later go on to take their own lives. while the january 6 committee continues their investigation and courts hand sentences to individual members of trump s mob, there are growing fears that the people at the top, the people who fed the rioters steady lies, and whipped into a frenzy may escape accountability. as the quote, an unpunished clause is former attorney general in washington, counter intelligence for the fbi and msnbc security analyst, and chuck rosenburg, senior attorney, fbi official. let me read you a part of the president s statement, all the democrats want to do is put
talking about the thinking behind the scenes there. what do you make of this? do you believe justice department should be launching investigation into the former president and is there possibility it s already going on and we don t know about it. i think there s definitely for prosecuting president trump, we heard michael sherwin active attorney in the district of columbia back on the aftermath of january 6 saying they would investigate everybody who had anything to do with this to the highest levels to include sedition and insurrection and other crimes so it could be the 600 cases we re seeing are just the lower level cases that will build to the higher level, so it s possible that it s already occurring through that avenue. grand jury investigations are, by definition, secret, so it could very well be that there are other investigations occurring that we don t know about. there s a third possibility, and that is that the justice
find the votes that he thinks belongs to him would not be evidence of a crime, it would be evidence of delusion, that s precisely why you do investigations, in order to establish the hardest thing in these criminal cases, intent. what did the president know to use and borrow an old phrase and when did he know it? so the reason these investigations take time is that there s an easy part and a hard part. the easy part is having the phonecall. the hard part is proving, demonstrating what it is the president actually knew, what he actually intended. could you have a crime in georgia? absolutely. do you have a conclusive crime? do you have conclusive proof with that phone call? no, not yet. barbara, let s talk about a possible investigation at the doj into the former president, i touched on this a little bit with times reporter katie benner a little bit, justice department reporter for new york times, and
the man who received the longest sentence yet for the attack on january 6, what s at stake for trump allies and could the president ever face legal charges? we ll ask our legal panel, next. we re televising the breach. the capitol is a free place to go, you can go through the capitol, but you got to go through metal detectors and security, and when you breach that you haven t gone through security and you got to imagine that that is making a lot of the capitol police and other folks inside the capitol right now very, very uncomfortable, and very nervous. droplets. .swipe on in seconds. better. faster. 100% whiter teeth. shop crestwhitesmile.com. this flag isn t backwards. it s facing this way because it s moving forward. just like the men and women who wear it on their uniforms
three generals come forward in a piece published by washington post warning of, quote, lethal chaos inside our military with the next u.s. election. with that, let s get started. we ve been tracking major developments this week in regard to the january 6 capitol, on monday, text messages sent to and from trump s former chief of staff mark meadows in the lead up and day of the attack. even trump s own son, don jr., they were begging meadows to do everything in his power to get trump to call off his mob. fox s laura ingraham writing to mark meadows this, the president needs to tell the people in the capitol to go home, he is sdroig us and his legacy. refusal of mark meadow to answer