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
with costly hutchinson s testimony. if cassidy hutchinson who had never and cannot afford a lawyer. had been offered this free lawyer from what she called it cassidy hutchinson s the mid to remain under the control of that they are paid by donald trump. she would have of the testimony. is now the basis of the committees criminal referral with a former president united states. for prosecution by the dust apartment. cassidy hutchinson s testimony reveals another point that standing alone would ve been enough to get that lawyer disbarred in most restrictions in this country. he refused to tell her who was paying him to represent her. here is how castillo johnson described her very first words with a criminal defense lawyer of that trump world provided.
is now the basis of the committees criminal referral of a former president united states. for prosecution by the justice department. cassidy hutchinson s testimony reveals another point that standing alone would ve been enough to get that lawyer disbarred in most restrictions in this country. he refused to tell her who was paying him to represent her. here is how cassidy hutchison described her very first words with a criminal defense lawyer of that trump world provided. page 21. on monday, february 7th 2022. i received a call in the afternoon from stephen passantino. i had never worked with stephen. we don t really overlap. and i never really heard of him. i also know is that he he had called to let me know that he was my attorney. and was a brief call. let him know that and i was
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