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Doing our book peril, we found the eastman memo which is really blueprint for a coup in a very clear way, and we found that just by calling people. in fact, we got that from sources who were trump supporters who were willing to provide it. it wasn t classified, it wasn t secret, but carl is right. there is a cover-up going on here. the question is, when you get into the courts that the president, the former president, does have some rights here. unfortunately, there is a right to conceal information. it certainly is wrong in this committee, and what i worry about is do we really have a ....
Found that just by calling people, in fact, we got that from republican sources who were trump supporters who were willing to provide it. it wasn t classified, it wasn t secret, but carl s right. there is a coverup going on here. the question is, when you get into the courts, that the president, the former president, does have some rights here, unfortunately. there is a right to conceal information. it certainly is wrong in this committee and what i worry about is, do we really have a mechanism in this committee or in the justice department, to get to the bottom and explain what happened? and this is where carl is i mean, you really have to do ....
Long history of this, in the administration in which i worked, senior white house officials, mid-level administration officials went up to capitol hill to testify. they had to pay for lawyers. will this white house staff be responsive to those kinds of subpoenas, and exwhite house staff? that s a great question, in terms of whether or not the white house if you mean the biden white house will respond to subpoenas, i think that s an open question. as you have heard, they are open and want to try to make sure that this january 6 insurrection, that it is really looked at, really investigated in the right way. they see it as a dark stain. in terms of former administration officials, you can imagine they are going to mount a robust defense against the conspiracy that wasn t secret at all. i think the thing that s most remarkable about all of this, about january 6th and what happened is that we all sort of saw it coming. i remember writing on january 8th, the friday for political playboo ....
Or are you talking about another one? i m talking about the meeting in the seashells. i have to ask you, though, back channel meetings don, the meeting wasn t secret. eric prince came before the committee and testified sbp as a condition of his testimony, he asked that the transcript be made public. anyone can go to the intelligence committee s website and see. he ll talk about it. it defies credibility in every regard. what he suggested, he was invited to the seashells, he showed up with the emirates. they had a conversation about possible business. it didn t go anywhere. someone said, hey, there s this russian guy you might want to meet in the bar for a beer. i went down for 20 minutes, nothing came of it. i went to bed, got up the next morning and went home. there s absolutely nothing about that that s credible. but it wouldn t be part of the administration not to establish a back-channel? i don t think that s the issue. i think the issue is whether or ....
Congressman, good to have you back. good being here, don. washington reported that the special counsel s office has evidence of a skreecret meeting just before donald trump s inauguration. it involves donald prince and a russian close to putin. what s your reaction? no surprise if that turns out to be the case. are you talking about the meeting in the seashells, don, or are you talking about another one? i m talking about the meeting in the seashells. the meeting wasn t secret. he came before the committee and testified, and as a condition of his testimony, he asked that the transcript be made public. anyone can go to the intelligence committee s website and see. he ll talk about it. it defies credibility in every regard. he suggested that he was invited to the seashells, he showed up with the emirates. ....