to insurrection. determining what trump knew about the intelligence that suggested there was going to be violence on that day, what he had been briefed on before january 6th, what did he know when he made that bullying call to mike pence? did he know that it was the crowd that was going to come, try to actually physically, you know, capture mike pence and do something really terrible to him? what did he know about that? that is something the prosecutors have to investigate. they would certainly not bring a charge like that without really feeling competent in their evidence that s the kind of charge of course, anything involving the former president, any charges are going to be lambasted by his supporters as being part of a political witchunt, et cetera, et cetera. but this one, i think, is one that they want to be super scrupulous and button down if they re going to bring something like that. my guess is they focused on the others but they re not counting this
let me i m going to read you the statement. it s short. this is coming out just in the last couple of minutes here from former president trump. he says, and i m quoting, the political witchunt by the radical left democrats with new york now taking over the assignment tunz. it is dividing our country like never before. one mute imagine that if trump still had had access to a twitter account, this is what he would be firing off. instead, it goes to an e-mail list of reporters. this is not at all even a little bit surprising to hear from the former president. he has portrayed this investigation all along as part of what he loves to describe as this witchunt. pointing to cy vance and the new york attorney general as in his view, liberal democrats out to get him. this is all the signalling we got about this investigation. what the news would be would be if donald trump came out and didn t do. that and didn t have that reaction to what we are seeing today. so this is very expected from don