Good evening and thank you for joining us this hour. I'm Simone

Sanders Townsend in for Chris Hayes tonight on a special two-hour edition of

All Inn. It was an hour's long shot. a special two-hour edition of All-In.

It was an hours-long shouting match in the Oval Office

that nearly ended in a fist fight.

There was almost a physical brawl

between a top White House aide and former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn.

I'm referring of course to that now infamous White House meeting in December of 2020,

Flynn along with a crew of Trump's lawyers like Rudy Giuliani and

Sidney Powell, presented an avalanche of baseless claims of election fraud

while the White House lawyers debunked all of them.

At that meeting, Sidney Powell presented Trump

with a draft executive order that would have directed the military

to seize our nation's voting machines.

Part of that plan would have also made Sydney Powell herself

a special counsel and could have imposed martial law and required a rerun of the

election. Now obviously that didn't and thankfully end up happening

the mutinous ideas pitched in that oval office meeting

did not exist in a vacuum

they were part of a desperate effort by Trump's outside legal team

to append the results of the 2020 election. Those lawyers would ultimately

file and lose more than 60 lawsuits pushing bogus instances of election fraud.

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