by preventing congress from doing its duty and accepting the results of the 2020 presidential election. congressman, are you confident the department of justice will follow through with criminal referrals? i believe they will. i believe they ll take action. i believe the department of justice has to understand what s at stake for the country. again, the washington post today, i believe, there were three retired generals who told the military that they should be prepared in case there s an attempted coup or insurrection in 2024. and i think that s right. listen, if we don t act swiftly and aggressively now, then elections in november of 2022 and certainly the presidential election in 2024 may not look at all like what we ve known elections to be in the past. how worried are you about that? about that real possibility, the loss of democracy in this country, if we re not following through? i m extremely concerned, you
advantage of us even deeper? we know there were incidents with iranian nationals who were actually charged over this during the, in the run-up to the election but does it go even deeper? are there more ties to how this division was potentially exploited by foreign governments? so that s another area of avenue that the 1/6 committee is looking into. i can t help but wonder though what their objective is here and what they can actually do to stop it considering all the testimony that we ve seen in the past, and the fact that they ve not been able to regulate social media before this. josh garcia, luke broadwater, katie benner thank you for all your incredible reporting on this. coming up next congressman juaqim castro helped indict trump on his part in the capitol, but first, richard
special report. in addition to america s questions about what happened on january 6, there are also wider questions of strategy on part of the january 6 committee and the democrats leading it, specifically are they doing enough to combat another attack before republicans possibly take house next week. democratic congressman juaqim of texas, giving us a little cheer with the christmas tree in the background. we appreciate it, everyone needs a little holiday cheer in our lives with everything going on with covid. let s talk first here about accountability. you were a former impeachment manager for the foreign president the second time around. he was held accountable in the house, obviously not senate, you, not getting john bolson to
know, as somebody who sat on the intelligence committee, has sat on the intelligence committee since mid 2016, went through both rounds of impeachment, the intelligence committee had a role in those, and then i was at the capitol although i was in my office in rayburn on january 6 and just watching everything happen since then where the price of the admission to republican party now is to buy into the big lie and follow donald trump like a cult figure. you cannot win a republican primary for congress now, just about, unless you buy into the idea that when a democrat wins a major political race, it s based on fraud. for them, they have now defined democrats winning elections as fraud. and that is incredibly dangerous for a democracy. congressman juaqim castro happy holidays to you and thank you for the holiday cheer again.