that was described as a conversation about voter fraud that we know did not exist. he has members of congress, fringe kooks validating his worst instincts and encouraging him to believe that the solution to stopping biden is still out there. why isn't anyone stopping him? i'm asking you, senior administration officials who are still giving blind quotes to news outlets. trump lost the election, and yet your cowardice knows no bounds. you will not take a stand like they did all summer in the streets of america while your guy encouraged police to fire tear gas and shoot rubber bullets. you do not have enough backbone to take a stand against a man who's actually attempting to stage a coup. you tell the media you are afraid, you will not let them use your name. you say you are anxious and concerned but you will not tell your boss when he has gone too far. you are cowards. and if you want to prove me wrong, stop talking and start doing something about donald trump, beca

some of the most conservative members, congressman jim jordan of ohio, louie gohmert of texas, among several others. all, met with the president and vice president mike pence, along with rudy giuliani in a separate meeting, to discuss these efforts to try to overturn the elections, which have no chance of succeeding. but, what they are talking about doing is, on january 6th, when a joint session of congress meets to actually count the votes, to object to each state efforts to count those votes. and if one senator were to join the republican efforts in the house, then it would lead to two hours of debate in the senate side and the house side. and there would be a vote in each chamber to determine whether or not to uphold that objection. that is not going to succeed. in fact, i just spoke to senate majority whip, john thune, he told me those efforts would go down, quote, like a shot dog. so, republican leadership on the senate side don't want to do this because it essentially puts them in a difficult spot. choosing between the president or choosing between the will of voters. but never

this latest move comes from texas congressman louie gohmert and the republican slate of arizona electors- get this -- vice president mike pence over his role in presiding over the electoral vote count in congress. in a statement, gohmert says the electoral count act that established the vp's role in the congressional vote count is unconstitutional because it, quote, directs vice president pence to legitimize electoral votes in violation to the electors clause in the 12th amendment. they claim the 12th amendment grants the vice president, quote, the exclusive authority and sole discretion in determining which electoral votes to count. so, wait, they're basically saying the vice president gets to pick who the president is. go gohmert is asking a trump-appointed judge in tyler, texas, to agree to this. constitutional expert steve vladeck tweeted "if the 12th amendment somehow gave the vice president the power to unilaterally throw out the electoral votes for the other guy in favor of their own party or even themselves, one might think that one of them would have noticed by now, but i guess

louie gohmert today sued mike pence, who is going to be the person who presides over all of this. what are you expecting and what are you hearing from sources about what they're worried about? >> kasie, i think that there is a lot of uncertainty over what is going to happen on january 6th in the sense of how many republicans are going to stand up and defend the president. one of my republican sources last week, a member of the house, he said, well, there's a lot of consternation among the party over january 6th and he told me to stay tuned. so the question is how many people are going to be lined up and then are they going to have that support in the senate. of course the newly elected senator, tommy tuberville of alabama, has indicated that he might be that senator to give this challenge some legs in the senate. but then what is vice president mike pence's role as well? he's going to oversee this entire process. there's been a lot made that he could be the person that puts the nail in the head of this coffin of the president. and his electoral chances. so there is a lot of planni

if they want to make a spectacle with the likes of moe brooks and louie gohmert and kind of ask peopleend that there was some widespread fraud. i guess, they're entitled to. but it will be a really unfortunate day, if that should happen on january 6th. >> unfortunate, but it looks like that's where we're headed, right? and what's also interesting is we know mitch mcconnell, said joe biden won. the president, very unhappy with that. in fact, president trump's assistant sending out, as we understand it, a dozen or more gop congressional offices, this slide. which, i guess, is trying to show that it's the president's support that helped mitch mcconnell, right, in his most recent race. it's clearly a message, which also says, sadly, mitch forgot he was the first one off the ship. the president, margaret, continuing to warn republicans it is his way or the highway. the question is how much impact will this have, moving forward? >> i think it's going to have no impact on mitch mcconnell, because guess who just got re-elected? mitch mcconnell. but, look. a third of the senate's going to be up

qanon conspiracy reporter marjorie taylor greene along with matt gaetz, jim jordan, mo brooks and louie gohmert. vice president pence was also in attendance. trump and his chief of staff confirmed the meeting on twitter. mark meadows wrote they are preparing to fight back against mounting evidence of voter fraud. meanwhile, trump posted, quote, conservatives call on state legislatures to appoint new electors in accordance with the constitution. again, there was no widespread voter fraud and joe biden is the president-elect. despite that reality, yesterday president trump called into a convention of young republicans and made more false claims about the election. he praised the lawmakers who are going along with his attempted coup and then called on the justice department to back him up. >> and we won this election in a landslide. they've got hundreds of thousands of ballots in each state. it's all documented. the problem is, we need a party that's going to fight and we have some great congressmen and women that are doing it, and we have others, some great fighters, but we won this in a landslid

kaitlan, about this -- there's this new effort underway to overturn the election by congressman louie gohmert, other republican allies. i spoke to a legal expert. what did they say? it was a pipe dream. a total mangling of the 12th amendment and election law or electoral law. i mean, what is going on here? >> yeah. and to see conservatives hold something like this up and try to rely on something like this to achieve what they want. given what, of course, they often rely on with the constitution is really something and that is what we are seeing. republican congressman, lieu ou gohmert, filing a lawsuit against vice president mike pence. but you are seeing how desperate they are getting by each effort to try to overturn the results of this election. in this lawsuit, don, what he is basically arguing is the vice president has more of a deciding role than what he actually does, in reality, on january the 6th. which is just ceremonial. it's a procedural process where technically pence does oversee it. you saw biden do it after trump won the election in 2016. the thing is, though, this is actually

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this latest one comes from texas congressman louie gohmert and the arizona slate of electors. ole in presiding over the electoral vote count in congress. in a statement, gohmert says the electoral count act that established his role in the vote count directs mike pence to legitimize those in violation of the elector's clause and the 12th amendment. they claim the 12th amendment grants the vice president the sole discretion in determining which electoral votes to count and gohmert is asking a trump appointed district judge in texas to agree. constitutional lawyer tweeted, if the 12th amendment somehow gave the vice president the power to throw out the electoral vote for the other guy in favor of their own party one would have thought they would have noticed by now, but i guess they're just idiots. i felt like al gore would have been president if he had this particular option. not sure why he wouldn't have done that if that's what the constitution allowed. i noticed that mike pence's former spokeswoman said, hey, gohmert, maybe you should worry about winning back the house in 202

there is word today that congressman louie gohmert is suing vice president pence to get him to bringn another slate of electors. one, talk about this, about this lawsuit and whether it is going to go anywhere. and what we can expect from republicans on january 6th? >> it seems highly unlikely that lawsuit will go anywhere. it is basically suing the sitting vice president to have your own coup. i doubt that will find much way of success. but it is going to show the lengths that some of the president's allies will go in order to try to either keep him in power or at least show that their trying. and i think that is connected to sam's question here about the power that president trump still has, the power that he's concerned whether he will still have but also it is about relevance. donald trump before president trump was obsessed with being in the media spotlight and the tabloids in new york and since entering the political arena he dictated news chryons and count down until how long it would take before a cable network picked tha picked up that tweet and ran with it. he's afraid of lo

representative louie gohmert against vp pence attempts to get a federal judge to suspend pence's power to affect the outcome arguing pence can choose to recognize alternate electors to support trump should we wish to do so. legal experts said the lawsuit was meritless and would probably be dismissed by a federal judge for multiple reasons. i'm not a lawyer, but i know that's sort of subpar legal reasoning there. today that subpar legal reasoning got a new boost from josh hawley, saying that he would object to the certification, which means that that objection now has a member of the senate and a member of the house. >> right. with one member of the senate, that's all the takes to force deba debate and a vote on the senate floor, to force all of his republican colleagues to take this vote. this is a political calculation that josh hawley is making. he's not an idiot. this is a guy who went to stanford, went to harvard, and who has calculated that in the short-term political benefit is to choose donald trump over the health of our democracy, over carrying out the obligation that you take