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Learning that the doj seems to be surprised by some of the revelations coming out of the january 6th committee. does that seem normal to you that they are asking for the transcripts at the same time that the american public is hearing them? and that they are not aware of some of these conversations, where some of these people that are being interviewed by the doj on their own prior, to the january 6th investigation. >> thats very usual, the letter that it was sent asking for the transcripts. the...

Counting of electors votes and again, corrupt intent that was shown by trumps actions and what he knew. he knew there was an armed crowd. he urged them to storm the capitol. and he tried to join them. so it is a big moment. >> and obstruction of an official proceeding is the thing that liz cheney is hanging her hat on, that is the thing she says is the most important charge here and it is important to note that under the law, in that particular case, the intent is secondary, to the sbul instruct...

January 6th. i think the more we learn this was rolled around in the white house it increases the questions about just how much detail this was talked about. if theyre talking about this over and over again, if this is something that many people were looped in on, how many other people would have been aware of this conversation about weapons potentially being there? how many other people would have agreed with mark meadows that this was a real, real bad prospect and that something bad could happ...

Debated -- is one anecdote about donald trumps physicality inside a limousine. but even on that, the united states secret service has confirmed the two most important things in terms of any sort of intent that donald trump had. thats, one, that he was mad, and two, it was because he couldnt go to the u.s. capitol and he desperately wanted to. whats your take on sort of the morning after cassidy hutchinson? >> yeah, i think youre right about the secret service story and how crucial it is to this ...

Hearing to keep the hearings in the forefront and drive the knife in during a week when republicans are reeling politically and from the aftermath of overturning of roe v. wade. >> barbara, legally speaking, and correct me if im wrong because im not a lawyer, there are two critical pieces to proving the crime of obstructing, one, that their actions obstructing the proceeding, and two, that the people involved had corrupt intent. do you think hutchison can provide that evidence? what will you be ...

Us. hes the washington bureau chief for mother jones. welcome, welcome to you both. >> glenn, i want to start with you. because, one of the key challenges for the committee, and frankly for the justice department to pursue a colonel case against trump, would in fact be proving that he knew his claims about the 2020 election were false. we know that donald trump is already laying the groundwork to make it hard to prove intent. hes got this statement that i wont even go into. basically, he blasted...

Giuliani was admitted to the white house lawyers that he agreed with the white house lawyers that eastmans panel was unlawful. so there was a whole bunch of new things that came out of that hearing, and i think a lot of it speaks to corrupt intent in and out of the white house. >> speaking of corrupt intent, which is a judicial term. kyle, you wrote that thursdays hearing effectively amounted to a criminal referral by the january six committee. now, whatever answer testimony did you find to be t...

Know when i ever prosecuted in years announced i engaged in a criminal act and have criminal intent. thats not how this works. there is so much evidence from which a jury could infer, thats how you prove intent, in for donald trumps corrupt intent. i mean just look at -- in public reporting and courtesy of the j 6th public hearings. we know donald trump recruited the insurrectionists. he said stand back and stand by. await further orders. he set the date for the capitol attack. january 6th will ...

The united states, one element of a fraud case is dishonesty. if you truly believe what youre selling youre not committing fraud. fraud is where youre lying and actually one of the elements of conspiracy to defraud the united states is dishonesty. so thats one problem for the prosecution. as for obstruction of an official proceeding, that requires proof of corrupt intent. and similarly there that honest belief would help defeat that charge as well. >> i asked that question because i know youre p...

Volleyball over the net to federal prosecutors. >> as a federal judge has indicated, this likely violated to federal criminal statutes. president trump had no factual basis for what he was doing. and he had been told it was illegal. >> he had been told it was illegal. it was not based on any factual truth about the world, meaning he did it and he did it with corrupt intent, which means its prosecutable, in the view of january 6th investigation vice republican congresswoman liz cheney. in terms o...