People in jail. they are vicious, violent and radical left thugs, they don t think they ll be held accountable for rigging the 2020 presidential election, the january 6 committee is a cover-up for what happened on november third and our country won t stand for it. your phrase was tick tock, expand on that what you mean? i don t think the president hides his emotions very well at all and historically for him, when he sends out something like this it s indicative he learned something we don t know. do i have special behind-the-scenes information like that, but with the das, district attorneys, something s stirring, something is, word has gotten to him that something s happening, about to happen, he doesn t like that investigations are going. he s lashing out, expect to see more of this when they get closer and closer to the possibility that only the state
Disappears into the midterm elections so i think it s just a practical matter, they got three, four, five months here into the new year to get at least the congressional part of this investigation wrapped up. criminal investigations are another matter. we ll get into that as well, luke, let s talk about the text messages josh mentioned, of course the former chief of staff mark meadows reading some of those. we re under siege, armed stand off at the house chamber door, we re all helpless, mark, stop this now. is anybody in your loop at congress now pointing the finger at mark meadows that wasn t doing it before? that s a good question, and thanks for having me. as you were outside that day, i was inside. so i know the way a lot of these people felt, this panicked feeling of how this attack needs to stop, won t somebody do something. i don t it does not seem to
Domestic rortder and msnbc contributor. josh, let me start with this one, we are almost one year in, how close are we to figuring out what happened in the lead-up to january 6 and how to prevent it, from happening, going forward? well, i think there s been considerable progress on the second half of that question yasmin, in terms of what can be done at tactical level for the capitol to prevent this happening again. in terms of what happened on january 6, i think there s been some progress, the text messages you mentioned earlier are certainly enlightening and suggest the house investigation is getting some traction in obtaining information about what happened, but there are still a lot of puzzles left here. in particular, surrounding president trump himself. we know about these texts that people were trying to urgently reach him through mark meadows,
And publicly say all options are on the table. they would never rule anybody out. you followed the facts and followed the law, but the keep in mind, in order for a criminal investigation on the president, would be both a matter of reaching a very, very high bar with evidence and then also understanding that if something like that were to go to trial, it would have to first get past the district court level, then the appeals court level so this would have to be the very strongest case possible. this is not going to be a decision made flippantly, i understand if you look on social media, twitter, public comments, everyone says this is so easy but has to be something that if under taken could make it through the court system because if not, a loss would be pretty disastrous. hey luke, talk to me about this reporting you and katie have out on the j6 committee looking to hire folks to analyze social media practices in the lead-up to j6 and also foreign adversaries and their
What we still don t know is what was president trump doing? i think there have been some sketchy reports that he was watching tv and seemed satisfied or happy with what was going on but yet to get really firsthand accounts of what was the president doing as the violence unfolded and as he seemed so reluctant to make a sort of statement to call off his folks. and josh, the clock is ticking. i mean the midterms are around the corner here in which republicans could take back control of congress, and at that point, this investigation could feasibly be over. right, the committee, i think, has been careful not to set out an explicit time line especially considering the stonewalling from some of the witnesses they re trying to talk to, but you re right, there s a sort of practical deadline that by the end of the spring if they haven t brought the investigation to a conclusion and aiming towards a public report, the whole thing sort of