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Today, Congress dropped episode three of the January 6th committee hearings in prime time,

1 p.m. on a Thursday.

Now, there was a bunch of video testimony, a lot of documents, a lot of questions

of the two live witnesses, and this is what we learned.

All the lawyers knew that overturning the election was a crime.

They all told each other that they knew it was a crime.

They all told everybody in the White House it was a crime, including the president.

They told him, sir, it's a crime.

He said, thank you for cleaning that up, now let's go do that crime.

Some of the crimes, some of the crimes described today were procedural and constitutional.

Not a little light sedition among friends.

Some of them were more straightforward, like, what's the word?

Trying to murder Mike Pence, and the first part of today's hearing focused on the now

infamous plan to have Pence just reject Biden's electors out of hand.

That was conducted by disgraced lawyer and cotton swab seeing where you're about to stick

him.

John Eastman, according to the committee today, Eastman knew his theory was complete

BS.

And to prove that, they called Pence's former lawyer and man who has no problem with the

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