that we have made our statement to the world, to the public and to the department of justice. that we are convinced that multiple criminal offenses took place by donald trump and john eastman, and potentially others. and we laid them out very clearly. delivered interference in the cunning of the federal government proceeding. that s the whole point of stop the steal, go in, break it, up and make it impossible for us to proceed. conspiracy to defraud the united states, exchanging the real, honest, authentic presidential election for a counterfeit election with fake electors, and violent force. the filing of these false statements with the government, with the archives, with the congress in the electors and the insurrection itself, assisting and aiding and abetting and giving aid and comfort to the insurrectionist, so of course we have to turn over the information that we
or end there for donald trump, as you probably see in the january six committee, voting yesterday, to make multiple criminal referrals of trump to the department of justice for his conduct leading up to and during the attack on the capitol. this is the first time that congress has done so for a former president of the united states in the entire history of this country. but that metaphorical passing but that metaphorical passing of the investigation from the january six committee into the hands of the special counsel, this man, jack smith, who sometimes has a beard. sometimes does not. became much more literal today. nbc news can now report that the january six committee is cooperating extensively with his office, this may not come as a surprise to you. but it is an interesting development. punchbowl news who first broke the story noted, starting last week they saw the documents and transcripts so the committees relation with the former chief of staff, mark meadows, and john eastman. t
department of justice is the only one that can actually prosecute donald trump, or john meet eastman, or others. so it shouldn t come as a surprise that you and the department of justice should be cooperating on this. so what is the news here? i don t know that there is much news other than the fact that we have made our statement to the world, to the public and to the department of justice. that we are convinced that multiple criminal offenses took place by donald trump and john eastman, and potentially others. and we laid them out very clearly. delivered interference in the cunning of the federal government proceeding. that s the whole point of stop the steal, go in, break it, up and make it impossible for us to proceed. conspiracy to defraud the united states, exchanging the real, honest, authentic presidential election for a counterfeit election with fake
the january six committee would ostensibly be making its report public before the department of justice could see the potential evidence for itself, those concerns should now be assuaged by this revelation. it goes without saying that none of this is good news for donald trump. congressman jamie raskin is a democrat from maryland, he s a member of the january six committee, he joins me now. thank you for joining us this evening. i have to ask you, in a normal world this would not seem surprising. you in this committee have been working on this for a long time. you ve spoken to more than 1000 people. you ve gathered tens of thousands of pages of evidence, text messages, and the department of justice is the only one that can actually prosecute donald trump, or john meet eastman, or others. so it shouldn t come as a surprise that you and the department of justice should be cooperating on this. so what is the news here? i don t know that there is much news other than the fact
but that metaphorical passing of the investigation from the january six committee into the hands of the special counsel, this man, jack smith, who sometimes has a beard. sometimes does not. became much more literal today. nbc news can now report that the january six committee is cooperating extensively with his office, this may not come as a surprise to you. but it is an interesting development. punchbowl news who first broke the story noted, starting last week they saw the documents and transcripts so the committees relation with the former chief of staff, mark meadows, and john eastman. the lawyer at the center of the fake electors scheme. they also evaded that the committee is not done cooperating,, quote the committee plans to chair other transcripts and documents with the in the coming days. and quote. now some legal observers had previously expressed some frustration with the fact that