between trump and aj tish james. anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding and that could include a civil enforcement proceeding or a criminal action. do you understand that? i think. is that a yes? i don t know what i did wrong, but the answer is, yes, i do understand it. i don t know what i did wrong. donald trump then goes on to read a prepared statement in which he repeats some of the same many paranoid conspiracies and delusions we ve heard from him for years now, that he s the actual victim of a witch hunt by an out of control prosecutor, blah, blah, blah. here s a snippet. this is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. the there has never been another president or perhaps even another politician who has been persecuted, harassed, and in every other way unfairly treated like president donald j. trump. not anything we haven t heard before from the ex-president but what happens next is. here s trump repeatedl
insurrection. the select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capitol will be in order. without objection, the chair has authorized to declare the committee in races at any point. pursuant to house deposition authority deposition the chair announces the committees approval to announce the good afternoon. in our previous hearings, the select committee showed that then president trump applied pressure at every level of government. of local election workers, up to his own vice president. opened hoping public servants would give into that pressure and help him steal an election he actually lost. today, we will tell the story of how the pressure campaign also targeted the federal agency, charged with enforcement of our laws, the department of justice. we have already covered part of mr. trump s effort. we heard from attorney general bill barr, tell the story and the committee about the baseless claims mr. trump wanted the justice departm
of big news, joe, on capitol hill. what a significant day. and i will tell you, i was away from the tv for a good part of the day, and started getting breaking news alerts about the hearings, started following some i had to come back, rewatch the entire hearing all over again. it really, yesterday, about as compelling of any hearing we ve seen on capitol hill since the days of watergate. i was young when the watergate hearings were on. i was upset because we had only had four channels then, and i wanted to see the flintstones and mr. ed, but my parents were sitting front, watching watergate. like everybody. and it was so compelling. and you see those clips, and it s history and you don t think you re ever going to see anything like that again. like a movie. but actually, willie, we did see something and we keep seeing, every one of these january 6th hearings. you re looking at history, you understand it, because, again, it drives home the point that maybe we ve
and stolen. that view was wrong then and it is wrong today. that comes as the justice department is ramping up its criminal investigation into the fake electors scheme that was concocted by trump and his allies with federal agents delivering grand jury subpoenas to at least four people yesterday. this is at a scale that we had not seen before from doj. it raises questions about how deep they are in to the fake elector scheme with their investigations. we will have much more on that in just a moment. that is the justice department branch of all of this. the congressional side of the investigation picks up in a few hours with a new hearing focused on the former president s pressure campaign to get the department of justice to intervene in the 2020 election. joining me now ellie honig former federal prosecutor. we can tell a lot by this witness list today. we can, john. let s set the scene. mid-december 2020 now it s about a month and change after the election, we are a few