'Do you realize you're describing a coup?': MSNBC host challenges Trump aide after he described plans to overturn the 2020 election

© Twitter/The Beat with Ari Melber on MSNBC Ari Melber and Peter Navarro on MSNBC's "The Beat." Twitter/The Beat with Ari Melber on MSNBC

• Peter Navarro described Trump allies' plans to decertify the 2020 election results to MSNBC.
• He detailed the plans to challenge the results in battleground states.
• Host Ari Melber shot back, asking: "Do you realize you are describing a coup?" 

The MSNBC host Ari Melber challenged former Trump White House economic advisor Peter Navarro over his description of plans to challenge the 2020 presidential election result, saying that he was actually "describing a coup."

Navarro has promoted Trump's baseless claims that President Joe Biden, who has been in office for nearly a year, did not actually win the 2020 election.

In a Tuesday appearance on "The Beat," Melber asked Navarro about Trump allies' plans to challenge Biden's win.

Navarro told "The Beat" that the plan was to use over 100 US representatives and senators to "challenge the results of the election in the six battleground states" — Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Nevada.

"And, basically, these were the places where we believed that if the votes were sent back to those battleground states and looked at again, that there would be enough concern amongst the legislatures that most or all of those states would decertify the election," Navarro said.

Video: How deep does the GOP’s election subversion go? (MSNBC)

How deep does the GOP’s election subversion go?

MSNBC See more videos

SHARE

SHARE

TWEET

SHARE

EMAIL

What to watch next

• 

  March for Our Lives Co-Founder on Uvalde elementary school shooting

  
  MSNBC
• 

  Greg Jackson: Gun violence is the ‘number one cause of death for all youth, higher than than car accidents.’

  
  MSNBC
• 

  Which Republican Senators Have Received The Most Funding From The NRA?

  
  Newsweek
• 

  This Memorial Day weekend is expected to be the busiest since 2019, despite rising costs

  
  CBS News
• 

  Biden’s China Policy Intends to Avoid 'New Cold War,' Blinken Says

  
  The Wall Street Journal.
• 

  Remembering the victims of the Uvalde, Texas school shooting

  
  MSNBC
• 

  U.S. Warns China’s Support Of Ukraine War ‘Should Raise Alarm Bells’

  
  Newsweek
• 

  We Don't Want a Cold War With China: Blinken

  
  Bloomberg
• 

  FDA facing scrutiny over infant formula shortage in Senate hearing

  
  NBC News
• 

  Sen. Chris Murphy ‘sober-minded’ about getting bipartisan gun safety legislation passed

  
  MSNBC
• 

  Blinken on U.S. relationship with China: 'We aren't looking for conflict'

  
  NBC News
• 

  Murder in the Badlands - Who Killed Lisa Dorrian?

  
  BBC News
• 

  Gun safety bills face hurdles in the Senate

  
  CBS News
• 

  Senate Democrats join gun control rally after school shooting in Uvalde

  
  NBC News
• 

  Grandfather chokes up describing search for missing granddaughter in Uvalde shooting

  
  CBS News
• 

  Rep. Kinzinger: I think the age for buying a gun should be 21

  
  MSNBC

Click to expand

Replay Video

• March for Our Lives Co-Founder on Uvalde elementary school shooting Parkland school shooting survivor and March for Our Lives co-founder, David Hogg, joins José Díaz-Balart to discuss the school shooting in Uvalde, TX and what can be done to reduce gun violence. MSNBC
• Greg Jackson: Gun violence is the ‘number one cause of death for all youth, higher than than car accidents.’ Community Justice Action Fund Executive Director Greg Jackson and Former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade join Andrea Mitchell to talk about gun violence in America, days after mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas and Buffalo, New York. “Gun violence is now the number one cause of death for Black men in America, number two cause of death for Black women, and the number one cause of death for all youth, higher than than car accidents," says Jackson. "Yet we can't seem to take action around what is now a real public health crisis and requires a real public health emergency response." MSNBC
• Which Republican Senators Have Received The Most Funding From The NRA? Mitt Romney, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and Mitch McConnell are among the top Senate Republicans who have received substantial funding from the NRA over the years. Here's who else makes the list. Newsweek

UP NEXT

He continued: "That would throw the election to the House of Representatives. And I would say to you here, Ari, that all of this, again, was in the lanes, legally. It was prescribed by the Constitution. There is a provision to go – rather than through the Electoral College – to the House of Representatives."

He said this process started when lawmakers began to challenge Arizona's results on January 6, 2021, and criticized the media.

Melber then shot back: "You just described this plan as a way to take an election where the outcome was established by independent secretaries of state, by the voters of those states, and legal remedies had been exhausted with the Supreme Court never even taking, let alone siding with any of the claims that you just referred to. So legally, they went nowhere."

He then described the plan that Navarro had outlined, and asked: "Do you realize you are describing a coup?"

Navarro responded: "No. I totally reject many of your premises there."

Watch the exchange here:

—The Beat with Ari Melber on MSNBC 📺 (@TheBeatWithAri) January 5, 2022