hello, this is a beat, special report. inside the effort to stage a coup with new evidence tonight, showing this is far broader than prosecutors first thought. we are breaking down the path to a criminal conspiracy ny experts now think the most serious charges may be yet to come. why are we doing this now? the house insurrection hearing show the nation that january 6th was more organized than many realized. the committee devoted to investigating that they has revealed truths about that day. yet, the house probe has also underscored something new to many, trump s plot to overthrow the election was far broader than one date or prepping a one- day crime spree. it was an illegal coup conspiracy starting before the election and lasting months. with criminal plots that had nothing to do with even january 6th and the illegal orders by trump that were resisted. we will show this to you tonight and begin with things that were part of looking perfectly legal, like challenging results
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but taken together, you have the evidence of this wider criminal conspiracy with criminal intent running across weeks, if not more, remember, in court prosecutors have to prove criminal intent in a moment. just that you meant to do it. this is weeks of that with lawyers warning these were crimes, especially after the legal doors closed in mid-december when the electoral college voted, everything after that when it comes to overturning votes and installing fraudulent electors is the illegal red zone where you see the evidence of several crimes and taken together, well, this evidence suggests the question is no longer whether there are any indictable election offenses here, but how prosecutors would explain a failure to indict and enforce the law and how that does risk letting the close call of this documented and attempted multipronged coup conspiracy turn into a training exercise that american democracy may not
election was far broader than one day or prepping or one-day crime spree. it was an illegal coup conspiracy starting before the election and lasting months. with criminal plots that had nothing to do with even january 6th and illegal orders that were resisted. we ll show how it began with things that are perfectly legal like filing lawsuits to challenge the results, but quickly morphed into something much broader, a conspiracy that involves crimes, the january 6th insurrection that we know about but a whole set of other criminal plots. this is vital to any potential set of indictments and we re going to get to all that tonight through the evidence to show you exactly what s new and what matters. now, if any of that sounds familiar, remember, that s not the theory the justice department used when it first opened this probe. it wasn t even the original view of congress hence the name, january 6th committee.
so was this just a riot that got out of control? was it ultimately a trump ploy that mike pence stopped? those are common explanations we have heard over time. they are wrong. the evidence available now enables us to report tonight something we could not go to air with, say, in january 2021. this was a full coup conspiracy. this evidence that we re going to go through tonight, it cuts to the heart of accountability for that coup conspiracy for its leader and its premeditated plotters and enablers, most of whom never did take a physical step into storming the capitol that day, which brings us back to the difference between an attack on one day, january 6th, and a wider coup attempt. more than 850 people have been indicted for the capitol violence with more than 320