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Interpretation. seditious conspiracy which has been used against the proud boys and oath keepers requires intent. we cant say with proof beyond a reasonable doubt the president intended there to be forced use. it doesnt mean it doesnt exist. we didnt get cooperation from steve bannon, roger stone, mike flynn, the people that would have been the connectivity between the seditious conspirators on the ground and the white house. so he has carefully chosen statutes that apply that are designed to ge...

Department weaponized in these really extreme ways, especially at the end of the administration where donald trump was trying to use the justice department to validate his false claims of election fraud and maintain power. this is inherently political stuff. we can say that its just a matter of following the facts and its as easy as that and cleanse this country and the justice department of all the politicization and all the deep, deep suspicion of the department, both inside the department, th...

Henchmen arent defenders of democracy. they are offenders of democracy. the dojs goal here is very clear: you get in our way, you threaten to root out d.c. corruption and we will do whatever it takes to destroy you by using the full force of the federal law enforcement against you. and if that requires twisting precedent or dispensing with real evidence of intent, or applying rarely used interpretations of statutes, so be it and we will brings that case before a liberal judge in a democrat distr...

You lost the election and you had political operatives telling him the same thing, you lost the election. so all of that kind of feeds into this idea that -- into the theory that the government has that there was a conspiracy to do certain things that could have overturned the outcome of the election, using doj, using fake electors, just to name a couple. >> elliot, whats the key, then, to convince jurors of what? >> one of the statutes is literally obstructing congress or conspiring to obstruct...

Is not in dispute by anyone even trump. how does that get at the strength and strategy here of a trump prosecution? >> yeah, look, i think its a surgical indictment purposefully. its designed to get to court as quickly as possible to eliminate potential defenses like were punishing free speech. and it is consistent with the facts, right? we -- our criminal referrals started with obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the united states. those are the two statutes that jac...

Stretched these statutes in order to try to capture this behavior. >> laura: for me the words farcical. ridiculous, abusive those words came to mind. but, after going over the document for the second time earlier today i realized its far worse than any of that what jack smith and his boss merrick garland are doing not just to trump, but to the nation going forward is devastating. now, the doj, the white house, every member of congress knows the truth. the rag tag group of maga supporters who bus...

Lead white house counsel was asked by the january 6, did anybody in the white house support the riots, support what was going on? did they want the protests to continue other than donald trump? he said, no. donald trump on an island to himself here and, my god, it shows up in this historic document. talk, if you will, just, again, as a pulitzer prize winning presidential historian your thoughts as you were reading this indictment last night. >> one of the statutes under which the former presiden...

There are some interesting things in here that we havent seen before. its hard given the fire hose of information that weve had over the last three years about this to figure out which things weve seen and which we havent. most of it fundamental tracks the themes laid out and the facts that were drawn out in the january 6th hearings and including the charges. 371, 1512, conspiracy to defraud the united states and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, those were the same statutes the jan...

Trump conspired to prevent peoples votes within seven different states from being counted. pretty much, you know, hand in glove with some of these statutes. i dont think that was an issue. it was already a federal court opinion that found that trump and eastman had conspired under two of these statutes to try to overturn the election with the same set of facts. that was not beyond a reasonable doubt but it was more likely than not was the standard. thats a pretty high standard. even have a judic...

Mcconnell. all right. george, lets start with you. here we are. and we, like everyone, scrambling to read through this. you have been furiously taking notes, noting down your list of co-conspirators. i just quickly went through. finally we got a version of this we could search. "knowing" or "knowingly" appears 37 times. they made clear he was told that the allegations he made were false. and then, after being told that, he went out and continued to lie. >> and thats what -- i mean, we have all b...