New reporting on Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the election and how he bounced from one government agency to another seeking someone to help his effort.

The question is, who are the key players that reportedly kept him from seizing voting machines?

Plus, diplomats from the U.S. and Russia clash as the UN Security Council meets over the escalating crisis on the Ukrainian border.

The question is, where do things stand now?

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The question is, how soon could it be available?

It's way too early for this.

Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that wonders just what exactly happened

to January.

I'm John Clamere on this Tuesday, February 1st. just what exactly happened at January. I'm John Lamar on this

Tuesday, February 1st. Let's start with the news. There's new reporting on just how personally

involved Donald Trump was in trying to use federal agencies to seize voting machines in key swing

states in the weeks after losing the 2020 election.

First was the Justice Department.

Two sources familiar with the matter tell the New York Times that during an Oval Office meeting in mid to late November, Trump told then Attorney General Bill Barr that he received

legal counsel that the DOJ could take control of the machines as evidence of fraud.

According to the Times, Barr replied telling the president the DOJ could take control of the machines as evidence of fraud. According to the Times, Barr replied telling the president the DOJ has no basis to do that

because there was no probable cause to believe a crime had been committed.

Sources also tell the times that around that time, Trump also tried to persuade state lawmakers

in Michigan and Pennsylvania

to use local law enforcement to take control of the voting machines in those states, but they

also refused to do so.

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