biggest maybe truisms he s eve spoken thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home fo being here it came as a shock, near the end of the january six committee s sixth hearing last summer when vice chair, liz cheney, dropped a bombshell. the prospect of witnes tampering in the investigation first, here is how on witness described phone call from people interested in that witnesses testimony. quote, what they said to me is as long as i continue to be team player that they know i m on the right team. i m doing the right thing, i m protecting who i need to protect. you know all continue to sta in good graces, in trump world as long as i continue to be a team player. while the news of potentia witness tampering by trump world was shocking, it wasn the last week hear about it. in december, the committee released transcripts o closed-door depositions with witnesses. through those depositions we found out that former whit house aide, mark meadows, an star january six com
of tomorrow. chris, the question o accountability in our american democracy seems increasingly vaporous it certainly. doesn t it has for a long time it s partly why trump exists but why would, is anyone gonna get him question the fifth avenue school o accountability, it s one of th biggest maybe truisms he s eve spoken thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home fo being here it came as a shock, near the end of the january six committee s sixth hearing last summer when vice chair, liz cheney, dropped a bombshell. the prospect of witnes tampering in the investigation first, here is how on witness described phone call from people inte witnesses testimony. quote, what they said to me is as long as i continue to be team player that they know i m on the right team. i m doing the right thing, i m protecting who i need to protect. you know all continue to sta in good graces, in trump world as long as i continue to be a team player. while the news of potentia witness
even if he doesn t want to cal those people as witnesses, ultimately, a it may be useful to lock them into the stor now. , so they can t be used as defense witnesses an neutralize the story by lockin them in now, what you don want to happen is to charg donald trump now, the case goe to trial, you think you have a solid case and then there is a dramatic moment where th courtroom door burris open, an some butler who worked a mar-a-lago comes in and says i m the one who stash th documents somewhere. i forgot to mention at all this time by interviewing everybody that had access to that, place you might learn something ne but it seems to be more likely that you re just walking i people to avoid having the become defense witnesses dow the road it s fascinating. it s effectively, each - insurance policy,? write the feds, the doj ar saying we re gonna neutraliz you as a defense meant b calling all of you in, maybe trying to do their own form of insurance by having counsel, they re paid for
it s effectively, each - insurance policy,? write the feds, the doj ar saying we re gonna neutraliz you as a defense meant b calling all of you in, maybe trying to do their own form of insurance by having counsel, they re paid for council are present these witnesses. is that s what s happening here? i don t want to make an accusations about what the trump lawyers may or may not b doing, as danya, said there is an ethical duty by a lawyer to represent a client in thei best interest. and if they believe that there is some conflict they re supposed to get themselves out of that situation. , so a client can have zealous representation,. i don t know if it s going, on all we heard from cassid hutchinson about her representation does sugges that it might be part of the memo that donald trump engages in but as a prosecutor you just want to buttoned down anything where there might be a littl escape valve so there s no way out once you bring your case surely, and who knows wha those lawyers