MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 06-23-2023-225338
MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)
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🗓️ 23 June 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We got two massive pieces of news in special counsel, Jack Smith's investigation into the former |
| 0:05.2 | president Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. One of these is just broken, and it's about |
| 0:10.9 | this guy who's not exactly a household name. This is Mike Roman. He was the director of election day |
| 0:17.1 | operations for Trump's 2020 campaign. You might know him as the guy who on January 6, |
| 0:21.6 | tried to physically deliver certificates of the fake electors from Trump's fake electors scheme |
| 0:28.4 | to vice president Mike Pence. And that act, being the bag man, trying to deliver the fake |
| 0:33.9 | electors on January 6th, to stop the certification of the 2020 election, that is actually a pretty good |
| 0:39.6 | encapsulation of his larger role in all of this. You see, after the election, there wasn't all that much |
| 0:46.2 | to do for Trump's director of election day operations, so Mike Roman shifted to a new gig. He acted |
| 0:52.4 | as the go-between, the vote whipper of sorts, doing the leg work to get state level officials on |
| 0:58.1 | board with Trump's fake elector plan. I wasn't the legal mastermind behind the plan, he wasn't the |
| 1:04.1 | brains of the operation, he was the legs of the operation. Yesterday, Mr. Roman's deputy in that |
| 1:10.0 | position, this guy was spotted meeting with special counsel, Jack Smith's grand jury. Tonight, |
| 1:15.1 | the New York Times is out with a massive scoop that Mike Roman himself is in talks to cooperate |
| 1:22.1 | with Jack Smith's investigation. A person familiar with the matter tells the New York Times tonight |
| 1:27.1 | that Mr. Roman is negotiating a proper agreement. That's a trade of what is likely some level of |
| 1:32.9 | legal immunity for testimony. And that is huge, gigantic news all on its own, but it really |
| 1:40.4 | starts to paint a picture when you combine it with the other major piece of news that broke about |
| 1:45.0 | this investigation tonight. And that second story is about these guys. Not to be rude, but these |
| 1:52.8 | guys are not exactly household names either. This is the chairman of the Republican Party of Nevada, |
| 1:57.9 | Michael McDonald, and the Nevada Republican Party official Jim DeGraphen read. These were two |
| 2:04.0 | of Donald Trump's fake electors in Nevada. Now, we already knew that last week, these two guys |
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