TIED TO THE RIOTS SO FAR.
MEANWHILE, FORMER PRESIDENT
TRUMP YESTERDAY ANNOUNCED A NEW
LEGAL TEAM WILL REPRESENT HIM AT
HIS SECOND IMPEACHMENT TRIAL SET TO BEGIN NEXT WEEK.
TO BEGIN NEXT WEEK.
NBC NEWS REPORTS LAWYERS DAVID VCHEN AND BRUCE CASTER ARE
VCHEN AND BRUCE CASTER ARE
COMING ON BOARD AFTER DEBORAH
BARBIER PARTED WAYS WITH TRUMP.
THEY WANTED HIM TO FALSELY ARGUE
HE WON THE ELECTION AND THAT IT
WAS STOLEN THROUGH VOTER FRAUD.
TRUMP SPOKESMAN JASON MILLER
CALLS THAT REPORTING FAKE NEWS.
BUT IF YOU KNOW DONALD TRUMP,
YOU COULD SEE HIM DOING THAT.
SOURCES SPEAKING ANONYMOUSLY
TOLD THE "WASHINGTON POST" THAT
THE SOUTH CAROLINA TEAM WAS
UNCOMFORTABLE, MAKING THE AN
SUBSTANTIATED CLAIMS AND INSTEAD
WANTED TO ARGUE THE
UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF
IMPEACHING A PRESIDENT THAT HAS
ALREADY LEFT OFFICE.
LET’S BRING IN GEORGE CONWAY, CO
FOUNDER OF THE LINCOLN ON
PROJECT.
ALSO WITH US "NEW YORK TIMES"
REPORTER AND MSNBC NATIONAL
SECURITY ANALYST MICHAEL
SCHMIDT.
GEORGE CONWAY, I’LL START WITH
YOU ON THE PRESIDENT’S LEGAL
TEAM LEAVING HIM.
AND HIM APPARENTLY TAKING ON A
NEW ONE BECAUSE HE WANTS TO
ARGUE THAT HE WON THE ELECTION.
I DON’T KNOW HOW MANY TIMES YOU
CAN PUT YOUR HAND ON A HOT STOVE
BEFORE YOU REALIZE THAT’S
PROBABLY NOT A GOOD IDEA.
BUT WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF DONALD
TRUMP’S CLINGING TO THIS
STRATEGY?
>> IT’S CLASSIC DONALD TRUMP.
I MEAN, HE WILL, TO THE DAY HE
DIES, ASSERT THAT HE WON THE
ELECTION.
EVEN THOUGH HE KNOWS HE DIDN’T.
EVEN THOUGH HE ADMITTED
PRIVATELY THAT HE HASN’T.
HIS INSTABILITY AND INABILITY TO
BE RATIONAL HAS ALWAYS CAUSED
HIM DIFFICULTY IN RETAINING
LAWYERS.
IT HAPPENED BACK WHEN HE WAS
LOOKING FOR COUNSEL AND HE
ACTUALLY ASKED ME FOR ADVICE FOR
COUNSEL FOR THE MUELLER
INVESTIGATION.
AND IT HAPPENED AGAIN FOR THE
IMPEACHMENT TRIAL.
HE DID HAVE HIS IN-HOUSE WHITE
HOUSE COUNSEL STAFF ARGUE SOME MATTERS.
BUT HE COULDN’T GET A TRULY GOOD
LAWYER TO ARGUE ON THAT.
HE’S ALWAYS HAD TROUBLE TO
GETTING LAWYERS TO ARGUE WITH
HIM.
FOR ONE THING, HE’S NOT A VERY
GOOD CLIENT.
HE DOESN’T TAKE ADVICE VERY
WELL.
HE’S UNPREDICTABLE.
AND HE DOESN’T PAY HIS BILLS.
SO IT’S NOT SURPRISING THAT HE’S
HAD TROUBLE HERE MAINTAINING
COUNSEL.
IT’S NOT SURPRISING THAT HE’S
ASKING THEM TO VIOLATE THE RULES
OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS BY MAKING
FACTUALLY UNFOUNDED ARGUMENTS
SAYING HE WON THE ELECTION.
AND NOT SURPRISING THAT A WEEK
BEFORE THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL HE
HAD TO GO OUT AND FIND ANOTHER
PAIR OF LAWYERS.
AND IT’S PRETTY AMAZING THAT
SOMEBODY WHO SUPPOSEDLY IS A
BILLIONAIRE AND WHO WAS
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
HAS SUCH TROUBLE FINDING
LAWYERS.
>> MICHAEL SCHMIDT, YOU HAVE A
SWEEPING PIECE PORE THE PAPER
THIS MORNING.
A FRONT PAGE LOOK AT THE TIME
SPENT BY PRESIDENT TRUMP IN HIS
UNPRECEDENTED CAMPAIGN TO
SUBVERT THE RESULTS OF THE
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
IT FEEDS INTO GEORGE CONWAY’S
NOTION THAT HE IS OBSESSED WITH
THIS AND YOU WILL HOLD ON TO IT
TO THE DAY HE DIES.
TELL US ABOUT THIS NEW
REPORTING.
>> THE STORY SHOWS THE SAGA, IF
NOT TRAGEDY OF WHAT HAPPENED IN
THE AFTERMATH OF THE ELECTION,
HOW THE PRESIDENT WAS TOLD BY
THOSE AROUND HIM THAT THE CLAIMS
THAT THERE WAS WIDESPREAD
ELECTION FRAUD WERE NOT TRUE.
BUT A SMALL GROUP CAPTIVATED THE
PRESIDENT AND INDULGED HIS WORST
INSTINCTS ABOUT THIS AND WENT
ALONG AND FED HIM FALSE INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT HAD
INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT HAD
OCCURRED.
AS YOU READ THE PIECE, THE STORY
BUILDS ON ITSELF AND BUILDS ON
ITSELF UNTIL YOU GET TO JANUARY
6th.
AND YOU SEE THE PRESIDENT USING
HIS MEGAPHONE TO SCOPE THIS
SKEPTICISM ABOUT THE ELECTION
AMONG HIS BASE AND THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY.
AND YOU SEE HOW PEOPLE, EVEN
LIKE BILL BARR, WHO WAS SPHOPB
WHO TRUMP REALLY LIKED AND