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Intended to and least briefly did obstruct that important government function. >> for the concept of conspiracy involves more than one person. jacks mitt may not care about a lot of these other people, maybe does. he is not a guy we knew about in the florida case essentially. does this mean, if there is a conspiracy charge, does that by definition mean that there is a coconspirator, someone else who will be charged? >> it does by definition mean that there is a coconspirator. it is not absolutely necessary to charge another person. you can have an unindicted coconspirator where the indictment ...

Activities might fall under that umbrella? >> so the conspiracy statute more people to commit either an offense, a crime against the ited states or defraud the united states under government function, for example, a presidential eleio that could be written in a way that is broad and encompasses everhi from the scheme to create false slates of electors in the battleground states to the effort to pressure vice president pence to certify the false electors, to even potentially inciting the riot at the capitol on january 6th. >> all of that could fall under that statute. >> yes. >> all right. elie...

That have gone back to the comments he made at the ellipse or postings on social media where he was trying to suggest that the election had been stolen? what was the evidence that leads you to believe that that might be the potential pathway that we could see an indictment go? >> it's all the above. this is different than seditious conspiracy, which is much tougher to prove. seditious conspiracy means an agreement with two or more people to commit violence, to shut down an official government function. here, you don't have to prove that donald trump had an agreement with others to commit viole...

Known unknowns in this investigation. is jack smith really going to take on january 6th as so many people believe he should based on what's publicly known? >> our good friend and colleague harry litman suggested on twitter, joyce, that smith could be pursuing a conspiracy at the white house level possibly, but not necessarily involving trump himself. do you see that as a possibility and maybe another indication, if nothing else that smith's investigation may be broader than we knew. >> well, there were a lot of people involved in what would appear to be very clearly a conspiracy to interfere w...

The Dickinson Police Department responded to numerous calls for service over the past week, and these are just a few highlights of incidents that occurred.