do you recognize what this says? it looks like a copy of a draft of the remarks. okay, and as you can see throughout the document, there is lines crossed out, there is some words that added in, do you recognize the handwriting? a looks like my father s handwriting. in my view, immediate to express very clearly, that the people made a violent act, went into the capitol, did what they did. should be prosecuted. and should be arrested. it looks like here that he crossed out that he was directing the department of justice to ensure all lawmakers are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, we must send a clear message, not with mercy but with justice, legal consequences are swift and thurman. do you know why that you wanted that crossed out? i don t know. and that needed to be stated. they did not represent, him or his political views. and any form or fashion. they also crossed out, i want to be clear we don t represent me, you don t represent our movement
conservatives must focus on the future, closed quote, a not so veiled shot at his former boss, the former president s false claims about the 2020 election. remarkable to have a vice president who served under that president to then challenge him. a spokesman for the former president tells cnn he will use his speech today to focus on law and order. this as the justice department s inquiry into the capitol attack widens. pence s former chief of staff marc short confirmed to cnn he testified before a doj grand jury investigating the january 6th insurrection, making him the highest profile witness known to have testified so far in the criminal investigation. have a listen. our secret service did a phenomenal job that day. and their job was made more complicated candidly by the fact that the capitol had been breached and they wanted to evacuate the vice president, but it has been covered the vice president didn t want the image of a 15-car motorcade fleeing the hallmark of d
definition secret, the only reason this came out short coming out of the courthouse. we don t know, who exactly testified in the grand jury. but, the fact that they are there, we don t know, won t know until either someone breaks it or charges are filed, how far advance they are in their investigation. no, the several ways you can find out. you can see people physically see them going in and out. all the reporters know which of the grander, individuals can say that they testify. but whether the grandeur he issues an indictment are not, that s almost never known until it happens. if there is investigation continues, and there s a new president, and that president opponents a new head of the department of justice. does the investigation automatically continue? it certainly doesn t attic automatically continue. now it can continue. the cusp of the justice department with career peopl e
who testified know about all three of those questions. and that s all about whether donald trump and perhaps also john eastman, the lawyer who was working with him, committed a crime. jeffrey toobin, do you think that adam kinzinger s question of where has doj been is the right one or should we be looking at this through the lens of it is better to get it right than fast? or faster? well, i m going to give you a different answer. i mean, i think as evan said, you know, we don t know exactly how the justice department has been conducting its criminal investigation so far. grand jury investigations are by definition secret. we, as journalists, try to find out what s going on and we find out some things, but they just happen to see the the pence officials coming out of the
it feels like we ve gotten very little information in and around that. i wonder if that s part of the strategy here. i think it is. it doesn t surprise me. letitia james has been very public in her filing, in part because trump has been so obstructionist in sitting for this deposition, so she said i ll put it out there. she filed a brief that showed all of her case saying here s why need the deposition. she used it in the court to ask the judge for this order. the argument was very powerful, because we can see the evidence. in a grand jury investigation it is by definition secret, and so we should not know anything that is going on there. i think that alvin bragg is playing it by the book. we have some hints. we know that before cyrus vance left he hired some very good criminal prosecutors in white collar cases that seems it s a step you wouldn t take up the case was not going anywhere. he s empaneled a grand jury, similarly it s a step you would only take if you thought the case was