midterms, with nearly 200 election denying republicans running for key positions across the nation. today we will see new surveillance footage from the trump rally on the ellipse and secret service documents proving how forcefully the former president tried to join the rioters at the capitol on the 6th. the committee will show new evidence he planned to declare victory even before the election was held and new testimony from top trump cabinet members that they tried to stop him afterwards from overturning the results. today s overriding theme, beyond donald trump, congress and the voters have to work to preserve democracy as we know it. keep in mind, this is the first time in nearly three months we will see the committee in action. you know the political reality. the house of representatives could be in republican control come january. while members have repeatedly said they don t see this as part partisan, there s still a political context here. ahead of a potential 2024 p
Whether there are grounds for a Criminal Investigation or an ethics investigation against the president of is the United States of america. For example, Rachel Crooks is one of the 16 women that we know of who have come forward. She said that President Trump, before he was president , quote, kissed me directly on the mouth. It was so inappropriate that he thought i was so insignificant he could do that. Jo hart, said he absolutely groped me, and he just lipid his hand there touching my private parts, end quote. These are just two examples of unwelcome sexual advances. I think were he on the subway or in a restaurant would not either or both of these incident be enough to get him arrested . In your experience as the number two most important Law Enforcement officer in the United States, but before you answer that, how about these cases . Kristin anderson in an interview said, quote, the person on my right who unbeknownst to me at the time was donald trump, put their hand up my skirt. He
improper pressure from trump appointees. the story he tells about the hush money case, though, is the story of sdny standing up to the corrupt improper pressure from trump s justice department appointees just enough to stop michael cohen s prosecution from being undone after the fact, but that was it. the investigation of anybody else involved in those crimes got kiboshed. and nobody else was ever charged. and then they walked away from it. and so we ve been left with this for like five years now. this is the equivalent of federal prosecutors like supposedly fearless g men cracking the case and busting open a whole gang of brain robbers then only prosecuting like the one guy that sold them the ski masks and letting all the rest of them go. then it got worse, because the new york times reporters william rashbaum and ben
another person with whom michael cohen committed this felony. so, no, they never charged that other person. theyha never charged trump even though they concluded and told the court he had committed the crime with cohen. never charged him, never tried to charge anyone else. at sdny if you read this at bottom level i mean berman s book is called holding the line for a reason. the story they tell the story he tells about the hush money case, though, is the story of sdny standing up to the corrupth improper pressure from trump s justice department appointees just enough to stop michael cohen s prosecution from being undone after the fact, but that was it. the investigation of anybody elsee involved in those crimes got kiboshed and nobody else was ever charged and then they walk away from it.
real evidence sufficient to change the election results. and on the evening of january 5th, they admitted they were still trying to find that phantom evidence. of course, as a result of making intentionally false claims of election fraud, mr. giuliani s license to practice law has been suspended. second, please recognize that president donald trump was in a unique position. better informed about the absence of widespread election fraud that almost any other american. president trump s own campaign experts told him that there was no evidence to support his claims. his own justice department appointees investigated the election fraud claims and told him, point blank, they were false. in mid december 2020, president trump s senior advisers told him, the time had come to concede the election. donald trump knew the courts had ruled against him.