relevant? this has been a rapidly developing internal investigation. they had been doing a very rigorous probe, according to a letter sent from the secret service to the house select committee. telling them all of the way thaz were trying to abide by the house select committee s subpoena on july 19th, the secret service told investigators they planned to conduct forensic examinations of available devices that were used by the identified individuals, additional follow-up interviews with the identified users to determine if messages were stored in locations that were not already searched by the secret service. the reality here is all of those efforts have to stop because as cnn first reported yesterday, the dhs inspector general has told the secret service, this is now a criminal probe. stop investigating yourself. so there s a member of the january 6th committee, zoe lofgren, democrat of california. she says tony ornoto, robert engle, and the driver of trump s presidential
forward. what do republicans have to say? the republicans offered a bit of a muted response. many not defending donald trump s actions, not yet criticizing what the justice department is doing, taking a wait and see approach. one of those republicans, lindsey graham of south carolina, who told me earlier today that he does not think that trump should be prosecuted. that s just ridiculous for me to comment over what some grand jury may be looking at. i don t see anything to prosecute him over. now, graham himself has come under scrutiny for phone calls he made to the georgia secretary of state in the aftermath of the november 2020 elections. the georgia prosecutor looking into donald trump s actions, has asked for graham to come before the grand jury and testify there. graham himself has said that he will not do that, he s trying to fight that subpoena. nevertheless, you re hearing some defense from republicans but most are saying they re going to take a wait and see a
of the bravery of 25-year-old cassidy hutchinson, who spoke truth to power, who spoke the truth, who spoke, despite the fact that many much older, much more experienced men, were too weak and too shrivelled to be able to speak out about what happened behind closed doors in the trump white house leading up to did she say that? is willie here? let me tell you something willie i don t know that she mentioned there s more than one woman who spoke out and was able to do that. right. compared to these pathetic men. it s okay. i don t think she used the word shrivelled. they re in the corner, shrivelled in the corner. it was cold. kind of chilly. i don t know. i get what mika is saying here. you better. it was quite an image, willie, is it not? liz cheney getting rapturous applause at the reagan library, the epicenter of what once was a movement called conservatism, and talking about just how corrupt the republican party has gotten, but how one young
really telling, jake, because it shows that trump is still in command of this party. republicans were afraid to speak up against him. and meanwhile, gop leaders have been absolutely silent, even though they had quite a lot to say in the immediate aftermath of january 6th, and that includes kevin mccarthy, the house gop leader who was cited yesterday in the testimony as being one of the people who was deeply concerned by the idea of trump coming to the capitol on january 6th. yeah. and it s interesting because donald trump has really been taking it on the chin from conservative media after yesterday s hearing. i m not talking about the dead enders on the other chandal, but people in conservative editorial boards and such. tell us more about that. really tough headlines for trump. i want to tick through a few of them. the wall street journal editorial board said, republicans should not look away from the compelling evidence. the conservative washington examiner called tru
secret service agents, the gentleman that was the secret servant agent, ornoto, and the guy who drove the suverb. what s the status? it s a pattern we see which is through anonymous sources things are questioned at the committee. through anonymous sources they say they re willing to come in and give counter evidence and they never do because we require them to be under oath. as of now, we have not talked to these secret service agents. they have lawyered up, which is their right to do, and we ll go from there. the attorneys are engaging to figure out what s next. but yeah, that s, again, the standard kind of trump operation patterns through anonymous sources or through whisper campaigns try to discredit people and not be willing to do it under oath, and cassidy hutchinson has shown she s a brave american woman, and i think people like her, sarah matthews, caroline edwards will go down in history as having more courage than frankly almost every man in the republican party combined.