hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. before the january 6th select committee ever got off the ground, before it existed, and well before the first signs ever emerged that the justice department was investigating the trump part of the trump coup plot, before even donald trump s second impeachment trial wrapped up. one local prosecutor in georgia decided she would take on donald trump and the unprecedented assault on our democracy in the wake of the 2020 election and she launched a criminal probe into the conduct of the ex-president and his allies in her state. today, about two years and one week to the day that that investigation was launched, we finally got our first real glimpse into her work. the work of fulton county district attorney fannie willis. portions of her report compiled by a special grand jury were released this morning. the report gives us a sense of the depth of her investigation. 75 witnesses, a mountain of documents and data. along with testimony from
Were going to start with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Cuban missile crisis was 1962. It took place over 13 very, very stressful days in october 1962. The United States at that point had long been flying High Altitude surveillance flights over the nation of cuba, but on october 14th, 1962 a u2 surveillance flight picked up imagery in cuba of something that started that whole crisis, started that whole standoff. Its interesting. The Cuban Missile Crisis is very precisely identified in all the history books as having started on october 16th. Two days after that u2 spy plane captured those images in cuba. But the crisis didnt start on october 16th because something happened that day, because there was some overt act by cuba, there was some provocation there or some announcement by them, it didnt start because on october 16th there was some act by the
soviet union or some announcement by the soviets that kicked off this crisis. The reason we can be so specific about when the Cuban Missile Cris
fire his food taster. everything knows putin. this is how putin views traitors and he will not stop. just because prigozhin had a couple months to walk around and recruit troops to go to africa, there was always this sword over his head. and putin attempted to kill a former kbg agent who turned himself over to british authorities. he tried to kill him with nerve agent and he successfully killed another opponent. there is no worse crime to putin to be one of his guys and then betray him. julia, i wonder what you make of the various developments that we have seen here recently, the general getting the boot,
my suggestion to jack smith and the justice department is go lean on the manhattan district attorney and get him to move his trial until after the election. this trial should take precedence. we ll find out whether alvin brag is a real prosecutor or a political hack. so there is obviously a historic aspect to what we saw today. a president of the united states kbg arrested sand arraigned in federal courthouse. looking at it through that lens, from 30,000 feet, what was your take in what what did you experience while watching? i m sorry, you were a little bit broken up there, but i think it is important to understand, although it is unprecedented to indict a president, we have had similar kinds of events in american history. thomas jefferson in his second term personally ordered the arrest and prosecution of aaron