getting some of our biggest clues yet about the directions special counsel jack smith is taking the politically fraught and complex and unprecedented investigations of an ex president by the justice department. there are major developments in both the january 6 investigation and the probe into the classified documents. we ll get to that in a minute. but we begin with what we know about the sprawling criminal probe into the capitol insurrection and the coup plotted by the ex president and his allies and including those in the administration and in congress. as the new york times reports, jack smith steps us the pace, sorting through a mountain of evidence from the january 6 committee and looking to interview witnesses that did not speak to the congressional panel. from that times report, quote, did former president trump consume detailed information about foreign countries wild in office? how extensively did he seek information about whether voting machines had been tampered
as, quote, a domain awareness gap. that is not something i like to hear with regard to national security. domain awareness gap is we re blind about something. and what we seem to have been blind to or are blind to is these objects apparently with frequency coming into our territory undetected and yes, they may have opened the aperture and increased the filter but as has just been said wait a minute, you mean we haven t in the past seen things that are enough of a threat to have to shoot down? and so we need answers on that before this continues and we need to establish new criteria, what gets shot down, what not. but it s a teachable moment for us because there is a whole lot of stuff floating out there in space. a lot of it. commercial. much of it commercial. navigational satellites. mapping satellites. weather. all of that going on all the time.