And kelly hyman, legal analyst and democratic strategist welcome to you all. There is a section in the Special Counsels indictment in which jack smith breaks down this alleged scheme into five distinct parts. First, it begins with the false claims of Election Fraud. It is important to note that the doj says explicitly that donald trump it is important to note that the doj did know that he had lost the election and made knowingly false claims about it. Second, the former president and his Co Conspirators launched a seven state strategy to pressure state and local officials to overturn the officially certified results. Third, they weaponised, to coin a phrase, Thejustice Department to lend credence to these false claims of Election Fraud to try to pressure State Officials. Fourth, they pressured the Vice President , mike pence, to do something they knew was unconstitutional and illegal. And finally, which brings us to the violence of january 6th, they exploited that disruption and redoub
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of the evidence in these hearings. big news out of madrid tonight where turkey has given the green the light to finland and swedens membership of nato. it stretches nato s border with russia, and significantly bolsters europe s eastern flank and is this a 1937 moment, the head of the british army says the uk is under prepared to meet the renewed challenge from russia. tonight with the context, former adviser to hillary clinton amanda renteria the former uk national security adviser lord peter ricketts and former federal prosecutorjoe moreno. hello and welcome to the programme. in the last few hours we have heard some of the most stunning testimony from the january 6th committee. cassidy hutchinson, a senior aide to the white house chief of staff, has given evidence that former president trump and his senior aides not only knew there were plans to march on the capitol onjan 6th, they knew days before of the potential for violence. and ahead of the speech on the elipse that
on january the 6th, 2021 was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. as described in the indictment, it was fuelled by lies. lies by the defendant targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the us government, the nation s process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the presidential election. the men and women of law enforcement who defended the us capital onjanuary the 6th our heroes. onjanuary the 6th are heroes. they are patriots, and they are the very best of us. they did notjust defend a building or the people sheltering in it. they put their lives on the line to defend who we are as a country and as a people. they defended the very institutions and principles that define the united states. since the attack on our capitol, the department ofjustice has
january six. with a come back to the careful layout of what she heard - january six. with a come back to the careful layout of what she heard and when she saw in the second. joe, you are a form of federal prosecutor can is this the kind of witness you would want to put on the stand? christian, there were so many things. christian, there were so many things. so christian, there were so many things, so many lines i took from this testimony today, but when i wrote this testimony today, but when i wrote down, as an american, i was disgusted. wrote down, as an american, i was disgusted, we were watching the capital disgusted, we were watching the capital being defaced over a lie. this was capital being defaced over a lie. this was devastating testimony by miss hutchinson. she was credible, she was miss hutchinson. she was credible, she was organised, she was believable to me and she was an insider~ believable to me and she was an insider. like amanda said, we have so much insi