or not this is going to be the avenue that they pursue, but if i were a prosecutor that s the first thing i would look at. as donald trump wakes up this morning he s waking up to a day where doj is looking at his conduct on january 6th. how might that affect his calculus, errol, on a declaration to run again? i think he s going to do it sooner rather than later. he will shift into a very different position and donald trump has always been very attentive to this kind of consideration. he s going to shift into an entirely different position, it will be much harder for the department of justice to talk about him without all of us having to tack on to every news story the probable nominee of the republican party is now being investigated. considered a target of a criminal probe. it becomes much more difficult. to just charge ahead and say we re talking to everybody to see what happened with this past event, now it s more forward-looking. now different sort of considerations start to en
report but there s of course much debate on which direction that will go and, brianna, of course, they will release that final report before november s midterm elections. and with what recommendations? we will certainly be waiting for those. sunlen serfaty live on the hill. thank you. ellie honing, it s unclear whether the committee is in half time, the third quarter maybe heading into overtime. where are they right now in terms of what they ve learned? a good time to catch our breath. we got remarkable revelations over the last six weeks or so. first of all, there was no election fraud. donald trump lost that election and he was told over and over again to his face by his own people, by republicans, conservatives, by his lawyers, his aides. to me the star witness we heard on this was bill barr who called trump s election fraud claims completely bogus, based on complete misinformation, crazy stuff and doing a great disservice to the country. another big revelation, this was
also know we are more than a year and a half out now. nobody can any proximity to donald trump or any real position of power has been charged with anything so there will be continuing pressure on merrick garland. let s remember down in georgia the fulton county district fani willis has said we re going to look at anything expected with interference with the 2020 election. her investigation does appear to be accelerating but keep in mind if there is a charge out of the fulton county da i think that s the most likely of the various investigations there are major constitutional, legal, political and practical obstacles to turning that indictment into a conviction. ellie honing, thank you very much for laying out where we are this monday morning. on that note we are just talking about georgia. this morning governor brian kemp will testify in the georgia investigation and trump s efforts to overturn the election there. where does the governor fit into this whole story? and pope franci
mccarthy, he was subpoenaed, he has gone awol, no consequences. you know who can subpoena kevin mccarthy and probably make him testify is prosecutors. ellie honing, thank you very much for that. joining us now to break all of this down is maggie haberman, cnn political analyst and senior political correspondent for the new york times. danielle goldman, former federal prosecutor and the house s lead impeachment counsel. and norm eisen. norm, the purpose that the committee wanted to get done last night was to establish that there was a dereliction of duty on trump s behalf. do you think they effectively did so? i do think they showed a dereliction of duty. it wasn t only the mountain of evidence that they poured in, contrasting the violence on the capitol and everyone in the white house wanting trump to do something, pence reaching out to the pentagon, others making efforts, trump totally failed.
family. you are going to hear that phrase dereliction of duty we expect quite a bit. tonight is also going to feature never before seen outtakes of this moment where former president donald trump reluctantly condemned what happened the day after the capitol attack. this video coming only after his efforts to overturn the election had failed and his staff members were warning him that members of his own cabinet were discussing invoking the 25th amendment to remove him from office. two white house aides sarah matthews and matthew pottinger who quit in the immediate aftermath of january 6th are both going to testify bubble blee in prime time. joining us now ellie honing. ellie, 187 minutes, this period from when donald trump told people to march to the capitol at the ellipse, between that moment and later on when he finally released the video. what do we know about that time? all focus on this crucial time frame.