the fake elector scheme. then there is the foam pillow guy, mike. for lindell, pillow talk involves subverting democracy and subverting the will of the american people. like other trump associates in the weeks following don t trump s boston 2020 election, he crisscrossed the country spreading the big lie and other this information. just days after the violent insurrection at the capitol, he was spotted coming out of the white house holding a stack of notes about martial law. like his fellows, his anti-democratic claims are all fluff, no substance. this week, he revealed while in line at a harvey s drive-through fbi agents served him a warrant and seized his phone as a part of its investigation. here is why you should sleep on the story, the last primaries took place on tuesday, which means november s general elections are now set. this november, election deniers will be on the ballot in 27 states with dozens running for top positions like secretary of state, attorney general,
States like arizona, michigan, and pennsylvania. they play decisive roles in 2020. the outcome of this year s midterms will have far reaching implications for our democracy in the years to come. the justice department s investigation is not the half of it. the january six committee is continuing its own investigation of the insurrection and will resume its public hearings later this month. the committee has interviewed more than 1000 people, collected thousands of documents insulin investigation, but as chair person representative benny thompson said this week that it won t be sharing its work with the justice department quite yet. and then there is the other federal criminal investigation involving donald trump s reckless handling of government records, including highly classified documents. on thursday, raymond, a judge from the eastern district of new york was appointed as the special master to review the documents in the case. his appointment and the subsequent ruling by floaters j
The materials will eventual be available to the public. jacqui, good to see this morning, thank you for joining us. jacqui is a reporter for the washington post. joining me now is dan goldman, he served as majority counsel during the house impeachment inquiry which led to the first impeachment of donald trump. he also served as the director of investigations for the house intelligence committee. he is a dan, good to see you, thank you for joining us. let s look into this a little bit more. we have an election on november 8th which you are intimately acquainted with. why did the january six committee make it clear that they are not handing over information to the justice department right now at the moment that seems pivotal for the justice department? i think part of the reason why we are seeing this flurry of subpoenas from the justice department which they probably went out in august and we re just getting the reporting of them now. it is because of the long-standing policy not
Anything overt with potentially political investigations to influence the election. the justice department sent a flurry of subpoenas out, they will collect the information over the next couple of months. my suspicion is that the journey six committee does not want to give the justice department any documents outright. but they very well may allow them to come and review documents, it is still in the position of the general six committee. what the department of justice wants is an understanding of what these witnesses have said under oath to the january six committee. they have to of course do their own interviews anyway. but it is very helpful in guiding those interviews to understand what witnesses have said before. i would expect the select committee to maintain possession of all of their documents until they are ready to make them public themselves. but probably be guiding the department of justice with, or
Investigation state, at least for the justice department and they are collecting as much evidence as possible right now. i m assuming that may play into the idea that the january six committee said this week that they are not handing stuff over to the justice department just yet. obviously, the junior six committee has a lot of information. it can t just go to the justice department and the justice department uses that for prosecution. the justice department would have to do its own work. i guess they both understand that this is not close to the idea. yeah, and we have to note that the justice department is pretty busy with a handful of other investigations, including now the grand jury investigation to whether or not trump has handled classified documents. we ve been told that that investigation is further ahead for the justice department then the january six investigation, even though the justice this investigation has been