of the big lie. at some point where does the justice department get involved in this? they ve been involved in the charges against protesters. they ve been involved in the criminal reference of steve bannon who refused to show up for this meeting. there are some people who want to hear from the attorney general himself on where the justice department stands against donald trump and his cronies and the events of january 6th. there has been some frustration that doj has not played a role. the fact that they charged steve bannon was fairly remarkable. look, they ve made clear that the charges against those who entered the capitol, the investigation of that, is the biggest in history of the justice department, the most complicated ever. even some of the judges are saying, well, you re focusing on the foot soldiers, you re not focusing on the generals or the people who orchestrated, ginned
controversy some ginned up, but some questions raised about some of them. i want to get you on the record addressing some of them. there was an email sent to you from an executive at ecohealth alliance and this is one of the companies that funded some of the research at the wuhan lab. this email thanked you for basically saying you believed that the origins of the coronavirus were natural. this email said i wanted to say a personal thank you on behalf of our staff for publicly standing up and stating the scientific evidence supports a natural origin for covid-19 from human spillover, not a lab release from the wuhan institute of virology. that email was april 18th. now there are some of your critics who say this shows you have too cozy of a relationship with the people behind the wuhan lab research. what do you say to that? that s nonsense. i don t even see how they get that from that email. that email was sent to me from them. i have always said, and will say today to you, john, tha
media. and here s where domestic terrorism is really hard under our constitution to be able to combat. because of free speech, it s really hard to go and force these companies and be able to sniff out the individuals who are gathering on social media before they had nowhere else to gather. now they can do it en masse, they can do it at scale. they can find lots of people with like-minded crazy ideas to get them even more ginned up. it s very hard jim, what you re describing yeah, what you re describing is what isis was when it was expanding in 2013 and 2014 and the government ignored it, called it a regional threat. it wasn t until the government focused on stamping out isis they were able to do that starting really in earnest in 2015, 2016. so a lot of americans are asking why can t we do the same thing
that kind of language but that s not the kind of clarion call clarity that i think people were hoping for from this hearing. and i m struck, brian, that this is really the third time democrats have fallen into this trap of regarding mueller as sort of a messiah figure who was going to provide some sort of unifying, overarching indictment of, you know, numerous people across the trump campaign and the trump white house for their actions in the 2016 campaign. that didn t happen. then the report came out and it didn t really have the coup de grace against the president that would inexorably lead to impeachment. a lot of damaging information but no direct accusations of a crime. and then this hearing was sort of ginned up by the house members, the democratic house members, who thought, well, this will be it. we ll be able to get mueller on the record here and that will really cause many people in the american public to get the message and, again, a bit of a letdown today. so i think there
a little bit. we also heard a monosyllabic answer to a question that was put to him and later he came around to it again and said something like the president was not exculpated which people like me who spend a lot of time in courtrooms are used to hearing that kind of language but that s not the kind of clarion call clarity that i think people were hoping for from this hearing. and i m struck, brian, that this is really the third time democrats have fallen into this trap of regarding mueller as sort of a messiah figure who was going to provide some sort of unifying, overarching indictment of, you know, numerous people across the trump campaign and the trump white house for their actions in the 2016 campaign. that didn t happen. then the report came out and it didn t really have the coup de grace against the president that would inexorably lead to impeachment. a lot of damaging information but no direct accusations of a crime. and then this hearing was sort of ginned up by the house