had a few minutes with the report. andrew, let me get your first reactions to anything that has leapt out at you, if anything. recognizing that you ve only had a few minutes, i m gonna give you more time to read, this but this is just your first headline reaction to it. yeah no i see dan and i are doing the same thing. we are trying to do two things at the same time. this is a monumental, or as you said, it is over 800 pages and there are four appendices that look fascinating, addressing such minor issues as the preparation of law enforcement to meet the challenges of january 6th and whether there was foreign interference in the 2020 election there were these appendices, and they re trying to take the entire report. and then the table of contents is really, to me, attracts what i think is the genius of the january six committee. which is really focusing on all of the different ways that the former president tried to stay in office. as opposed to just thinking about january
will get a lot more testimony from many of these witnesses who try to assert privilege that probably was inapplicable here. and so, yes as bob points out, very well and concisely, it s a much harder barb there s admissible evidence, beyond a reasonable doubt, we don t see you now defenses in this report. so all of that is going to be there, but the department has much more powerful means of getting testimony including the testimony of the house republican who refused to comply with the subpoenas that they have received. barb mcquade, you ve been playing according to the rules which is looking down and reading while others are speaking. i hope you found something more for us! i did! you know, lawrence, chapter
witnesses took the fifth, or refuse to testify for some other reason. and, obviously that s everybody s right to assert the fifth amendment. but, they also know there was a number of frivolous claims of executive privilege or absolute immunity. it is very hard for congress to litigate in a timely manner but we do know that the prime of justice has already litigated several of those claims and it is, i think, without a doubt the department will get a lot more testimony from many of these witnesses who try to assert privilege that probably was inapplicable here. and so, yes as bob points out, very well and concisely, it s a much harder barb there s admissible evidence, beyond a reasonable doubt, we don t see you now defenses in this report.
0 at the justice department s ability to compel their testimony. it is highly sensitive to go after information from a sitting member of congress. but they re not being targeted because their members of congress. they re being targeted because of the conduct, the conversations with donald trump on january 6th. so, i don t see how you investigate this case without talking to them. and maybe their witnesses, maybe their defendants. we ll see how that shakes out. charlie, before we. go just a big picture question. the degree to which generally six committee exceeded expectations and the degree to which there added in terms of the information landscape around january 6th. how much they actually changed? for broader swap the american public. let s hear assessment there. i think they did a good job. they surprise a lot of people who thought they already know this stuff. the video was on tv for all to see. the media reconstruction the events that day. so trump was openly urging those peop
this an advisor. so there is more evidence out there but it also tells me that they had faith in the explosive dossier. so on that front, evan is also report that the fbi director that comey is citing the dossier in some of his briefings to kaujs. obviously, before they had basically distanced themselves from it and said they hadn t confirmed anything in it. obviously now he s using it in briefings. that in and of itself would be a big development, bob, right? oh, absolutely. you look at this thing and the fact that they are pushing it out there and the fact that this man was retired from mi 6, that they were in direct touch with his sources, they have other evidence to make them believe that this dossier is accurate in many respects, so i put a lot more creedens in this dossier than i did initially and the fact that they based a fisa warrant on it, that s explosive