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Marjorie Taylor Greene Doesn’t ‘Recall’ If She Urged Trump To Impose Martial Law - YouTube
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good evening from Washington DC I'm
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Maddie Hassan in for Chris Hayes today
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for the first time a member of Congress
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had to face some level of accountability
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for the Republican plot to overturn the
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2020 presidential election and
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especially the January 6th Insurrection
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congresswoman Marjorie Taylor green
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spent most of the afternoon under oath
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after free speech for people an election
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in campaign Finance reform organization
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filed a lawsuit seeking to disqualify
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her from re-election due to her role in
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inciting the January 6th Insurrection
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it's a big deal historically politically
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and legally there are all sorts of
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ramifications that can come out from all
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of this as well as from Green's
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testimony remember the three Republican
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members of Congress including minority
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leader Kevin McCarthy who the January 6
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committee contacted for voluntary
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interviews have all declined but today a
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member of Congress who was accused of
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playing a role in the Insurrection was
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asked questions in person under oath for
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the whole nation to watch
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but before we get into Marjorie Taylor
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Green's denials and evasions
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just remind ourselves what she was
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posting on our own Facebook feed before
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the Insurrection took place
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and this is an important time in our
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history we can't allow this just to just
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to be God you know just to let it go you
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can't allow it to just transfer power
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peacefully like Joe Biden wants and
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allow him to become our president
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because he did not win the selection
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it's being stolen and the evidence is
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there that is a call for violence
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there's no other way to describe that
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other than incitement I mean what else
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is the alternative to a peaceful
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transfer of power it's a tough clip to
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push back against but green sure tried
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is it fair to say representative green
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that from election night of 2020
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until January 6 2021
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your personal opinion and your wish was
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that congress not certify Joe Biden as
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the winner of the 2020 election
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uh no that's not accurate
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sorry not accurate we just saw Marjorie
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Taylor green say herself there shouldn't
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be a peaceful transfer of power she even
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voted against certifying Biden's Victory
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on the night of the insurrection maybe
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someone forgot to tell her she was under
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oath today although outright denial was
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not really her go-to move in this
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hearing mostly she just couldn't
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remember especially weirdly when it came
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to her long and shameful record of
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advocating for political violence
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did you like a post that said it's
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quicker that a bullet to the head would
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be a quicker way to remove Nancy Pelosi
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from the roles I've had many people
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manage my social media account over the
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years I have no idea who liked that okay
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you're are you testifying under oath it
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wasn't you just want to be clear on that
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I am testified fine I have no idea who
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liked that comment fair enough it could
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have been you
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right
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I do not
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could have been anyone anyone and it
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could just be that Marjorie Taylor green
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couldn't recall and as we saw today
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there was
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so much that she could not recall
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when did you first become aware that
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there were going to be large
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demonstrations
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I don't recall and who put it on your
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calendar I don't know somebody on your
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staff I take it I have no idea I don't
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know I do not recall that no I don't
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recall I don't remember I don't think so
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I don't recall the exact days I don't
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think so I don't recall that at all I
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don't know I don't recall that was the
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video but I don't recall
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I don't recall
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I don't recall there was a lot of that
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today Green's seeming inability to
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remember anything that happened in our
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own life over the past few years
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reminded me of how Mentor disgraced
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ex-president Donald J Trump because when
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Trump was deposed in December of 2015 he
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cited memory lapses 59 times green did
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catch herself one time during today's
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hearing when she tried to deny calling
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house Speaker Nancy Pelosi a traitor
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before suddenly oops remembering she
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said that on video
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in fact you think that speaker Pelosi is
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a traitor to the country right
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uh you're I'm not answering that
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question of speculation if you've said
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that haven't you in the screen that
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she's a traitor to the country no I
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haven't said that okay
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it's exhibit five please
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oh no wait
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by not upholding the uh securing the
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border that that violates her oath of
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office
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it can be tough to keep all your lies
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straight when so much of your life is on
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video and sometimes there's not a lot of
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wiggle room remember that clip we played
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earlier where green said there shouldn't
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be a peaceful transfer of power well the
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congressman was forced to respond to
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that specific clip in court today under
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oath
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and this is an important time in our
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history we can't allow this just to just
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to be gone you know just to let it go
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you can't allow it to just transfer
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power peacefully like Joe Biden wants
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and allow him to become our president
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because he did not win the selection
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it's being stolen and the evidence is
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that
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okay
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so that's you right Miss green yes
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that's me okay and when you say we can't
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allow it we can't just let it go
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the the it in that phrase is to have Joe
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Biden declared the winner of the 2020
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presidential election
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we were showing a video where it doesn't
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give us any reference beforehand and it
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doesn't give us any reference afterwards
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so it's not really my complete it's hard
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to get an understanding of what I was
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saying okay so your answer is you know
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what you're referring to
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I I don't okay we're watching a partial
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video and a partial statement of clearly
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an interview I was doing I don't know
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what date it was on and it's definitely
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off someone else's uh
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Twitter or Facebook I can't see it from
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here
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it's only a partial statement
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her exact words were you can't transfer
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power peacefully like Joe Biden wants
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and allow him to become our president
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because he did not win this election
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what added context would have made that
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more acceptable unless she prefaced it
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with a dangerous and crazy thing for me
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to say would be you can't just allow Joe
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Biden to transfer power peace I mean
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look I don't think more context is going
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to help unless it's that
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after spending most of the hearing
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questioning green on her public
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statements and actions the petitioning
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lawyers moved to her private
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conversations including her interactions
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with ex-president Trump
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we've had a number of meetings with him
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right yes and you had meetings with him
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between the election 2020 and
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January 20th of 2021 right
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yes and in those meetings you discussed
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with him your advocacy for the idea that
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there should be martial law declared in
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the United States no I don't recall ever
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discussing that are you saying it didn't
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happen or you're saying you don't call
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one way or the other I don't recall ever
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discussing that okay did you discuss
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that topic the idea that there should be
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martial law declared in the United
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States
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prior to the inauguration of President
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Biden your honor I'm going to have to I
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actually represent the president of the
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United States and that's covered by
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executive privilege
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executive privilege she's not a member
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of the executive and this council is
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here on her behalf not on Mr Trump's
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behalf unless there's something I missed
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it's not a proper objection your honored
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I'm sorry
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what was the question again the question
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was whether
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prior to the inauguration of Joe Biden
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is green whether you ever advocated
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from martial law to be imposed in a
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conversation with the chief of staff of
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the then president United States Mr
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Trump
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did you ever advocate for martial law
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prior to the inauguration of Mr Biden
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with any member of the White House staff
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that was part of the Trump
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Administration I don't recall
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I don't know about you but I personally
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feel like I would remember if I had
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advocated for imposing martial law in
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America with anyone especially if that
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person was the president of the United
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States or his chief of staff
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Green's ridiculous refusal to answer
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anything truthfully was hardly
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convincing and in many ways raised even
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more questions about the Republicans
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attempt to overturn the 2020 election
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Ben Clements helped develop the legal
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strategy against Marjorie Taylor green
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today he's the chair and senior legal
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advisor for free speech for people the
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organization which brought today's
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petition he joins me now Ben thanks so
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much for coming on the show how do you
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think that hearing went today for
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Marjorie Taylor green specifically
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well I think it went very well for the
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voters of Georgia who are challenging
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her candidacy I think it did not go so
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well for Marjorie Taylor green but she
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doesn't have much to work with she has a
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long history as your intro just showed
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of advocating for political violence she
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has a clear record on Twitter on video
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and otherwise in public documentation of
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calling for her supporters to come to
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Washington on January 6 and engage in
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what she described as our 1776 moment
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which could only be understood and
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certainly was understood as a call to
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Armed resistance to the peaceful
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transfer of power which as you noted she
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publicly said we cannot allow to happen
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so with all of that she was left with
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little to do than deny and evade which
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she did at great great length and I
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think your uh coverage that you just
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provided of the number of refusals to
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even admit or deny but simply to say I
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do not remember even to the question
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whether she urged the president then
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president to implement martial law to
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cast serious doubt on her credibility I
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think a fair inference is that she was
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trying to deny what she thought she
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could get away with denying but not go
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so far as to not deny something that
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could be proved and might open her up to
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a possible perjury prosecution
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thank you
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foreign
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