CONSPIRACY BELIEVERS MAY TRY TO
CARRY OUT ACTS OF VIOLENCE.
WEVE ALSO LEARNED MORE ABOUT
HOW THE FORMER PRESIDENT AND HIS
THEN CHIEF OF STAFF MARK MEADOWS
REPEATEDLY AND UNSUCCESSFULLY
PRESSURED THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
TO INVESTIGATE BASELESS CLAIMS
OF VOTER FRAUD WEEKS BEFORE THE
NEWLY ELECTED PRESIDENTS
INAUGURATION.
THIS IS STUNNING STUFF.
THE HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE
TODAY RELEASED E-MAIL EXCHANGES
DETAILING THE WHITE HOUSE
PRESSURE CAMPAIGN AS "THE WALL
STREET JOURNAL" PUTS IT, QUOTE,
MARK MEADOWS ON JANUARY 1
FORWARDED TO THE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT A YOUTUBE LINK
REFERENCING UNSUBSTANTIATED
ALLEGATIONS THAT PEOPLE IN ITALY
HAD MANIPULATED THE U.S.
ELECTION RESULTS.
A THEN SENIOR JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
OFFICIAL HAD TWO WORDS FOR IT.
PURE INSANITY.
THEY GO ON.
THE RELEASED MATERIALS INCLUDE
AN E-MAIL FROM THE WHITE HOUSE
TO ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF
RE-ROSEN AND ACTING SOLICITOR
GENERAL JEFFREY WALL THAT HAD
DRAFT BRIEF BROUGHT BY OUTSIDE
ATTORNEY KURT OLSEN ASKING THE
SUPREME COURT TO OVERTURN
ELECTION RESULTS IN
PENNSYLVANIA, GEORGIA, MICHIGAN,
ARIZONA, AND NEVADA ALL STATES
MR. BIDEN CARRIED.
THE E-MAIL GOES ON TO SAY TRUMP
WANTED THE DOCUMENT SENT BUT
THAT NEITHER JUSTICE OFFICIAL
HAD RESPONDED.
TODAY THE ARDENT TRUMPER OHIO
REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN JIM
JORDAN BROUGHT UP THE E-MAILS
AND THE DOJS SKEPTICISM DURING
A HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE
HEARING.
>> WHEN THE PRESIDENT, THE CHIEF
OF STAFF TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES ASKS SOMEONE IN
THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH TO DO
>>> THINK ABOUT THIS.
THE PRESIDENT WAS USING THE
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AS HIS OWN
LAWYER TO TRY TO OVERTURN THE
ELECTION.
IT IS INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS, A
THREAT TO OUR DEMOCRACY.
THE QUESTION IS WHAT ARE WE
GOING TO DO IN THE FUTURE TO
PREVENT ANY PRESIDENT FROM
ABUSING OUR DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM IN
THIS WAY?
>> THAT IS RO KHANNA CALIFORNIA
DEMOCRAT MEMBER OF THE HOUSE
OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE REACTING TO
THE E-MAILS DETAILING TRUMPS
EFFORTS TO GET THE DOJ TO
OVERTURN THE RESULTS OF A
DEMOCRATIC ELECTION.
NOTHING SHORT OF IT.
ON THE TIMING OF THE E-MAILS,
THE "NEW YORK TIMES" REPORTS IT
THIS WAY.
MUCH OF THE CORRESPONDENCE
OCCURRED DURING A TENSE WEEK
WITHIN THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
WHEN MR. ROSEN AND HIS TOP
DEPUTIES REALIZED THAT ONE OF
THEIR PEERS HAD PLOTTED WITH MR.
TRUMP TO FIRST OUST MR. ROSEN
EFFORT IN 2004.
HE IS DESERVEDLY THE MOST FAMOUS
MAN IN WIMBERLEY, TEXAS.
I WOULD LIKE TO START WITH YOU.
WE HAVE BEEN PART OF A NATIONAL
FROG BOILING CAMPAIGN.
YOU COULD HEAR IT IN THE
CONGRESSMANS VOICE WANTING TO
FOCUS PEOPLES ATTENTION.
FOLKS, DONT YOU UNDERSTAND THAT
WHAT WEVE -- WHATS BEEN
REVEALED WOULD HAVE MADE NIXON
JEALOUS?
IT WOULD HAVE MADE NIXON BLUSH.
AND YET THE SOUND OF CRICKETS
ACROSS THE LAND IS MOSTLY WHAT
WE GET.
SO, MATTHEW, EXPLAIN TO THE GOOD
FOLKS WATCHING HOW MUCH DANGER
DEMOCRACY IS IN.
>> WELL, THANKS FOR HAVING ME.
AND BEING THE MOST FAMOUS PERSON
IN WIMBERLEY IS LIKE BEING THE
THINNEST PERSON IN FAT CAMP.
THANK YOU.
I APPRECIATE THAT.
I THINK WERE AT AN INCREDIBLY
DANGEROUS POINT, MORE DANGEROUS
THAN WHAT HAPPENED IN WATERGATE
WHICH IS WHEN I GOT INTERESTED
IN POLITICS WHEN I WAS A VERY
YOUNG AGE, GOT VERY INTERESTED.
I THINK IT IS MORE DANGEROUS
THAN WHAT WE FACED IN WORLD WAR
II BY THE ATTACK OF TWO
AUTOCRATIC REGIMES BECAUSE AT
THAT POINT WHEN WE WERE ATTACKED
AND THEY TRIED TO END DEMOCRACY
WE UNITED AGAINST IT.
WERE NOT UNITED AGAINST THIS
TODAY IN THIS COUNTRY TODAY EVEN
THOUGH A MAJORITY ARE WITH
DEMOCRACY.
THERE IS A LARGE MINORITY THAT
DOESNT SEEM TO CARE ABOUT IT.
AND I THINK YOUVE TRACED THIS
ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE CIVIL
WAR.
I MEAN, THAT IS I THINK THE PART
WERE IN TODAY.
THOUGH ARMS HAVENT BEEN TAKEN
UP AGAINST EACH OTHER PER SE,
THOUGH THERES BEEN LOTS OF
VIOLENCE, ARMS HAVE BEEN TAKEN
UP PER SE WITH ARMIES SET
AGAINST EACH OTHER WE ARE AT A
PERILOUS POINT.
I THINK ALL OF US MADE THE
ASSUMPTION PEOPLE WHO TOOK THE
OATH OF OFFICE TO DEFEND THE
STOO UGS FROM ENEMIES FOREIGN
AND DOMESTIC TOOK IT SERIOUSLY
AND WE NOW LEARN A PRESIDENT DID
NOT TAKE HIS OATH OF OFFICE
SERIOUSLY.
WE LEARN AN ENTIRE POLITICAL
PARTY DOESNT TAKE THEIR OATH OF
OFFICE SERIOUSLY.
THE REPUBLICANS DONT TAKE THEIR
OFFICE SERIOUSLY.
WE LEARNED THAT DONALD TRUMP
SURROUNDED HIMSELF WITH STAFF
WHO DIDNT TAKE THAT OATH
SERIOUSLY.
SO I TNG IS INCREDIBLY
DANGEROUS -- I THINK IT IS AN
INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS SITUATION
WE ARE IN.
THIS IS A VIRUS THAT STARTED IN
WASHINGTON BUT HAS NOW INFECTED
MANY STATES INCLUDING MY STATE
HERE IN TEXAS WITH WHATS
HAPPENING HERE WITH THE
LEADERSHIP OF THE GOP HERE IN
TEXAS.
SO IT IS AN INCREDIBLY PERILOUS
POINT WERE AT.
I THINK IT IS INCUMBENT UPON ALL
OF US TO SPEAK THE TRUTH AND DO
WHATEVER WE CAN IN WHATEVER WAY
WE CAN TO DEFEND OUR COUNTRY.
>> JASON JOHNSON, I HATE TO DO
IT TO YOU BUT YOU ARE A
THOUGHTFUL GUY.
SAME QUESTION.
>> WHY IS ANYONE SURPRISED BY
THIS?
IM NOT SURPRISED.
DONALD TRUMP WAS A TERRIBLE
PERSON.
I MEAN, THIS WAS THE WHOLE
PURPOSE OF THE JANUARY 6th --
THESE ARE THE ADDITIONAL THINGS
WED HAVE HEARD OF IN A LARGER
CONTEXT.
THERE IS NOTHING YOU COULD TELL
ME THAT DONALD TRUMP DID IN THE
LAST ADMINISTRATION THAT WOULD
SHOCK ME.
IF YOU TOLD ME THAT HE WANTED TO
PERSONALLY BURN BALLOTS I WOULD
BELIEVE YOU.
IF YOU TOLD ME THAT HE
PERSONALLY WANTED TO DRAW AND
QUARTER RAFFENSBERGER THE
SECRETARY OF STATE OF GEORGIA I
WOULD BELIEVE YOU.
THE MAN WAS AN AUTOCRAT.
MY CONCERN WHEN I HEAR THESE
THINGS IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
IS NOT SERIOUS ENOUGH ABOUT
PURGING THE PEOPLE ALL THE WAY
DOWN WHO ARE COMPLICIT AND OPEN
TO THIS KIND OF BEHAVIOR FROM
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
ITS LIKE THERE IS A CONTEXT TO
UNDERSTAND.
YOU CAN BE A NONSEXIST PERSON
BUT THAT DOESNT MEAN YOURE AN
ALLY.
YOU CAN BE A NONRACIST PERSON.
IT DOESNT MEAN YOURE
ANTIRACIST.
I DONT CARE THAT THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY IS PRO DEMOCRACY.
THEY DONT SEEM TO BE
ANTIFASCIST AND THEY HAVE TO BE
ANTIFASCIST NOW TO BATTLE THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY.
THERE IS NO DEPTH TO WHICH THIS