announcer: this is cnn breaking news. our breaking news this hour certainly is breaking indeed. the january 6th committee has now released its final report just moments ago. it is here. i want to bring in cnn justice correspondent jessica snyder. jessica, i understand the committee is making very specific recommendations about how law enforcement and also of course legislative bodies ought to proceed now in the wake of this report and their findings. tell us what are you learning? reporter: laura, that s the big take away from this report. so it is 845 pages. the vast majority of that actually incapsulates eight chapters where they out the entire narrative surrounding up to and including january 6th. but the real meat of this is not until page 689, and it lays out about let s see 11 different recommendations this committee is making. i want to highlight a few for people. and laura you were asking before where can people go to actually read this entire report. it is up o
electors in those states that biden won instead. of course what s interesting about this is this a key line of investigation for state prosecutors particularly in georgia as well as federal prosecutors now with the special counsel s office. they re really honing into this idea there was this broad conspiracy potentially to put forth this fraud with these fake electors, trying to get these people together to present themselves as the real electors before president trump in those states that president biden actually won. so, laura, just a few more threads that the committee didn t necessarily get to with the public testimony that we saw throughout the summer and these numerous hearings, but a little bit more detail that is in this report we continue to parse through here about just how detailed this plot was to overturn the election. the idea of having this laid out in this way and the details i think is so impactful to
three times on two different phones at 4:23 and 4:24 p.m., and once more at 5:05 p.m. it goes onto say he finally managed to speak with the president at 5:07 p.m., and the two spoke for almost 12 minutes. what s important for here as well is who he spoke to in congress. after he spoke with president trump, the report says, giuliani s phone calls went nearly without fail to members of congress senator marsha blackburn and then senator mike lee. he made three calls to senator bill haggerty then two to representative jim jordan. he called senator lindsey graham. and he called senator josh holley and senator ted cruz. je giuliani had two calls. and there were three calls to senator jordan none of which
there are four appendacyies at the end. you ve dealt with almost four of them. there s the foreign corruption and where trump raised all this money and used it for bad purposes. but that s about half of what s big here. and the other half there are little snippets they didn t present to us. they did a very good job, incommittee, of really putting their best feet forward. but now there s a whole bunch we didn t see because it wasn t in the front of the hearings, but it really does fill in the details. roger stone, for example, or the way the proud boys took trump will be wowed as a summons to come to d.c., the big lie. those little shadings will be done. the 14th amendment thing you just mentioned is huge and the series of recommendations in the appendices. so important. harry litman, thank you for your insight. one i m going to get to tonight
that john eastman it looks like might have first tried to make contact with president trump at the white house on december 23, 2020, almost exactly two years ago. and the committee is documenting how john eastman put in an e-mail to president trump s assistant, molly michael, at the time 1:32 p.m. that day and then was eventually connected to the white house through the switchboard. it was a call that lasted 23 minutes. and john eastman apparently talked about his memo to ensure that president trump is re-elected, and in it he talked about the way that vice president pence could potentially overturn the election. of course, something pence refused to do. in addition to that the committee s report also talks about a little known trump attorney named kenneth cheesebro, and he was actually the architect of this fake elector plot, coming up with these fake electors in these battleground states who would be in favor of trump who that would try to insert as the actual