preordained. it was not imminent, it was not necessarily in motion after the smoke cleared at the u.s. capital on january 6th. and as nancy pelosi testified, the pooh-pooh was cleaned up. but the work of the congressional committee i think history will have to judge exactly what role it played in putting some of the eyewitnesss to trump s role in inciing the violence and cheering the coup and pressuring mike pence exactly what role that congressional investigation played. but this thing that feels imminent, that feels unavoidable even to trump and his legal team was very much an open question in the hours and days after january 6th. yeah, you know, speaking with members of the january 6th committee, which i ve been doing over the past week, you know, they ve been very careful not to look like they re putting a political thumb on the scale in any way doing this. but they do feel like their investigation laid out a road map for the justice department