young staffers that were outside were being brought in. people panicked, i mean, incredible fear. staff have now seen these insurrectionists walking the hashlgs have heard what they are saying. and so many of the staff that are now coming into the senate chamber are very frightened. many of them are crying. very soon after that, the head of the capitol police comes in and he says, lock the doors, lock the doors. he is screaming, lock the doors, lock the doors. we can hear the protesters outside, you know, it s only a matter of time before somebody is going to be able to get inside the chamber. my assumption is that at some point the president is going to tell them to leave or he is going to send out a communication calming the
interest, at least, in a negotiated resolution that might include cooperation. i think that s a key development. it means something is probably close to happening in that case. you spent a lot of your professional life as a prosecuter. as you watched this play out, does general flynn, as he made the moves of someone who is taking steps toward cooperating? certainly not that we ve seen publicly. the only step we ve seen along those lines is the one we saw recently. there s been a lot of speculation because of the seriousness of the potential schashlgs against him and his son that he has every reason to cooperate, but then at the same time you saw through the pardoning of joe arpaio, stick with me and i ll have your back. the arpaio case hadn t reached sentencing yet. this at least gives the appearance he may be cooperating. there s another wrinkle in the story. one of president trump s reported contacts over the
sunny hostin is a cnn legal analyst and linda kenney baden. discussion of these federal chashlgs have typically been applied to public pliies like the police officers in the rodney king case. can you walk us through this high bar? what would be needed? is this really credible? it is a high bar. i do, jake, think that it s a possibility. i think it s credible and we do know the justice department has a parallel investigation going on into this matter and they have had for some time, for about a year now. and that investigation, as the attorney general said, was still ongoing. what they would have to prove is under the matthew shepherd and james bird act, the hate crime act many people call it, it was passed in 2009. they would have to prove that george zimmerman s actions were racially motivated, that he willfully injured trayvon martin because of his race, that part of it was because of his race. i don t know. when you look at that and you