what he was saying was flatly wrong say it in public. i think one of the people they would like to see testify in public in prime time would be former attorney general bill barr who told me in the interview for betrayal that it was all b.s., there was nothing to it. there was nothing to what trump was saying. and he actually went investigated those allegations in all those contested states and came back and told the president directly there was nothing to it. and trump went on and continued to try to overturn the election. he was he was not dissuaded. thanks to all three of you for helping us out tonight. yamiche alcindor, jonathan carl, and katie benner who herself is pulitzer prizewinner. coming up, they told the truth then. why can t they say it now? some key republicans called it like we saw it in the days after january 6th, but now not so much. our friends are here to compare and contrast. and later you might think you re fully vaccinated but given recent guidance on boo
so, again, threats are taken seriously. it s just a very different tone and tenor of threats. so that is what s happening. second of all, we are definitely seeing the justice department try to address the idea of threats. we saw that in the attorney general s speech today. merrick garland said very clearly despite the fact we ve seen startling polling that many americans not the majority but still many believe that violence is an answer to political conflict, attorney general garland said that is actually not the answer. we cannot think that way. but as a demachyeracy as the united states begins to unravel we have to have a hard, bright line against political violence. jonathan carl, the january 6th committee is looking at people at trump s inner circle and trying to get information from them about basically what happened right from the election all the way to january 6th. how does that materialize in your opinion? are there going to be are these people who come and participate i
press secretary stephanie grisham. she served asthma lawnia trump s press secretary at the time of the riot. grisham says she plans to continue cooperating with the committee. one of the two republican members on the january 6th committee says they re also getting critical information from many former white house aides without having to resort subpoenas. let s say we never talked to president trump or we never talked to, you know, any high profile individual, we re going to have people all that have a piece of that story, a slice of different moments in time that we can put together into the bigger picture. as we know how investigations go, you know, you put those pieces together and then you move up the ladder. that s what we re doing, and i think you re going to have continued cooperation by a significant number of people. with that let s bring in our lead off guests on this wednesday night. yamiche alcindor the white house correspondent for the pbs news hour and moderator of was