it does clarify the president s role as purely ceremonial, making it clear a vice president has no power to single handedly reject a state s electors. it would also require 20% of each chamber to call for a challenge of a state s electors, more than the single member of both the house and senate that requires it now. the report also recommends the day congress certifies a presidential election, january 6th be made a national special security event. this would require greater planning, coordination and security for future of january 6th events at the capitol, and rev, how absolutely face nating. this day, january 6th, a day that 99% of americans couldn t name is the day that the electoral votes are certified. but now it s a day that s obviously like september 11th for terrorist attacks when it
editor amanda terkel. thank you for getting up way too early with us on this friday morning. happy holidays to all of you. safe travels. i would like to begin by addressing the heinous attack yesterday. to those who broke the law, you will pay. you do not represent our movement. you do not represent our country. and if you broke the law, i can t say that. i already said you will pay. the demonstrators who ill filtrated the capital, has defied the seat i can t see it very well. i ll do this. this election is now over. congress has certified the results. i don t want to say the election
the fact that it was his people that did it, first of all, and secondly that the election was over. and you know what, you can trace from that point forward his continued legal troubles that may, in the end, put him in jail. what i found in this report is the clarity that we want from investigations. so often committees come out with documents that are just a mishmash. this one is clear, well stated and makes evident that there is one person to blame for what happened on january 6th, the person who encouraged, in a sense, organized the activity on the capitol that became the insurrection. and that s president trump. the evidence of trump s knowledge that he had lost the election, going to go forward despite that that s in this report is devastating. and i found most emphatic the
witness interviews and hundreds of thousands of pages of text messages, e-mails and other documents. chapter 1 is titled the big lie, a reference to donald trump s widespread effort to push false claims about the 2020 election being stolen. that chapter notes that donald trump made efforts even before election day to delegitimatize the election process by just repeating over and over again that the election would be marred by ballot fraud. i had been telling you about chris christie who was told in the spring and summer of 2020 that trump was already trying that out. chapter 2 is titled, i just want to find 11,780 votes, focuses on trump s attempt to pressure local and state officials to overturn the 2020 election results. and the next few chapters outline how trump and his allies planned to get a slate of fake
burden of proof it has, remains to be seen. charles, there s so much here, as chuck was talking about. he s still going through the report. i am shocked, though, that so many people went in on this. and in one appendix, you know, the political fundraising, everyone who was working on trump s fundraising knew the elections had been called for biden. there are admissions that they knew that the election was not rigged, yet they still proceeded to raise $250 million. how is that not fraud? it is. i want to say before i even get to that, it s important that everyone understands, even as explosive as this report from the committee is, january 6th still remains the slow cooking pot roast to the mar-a-lago case, which is the pan seared salmon, if you will, for jack smith. that s still going to be, despite everything we re reading, the most straightforward route the doj has to a prosecution of donald