and thanks to you at home for joining us tonight. really happy to have you here. so, his son was 18. his daughter was 16. and on christmas eve 2020, so that s like a month and a half after the 2020 election was called for joe biden, on christmas eve 2020, this 18 year old son went online to the fbi website, to tips.fbi.gov, and he submitted a tip to the fbi about his dad. he told them that his dad was planning to do something violent, that is, that was not only calling for there to be violence against government officials. the son told the fbi, when he submitted that online tip, that he believed his dad was actually planning to do something violent himself. he told the fbi, his father was planning to, quote, do some serious damage. that was christmas eve 2020, when that young man submitted that tip to the fbi. he didn t hear back, initially, took a couple of weeks. it took until after the january 6th, 2021 attack on the u.s. capitol building. then, the fbi decided that the th
have turned up on the fake electors issue. that issue specifically not anything else. so we see bits and pieces of this being moved on, and sort of different paces, right? and to different degrees. different amounts of resources being devoted to these various parts of the investigation. the justice department has a lot of latitude. they have a lot of discretion in terms of how they go after this stuff. how many prosecutors and investigators they put to work on any one part of it. how quickly they move to get investigationsw started, and tn to get them moved into search warrants and subpoenas and testimony, and to indictments ultimately, how aggressively they ultimately charge what they believe to be provable crimes in court. what kindey of sentences they a for when they do get convictions in court. given that, given the leeway they have, the discretion they have, is it worth worrying that they may be moving too slowly to ever even have a real chance to
congress are giving federal prosecutors some of what they have turned up on the fake electors issue. that issue, specifically, not anything else. so, we see bits and pieces of this, being moved on at sort of different bases, right? and two different degrees, and with different amounts of resources being devoted to these various parts of the investigation. the justice department has a lot of latitude. they have a lot of discretion in terms of how they go after this stuff. how many prosecutors and investigators they put to work on any part of that? how quickly the move to get investigations started, and then, to get the moved to search warrants, and subpoenas, and testimony? and two indictments, also, ultimately, how aggressively they ultimately charge what they believe to be probable crimes in court? what kinds of sentences they ask for, when they do get convictions in court? given that, given the way they have, that is the discretion they have, is it worth worrying that they may be mov
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