incredibly important. on fifth amendment, they re going to have to make a decision on whether to grant immunity. and they may have to do that to get the information they want. we heard liz cheney refer twice to statutory verbage on crime. i think they re going to make a criminal referral to doj and do it before they get disbanded. they ve already done an extraordinary job. they ve reviewed tens of thousands of documents. they re going to tell a robust story point number two, in every investigation you get all that you want. some witnesses lie. there will be people who will not speak to the committee. there are people who will not speak to the fbi or justice
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department. that does not mean that the work of the committee is flawed or unimportant. chuck, you and i have had conversations in the hallway when we used to run into each other when i did a morning show. and i rely on you to give me things straight up and truthfully. how worried are you about the state of democracy in this country and the coming election in 2024 and the confidence that people have in both sides of the aisle? it s a really important question, yasmin. i m a rule of law person. so my bias is that other people see things the way i do and will behave the way i try to behave. i m optimistic, but what we saw on january 6 was horrifying. and i know there s a prospect that something like that or even worse will happen again. i may be completely wrong, but i remain an optimist frank, are we ready when it comes to law enforcement? are we ready when it comes to
i understand, if you look on social media, if you look on twitter and you look at public comments, everyone says, oh, this should be so easy. but this has to be something that if undertaken, could make it through the court system. because if not, a loss would be pretty disastrous. hey, luke, talk to me about this reporting that you and katie have out about the j6 committee looking at foreign adversaries and their involvement. right, so the january 6th committee has been beefing up its staff pretty consistently over the past several weeks. they re up to about 40 investigators and staffers right now. they re looking to add probably about five more to delve even deeper into undiscovered things that are in line already, into some of these hard-to-find chat rooms and social media sites that and connecting who
here, bringing in some of these witnesses and getting these privileges and other issues worked out so that if and when this committee has to disband at the time of the midterms, all of that is still evidence that the justice department could use to bring its own charges. so i think there are multiple ways that there could be investigations swirling all around right now. so if in fact this committee has to disband at the midterms, that doesn t mean necessarily that their work stops. the justice department at that point can pick it up and run with it if in fact they feel like that s what s warranted? absolutely. you know, it may very well be they re already doing that or they re already working in parallel, as frank as suggested. at the very least, if this committee were disbanded, they could share all these transcripts and things they ve put together in the case to the justice department for them to pick up the ball and carry it. frank, what about all the people who surrounded the