with colleagues in congress as well as my colleagues at the city and state level in new york to try to bring public awareness to some of the solutions that are out there there over time i think will help to reduce crime that has certainly spiked in a post-covid world. daniel goldman, thanks for joining us this morning. thank you, daniel. happy hanukkah to you. we re monitoring temperature drops across the country and how the winter weather travel is impacting the holidays. winter weather storms are impacting your travel for the holidays. and the january 6 committee has released hundreds of transcripts providing a new view into their investigation. we ll talk about this with mick mulvaney. there he is on your june but you ll see him after the b brea. kills 99.9% of bacteria detergent alalone, can t.
he wouldn t even answer a question about his age. it s interesting. for example, john eastman, there are memos about the election, how to overturn it that his name is on. he wouldn t even acknowledge that he wrote that. another former justice official jeffrey clark trump wanted to install as attorney general, he stone called the committee in two different interviews. p in the second interview, he invoked the fifth 120 times. it s also notable that in the transcripts, you see eastman and flynn and said that election was fraudulent, they didn t provide any information to support the allegations to the committee. now they have conducted over 1,000 interviews. they said that they will release hundreds of transcripts. so they are going to withhold some transcripts. they say there is sensitive material. this is going to be considerable interest to the special could you be, jack smith. he asked the committee for all the information that they gathered. even trump s defense attorneys, they, too
flynn and these transcripts confirm that these individuals refused to provide substantive answers to investigators and made use of the fifth amendment. eastman refused to confirm he wrote legal memos with their name on them. typically witnesses will confirm basic bio graphic information. but roger stone wouldn t even confirm his age. jeffrey clark, the plan who trump wanted to install as attorney general he stonewalled the committee over the course of two interviews and the second interview he invoked the fifth amendment 120 times. the transcripts revealed that eastman and flynn that pushed the baseless claims of widespread election fraud failed to provide proof to validate the claims. what happens next? reporter: they tell cnn, they ll release hundreds of
when republicans take over the chamber next year, and now these transcripts are really going to be a key piece of evidence in the hands not only of prosecutor, but also defense attorneys, journalists, and hist historians. cnn has learned that that special counsel jack smith has actually sent a letter to the committee asking for all the evidence that it has collected. the committee has been sharing some of that, and going forward, even trump s attorneys, they want to see these transcripts too. as they said, they conducted approximately a thousand interviews. they will release hundreds of transcripts and it s interesting which ones get released. we re all standing by. paula, thank you. top of the hour on cnn newsroom. good to have you. i m victor blackwell. right now, president biden and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy are meeting at the white house. this is zelenskyy s first overseas trip since russia invaded ukraine. he said he made the trip to
transcripts of the interviews it conducted behind closed doors. there is pretty much one thing people on all sides of this that they all agree on, they want to see the transcripts. a source tells cnn that jack smith sent a letter to the committee earlier this month requesting all the information from this investigation. we ve learned the committee has been sending documents and transcripts in the last week focussing on evidence related to john eastman and mark meadows. interestingly, the justice department also has mark meadows text messages that provided some of the most significant evidence so far. but talking to the trump legal team they want to see the transcripts also saying they believe there was testimony that undercuts the public narrative. the committee telling cnn they ll released hundreds of transcripts but some witnesses they ve vowed to protect.