more than a thousand witness interviews including those with leaders from the proud boys from the doj s letter in part, read this, it is now readily apparent that the interviews the select committee conducted are not just potentially relevant to our overall criminal investigations, but are likely relevant to specific prosecutions that have already commenced. well, the news that we alluded to this afternoon, a spokesman confirmed an earlier new york times scoop to our team on the hill that the committee will cooperate with the doj. what that could mean and how that partnership could play out, we will have more on that in just a few moments, but first, one of this week s central questions was whether or not the committee would eventually vote on referring trump to the department of justice for a potential criminal case. watching yesterday s explosive hearing, politico suggests this, the committee is making that referral in its own way presenting evidence in a clear chronology t
they want to learn a lot from her and they can understand the context and the motivation behind the email correspondentence. what exactly did she want eastman to do in speaking to this group of political activists? what was the case that eastman was hoping to make with them. was she going to try to enlist these activists and was he going to try to enlist these activists to overturn the election and furthermore, they would probably seek most importantly to understand whether she had any communication with her husband about any of her plotting to try to overturn the election on behalf of then president trump. that is not spelled out in these emails, but it is something that ginni thomas if testifying under oath honestly could provide some context for and that could be revelatory for the public to understand. john eastman seeking to
give them, you know, some credit for doing that, but not too much, because of course, had they had honor or integrity, they would have done so at the time. not just under oath but also trying to sell books in some cases. luke, steve bannon went after bill barr on his podcast after we all saw barr s testimony. take a look at this. watch. we re coming for you, bro. you re sitting there lying about this. this is the type of crap that we re stopping. you re just not going to sit there and phone this in, throw in a couple lines. we re going to deconstruct this, and we re going to rub your nose in it and then we re going to come after you legally. we re not just going to sit here anymore. luke, speak to that for a moment. how i mean, speak to how maga treats anyone who comes out and tells the truth and does not drink the maga kool-aid. are we past the point of no return when it comes to accepting facts as a baseline? right. i mean, there you see the
nominees for the very important races of attorney general and secretary of state, and by far, they chose they selected the most out of touch with reality candidates you could possibly imagine and these are individuals who, you know, they re not really swearing an oath to the constitution. they re swearing an oath to donald trump, and that s all that matters to them, and the same goes with ryan kelley. he was willing to commit crimes on his behalf. so that is where the republican party is in the state of michigan, and i expect to see ryan kelley do very well come august in the primaries. how do you explain that? speak to the voters in that state for a moment that believe the 2020 election was valid but are still going to vote for a capitol rioter for governor. you know what? i wish that i could explain it. but it s hard to do. all i can say is that what i have seen is it s the
inherent risk and the inherent tension between the different views on this. i would say i do think that bill barr testifying under oath before the january 6th committee and saying the things he did does matter. i ve heard from several republicans about how seeing him basically just demolish the sort of the crazy things that were put in that 2000 mules documentary or some of the other wild claims about the election, actually was persuasive to them. so, yeah, you do have people like steve bannon who are going to continue to lie about the election, who are going to fire up the base, but i actually think it does matter when the trump officials, when the former attorney general says, this is a bunch of crap, everyone. and seeing that visual of him saying that, i think, actually can be persuasive to some of the republican base. so, yes, you see the payback there, that, we re coming for you threat from steve bannon.