Did anyone else just hear the exchange on Deadline Whitehouse?

[ariadne0614]

It was amazing to hear Michael Steele and Nicolle Wallace sound like radical lefties challenging Al Sharpton, followed by his stunning response. I need a link!

[multigraincracker]

1. Redemption.

Even works for Re-Publicans. I try not to give up on anyone.

[Vinca]

2. I think that was the same conversation that made Nicolle use the words "truthful" and "Jim Jordan"

in the same sentence. That was quite an amazing feat by itself.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

3. Here's the NYT article that Nicole's first segment was based on.

Her guest was Katie Benner, the reporter who wrote the article.

Trump Pressed Justice Dept. to Declare Election Results Corrupt, Notes Show

WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump pressed top Justice Department officials late last year to declare that the election was corrupt even though they had found no instances of widespread fraud, so that he and his allies in Congress could use the assertion to try to overturn the results, according to new documents provided to lawmakers and obtained by The New York Times.

The demands were an extraordinary instance of a president interfering with an agency that is typically more independent from the White House to advance his personal agenda. They are also the latest example of Mr. Trump’s wide-ranging campaign during his final weeks in office to delegitimize the election results.

The exchange unfolded during a phone call on Dec. 27 in which Mr. Trump pressed the acting attorney general at the time, Jeffrey A. Rosen, and his deputy, Richard P. Donoghue, on voter fraud claims that the department had disproved. Mr. Donoghue warned that the department had no power to change the outcome of the election. Mr. Trump replied that he did not expect that, according to notes Mr. Donoghue took memorializing the conversation.

“Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me” and to congressional allies, Mr. Donoghue wrote in summarizing Mr. Trump’s response.

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Lordy, I hope ther are tapes.

[ariadne0614]

6. Yes. Things are happening. n/t

[brooklynite]

4. No, and I have no clue what they've be "challenging Al Sharpton on"

[ariadne0614]

5. They were urging him to be less gentle and more demanding.

His response was a stirring call to (non-violent) arms.

[lastlib]

7. The barb she tossed that caught me.....

(unfortunately, I didn't catch the first of it): &quot She)* is the second woman this week to call Kevin McCarthy a moron, and I don't think that's strong enough..."

O. M. G!!

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, Nicolle!!

(*I don't know who the "she" is that Nicolle was referring to.)

[mnhtnbb]

8. The second woman was Peggy Noonan who called McCarthy "stupid"

in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece.

The first woman was, of course, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi who called McCarthy a "moron".

[ariadne0614]

9. The Rev's response to Steele and Wallace is what I'm after. n/t

[lastlib]

10. TY!