capitol since the war of 1812. meanwhile, the committee is debating whether or not to rerve the former president trump to the justice department for criminal prosecution. last hour we spoke with a member of the committee, congressman adam kinzinger who seemed open to that idea. i can t do the doj s job. as a nonlawyer, there is all kinds of threshold questions. but my belief is this. we never want to get to a position in a country where we prosecute last administrations because that is what failed republicans, failed democracies do. but if a failed coup and an obvious coup attempt and a president that didn t just choose not to act, but willfully watched to see where the mob would go for three hours on january 6, if he is not held accountable through law, i actually fear that that is a far worse president far worse precedent, to make the determination, if they can and should indictment. if we just wash this under the rug and say for the sake of the country, let s put thi
And moving forward are looking for that alternative that will fight for them and not for their past grievances. their concern for those voters is whether what will work in the primary will work in the general election. one thing that is starting isn t just trump s resilience, it is a resilience with so many republican lawmakers. especially on capitol hill whose lives he put at risk by sending his supporters to the capitol on january 6th. they re sticking with him. a lot of house republicans are sticking with him. i say more house republicans than senate republicans. even so, you don t hear a lot of senate republicans out there hammering the former president or encouraging other candidates to really break from him. and part of why voters view these indictments as a weaponization of the government is because the former president continually attacks the justice system that way but also the other candidates. you ve seen ron desantis, tim scott and others question what
Special counsel jack smith will meet here in washington today to continue its work on the probe into trump s efforts to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 election. while it is possible the jury votes today on whether to indict the former president, the panel also tends to meet on thursdays, meaning that day could also be a possibility. tuesday, thursday, those are the scheduled meetings this week. as he awaits possible new charges, trump continues to fund raise off of his legal problems. in a campaign e-mail sent out last night the 2024 candidate proclaimed himself an innocent man adding, quote, our country could truly use your support right now. and in another he compared the united states under president biden to stalinist russia or maoest china. nowhere in those e-mails does it say you ll be directly donating
Consistently repeated the same testimony since the first time he was approached. he has a set of notes. he is reliable. this is not a hostile witness. this is someone who s eager to tell the story of what he observed because he was as shocked and appalled by these events as anyone. and the full context here that you ve played in that opening clip lets us know how important this testimony is. this isn t just trump saying, okay, create a fake investigation and i ll take it from there, this is trump being told doj will not change the outcome of the election for you, and trump in essence says don t worry, i ve got this, just set me up. it is important critical evidence for doj and the special counsel s office to put forward as it prepares what certainly looks like an indictment for the former president. to your point on time line, we know the clock starts ticking when that target letter went to the former president which was
To trump s 2020 campaign, because as the washington post reports more than half the money he raised in the second quarter this year went towards fitting his legal bills and not the campaign itself. so special counsel jack smith s office now has thousands of pages of documents from an ally rudy giuliani who failed to find evidence of voter fraud after the 2020 election. an attorney for former new york city police commissioner bernie karik handed over that information on sunday. in a post on social media he wrote he d been subpoenaed several months ago and his lawyer recently received waivers from donald trump s team to receive those documents. he confirmed turning over the documents adding he looks forward to sitting down with them in about two weeks to discuss. we will have much, much more about this likely indictment of