condemning vice president pence for the full scale of violence and lawlessness that would ensue. nordland forsman anticipate that president trump would refuse to direct supporters to leave the capitol once violence began. no intelligence community advanced analysis predicted exactly how president trump would behave. no such analysis recognize the full scale and extent of the threat to the capitol on january 6th. in other words, they knew a mob of trump supporters would be in d. c., that wasn t going to be a first-time thing. they didn t anticipate a directed thousand strong assault on the building housing congress, because they didn t know what trump himself was
forthcoming show next year. i m sorry i did not get the memo about wearing something blue. we are all in the blue family. are you purple? it is coordinated. i want to start with you as the lawyer at the table in terms of this strategy by the investigators today. the are recommending trump and eastman for four felony prosecutions. there are references to other trump advisers and lawyers. but the referral seemed to be sort of most formally about those two. they reference to additional felonies that they say, hey, we think there is a clear traveler these felonies as well. talk to these trump advisers and members of congress. how do you think this lands at doj? i think it is a big wake up call. i think you really masterfully laid that out because it was not just a big pile of evidence, though that is coming on wednesday. what they used today s presentation
general counsel do you share his conviction? i do. i think that the mar-a-lago case is one that is well ahead of where the congress is and i would think that would be brought first. with respect to the january six investigation, we are going to know a lot more in two days, but i think all signs are that there will be ample evidence. what exactly donald trump would be charged with and whether others would be charged, remains to be seen. but i think that just knowing jack smith, i think that congressman thompson is correct in his assessment. our prosecutors generally loath to bring charges that have not been brought since the civil war? i m thinking about the insurrection recommendations, specifically. rachel, that is an impossible question to answer. i mean, that is one where this is an unprecedented set of facts and so, you can t really
possession of evidence we don t have. there were the other mother offenses that may be chargeable and we didn t want to set out that we have all of the evidence that we need, but that the justice department may be able to fill in some of the pieces. so we wanted them to be included and we were at great pains to say, hey, just because an individual isn t named doesn t mean there s not evidence that they may not have engaged in criminality because an offense hasn t been enumerated doesn t mean the department shouldn t look at others. it is meant to be careful and wouldn ted to be able to dot every i and cross every t in what we were recommending because we understood how unprecedented this situation is and we went forward with it because our democracy was the victim of this attack first and foremost, but it was also directed at the congress and felt we had a responsibility to share our findings with the department.
should subpoena in congress. the investigators referred congressman scott perry and congressman jim jordan, and congressman andy biggs, and house republican leader kevin mccarthy, to the ethics committee for their having refused to comply with lawful subpoenas from the investigation. that should be a fun point of reference for those republicans taking over congress in january, and turn congress into a subpoena fountain for members of the biden administration. if they want to, the biden white house will be able to turn around and say, really? we have to comply with your subpoenas about president biden s grandsons dogs veterinarians landlords tiktok post? you, yourself, congressman, or under ethics committee investigation for blowing off congressional subpoenas about an attack on the u. s. capitol? i mean, we will see how that all pans out. the committee did make for ethics committee recommendations on that front 44, relatively, senior members of congress on the republican side. investig