harder or easier for merrick garland to turn up the heat on donald trump? i m not sure it ever gets any harder. i think indicting a former president on crimes surrounding a political elections is as tough as it gets, but andrew, as always, is being certain and very articulate about doj. let me put it more plainly, for some reason, in a way that the federal government usually doesn t operate, they ve allowed other investigations to get way ahead of him, and that was a choice they made. they allowed a house committee to get first shot at these witnesses, to get them in a deposition, but for the federal government had been down to a statement and if they were getting statements from them, we would know about it because they d all be lawyered up. so what were they thinking? did they think that just by
i wonder what you make of what they re willing to sacrifice in service of one republican, donald trump. i think the broader team at fox news is scared to acknowledge the truth for a couple reasons. we know if they suggest there s any truth in what the january 6th committee is presenting or any truth in what we saw with our own eyes on january 6th, not only do they have to assign responsibility, if the violence occurred, then somebody was responsible for it. we naturally say, okay, that was donald trump. i think it s bigger for the people over at fox news. it s not just that if they accept the truth, they have to assign responsibility. if they accept the truth, they have to accept the responsibility. it was the voices at fox news that provided the cover to trump and to the investigation of january 6th and to their own reporting. we know the legal machinations
they ve criticized him or said the january 6th committee hearings revealed damning things about his character and today trump lashed out at fox for pointing out on fox and friends that trump s numbers in the polls have been sagging. he went through the roof and attacked them and said they had gone to the dark side. something s going on there. there s a shifting in this narrative, a realization that he s vulnerable, the revelations we ve seen from the january 6th committee are just so beyond the pale that you have to acknowledge them and you have to acknowledge trump s role in helping incite this horrific event. so, i m not saying i think that, you know, the rug is about to be pulled out from under him, but it s interesting you re seeing
so to be clear according to jared kushner and cassidy hutchinson, sworn testimony, it was concerns about the president s cabinet finally after years of talking about it, doing something and invoking the 25th amendment to officially publicly, finally declare him unfit for office. that was what was behind the remarks. in case it wasn t clear that the white house realized by the evening of january 6th in failing to call off the mob, he galvanized, but what might be more materiel to investigators is this, trump s edits to the january 7th speed itself, watch. do you recognize what this is? it looks like a copy of a draft of the remarks for that day. okay. and as you can see from the document there are lines crossed out. there are some words added in.
mueller testimony took place. yeah. so i know that the president as far as special counsel has been somewhat mixed, but it s the least bad of all of the alternatives, in my opinion. if you pick the right person and they can keep it as free of politics as possible, that i think that will give the american people the most confident is ultimately aware to charge or not to charge. so you know liz cheney well. she started reading from the criminal code and i believe the law she read first was obstructing an official proceeding. she started framing the committee s work and the context of proving intent in a criminal act many, many months ago. you were still on the committee then. why do you think she did that? well, obviously, that s an important question everyone wants to know the answer to and ultimately the committee had to make a decision rather it was more likely than not and they did it in the context of a