individual s names in this report. the bar associations across the country, local bar associations have to step up. local prosecutors have to step up the accountability piece is the piece here, and that is what folks will be looking for. we certainly will, symone thank you. if you are just joining us right now i m stephanie ruhle. it is midnight on the east coast and i am on the west coast, we are continuing our breaking news coverage of the release of the january 6th committee s final report on the siege of the capital and donald trump s effort to change the results of the 2020 election. it was made public just over an hour ago, it totals 845 pages. what is the first passage all about? the big lie. with that, let s get smarter with a lead off panel, former you new york prosecutor in civil rights attorney charles coleman. pulitzer prize-winning reporter for an joyce vance, who spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor and symone sanders-townsend still with us along with stua
that we have already seen to this. we cannot compare watergate, just this really was the beginning and the plot for what would ve been a civil war, a small version on january 6th. and that is laid out even in the first few pages of this document. from a legal standpoint, from a principled standpoint, it absolutely has to be taken seriously. it is not just an indictment on democracy, sorry an indictment on the republican party, it is as clear statement on how these people will go to any and many lengths to literally dismantle american democracy. and that is no laughing matter. katie, in 845-page report that is now sitting in the lap of the department of justice. jack smith, a report like this isn t like a pot potato that they now have to deal with or do they just get a winning lotto ticket? there are all sorts of details in this thing. i think based on in the summer over the election in the fall and now more recently the subpoena sent out to the fake electors plot i don
trammell crow, who s the one who sort of sfounded the family fortune and kind of co-owned this company with crow. and they were taking tax deductions over this time period, a total of $8 million between the two of them. and to do that you have to be operating like a for-profit business. you don t get to deduct like your hobbies or any sort of personal expenses. so there s a standard for that, and that is that you re actually trying to make a profit with your business. but when my colleague spoke to staff who d been on this yacht, sometimes for decades, they were not aware they were on a vessel that was being leased. they couldn t recall that ever happening. and we had other information, other documents that showed them really struggling to show that they were in fact leasing the yacht. and after we started this reporting crow s lawyer in a letter to the senate finance committee said, well, what happened with the yacht is crow
of. that hold on. they re yelling at me to go to break, but i can t, because harry explained to me law enforcement sensitive. why can t the american people be okay with that? we are the taxpayers, we are the ones who should deeply understand what our law enforcement does and does not do. why is there insensitivity to protect them if it is about their failures? you are right. i don t think there is. i think they re going to release it all. the idea might be that if you are somehow revealing compromising investigations, et cetera. i do not think that will happen. i think they re kind of teasing us and choreographing it. i want to see ornado, caitlin mcenany, and ivanka trump, this three people that said were less than candid. but i think they are just feeding it to us in a way to keep us just a little bit hungry. they couldn t recall. ryan riley, scott wang, we are only letting you go because you absolutely have to go to sleep because tomorrow you are going to have a full day of
why is there sensitivity to protect them if it is about their failures? you are right. i don t think there is. i think they re going to release it all. the idea might be that if you are somehow revealing compromising investigations, et cetera. i do not think that will happen. i think they re kind of teasing us and choreographing it. i want to see ornado, caitlin mcenany, and ivanka trump, this three people that said were less than candid. but i think they are just feeding it to us in a way to keep us just a little bit hungry. they couldn t recall. ryan riley, scott wang, we are only letting you go because you absolutely have to go to sleep because tomorrow you are going to have a full day of reporting. harry lippman, no such luck for you. you are sticking around. more of our coverage of the january six report after this break. (woman) oh. oh! hi there. you re jonathan, right? the 995 plan! yes, from colonial penn. your 995 plan fits my budget just right.