Today's News: Remember remember....

It doesn't quite scan like "Remember remember the 5th of November", but remembering Jan 6 2021 is now a cottage industry in the United States and the Jan 6 Committee hearings are getting more fascinating with every passing day. 

Today we found out how Trump kept himself surrounded by third-raters who would promote his fantasy that the election had been stolen. And who still promote it. 

But Vice President Mike Pence knew in December that Biden had won the election and he also knew that the Vice President did not have the authority to reject or change the American election results after states reported them. (Why he didn't announce this in December is a question asked by MSNBC tonight too.) 

We also found out that during the Jan 6 insurrection, Pence and his family and staff were within 40 feet of the protestors who wanted to "hang Mike Pence".

Everyone else (frightened): They were so close
Elected Republicans (pissed): We were so close

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) June 16, 2022

Judge Luttig kills the Eastman plan/Greenbay sweep dead. Testifies there is "no support in either the Constitution or the laws of the US..to count alternative slates of electors."

— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) June 16, 2022

Luttig closes with this: "I have written that today, almost two years after that fateful day in January of 2021, that still, Donald Trump and his law allies and supporters are a clear and present danger to American democracy." pic.twitter.com/tBxqRrCvlO

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 16, 2022

Judge Luttig correctly sees the coup-plotters of January 6 as revolutionaries against American democracy.

— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) June 16, 2022

Luttig was the conservative judge that W thought about nominating to the Supreme Court but then he picked Alito instead. What a loss that was to America!

I know this is bad for democracy and all, but "Third, I've decided I should be on the pardon list, if that's still in the works" is objectively the funniest thing that's been said by an attorney for the president since Four Seasons Landscaping.

— Susan Simpson (@TheViewFromLL2) June 16, 2022

So then Tom Nichols decided to start a meme:

I've decided I should be on the pardon list. If that's still in the works. pic.twitter.com/a75xqO44NS

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) June 17, 2022

And there are now hundreds of tweets in the series.