white collar crime defense attorney. thank you all for being with us to help us navigate where we are right now. after all the testimony yesterday, norm, what does the doj do? well, ana, i think the doj will continue its investigation. we know that there are multiple grand juries looking at these events and particularly at one of the mane issues from prior areas. the trial electoral certificates, it s not only question about doj, state prosecutors, including the day. in atlanta are looking at some of this same evidence, so we re going to see continued acceleration on the federal and state front and now trump s involvement in the violence of january 6th coming under scrutiny. sure, i had a former prosecutor tell me before yesterday s testimony, he was in the camp of doj is not going to
not necessarily lay the groundwork for a prosecution of donald trump, although i don t think she would mind that, she wants to make create a situation where it is impossible, inconceivable that he would ever be a major party nominee for president again and certainly never be president again. yeah. jackie, that is evidenced in the tightness of these hearings and the presentation of evidence. one of the things that was shaken loose either coincidentally or through the process that was under way at the same time that the public hearings started was the committee gaining possession of footage from the documentary filmmaker. i want to show you what adam schiff had to say about alex holder s testimony yesterday. it s hard for me to characterize because we have information from other sources that the public hasn t seen yet, but it certainly adds to the
and get your coolest sleep this summer. learn more at tempurpedic.com. turning back to our top story, and the hours of testimony thursday depicting a country on the verge of a full blown constitutional crisis although we didn t know it yet. three trump appointees revealing moments of chaos at a dramatic showdown at the white house weeks before the u.s. capitol. we heard in testimony yesterday that trump pushed the justice department to seize voting machines and he had the then secretary of defense investigate a conspiracy theory that italian satellites had been used to flip votes from trump to biden which of course did not happen. and then there were revelations that multiple members of congress sought preemptive
katty kay. pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post gene robinson. and former official chuck rosenberg. we ll say it again, every piece of testimony we heard this morning and again yesterday, reveals how close a call it really was for mike pence, as you had rioters within feet of where he was hiding in a severe location, refusing to leave the building, waiting for this to pass so he could go back into the chamber and certify the 2020 presidential election. katty, let s be clear, the president of the united states knew the vice president of the united states life was in danger. the president of the united states at that point then decided to tweet, attacking mike pence, to put the vice president of the united states and his family in even more danger. we heard from testimony yesterday, the only thing that was separating mike pence from
430,000 votes disappeared from president trump s tally. you can t stand there and tell me that it worked. i don t want to say that what we re doing is right. but if the election is being stolen, what is it going to take? those are the words of trump supporters on january 6th. we heard about the dominion voting machines, italian satellites. we heard about cyber ninjas. all of which, if you watched the testimony yesterday, attorney general barr and others said, i ll paraphrase, were complete b.s. people believed the b.s. the people who stormed and sacked the capitol on january 6th, 2021, did so because they believed the b.s. being put out, principally by president trump, others around him, team rudy.