End quote, in 2020, in swing states. and heavily democratic urban areas, as hed has long baselessly claimed, and quote. if trump s team as we ve been discussed calling witnesses, like nancy pelosi and other political foes to the stand, in an effort to paint them as the true villains of january six. that new reporting helps explain why just last week, the special counsel jack smith asked the judge overseeing trump s federal elections case to prohibit trump from raising any of those conspiracies at trial. jack smith appears to have anticipated these fantastical absurd arguments from trump and, legally, it is absurd. it s hard to see how trotting out right wing conspiracy theories would help trump win over a jury in washington d. c.. but, politically, the strategy of repeating the same conspiracy theories over and over does seem to be working for many republican voters.
Calling witnesses like nancy pelosi and other political foes to the stand in an effort to paint them as the true villains of january 6th. that new reporting helped explain why just last week the special counsel jack smith asked the judge overseeing trump s federal elections case to prohibit trump from raising any of those conspiracies at trial. jack smith appears to have anticipated these fantastic absurd arguments from trump, and legally it is absurd. it s hard to see how trotting out long debunked right-wing conspiracy theories would help trump win over a jury in washington, d.c. but politically the strategy of repeating the same conspiracy theories over and over does seem to be working with many republican voters. new polling from the washington post finds republican voters, quote, are now less likely to believe that january 6th participants were mostly violent, less likely to believe
Have the their unique works to. them so i think a lot of practitioners are actually more comfortable in federal court. are there any risks to asking it, if it s accepted, moving the case to federal court? well, the risks to mark meadows, moving it to a federal court, is that it might be a little bit mueller difficult, if he were to stay in georgia state court, it s easier for him to make trouble for jack smith s case. because, and of course he is not a defendant in jack smith s case, but if you are looking at sort of the whole enterprise, or the whole conspiracy, it is a little bit more disruptive, if you ve got a state case going on at the same time as a federal case. i think that the federal judges perhaps are more likely to be differential to each other, in terms of calling witnesses and such. so, that is a risk to meadows. but again, i think it s understandable that he wants to move it to federal court, where perhaps he feels not only is the jury pool going to be a
The third criminal indictment against donald trump comes from the extensive painstaking work of the january 6th committee. the partisan panel was formed in the summer of 2021, spending nearly 18 months investigating the insurrection, the plot to steal the 2020 election. the committee presented its findings in ten public hearings last year, in december, releasing an extensive 845-page report which gave prosecutors a roadmap to continue chasing leads in calling witnesses. maryland democratic congressman jamie raskin served on the select committee as a professor of constitutional law. he joins us now. it s good to have, you congressman. let me ask you to again, how you conceive of the relationship between the committee s work and the department of justice in jack smith s indictment. we created with a legislative oversight committee,
The partisan panel was formed in the summer of 2021, spending nearly 18 months investigating the insurrection, the plot to steal the 2020 election. the committee presented its findings in ten public hearings last year, in december, releasing an extensive 845-page report which gave prosecutors a roadmap to continue chasing leads in calling witnesses. maryland democratic congressman jamie raskin served on the select committee as a professor of constitutional law. he joins us now. it s good to have, you congressman. let me ask you to again, how you conceive of the relationship between the committee s work and the department of justice in jack smith s indictment. we created with a legislative oversight committee, a factual reconstruction of the events leading up to the