the january six committee releasing more than 100 interview transcripts. but trying to get as many as possible before tuesday when republicans take over in the house. every day brings new revelations, so what will the department of justice do with it all. let s talk about what we have learned with former congressman charlie dent, also cnn senior political analyst ron brownstein, molly john fast and former federal prosecutor sham wu. great to see you all, let s look at a couple other things that have been revealed today by the committee and one i think particularly interesting one is don junior, and the text that don junior responding to mark meadows. i want to juxtapose what he sent the day after the election and after his father lost the election, and then what he sent on january six because i think there is an arc between these two. the first one that he sends that he claims is not his writing, and it does not sound like his voice, frankly, and he
Attorneys, they believe some of this evidence could help them and they argue it could help they are client, particularly to undermine the arguments that any of this was premeditated. so now all of this evident will be in the public sphere over the next few days and it is interesting to see how this plays out. that is a good point. great to see you, paula. joining me now for all of this is gloria borger and senior law enforcement analyst former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe and former federal prosecutor sham wu. on this meeting happening today that warren fox was just talking about which will decide whether donald trump s tax information will ever be disclosed, shan, what could people learn from the years of tax returns? they could probably learn a great deal about just the public facade he presents versus what the actual state of his finances were. i mean, the real connect the dots part of this is looking at way he was attributing income. he has hundreds of these llcs
Has not actually invoked executive privilege. it s kind of silly that he s making that point. moreover, the general idea that you must go to the courts first is simply missing from the constitution. the constitution doesn t say before you can impeach you have to have the judiciary clear or anything. it s solely within the house s power to bring the impeachment, and it s solely the duty of the senate to try the case, and they don t want to do that. and what would this trial look like without witnesses? without witnesses, it looks something like a mishmash between a motion to dismiss a case where there s no witnesses or evidence, it s just arguments, that the legal elements haven t been made or kind of like a court of appeals situation where you already have the record, in this case, the house report, and the lawyers would just be making verbal arguments based on that record. so it would look something like that, but it would not look anything like a trial, fred. sham wu, great to
Week on capitol hill. former deputy of national security adviser charles kupperman is expected to testify on monday. alexander vindman is expected to testify on tuesday and then kathryn wheelbarger. and then timothy morrison is expected to testify. now let s bring in federal prosecut prosecutor sham wu. let me start with you. how significant sit especially
For democrats going forward. i think it s significant. it s really just a sign to the gop all they can do is delay. there s no substantive defense, merit, nothing to be gained by trying to attack the process. i think it s something, too, that the judge is releasing the mueller investigation because unlike the nixon and whitewater impeachment investigations, these don t have the benefit of a special prosecutor tied to this topic. mueller tangentially has information that may be relevant. it s important it s being released now. one of the reasons they had to proceed in private is they don t have the benefit of a special counsel having done closed private investigations leading up to this. given the fact, shan, that it s going to that, is it of benefit going to the impeachment inquiry? i would say generally what could be seen as part of the