announcer: this is cnn breaking news. our breaking news this hour certainly is breaking indeed. the january 6th committee has now released its final report just moments ago. it is here. i want to bring in cnn justice correspondent jessica snyder. jessica, i understand the committee is making very specific recommendations about how law enforcement and also of course legislative bodies ought to proceed now in the wake of this report and their findings. tell us what are you learning? reporter: laura, that s the big take away from this report. so it is 845 pages. the vast majority of that actually incapsulates eight chapters where they out the entire narrative surrounding up to and including january 6th. but the real meat of this is not until page 689, and it lays out about let s see 11 different recommendations this committee is making. i want to highlight a few for people. and laura you were asking before where can people go to actually read this entire report. it is up o
May contain scenes of violence and profanity. Members have decided that its in the Public Interest to show such scenes and we plan to broadcast the hearings without editing, in that same spirit of full public disclosure. So please be warned that some viewers may find some of the content offensive or distressing. As for what we can expect the panel of seven democrats and two republicans has said it plans to look into Donald Trumps mindset during his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. According to committee aides, this will include new Video Evidence from some witnesses that weve already heard from, and some who have not yet been seen by the public. But were told theyll be no live witnesses. The panel is expeced to release a final report, but its been vague about when that will be. Almost certainly it will be after next months mid term elections, which will decide which Party Controls congress. 0ver the summer, several witnesses told the committee how donald trump and his allies put
that john eastman it looks like might have first tried to make contact with president trump at the white house on december 23, 2020, almost exactly two years ago. and the committee is documenting how john eastman put in an e-mail to president trump s assistant, molly michael, at the time 1:32 p.m. that day and then was eventually connected to the white house through the switchboard. it was a call that lasted 23 minutes. and john eastman apparently talked about his memo to ensure that president trump is re-elected, and in it he talked about the way that vice president pence could potentially overturn the election. of course, something pence refused to do. in addition to that the committee s report also talks about a little known trump attorney named kenneth cheesebro, and he was actually the architect of this fake elector plot, coming up with these fake electors in these battleground states who would be in favor of trump who that would try to insert as the actual
state making that formal criminal referral to the ag s office and a very straightforward thing. we received these documents from these arizona residents, purporting to be official state documents using the official state seal, these were not real official documents, use of the state seal by anybody not authorized to use it is a crime in arizona. here s the material. please proceed. that formal referral was made on december 23, 2020, more than a year ago. since then, nothing. so there s two questions here. one of them is about the federal cops on the beat here, right? why did federal investigators at the national archives only open an investigation into one of the two fake slates of electors they received from arizona? sure, that one came in first but a few days later, when a second set of elector documents came in