we re going to get to all of it. but now i want to get to this investigation. i want to bring encnn s evan perez with more on these landmark charges from the doj today. and i think that s a good way of putting it, evan, landmark. and the level of detail in this 81-page indictment is stunning. is it clear now that the justice department is going after not just the rioters but the planners? yeah. that s, i think, one of the things you ve come away from this document, don, and you see that for all the criticism that you ve heard of the attorney general, you know, there s been a lot of work going on behind the scenes quietly to try to build as they usually do in these cases, to build from the ground up. and one of the things that strikes you when you read this is that, again, we focus a lot on what happened on january 6th. and this idea that we ve seen in all the other court cases that what this was about was about impeding and stopping the certification of the vote count
investigation. i want to bring in now cnn s evan perez with more on these landmark charges from the doj today. and i think that s a good way of putting it, evan, landmark. oh, yeah, definitely. and the level of detail in this 81-page indictment is stunning. is it clear now that the justice department is going after not just the rioters but the planners? yeah. that s, i think, one of the things you ve come away from this document, don, and you see that for all the criticism that you ve heard of the attorney general, you know, there s been a lot of work going on behind the scenes quietly to try to build as they usually do in these cases, to build from the ground up. and one of the things that strikes you when you read this is that, again, we focus a lot on what happened on january 6th. and this idea that we ve seen in all the other court cases that what this was about was about impeding and stopping the certification of the vote count that day.
make you believe that they were there and somewhere else. that just doesn t really make sense to me. i don t know how can be on a surveillance and lose the people that you re supposedly observing. based on the evidence laid out today how strong are the involuntarily manslaughter charges against the parents? overwhelming. the case for the public today is like none i have seen before. talk about parents who knew and should have known the danger that their child posed and contributed to it by getting him the firearm. these are sort of landmark charges. it is extraordinarily rare as we saw for anyone to be charged with this scenario so this is a notice to prosecutors, to parents, to all of us. you were the d.c. police chief, the commissioner in philadelphia. have you seen a case like this where parents are charged because their son allegedly did