thank you for rolling here. i appreciate you coming on. this is afternoon on the show. ali vitale thank you for scrambling to the camera with the breaking news. that it for us. we will see you tomorrow. and deadline: white house will be picking up coverage of this in just a second. be picking up coverage of this hi there, everyone, it is 4:00 in new york, we come on the air with big breaking news a. few moments ago, the january 6th select committee requested information from house republican leader kevin mccarthy. in a letter to mccarthy committee chairman benny thompson rights, quote, we write to request your voluntary cooperation with our investigation on a range of critical topics including your conversations with president trump before, during, and after the violent january 6th attack. you have acknowledged speaking directly with the former president while the violence was underway on january 6th. the letter adds this, quote,
allegations. joining us, marco caputo, and katie fang. mark, tell me about your scoop. i think you summed it up well. it is a bad day for matt gaitsz. for a while a lot of his supporters and people in his orbit thought, look, this investigation is going nowhere because it basically stalled. one of the reasons it stalled is joel grooel greenberg is a problematic witness. the alleged victim in the case not as problematic, but she is currently an on line pornography worker. i don t know the right phrase is maybe porn star. it is questionable whether that could be brought up at trial if it goes to trial, if he does get indicted. nevertheless there could be problems some jurors could have with her as a witness as well. they want more evidence. enter gaetz s exgirlfriend. they were in an open or
bannon s sort of toxic stream the investigation. i don t know if that s even the opening act in terms of the diet, the media diet being fed to trump s base. epps is interesting. he was there. he did tell people to go into the capitol. he hasn t been arrested because it is not proven he witness so far to go in and commit violence. but tucker carlson and his lackey ted ruz projected this out to the entire trump base who probably believe these lies about the fbi. how do you catch it earlier in the cycle? you need to, because, you said earlier this was rapity respond. it wasn t really. it was rapid response to ted cruz elevating it to the senate. i am happy that the january 6th committee came forward. but this conspiracy has been purk percolating for weeks. it again in the dregs of the right wing ecosystem darren
investigation into some of these crimes. what is really important people may have forgotten because the investigation has been going on for so long a couple of critical time things. one, the fed s seized matt gaetz s cell phone in december of 2020. gaits and. 2020. gaits and. and there are no further delays in sentencing according to the federal judge. so everything seems to be tightening in terms of the news for matt gaetz. a grand jury is made up of 23 members. you only need 12 of them to find probable cause to indict. only 12. none of is witnesses going into this grand jury, they don t have lawyers going in with them and there s no defense attorney
fraudster and sex trafficker goal greenberg who you remember is the former florida tax collector and one-time close confidante of florida congressman matt gaetz. he has been cooperating in a federal investigation into the alleged activities of matt gaetz for a long time. now, after many months of silence in that case there is major breaking news today that could signal where the investigation is actually heading. gaetz s exgirlfriend, whose name is being withheld by nbc fuss. to protect her privacy gave testimony today to a federal grand jury after months of talks of an immupity deal for her. her testimony indicates gaetz is moving closer to being indicted with three crimes including sex trafficking. gaetz has they are been charged with any crime and denies all