strongest option available to you as a prosecutor? is it sedition? is it conspiracy? is it incitement of to violence? is it the hatch act? is it none of the above? i would look at all of them. i would not narrow my focus to january 6th. and i think that the reporting from reuters really does that. it says there is scant evidence that trump or the white house officials coordinated with the people who were arrested on january 6th. but january 6th was just a culmination of a much longer effort that we are now learning more and more about from donald trump at the helm of it through mark meadows and others to overturn this election. and so the fact that donald trump was threatening to fire jeffrey rosen, the doj, because he was not doing enough to call out the corrupt, quote/unquote, election in georgia, and the fact that he was trying to get
are putting out our report. it s not a substitute for a 9/11-style commission about january 6, but it has very pointed recommendations and changes that need to be made. the capitol police board, changes that we have to make legally so that it never happens again. there were two very long public hearings on this where democrats and republicans got a chance to ask questions, and we also questioned witnesses in the last few months. i will be coming out with that but it is no substitute for a 9/11 style commission. finally, i spoke to your democratic colleague in the house about these comments by lieutenant general michael flynn, the former national security adviser, retired three-star general. she called it sedition. do you think it is? i can see why she did. he basically is advocating a military coup. he said oh, that could happen here. i would note the man from
these comments by michael flynn, retired three-star general. she called it sedition. do you think it is? he basically is advocating a military coup. oh, that could happen here. i would note the man from mar-a-lago has basically pardoned general flynn and gave him a pardon. now you have him engaged in an endless insurrection, continuing to question our democracy. to question the pillars of our democracy and all of the questions that we talked about today, anderson. the failure to do a 9/11-style commission on january 6th. the failure to be willing to do something always bipartisan, reforms to the elections to make them work better.
have the first amendment. like you can say stuff even if you say stupid stuff and even if you say stupid stuff and don t put your name on it. you are still allowed to say it and the newspaper is aloud to print it. if he is concerned that there is a national security component here and i think that the u.s. secret service looking into it would be better because. juan: what national security issue? dana: he is saying because, well, this is not my my logic. the national security concern is that he is the duly elected president of the united states. he has national security issues that he wants to put forward. and have you somebody who is saying that, no, they are disrupting that and getting in the way of him being able to carry out his plans and decisions for the united states of america. jesse: if that was happening under barack obama you would call it sedition, juan. juan: no. look, first of all, it never happened under president bush. never happened under i can t think of a p