'BradCast' 6/16/2022 (Special coverage of House J6 Hearing, Day 3)
On Today's 'BradCast:\xa0\xa0 Special coverage of Day 3 of the bipartisan U.S. House Select Committee, which is investigating the Trump-incited Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and the disgraced former President's multiple attempts to steal the 2020 election from the American people. Former Asst. U.S. Attorney and current George Washington University law professor, RANDALL D. ELIASON, and HEATHER DIGBY PARTON of Salon and Hullabaloo offer important insights into today's hearing, which was focused on Donald Trump's corrupt pressure campaign to induce former Vice President Mike Pence to violate his oath to the Constitution to steal the 2020 Election for Trump. Witnesses today included arch-conservative former Judge J. Michael Luttig, who advised Pence that he had no legal or Constitutional authority to do anything other than read the Electoral College votes aloud during the joint session of Congress to certify the final results of the 2020 election. In an historic written statement, Judge Luttig said Trump bears 'responsibility and accountability for his attempt to steal the 2020 presidential election from the American People and thereby steal America's democracy from America herself.'\xa0 The hearing included top Trump and Pence staffers and disturbing, previously unseen footage from the day of the insurrection. It also exposed shocking new revelations, including that Trump knew that Pence did not have legal or constitutional authority to invalidate the election because White House attorneys told him so, repeatedly, and that such an act would be unlawful and unconstitutional. The hearing also revealed that attorney John Eastman, credited with devising the plot, admitted on several occasions that the plan was illegal, including directly to Trump, and sought a pardon after the coup plot failed. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report.'