congress, we thought we had a responsibility to do this. one is quick question for you, congressman schiff. is a bit of shellfish one. this is an introduction to the report, this is about an inch and a half. it is 154 pages. if this is the introduction, and we are thinking back here on wednesday night, after you do this on wednesday. about how tall should you expect that stack of paper to be on wednesday when that report comes out? how big is this thing going to be? i some good news and some bad news along those lines. the good news is, the executive summary is disproportionately longer than the report. one of our members was jacking, it s a summary. so i wouldn t be but it is long. there is a lot of material there and really that report is only the beginning because we will be rolling out the transcripts, the text messages, the documents over the days that follow. it will be a lot for you to go through. bring it on, this is why we
people haven t read the report, witness tampering doesn t even appear to be settled. there is a financial incentive, one of my favorite lines in the entire report because of how patently absurd it is and how, to my mind, brazenly illegal it is. the witness is talking about multiple people affiliated with trump s team contacting her in advance of her testimony. they made the following statements. what they said to me is, as long as i continue to be a team player, they know that i m on the right team, i m doing the right thing. they have reminded me a couple of times that trump does read transcripts. just keep that in mind as i proceed through my interviews. first of all. that in case you thought he might not catch what you say, this unbelievable claim that he has to scare a witness into saying we re not saying what we want her to. there is also the allegation that there is a lawyer who is
series of blockbuster public hearings earlier this year, we hear, at msnbc, committed to do a primetime recap of the committee s actions each night after each of these daytime hearings or meetings. tonight is no exception. with the investigators meeting today for a final time to summarize the findings of their year and a half long investigation to endorse their final report, and to make formal criminal referrals to the u. s. justice department concerning former president donald trump and at least one of the lawyers john eastman, who advised trump before, during, and after the attempted overthrow of the government on january six last year. we believe the evidence described by my colleagues today and assembled throughout our hearings warrants a criminal referral of former president donald j trump. john eastman and others. the
invaded the capitol with no prior conspiratorial plan. but what i think they have done really masterfully is to go through using mostly republicans and weighing a william barr, who said it was bs. there was no you lost the election legitimately. and this really methodical plan that stretches back before the election. you know, they ve roger stone in eastman talking about this and laying out this intellectual framework for ignoring the results of the election. and they lay out all of the ways they try to do. it they try to go to the justice department. again, we switch out the current attorney general for somebody who will do it for us. they tried going to the electors. to the states. they said will you overturn your own states election and give us the electors we want? they are going through all of these methods these methodical plans it does make it feel like conspiracy. i will turn it over to the expert, who wrote the forward for one of the versions of the coming report. congra
investigation. they say one specific instance of that has already been recommended to the u.s. justice department. but what so often describe today, what is in the introduction to the report that they released today implies that people on the trump side, members of the trump team have repeatedly been inducing witnesses to lie, inducing witnesses to withhold information using veiled threats, promises, and even money, offering employment, offering to make one witness financially very comfortable. also providing lawyers for these witnesses. lawyers who then seem to be acting in trump s interest, and not in the interest of these clients. there is a lot of discussion, this happened at the public meetings today, public hearings. it is certainly documented in the report. there seems to have been a lot about obstruction, witness tampering, even witness