Our case was built on, frankly, Republicans who put their allegiance to the country before the party.

And so the president got information from people he trusted on other issues.

He rejected it whenever it didn't fit him staying in office.

And there was a pattern in our case where any time, any information came in

that would mean he could no longer be present, he would reject it, and any theory, no matter how

far-fetched, no matter how not based in law, that would indicate that he could, he latched on to that.

And we had, we were confident that we had very strong proof of that pattern.

He also, I would just add, very consciously did not try to reach out to the sort of people

who have the most expertise on these issues.

He reached out to people who he thought could back him up.

I am so damn tired of being lied to.

I don't think I can deny it anymore.

You can't stick to your story if you think it flies, but I'm not going to buy it anymore.

Hello, my friend, and thank you for listening to the 330 episode of Congressional Dish.

I'm your host, Jennifer Briney.

And this is my first episode back to work after the holidays.

It is now 26.

And my work week began on the five-year anniversary of the most chaotic counting of electoral college votes in our nation's history, the five-year anniversary of the Maga Riot of January 6th, 2021. And so in honor of that anniversary, I spent the day watching

some testimony that I wasn't supposed to see. I spent the day watching an eight-hour closed-door

deposition of Jack Smith that took place in the House Judiciary Committee on December 17, 2025,

and surprise, it was released to the public a few weeks later. Jack Smith is the special prosecutor

who was in the process of building two criminal cases against Donald Trump in between his

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