is over. i just want to say congress has certified the results without saying the election is over, okay. now congress i didn t say over. go to the paragraph before. wow. how would you like to be ivanka stage managing that? back in july, the january 6th committee played raw footage of the outtakes of former president trump s taped address the day after the capitol riot when he was choking on every word. this morning, the day before he called them patriots, beautiful, this, that, the other. wow. this morning, the committee s full final report has finally been released. we re going to go through it all. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it s friday, december 23rd. everybody s off. i m here. i hope you re not bothered too much by that. we re going to get through it together. we have former aide to george w. bush white house and state department s elise jordan. and the host of msnbc politics nation and president of the national action network, the hardest working m
Until january 5th in looking at the report. they didn t look closely at the intel they collected until january 5th. no one knew who was in charge. doj thought they were in charge of one thing, dhs, another, what a mess. and you know what makes that so striking is we know from the report how long third-degree this had been in the works. some americans had a sense that this was a rally that went awry. the report makes it clear this was a long-term strategy to dispute the election and then to have a rally that was very likely to result in violence, and so there were signs that intelligence agencies should have picked up on law enforcement agencies could have picked on. there s an appendix to the report that deals with that, although the guts of the report is really dealing with former president trump. we re going to hear more about that. that s one of the angles that republicans will want to focus
Harassed or even worse. that s why you would never dump depositions into the public domain and give bad actors time to use them to their own gain. the committee report also lays out eleven recommendations for congress. and other various federal agencies. the panel urges congressional committees to look into creating a quote formal mechanism to bar trump and others identified in the report from holding any future office under the 14th amendment. the report recommends federal agencies take a quote whole of government approach to root out violent extremism including white nationalists. the january 6th committee is calling for reforms to the electoral count act of 1887, the act essentially sets the parameters for certifying the votes of a presidential election but the duties assigned to the vice president are fairly vague. now, the senate of course has passed a bill, as part of the government funding package that s going to address that.
Election day, to delegitimize that election. chapter two is called i just want to find 11,780 votes. that focuses on trump s attempt to pressure state and local officials to overturn the 2020 elections. the next few chapters outline how trump and his allies plan to slate fake electors. the efforts to get the justice department to cast doubt on the integrity of the election, and the push to convince vice president mike pence to decertify those results. and a forward to the report, vice chair liz cheney wrote this. every president in our history has defended the orderly transfer of authority, except one. january 6th, 2021, was the first time one american presidential refused his constitutional duty to transfer power peacefully and to the next. and the two sentences read this,
This january 6th insurrection, hideous in american history was at least met with a serious systematic effort to get to the truth. to get to the bottom of it, and that s something. that doesn t solve the problem. we don t know where president trump is going, but at least this committee did the job it was assigned to do. well, and they can see every day that people that took place in the riot, people that took place in the insurrection. people who beat the hell out of police officers with american flags, they re in jail. or they re going to jail. the question is now will the person that they came and rioted for, tried to stop an election, a peaceful transition for, whether he, the ring leader, will actually face the music too. nbc news legal analyst andrew weissmann, thank you so much for being here. and thank you for your service to america, and happy holidays. let s go now to