congress. liz cheney sounds like she is pursuing what normally would look like a criminal investigation into all those contacts and communications and whether mark meadows was communicating with extremists and whatnot. and doj sounds like the beat cop just looking at the people that were carrying clubs and attacking the capitol. why does it look like that from the outside to me, dan goldman? well, there is does seem to be some inversion of roles here where the january 6th committee, you would expect to be focusing solely on january 6th but really they clearly are getting into the days and weeks before and leading up to january 6th and the department of justice, which should be looking at the whole picture, seems to be focused more on january 6th, and they are doing a fabulous job in getting to the bottom of what occurred and arresting numerous people who violated the law. but you are right that there does seem to be some disconnect as to what their specific roles are, and it is, i
oval office members of his staff were pleading with him to go on television to tell people to stop. we know leader mccarthy was pleading with him to to that. we know members of his family. we know his daughter we have first-hand testimony that his daughter ivanka want in at least twice to ask him to please stop this violence. that was january 6th select committee vice chair liz cheney a couple weeks ago telling abc news that the panel had evidence that ivanka trump the expresident s daughter, had begged her father to call off the attack on the capitol while it was happening. that allegation is among the many explosive details laid out in the january 6th select committee s letter released today to ivanka trump, all of us showing the public for the first time how much the committee already knows about what happened inside the west wing on january 6th and the run up to it. that s before the nation s highest court rejected the expresident s bid to cover up