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
in examiing trump s role as the architect of the fake electors plot? if you mean the delay by the justice department, no, i think it s incomprehensible to me that it s taken so long. ill know we ll talk about this soon, but like subpoenaing mark meadows, it s taken more than two years for the justice department to do that. and i understand there s a congressional investigation going on and the like and you don t want wires to be crossed, but we ve lost a lot of valuable time on something that s so central to our democracy and, you know, thank heavens for people like the secretary who, you know, bravely stood up and did the right thing. the secretary of state of georgia did the right thick when it really mattered. it s one of the interesting things about trump world is that people would just laugh off trump, he d be like, oh, yeah, he s denigrating muslims or blowing up climate, something like that, but nobody felt
which a lot of legal experts say is dubious to begin with, that all of these players enjoy the cloak of executive privilege and therefore don t have to testify. so, i think this is enormously important. will this particular subpoena be the catalyst for something big, i don t know. but clearly, things are moving in this direction. neal, what do you make of the latest reporting and the subpoena for mark meadows? well, nicolle, i m glad you started with this point about delay. delay is what trump and his minions always do, because that really does raise the question, why did it take merrick garland so long to do this? i mean, this is a criminal investigation, as glenn says, in which mark meadows is a central character. he s literally in the room where it happens. and you can t in this investigation go straight to the ultimate potential defendant, donald trump, you know he s not going to tell the truth, he s going to on his kate, he s going
crimes were committed, and, you know, we just in the last few minutes, nicolle, had a really great illustration of this once again, because trump went on his social media site, trump social, and he just, said, quote, thank you to the special grand jury in the great state of georgia for your patriotism. total exoneration. usa is very proud of you. now, you and i, we just read that report total exoneration is nowhere in that document, no heavens no. and, you know, trump s going to probably live to eat his words, but this is the kind of spin, the shamelessness about lying, lying to the public, and then, having the gall to be too afraid to testify under oath. it s this two-step that they re engaged in. neal, the vice president is represented by a very able attorney, former white house counsel emmitt flood and a high little regarded conservative lawyer represents mark meadows.