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
how this committee got their star witness to testify. because we learned that today. i m gonna go through that story for a few minutes, just a few minutes. while you re reading as much as you possibly can. andrew weissmann, we ll be back. with more about the ten it has been through. this committee report is, tonight. the single most important committee report in the history of house congressional committee reports. that is what we now have in our hands, tonight. that report would not be what it is, and would not have the import that it has without the testimony of the star witness to that committee. today, the january six committee released the transcript of the most
committee report in the history of house congressional committee reports. that is what we now have in our hands, tonight. that report would not be what it is, and would not have the import that it has without the testimony of the star witness to that committee. today, the january six committee released the transcript of the most important testimony. the committee has received. the most important ones. 26-year-old cassidy hutchinson. the committee is found not a shred of evidence to, it anyway, reduce what appears to be the solemn credibility of the committee start witness, cassidy hutchinson. and we learned in her full testimony released today, that the first lawyer who
coordinated and massive and sprawling scheme that i think is going to be really laid out in great detail. all right. both of you, please go back to it as i discuss with the audience how this committee got their star witness to testify. i m because we learned that today in a transcript released today. i ll go through that for a few minutes while you re reading as much as you can, andrew wise weissmann and dan will be back. this is the single most important committee report in the history of house congressional committee reports. that is what we now have in our hands tonight. and that report would not be what it is and would not have the import that it has without
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