Good evening.

Tonight we've learned that the former president is making new efforts to subvert justice and

stime the investigation into his attempt to stay in office by subverting democracy.

He's reportedly doing it by invoking executive privilege in the House investigation of the

attack on the Capitol, which he incited.

We'll talk to former White House counsel John Deane if he can actually do that.

Meantime his allies are also still trying to undermine democracy and lay the groundwork

for overturning the next election.

That's the news tonight, which comes after a day that began with the Senate Judiciary

Committee publishing its report on the former president's attempts to overturn the 2020

election.

The title is subverting justice.

We were half step away from a constitutional crisis, a full blown constitutional crisis.

That's committee chairman Dick Durbin and he's understating it.

The report is the most comprehensive account we have so far of what if we were talking about

it happening anyplace but here would be described as a coup attempt.

A coup attempt is seen through the eyes of some of the people in the room in the Oval Office,

even as key decisions were made in the effort leading up to the attack on the Capitol to

overturn the will of the American people.

Now one of nine attempts to pressure the justice department to undermine the election.

Yet as horrifying as the details are and the attack was, it may still be tempting to

file it away as just another collection of the latest in a series of such horrifying

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