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Trumps white house counsel told the january 6th committee it would have been a disaster if trump made powell a special counsel. newly released transcripts come after it was finally released and placed the blame squarely on former president trump. joining us now is one of the former presidents attorneys. tim, thank you so much for joining us. now, to the clear, the former president has a lot of different legal issues. but you represent him in the justice departments investigations, into january 6...

She calls for a break-in comes in and says, i just lied six times. ive said i dont recall. thats when, according to her account, he said, thats okay, its fine, youre go to words should be i dont recall. when he tells her that, councils her to say that when he knows its not true, and that is a way over a line, not just of ethics but of the criminal law of supporting perjury and obstruction. >> you look at testimony where people dont get to that because they plead the fifth. ive never seen such a ...

Referrals and such. but its also a blueprint for the country. maybe congress cant do anything at the moment, but this tells them what they can do. the recommendations to clarify the obstruction of the proceeding issue really important for congress to think about that. similarly theres civil enforcement power for the subpoena is also on the recommendations. and weve seen just how blurry that is, how long it takes to get any compliance. so these are things that congress can do. the committee is pu...

Legitimately, are entitled to do this as a witness, said that they wouldnt answer questions because they had a fifth amendment privilege to avoid self incrimination. but of course that means the committee is excluding from understanding and a number of areas. and then there were people who simply werent forthcoming, and of course what all talk about cassidy hutchinson and once went on with her testimony, and are evolving awareness that there may have been an effort to keep some witnesses from te...

Unclear because people are so focused on donald trump -- and liz cheney said specifically, she does not want mom forced mint to be investigated. she doesnt want them to be put or scrutinized in this way. but if it is a question, and if it is a row that people go down to in terms of asking questions, i think were gonna see a lot of finger pointing between law enforcement agencies. >> finger-pointing, but besides donald trump, twice, other a lot of other people tonight who are going through this w...

Of the country being in uncharted waters as, for the first time in american history, congress referred a former president for criminal prosecution. if we are to survive as a nation of laws and democracy, this can never happen again. so, today, beyond ourfindings, we will also show that evidence weve gathered points to further action beyond the power of this committee or the congress to help ensure accountability under law. accountability that can only be found in the criminaljustice system. the ...

Characterization that this is the best house report ever written and ill stand up for our impeachment report, it is, you know, it will be really important to dig into a lot of the end notes as andrew said, many of which, you know, are further explanation for some of the testimony and the last thing that i was just looking at is further to the cassidy hutchinson obstruction of justice that weve been talking about, what other efforts were there to obstruct justice? what other efforts were there to...

But they also not have an 845-page roadmap. we all have to remember, at this historic moment, that what a house select committee, and political body says, what they deemed to be criminal, thats different from what the department of justice and prosecutors might decide. when they decide whether or not to file charges, they are saying we can go into a courtroom and show proof beyond reasonable doubt that these crimes occurred. having said that, i think, after the hearings, after the report, if the...

The committee finally published its executive summary. chair bennie thompson spoke of the country being in uncharted waters as, for the first time in american history, congress referred a former president for criminal prosecution. if we are to survive as a nation of laws and democracy, this can never happen again. so, today, beyond ourfindings, we will also show that evidence weve gathered points to further action beyond the power of this committee or the congress to help ensure accountability u...

Transcripts over the next few days. >> that may be the most significant effect. so the final report is going to come out sometime today. what do we expect from the report as owe pozed to just the transcripts? >> i put a huge caveat on this. they said the report was going to come out yesterday and it didnt. were expecting it to come out today. of course, they put out a lot of big headlines and high profile hearings over the summer. the they released an executive summary earlier this week. so were...