ken, now an assistant dean an yale university s jackson school of global affairs and david rhode. so ken, what will the director of national intelligence be looking at as she conducts this damage assessment? well, the baseline question will be what is in these documents and which agencies are implicated. as of a week ago, the dni did not have access. this means the intelligence community is going to see them and whether they involve as we believe they do, human sources, technical collection. then they ll go back to the agencies and try to figure out the potential damage. there are questions they don t know the answer to. one, did this stuff fall into the wrong hands? has an adversary gotten access to these secrets at mar-a-lago?
no person is above the law in this country. i can t say it any more clearly than that. there is nothing in the principles of prosecution in any other factors, which prevent us from investigating anyone, anyone who is criminally responsible for an attempt to undo a democratic election. that was the typically tight-lipped, stoic, circumspect bone dry attorney general merrick garland back in july of 2020 when asked by reporters about the doj investigating the former guy. we re back with our panel. asha, i want to start with you and just ask i m going to ask you and andrew basically the same question. give me your sense of merrick garland. it s kind of a baseline question, right? the larger frame for all of this is not just what this investigation portends, what this investigation is about itself, but what it might
advocates who are working on, as you describe, the false elector scheme. now, that s sort of a baseline question, right, but it s really important to understand if you are looking at those those efforts, you have to understand what were those people s marching orders? what were they told to do? and that s a really important question obviously and that s why trump s actions have come into the investigation. so any sense of how far down the road they actually are at this point? are they close to bringing charges at a high level? and could there be more than just the two charges that i mentioned? well, look, i think charges are a long way away, any charges are a long way away from where we are now. an investigation is sort of its own animal and certainly federal investigations tend to take a long time, but if you look at one of the other things we report here is that they took phone records of trump s former chief of staff, mark meadows, and they got those records back in april, whi
former chief of staff to speaker paul ryan and one of the authors of the afore mentioned report, lost, not stolen. the affirmative case that trump lost and biden won the 2020 presidential election. abidal la fayed, opinion writer. thank you for being here. i ve got to ask you this sort of baseline question. it s a two-part question. what does it mean that in the year of our lord, 2022, you have to write a detailed report explaining that a person who lost by like 8 million votes actually lost, how bad does that mean that it s gotten inside the republican party? and why do you think that the people who are maga at this stage would listen to the ryan wing of the party, the paul ryan wing of the party is what they basically erased. well, one of the things i think you have to look at on this is that this report was looking at every bit of evidence we could find in six specific
but they re whipping of choice didn t match. we said, we had a shotgun. we rob people with a shotgun. then there was something about galleries mom s lawsuit. after a closer look, that fizzled out too. they went down one after, one after another trial, and never got anywhere. after looking through each new person of interest, investigators turned back to one of their first, corey. they called me in, and wanted to polygraph. me which i thought was weird. because this with three or four months later. i was, like why didn t you polygraph me the first week if you are trying to track down who did this? and your answer might be so distraught, that it would ve made a difference. i just remember that they were asking me these questions like, what color your shirt was? and that was the baseline question and then they would ask me, did you shoot that girl? and then i remember i would get really upset because they were just calling her, that girl. but courage wasn t just upset ab