So let me review what happened today in the hearings.
Again, the hearings were excellent today.
I'm just flabbergasted by how good these hearings are.
And if I'm being honest, as I said to you guys before,
I think it's because the Republicans are mainly in charge.
Yes, Bennie Thompson is the head of the committee and it's mainly Democrats.
And obviously Bennie Thompson is a Democrat, but
most of the questioning is or a lot of the questioning is happening by Republican
lawyers with Republican witnesses.
And so that has a couple of positive things to it.
It has one negative that now, not only are we covering the hearings live,
you should always check it out with us.
From what I'm hearing from the audience on my facial expressions load,
which I appreciate you guys say that.
That's fun, right?
It's very serious stuff, but we're having fun with it.
But also we're now getting your comments in and
we're showing those throughout the hearings.
And a lot of you were frustrated in the beginning.
I mean, Pence is getting all this credit list.
Cheney is conducting a lot of this and now is getting credit for it.
And yes, Liz Cheney is historically someone we disagree with a lot and
we will again in the future and we do today on almost all the issues.
Mike Pence is not a good guy.
He's in my opinion religious sell it etcetera, etcetera.
But two things here are important.
One is you always have to be fair and honest and
give credit where credit is due.
If Pence had given into what they described today as the enormous pressure.
The unrelenting pressure by Trump to give into a fake legal theory
that even the main lawyer John Eastman who was pushing that theory knew was fake.
And as the testimony showed today over and over again, he said that he thought
they would lose nine nothing in the Supreme Court based on his legal theory.
It had no legs to stand on at all, okay?
And every again Republican that testified today,
whether they were on legal counsel to Vice President Pence or
it's Judge Luttig who is right wing federal society Republican.
They all say of course the vice president cannot
unilaterally decide who the president is.
And so they kept going back to the Jefferson never said that.
They didn't even come close to saying that, it's all a fabrication.
Under that theory, they said it several times.
Then Gore could have declared himself the president In 2000,
which is something I've been saying since the moment that it happened.
Since January 6, I've been saying that and the next thing and
the next one, I was like, please somebody say it, somebody say it.
And finally they did.
Well if that theory was true,
then Kamala Harris can unilaterally decide who the next president is gonna be.
The voting would be irrelevant.
You would have two sets of electors designed by Democrats and
Republicans as Trump wanted to do and then his lawyer john Eastman wanted to do.
And Kamala Harris would just get to say I picked the Democratic electors,
whether it's true or untrue.
And now Biden will remain president and
by the way he'll remain president ad infinitum, right?
So it's an obviously ridiculous, absurd and deeply unamerican theory,
but it's not really a theory.
It's a figure leaf, a fig leaf, right?
So they just put it on for what is in essence a coup.
So even Judge Luttig who honestly was an awful witness and I think that he
was trying to appear somber and serious and he takes himself very seriously.
But there was, I lost years of my life between his pauses and
his thoughts were elliptical.
And at the end, we're not.
I followed the entire train of logic and I understood it.
But it was not a great way of communicating what he was trying to say,
an efficient and effective manner.
So, but even he was saying the same things, this is absurd.
No right winger, no Republican, no American should think that one man can
ignore the votes of the entire country and just decide the election.
It's a preposterous theory and it's deeply embarrassing that
anyone who is conservative would have that theory.
And that goes to the main question that a lot of you guys were asking
throughout too, which is why is almost everybody here Republican?
Why is everything being framed as these guys are the heroes and stuff?
Number one as I said earlier, Pence was a hero.
I mean, yeah, it's a super low bar that he just said, no,
I'm not going to accept your insane theory and destroy our democracy.
But Trump wouldn't have passed that bar.
Eastman wouldn't have passed that bar.
Jason miller, so many others didn't pass that bar.
Pence did pass that bar, so give him credit.
But the second reason is more important guys,
because remember Democratic voters largely already agree, right?
And a lot of independents agree.
But we're trying to convince the rest or the committee is trying to
convince the rest of the independence and importantly, the Republican voters.
Guys, you don't want this.
You don't want the end of democracy.
You don't want lawlessness.
You don't want to burn our constitution and destroy our form of government.
This isn't right.
And they're making that case very effectively and
they're doing it efficiently and crisply.
And so if you're mad at me that I think it's mainly the Republicans that
are organizing it because I've never seen the Democrats be this effective and
this efficient.
Sorry, but that's just true.
So if it is mainly the Democrats that are putting it together, great, amazing,
finally, competence, terrific.
But it's important that everybody hear this.
If everyone in the country watch these hearings,
it would fundamentally change the way they think about January 6 and
Donald Trump because not would it affect all Republicans?
Of course not.
There's probably about three quarters of Republicans that are in an absolute
Vulcan mind lock.
Whatever Trump or Tucker Carlson or Hannity says,
they will listen to it no matter what.
If they told him he rip the American flag and and burn the constitution.
They were like of course the most American thing you can do is destroy our documents,
destroy our democracy, destroy our government.
Of course yes.
So that's three quarters of Republicans and
I'm under no delusions about that, right?
But 25% of Republicans, the majority of independence,
that's all you need for sanity to rule again and to be dominant again.
So guys,
this is of utmost importance because if this is not just about the past.
And it's not just that if you don't punish the crimes of the past,
that they will be repeated the next time the Republicans are in charge and
then we will lose our democracy.
That's critical.
That's absolutely true.
But this is also about the future and the present because right now if the election
were held today and it was Biden versus Trump, which is the most likely outcome?
I hope to God that isn't what it winds up being.
But right now it would be that Trump would win.
He wouldn't win just in the Republican party, he would win the election period.
And this guy who very, very, very clearly does not believe
in democracy Is a thug and yes, for God's sake, it is not 1% hyperbole.
He is a fascist.
He does not believe in our form of government.
And he constantly uses the threat of violence to try to intimidate not only
his opponents, but his own Vice President, the Republican Party, other right wingers.
He says the absurd things to Pence as you saw at the end of the hearings, like,
well if you did this, then I wouldn't want to be your friend anymore.
I mean, who says that?
Either a child says that or a mob boss says that.
I wouldn't want to be your friends anymore, if you know what that means,
and what it meant the next day on january 6th is well,
what it meant was I'm gonna agitate everybody to be super angry at you.
Then they're gonna go and
break into the Capitol where you are chanting about murdering you.
And then I'm gonna put out a tweet after I know they're coming to get
you further encouraging them to get you, to physically end you.
That is what a fascist does,
trying to get his own vice president hurt at the minimum and potentially murdered.
It's real guys.
It's Republicans telling you it's real.
It's Pence's team telling you it's real.
They were actually Trump was threatening basically physical violence against them.
And Pence says to him in that final meeting, Mr. President,
I'm positive that one man cannot unilaterally decide an election.
I will not say that, right?
Then Trump leans in and
says yeah, but wouldn't it be cool if one man could decide the election?
I mean again, his best case scenario is that he's a child,
that he has the mentality of a seven year old and
I'm sorry to offend all the children out there.
But like yeah, but wouldn't it be cool if I could just be president and
you could just be the one person who decides on president even if I lost,
wouldn't be cool or more likely.
Although both are potentially the correct answer here that he's threatening him and
the threats were not subtle, both publicly and privately.
And look, so the the hearings are very important.
That doesn't mean we're not gonna have fun with them.
We are.
I mean the frowning ladies in the background are unbelievable.
The one behind Jacob Pence's lawyer, even when she was smiling, it was a frown.
She had permanent like lines here.
The guy on the other side looked like John Mclaughlin's younger brother.
We had a frown lady on the other side.
We had the guy who speaks for
all of us on the other side of Judge Luttig as he was talking, he looked.
[LAUGH] Okay, we have the goat beard dude
who's the cameraman in that row.
So we had a guy.
Now we have a new bad guy, I never even heard of, Cheese Borough.
He's one of the Eastman Trump guys and his name spelled Cheese Borough.
They even have a Cheese Borough on their side.
I mean it's hilarious as it's devastating.
And then there's of course the great like the parliamentary talk gentlewoman.
I'm always amused by the word gentle and
now I present to you the gentlewoman from Wyoming.
And when they have to, when the chairman himself is speaking,
he has to quote unquote, recognize himself.
So he says this what I because you know what, in my mind, I am looking at it and
I'm thinking about the super serious, the political consequences.
The legal ramifications of legal theories, but
I'm also in inner child myself honestly.
So when they're like and then Cheese Borough said, come on dude,
I can't believe we're having a conversation about Cheese borough.
And then what Benny Thompson says, I now recognize myself that I was thinking,
okay, look in the mirror and I go, I now recognize myself there, I am.
All right, that's the goofy stuff.
And but the heart of it, and Jason Miller, wow!
On the one hand privately as he's talking to the lawyers and he's under oath,
he's saying, yeah, we knew that everybody thought we were being quote nutty.
And that the theory that we were putting out there was quote crazy, right?
But what did he do?
He pushed it anyway.
They pushed it anyway and
then you see him live on TV said of course we should do this, absolutely.
What an unbelievable liar and hypocrite.
It's amazing.
And so and then finally, the heart of this guys is the fake electors.
And they finally started and they even use the phrase fake electors.
If you're doing fake electors and you're getting them to sign papers,
this is a matter of law, you're violating the law to try to end our democracy.
And so that's why these hearings are super important.