Hey everyone, listen to the podcast. This is Ari Melber and I have something very special

today. I want to read a little bit to you from a new piece that I have written about the

Koo conspiracy. This is, as you may have heard me mention, the forward to the Harper

Collins edition of the January 6th report and that's coming out. And here as a podcast

extra, something very different. I'm just going to read to you some of what I wrote. If you're

interested, you can go get the entire piece from Harper Collins on Amazon. You can just

go to Amazon and search Melber January 6th or go to Melberbook.com. You can get this

piece in the whole January 6th report. But in case you want to hear some of it, whether

or not you ultimately read or buy the whole thing, I wanted to share that with you. This

is my forward to the January 6th report by Ari Melber. They attempted a Koo. That's

the most important fact about what happened. Donald Trump led an effort to overthrow the

lawful government of the United States. He lost an election, exhausted the legal options

to challenge it, and then tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power to the incoming

administration of the president elect. The goal was elicit, stealing an election. Trump's

chosen methods were unlawful, trying to overcome his loss with fraud, obstruction, election

meddling, abuse of power by government officials, and even plans to have the military intercede.

And Trump himself did not always act. He often demanded other people break the law. Sometimes

that worked. He got people to commit crimes. Sometimes they refused. Indeed, many of the

most brave and gruesome, well-known crimes were committed by the supporters Trump summoned

to Washington, not by Trump himself. He didn't personally go storm the Capitol, though he

tried. He didn't attack police officers with his hands. He didn't physically obstruct

and delay the January 6th certification. He didn't sign documents for elector fraud.

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