He faces four counts, including conspiracy to defraud the United States and to deny voters the right to have their ballots counted. Live now to tim heaphy, former lead investigator for the house january 6th select committee. Thank you so much forjoining us. I think for people who perhaps havent covered every twist and turn of the story, just explain to us why that january 6th select committee was so crucial to what we are seeing now . Facts are what makes cases and determines outcomes, and the select committee uncovered the core facts here. Congress created the select committee to investigate the facts and circumstances surrounding the attack on the capitol, and thats what we did through a series of hearings and ultimately and 845 page report. The committee set forth the core allegations that remain allegations against mr trump, he and his Co Conspirators specifically intended to prevent the transfer of power. So the indictment is built on a determination of fact by the select committe
subpoenaed to the grand jury two people from the white house counsel s office including the white house counsel himself, but what is standing in the way of getting all of the information that prosecutors want are claims that donald trump is trying to make about executive privilege where he s trying to protect statements that were made to him or that he said on these crucial days that are being investigated. so those claims of executive privilege, that s potentially leading to a court fight where the justice department will try to get access to those statements through these witnesses and that s what these talks are about, lining up the justice department team and trump s team, talking to one another, potentially they could be pitted against each other if this does go to court, but the big picture here is that criminal prosecutors right now are definitely interested in doing fact-finding and locking down what they can about what was said in the white house either by trump or t
Trump is running for president in order to avoid jail time, something to that effect, those were his exact words, and he got booed for that. but look, there are many moderate, centrist republicans who even identified as independent now in the era of donald trump that feel that the republican party needs somebody else at its top, that this former president is too rife with problems, that he s not representative of any sort of values of any policies he stands for, he stands only for himself. so this is a process that needs to play itself out. ijust pray it s a process that plays out without any political violence or anything of that sort that we saw on january 6th, 2021. we anything of that sort that we saw on january 6th. 2021. january 6th, 2021. we are watching the landin: january 6th, 2021. we are watching the landing gear january 6th, 2021. we are watching the landing gear on january 6th, 2021. we are watching the landing gear on donald - january 6th, 2021. we are watching j the
Families were complicit in the plot. he has he has been responsible for a lot of damage here and, you know, he s more symbolic, he s really emblematic of the spread of disinformation and false narratives over the past decade since sandy hook. he has been part of every one of the most pernicious myths that have caused confrontation and violence in this country, from pizza-gate to charlottesville to coronavirus myths and the stop the steal lie that started the 2021 january 6th insurrection of the capitol. that is why your book is so essential. i think if people are looking at your book it s not just about sandy hook, it s about the origin story of all of these conspiracy theories that are just polluting the discussion and really just polluting the nation. i do want to play the bombshell moment because you ve been watching this trial there, i want to play the bombshell