Good evening from New York. I'm Chris Hayes. We've got new reporting tonight that special

counsel Jack Smith's team is looking at the hectic days at the end of Trump's tenure

in the run up to January 6th, particularly a meeting that occurred on December 18th, 2020,

roughly six weeks after the election, a few weeks before January 6th. In the oval office

between Donald Trump and his most conspiracy-obsessed outside advisors and lawyers, it was just one

of Trump's last-ditch efforts to cling to power and oversharing the election.

On Friday, December 18th, his team of outside advisors paid him a surprise visit in the White

House that would quickly become the stuff of legend. The meeting has been called unhinged,

not normal, in the craziest meeting of the Trump presidency. They brought to the White House

a draft executive order that they had prepared for President Trump to further his ends, specifically,

they proposed the immediate mass seizure of state election machines by the US military.

Second, second, I think about how that would have gone over, the immediate mass seizure

of US voting machines by the military. What would that mean? What would that auger for the

country? That infamous meeting happened late at night and lasted roughly six hours and included

election conspiracy theorist and pro-Trump lawyer Cindy Powell, who managed to get face

time with Trump without an appointment. Other attendees included Trump's first natural

security Michael Flynn, former overstock CEO Patrick Byrne and Trump attorney Rudi Giuliani.

It was a meeting that the January 6th committee spent extensive time highlighting in their

hearings nearly a year ago.

I got a call either from Molly, your freshman, that I need to get to the old office.

So that was the first point that I had recognized. Okay, there was nobody in there from the White House.

Mark's gone, what's going on right now?

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