Welcome to the dispatch podcast. I'm your host Sarah Isger joined by Steve Hayes, Jonah

Goldberg and David French. We will be talking a little bit about the latest coming out of

the January 6th investigations and Republicans reactions to that news, the politics of an

opening on the Supreme Court. And with the Olympics starting this week, will our diplomatic

boycott do anything?

Let's dive right in. Steve, I want you to explain a little bit about what we've learned

this week, Trump calling for Pence to be investigated.

Yeah, there have been a series of revelations, most especially over the past week, but really

going back the last several weeks, which I think remove any doubt about what Donald Trump

was trying to do with his activities between November 3rd of 2020 and the inauguration

of Joe Biden. And it's very clear, and I think at this point in disputable, that he was

trying to steal the election. And he was listening to people who were presenting him with crazy,

crazy conspiracy theories. The people he had trusted were no longer really giving him

counsel, and he wasn't listening when they were. So what you've seen in what's been clear

and clear in the last couple weeks is that this was an attempt for Donald Trump to remain

in office illegally. You had revelations in the New York Times that Trump was far more

involved than the decision making on the discussions at least on the possibility of using the

Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense to seize voting machines like a

banana republic. You had this statement from Donald Trump in a speech that he gave in

Texas at a rally, suggesting that he would be open to pardoning the January 6th insurrectionists

really without much in the way of qualification, claimed them as political prisoners. You had

this bizarre and I think quite revealing statement from Donald Trump about Mike Pence, in

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