now, we have confirmation from law enforcement sources. jack smith, sent this target letter to donald trump. we ve been referring to this as the january 6th probe. but it s much bigger than that. we don t know if there s specifics about the charges mr. trump might face. we don t know if anyone else has received other target letters. no one had received similar letters. for his part, the former president has been reactive on the social media platform, on lengthy posts, describing this as a witch hunt. he has conflated the prosecutions of him, on the local, state or federal level, where political
indicted in connection with january 6th and efforts to overturn the election, maybe we ve already seen it a year ago in the january 6th committee s not only very public hearings, but their voluminous report that they issued. it s all been there for at least a year, maybe over a year. so it took that long for the government to take all of that evidence, develop any additional evidence, and arrive at the conclusion as they may in just the next few days or weeks, that this is a case that they can indict and prove donald trump guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. when you think about it, an additional year in addition to all the evidence the january 6th committee uncovered, that means they were moving carefully, if nothing else. and so barbara is back with us this morning. just wondering on the technicalities of it, with this former president s statement that he received this letter on sunday from special counsel jack smith in connection to his
with the substance of this particular probe. in this case around january 6th attempts to disrupt the transfer of power around the 2020 election. the view from the hill here is also informed on this in a very different way, jose, because we went through over a year of the january 6th committee doing investigations, holding public hearings, and frankly interviewing a lot of the same people that we are likely to hear that the special counsel, jack smith, also interviewed. you ll remember this is how we got details on things like the fake electors scheme, but then also the january 6th committee did a lot of work to try to establish the former president s mind-set, what he knew, what people around him were telling him, specifically in regards to losing the election. that s something that as many people have said today, is going to be critically important to the special counsel and this target letter for the former president. ali vitali on capitol hill, thank you so very much. joining us
two-thirds use joe biden as an illegitimate president. it s donald trump that s campaigned on the idea of pardoning january 6th defendants. by extension, this potential indictment, he could be one of those defendants. a statement said, i would have made different judgments. but a bad judgment is not a crime. and nikki haley was on fox a bit ago saying, this is going to keep on going. the rest of the primary election is going to be a referendum and going to be about lawsuits and judges. the republican candidates are dealing with reality this is going to be front and center for the republican electorate. and to a certain extent, it s up to them, the extent to which they defend donald trump. the other issue is that these candidates could very well, if one were to beat donald trump on
there s testimony on this report. i was able to point out the former communications director in the trump white house had spoken to prosecutors that trump said, can you believe i lost to this guy? or something that she said before the january 6th committee and what she told prosecutors. there s folks that were close to donald trump who say they would swear to the idea that donald trump believed this election was stolen from him. getting inside donald trump s head, that everybody on this panel has been trying to do, as we ve been reporting on him, if that s the case they put together against him in washington, d.c. that s a great point. just wondering on that. the fully convention convinced