public and stop this. kevin mccarthy was not the only republican calling on donald trump to put an end to the violence on that day. in fact, we have learned that at least 11 other republican members of congress reach out to the white house, or at least made some kind of public statement that day to implore the president to do something. to do anything to stop the violence. in fact, his eldest son, don jr., texted then white house chief of staff, mark meadows saying, he s got to condemn this asap. the capitol police tweet is not enough. and he has to lead now. it is gone too far. it is gotten out of hand. three different fox news host, sean hannity, laura ingraham, john all of them texted meadows saying trump needed to make a statement telling people to leave. that is what we know is happening outside of the white house during the 187 minutes from trump s speech on the ellipse, urging supporters to fight like hell. and when he finally released a video telling the rioters quo
you probably won t hear him talk this way again. but, i want to play this for you. this was with the top house republican, kevin mccarthy said on live television back on january six, 2021, as the attack on the capital was unfolding in realtime. i ve spoken to the president. i asked him to talk to the nation, and don t stop this. i told him we need to talk to the nation. i told him what was happening right then. i was very clear with the president when i called him. this has to stop. he s gotta go to the american public and tell them to stop it. he has to go to the american public and stop this. kevin mccarthy was not the only republican calling on donald trump to put an end to the violence on that day. in fact, we have learned that at least 11 other republican members of congress reach out to the white house, or at least made some kind of public statement that day to implore the president to do something. to do anything to stop the violence. in fact, his eldest son, don j
go to the american public and tell them to stop this. he has to go to the american public and stop this.me kevin mccarthy was not the only republican callings on donald trump to put an end to the violence that day. we learned 11 other republicans congresswe reached out to the white house or made some kind of public statement that day to implore the president to do something, to do anything to stop the violence. in fact, his eldest son, don jr. texted then white house chief of staff mark meadows saying, he s got to condemn this asap. the capitol police tweet is not enough. and he has to lead now.as it has gone too far. and gotten out of hand. three different fox news hosts sean hannity, laura ingram, brian, all of them, all texted meadows saying trump needed to make a statement telling people to leave. that is what we know was happening outside of the white house during the 187mens from trump s speech on the ellipse urging supporters to fight like hell andel when he finally
classified documents and whether he or anyone else should be indicted for that. now, garland says he made this new move today because both trump and biden are now intending to or already running for president. and he tapped a veteran prosecutor to be the new mueller, to be special counsel. today, i signed an order appointing jack smith to serve as special counsel. the order authorizes him to continue the ongoing investigation into both of the matters. mr. smith is the right choice to complete these matters in an even-handed and urgent manner. that is the brief. that s the assignment. jack smith is a career prosecutor. he has a high reputation for integrity. he ran the doj division called the public integrity unit. he has experience with exactly the kind of special challenges that come in these cases. we hear so much about no one being above the law, and we ll discuss that later tonight, but
so i think it s really understandable that seeing a bar memo being carried over into this administration would raise alarm. but i don t have that level of concern around this memo. career prosecutors know that if you want to open any investigation of this nature, you ve already got to go through something called the public integrity unit, up in main justice in washington d.c., for prior permission and approval. and that s not just a check the box kind of approval. it s important for prosecutors and the folks in main justice to have a back and forth, to talk about the evidence, to make sure that allegations are really providing a strong basis for opening the case. so, what this memo does is, it s actually more protective of candidates and campaigns. there is no political bias in this memo. it simply adds to those already existing requirements. the requirement that the attorney general be in the loop and that he or she as well have the ability to look over the