house minority leader hakeem jefferys. happy new year to you. happy new year to you, my friend. absolutely. i want to welcome everybody to the beat, and i wish you a happy new year as well on our first show of 2023. so, thank you for starting the new year with us. now, we are already tracking new developments tonight. i have a special report coming up about the pressure on d.o.j. to act on the evidence that is in that lengthy january 6th report which dropped heading into the holiday period. while our stop story is the election eve, of sorts, in washington. democrats expanding their power in the senate and republicans taking over the house where the faces of each caucus leader here actually reveal a lot about the state of these parties. hakeem jeffries replacing nancy pelosi with a show of democratic unity, while republican kevin mccarthy is in the fight of his career as his own close allies now find it hard to see a path for him to win tomorrow. mccarthy facing down r
warned that the plans were criminal. and the evidence on that bolsters any case to prove the intent, because, as you know, sometimes people can deny or justify by saying, hey, we didn t fully understand that at the time, and nobody told me, and it was a mistake. but they were told at the time. and not just by the lawyers or the civil service times or whomever you want to dismiss. the most damning testimony is from some of trump s most loyal aides. take dan scavino. they got his written material. he said it was bat ish crazy to try to involve the military in one of those plots. and the report shows as well that this was all linked. the idea of sabotaging, as january 6th certification, the transfer of power, was a goal, and they had several lanes to do it. you may have heard me talk about this before. what s different now, as opposed to two weeks ago, is the
may take weeks to sift through in any exhaustive way. here at the beat, we have read the entire report once. i ll tell you that up front. we also tried to dive into it and scour and fact check certain parts, even extra, several times. and right now, as part of our special, i m going to give you someco takeaways. there were many trump coup supporters and plotters in and around the white house and campaign, far more name than the several that were referred to for indictment this week. so yes, while we knew this would contain a searing case against trump referring him for prosecution, the wider case against these coup plotters, there s repeats, emails, texts, damning recriminations. even as one of trump s most loyal aides warned that the plot to abuse power was bat-ish
the new report traces which aides line up with him and the lawyers i mentioned. it s a wide group with top republican veterans like newt gingrich. but as i mentioned, there were trump loyalists who still broke with the plan, whether you call it a sweep or a coup. and they broke with it for the same reason giuliani opposed the later proposed military coup plot to seize voting machines. because some of this stuff was bat-ish crazy. as the deputy white house chief of staff put it, captured in the new report. now, a report even adopts one trump aide s description of the divide among the groups. you may remember this. team normal and team not normal. i think that s a euphemism at best. on this program, and in our independent reporting, we called them team illegal or team coup. here s why it matters to look at the riff. it s not just keeping track of