Ian Bassin

Nobody has been held accountable.

I've been saying now for six years, actually, I guess I did the show with Kash Patel probably I'd say six and a half years ago on Brookings, Norm Eisen, Mary McCord, uh, Andrew Weissmann, Ian Bassin, all these Lawfare people.

And then of course they were involved with John Podesta leading the way with Rosa Brooks and Neils Grohmann, uh, from Georgetown Law in the Transition Integrity Project.

Well, that entire group that simulated all the ways that Trump might win his second term and then went out to make sure that he would not win it, uh, all of them are getting, are together right now in this...

Uh, they are also, uh, Lawfare Inc., the, the Transition Integrity Project, and the, uh, Harvard D3P and all of them, they, they got the band back together, and they're working right now.

Norm Eisen is, and, uh, Elias and Holder and Gupta and, um, McCord and Weissman and Bassin and all their friends at Just Security and Brookings.

Uh, they are all getting ready to pounce right after the midterms and go after not just impeaching Trump and Hegseth and everyone else, uh, but I believe that they are also finding ways to rescind any pardons Donald Trump gave.

Uh, though Jeanine Pirro and nobody are finding chain of custody for Joe Biden's pardons, which should be the least they could do for us.

My belief is that Donald Trump declassified documents, that NARA worked with the Biden regime to reclassify those documents, and then pack them in boxes and send them to Mar-a-Lago to open the precedent so that they could get in and do what they did.

The Mar-a-Lago case should be a criminal, criminal, criminal case with Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, Chris Wray, and Jack Smith all charged.

I would also like to see Mary McCord, who has been behind every single law fair operation since 2016, uh, Marc, uh, Elias, Norm Eisen, Ian Bassin, and all the rest of them, and including the judges, to not only be disbarred, but to be, uh, sanctioned or punished.

Because what they put this country through to destroy the people who voted for Trump, you must understand that this is bigger.

We also got Protect Democracy.

That's Ian Bassin.

We got American Oversight.

That's David Brock, and I believe, uh, Reid Hoffman funds that.

And I just wanna be very clear that we, um, have traced this at Harvard, and I'm going to tell you right now that, um, it is, again, the same exact people involved here.

But what we now know is that starting within months of the 2016 election, uh, after Trump won, Harvard organized Obama lawyers, uh, Clinton campaign people, including Robby Mook, uh, Harvard programs, Harvard election security infrastructure, and developed multiple nodes at Harvard University, uh, right after Trump won in 2016, uh, to do multiple things, including the Balfour Center D3P, uh, Project.

And, um, again, they brought in, uh, Ian Bassin of Protect Democracy, Norm Eisen of CREW, Brookings, States United, Democracy Defenders, uh, Laurence Tribe.

You always see him.

And I mean, they were involved in one way or another.

One of their lawyers, and, and we can put in this group, uh, easily, I believe, Andrew Weissmann, Mary McCord, uh, Wittes of course, uh, Ian Bassin.

Like these people, they, they, they go together, and their law firms also go together, and you can even put Eric Holder.

But if you look at the decades from when Obama and Holder came in and essentially turned the DOJ into an ideologically aligned weaponized operation, uh, and, and, uh, with that, uh, also DC, all of these people have been involved the entire time.

Why now?" Oh yeah, there is an election coming, and the GOP needs to scare you into voting because nothing else is working.

Ian Bassin's Executive Director of Protect Democracy.

Alex Wagner is the host of Runaway Country on Crooked Media and an MSNBC senior political analyst, author of the fantastic new book, The Steal: Four Right-Wing Hardliners, One Republican Presidency, and the Raid on America's Courts, and they join me now.

Ian, I have to start with you on the ads.

I mean, he needs [laughs] to get out there and campaign for Susan Collins in Maine, as much as possible.

Just, that's free advice.

Ian Bassin, Alex Wagner, thank you both for your time.

Alex's great new book, The Steal, is out now everywhere.

And today we have a very timely topic, election security, and the perfect guest to help us unpack it.

Ian Bassin, co-founder and executive director of Protect Democracy.

Ian and I crossed paths while I was covering the Obama White House, and he was serving as associate White House counsel, which I sometimes refer to affectionately as the before times.

Yeah.

PowerThePolls.org is the second thing you can do.

Okay, great.

Are you worried at all about, you know, I know we have some in-house, like I actually said, I'm going to be interviewing Ian Bassin in our slacks and, you know, what kind of questions come up? And one of the questions from some of our organizers on the ground, the people that we work, not our organizers, but the people we work with is, They're worried about, you know, curing ballots after the election, because most people, once they vote, they feel like, OK, I did it.

I voted.

Also joining us, former CNN chief White House correspondent, author of News Not Noise on Substack, Jessica Yellin is here.

And Ian Bassin joins us as well.

He's the co-founder and executive director at Protect Democracy.

I'm so honored to have the three of you with us.

Yeah

... who are holding the line.

Uh, Jim Acosta, Jessica Yellin, Ian Bassin, Lisa Rubin, Fallon Gallagher, the very best of the best.

Thank you so much for starting us off on this momentous day.