had a few minutes with the report. andrew, let me get your first reactions to anything that has leapt out at you, if anything. recognizing that you ve only had a few minutes, i m gonna give you more time to read, this but this is just your first headline reaction to it. yeah no i see dan and i are doing the same thing. we are trying to do two things at the same time. this is a monumental, or as you said, it is over 800 pages and there are four appendices that look fascinating, addressing such minor issues as the preparation of law enforcement to meet the challenges of january 6th and whether there was foreign interference in the 2020 election there were these appendices, and they re trying to take the entire report. and then the table of contents is really, to me, attracts what i think is the genius of the january six committee. which is really focusing on all of the different ways that the former president tried to stay in office. as opposed to just thinking about january
people just touching the truth to protect themselves. it looks like people really were just not doing their job in response to what was clearly going to be a violent day. and it s not just me having skin back to the report but if there s anything that i think the senate needs to take up in terms of, there isn t going to be a house hearing on. this would be useful to have this senate take up exactly what happened here. was the politics. was a race, was a combination of the? too was a confidence? why weren t we prepared for what happened here. so that is my quick take on it. andrew please, you re free to continue reading this over 800 page report while daniel goldman gives us his first read of the report. daniel, what if you ve been finding? there are a couple of
will get a lot more testimony from many of these witnesses who try to assert privilege that probably was inapplicable here. and so, yes as bob points out, very well and concisely, it s a much harder barb there s admissible evidence, beyond a reasonable doubt, we don t see you now defenses in this report. so all of that is going to be there, but the department has much more powerful means of getting testimony including the testimony of the house republican who refused to comply with the subpoenas that they have received. barb mcquade, you ve been playing according to the rules which is looking down and reading while others are speaking. i hope you found something more for us! i did! you know, lawrence, chapter
seven is a very interesting chapter that title 100 a seven minutes of their election . this is something that on monday surprised me a little bit, but i think it s really a stroke of genius by the committee, and that is this: they referred to the justice department charges for inciting insurrection or insisting an insurrection. i have long thought that was a bridge too far because it would be based on donald trump s speech at the ellipse. because of the very high bar that the supreme court has set for political speech, i didn t think that was going to do it. this language was vague, he talked about peacefully but what the committee said is, it s a speech, but it s also the tweet that donald trump set at 2:24 p m when he said, mike pence didn t have the courage to do what was right. yes. united states demands the truth. the report has some detail about what led up to that moment. donald trump returns from the ellipse at 1:21 p.m., more than
they ve been able to do more reading as we continue our where brilliant legal team coverage of this over 800 page report, just released tonight, by the january six committee. minutes before this program began! andrew weizmann and daniel goldman, back with us! i want to say to both of you what i said to barbara, it s very important i ve never been more dependent on the guest on this program as i am tonight. and i ve never been more confidence in the guest on this program being able to do a better read of this report then i could. so, andrew weissmann, let me go back to you i have no idea how to direct specific questions to you about this because i haven t read a single page of it. i m going to rely on you to deliver what you found since you ve been reading during or while barbara was speaking. well, one thing to pick up on what barb has been saying, is that this is such a luminous