again how he was told, clearly an unequivocally, not only by the justice department by his own campaign, that what he was saying about the election wasn t true. and that it was not the evidence of fraud, for example, with dominion voting systems. and later, the report makes very clear that the plan that he urged on mike pence, to simply ignore the results, he was told that violated the electoral count act. he knew that at the time. it s obviously very important from a legal point of view. if there s any criticism of this report, it s that it zooms in so tightly on trump and his circle and their culpability, that it sort of crops out of the picture those other republicans in the states and in congress. for example, when it s dealing with the fake electors, it really bends over backwards to argue that they were in effect duped, in many cases, by the trump campaign in the trump white house. obviously, their investigations going on in the states after
another day. the report says there s evidence that of a multi part plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election that evidence has led to an overriding and straightforward conclusion, the central cause of january 6th was one man, former president, donald trump. and many others followed. none of the events of january 6th would ve happened without him. it was surprising to read the number of moving parts this plan had, the amount of time and planning that went into it ll. in many ways, that is been the great contribution of this committee from the start. in the chaos and horror of that day, an immediate aftermath, there is a tendency to say, well, i think that would happen was a flash of frustration from the president an impulsive action with him pointing his supporters toward the capital. in fact, but the committee has made clear, it was the final step in a multi pronged, multi month effort to overturn the election.
what did we learn in the transcripts and what happened that there s a delay in the release of its final report? we re sort of doing the reducts of the waiting game again today on capitol hill. we expected that january 6th committee final report to come yesterday. now we think it s likely to come today. this is after a few different explanations that we have gotten from our sources whether it was a delay in the printing schedule of the report or the committee s desire to allow ukrainian president zelenskyy to sort of have the moment that he had during his dlaes to the joint meeting of congress yesterday. both of those things combined could lend to why we re expecting to see this report today as opposed to yesterday. nevertheless, we are still actively waiting for it to drop into our inboxes. but we did get something yesterday. 34 transcripts that can best be summed up as the i plead the fifth transcripts. all of the people ranging from john eastman, jeffrey clark, roger stone, all the
lower level players in the top the steal movement, as well as some white supremacists and other far right group leaders. you see some of the names there on the screen. all of these people throughout their testimonies pleading the fifth kiptly in the instant of roger stone, pleading the fifth to everything from where he resides to if he had a role in planning the violence on january 6th. but it does give us some insight into, a, what these meetings and depositions were actually like, getting to read the transcripts in full for the first time for all of us, but then also what we could also see once we get the transcripts that we re really looking for. people like tony ornato and others who we think will have a lot of news value in them once we re able to read through them in full. we got to see the relevant portions of some of these transcripts. the pieces that the committee thought fit their narrative, but now we re going to read them in
full. that s where the raw data will have the news value for us. and congresswoman, what are you going to be looking for in this report? i think the great value of this report is that this is kind of like the museum about what happened on january 6th. a lot of people focus on these criminal referrals that the committee made. we have seen some of the dramatic testimony from people who were very close to him, including some members of his own family. so i think the big value here in this report is going to be for history. not so much for the 2024 election, but what happened on the 6th of january what can we learn from it. this is like the 9/11 commission that took a deep dive into the traumatic event for the country. this is another traumatic event. we have to learn from it. that s going to be the value of this report. it s interesting.