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hi there, everyone. its 4:00 in new york. before the january 6th select committee ever got off the ground, before it existed, and well before the first signs ever emerged that the justice department was investigating the trump part of the trump coup plot, before even donald trumps second impeachment trial wrapped up. one local prosecutor in georgia decided she would take on donald trump and the unprecedented assault on our democracy in the wake of the 2020 election and she launched a c...

Anything why the findings of this is so important, because to clarify that the process itself was not fraudulent and to give, you know, justification to all of those people who have suffered because of the things that mr. eastman was saying. >> and again, there was never any evidence of fraud. we know that bill barr benlt every norm that exists at the justice department, ahead of the election to preinvestigate alleged allegations of fraud, he didnt find any. we know rudy and 60 lawsuits failed t...

>> well, there are two issues here. theres one, this extent of the fraud in the casting of ballots, and the other, which is undisputed, the failure to comply with the staff sure scheme that this legislature sent out. >> katty, mr. eastman is known to be under pretty intense scrutiny by doj, and it sounds like hes been scrutinized here, as well. >> yeah. what we dont know is who is being committed perjury, who are the people that we think lied about something, we dont know what it is they lied ab...

And the fact that you have the power to do this, state law doesnt in any way prevent you, the legislature, from immediately taking this over and deciding this. that -- that power, right, obligation, is given to you by the founding fathers, deliberately. >> so, those were lies told about dominion and smartmatic, neal, the subject of a multibillion dollar lawsuit against fox news and other outlets and rudy giuliani is having to defend telling those lies. we focus a lot on that lawsuit, but the law...

All this georgia stuff that is technical, its about vote counting and peoples eyes glaze over and so on, but what katty has done and those clips do, they remind us of the deep, human consequences. and why is that important? because as a prosecutor, ive had the privilege of teaching criminal law for 20 years at georgetown, the ultimate job of a prosecutor is to enforce the law and protect the weak. and here, youve really got a circumstance in which these really powerful people from new york and w...

And so any witness that wasnt 100% honest in their testimony ought to be very nervous right now. >> katty, we went back and looked at, you know, the georgia -- the plot to overturn the results in georgia, perhaps had the most public-facing evidence both of trump as a -- the coordinator, the quarterback, if you will, jeffrey clark as one of his key lieutenants at doj, and mark meadows, who traveled into the state during these incredibly fraught weeks between trumps defeat and january 6th. let me ...