american people. and the outcome they re hoping to get to. you know, i m thinking could alex holder be the rosemary woods of this generation with pictures? we ll find out. if you have anything you want to add about that, feel free to. i want you to look ahead to the hear thing afternoon and today s three witnesses, who they are, what role they play in what happened. the one thing i would add to the discussion about the delay sit s not just what they have but it s what they still want. it was at the end of the last hearing we heard liz cheney to ask president trump s white house counsel to testify. we know the committee had contact with him previously, but it s clear they think he s a missing piece to the puzzle, that they don t yet have and perhaps could get with this delay. as of today s hearing, it is focused on the justice department. it will be lead by adam kinzinger and will look at broadly this effort by the trump administration to sow doubt in the election results to get doj
joining us now, democratic congressman jamie raskin of maryland. he s a member the january six committee, and served as the lead impeachment manager in the second impeachment trial of donald trump. he is the author of the new best selling book, unthinkable. congressman, thank you very much for joining us tonight. what can you tell us about this gap, or what s happening, and what s your finding in the records of the trump phone calls on january 6th? well, not much, other than everyone is very curious about it, it raises more questions than answers. i know that there are a lot of minds left immediately to rosemary woods, in the 18 minutes deleted watergate tapes. but it could just as well have been donald trump using a personal cell phone, or someone else s cell phone, to communicate with senators, with representatives and with other people out on the street. so we just don t know what it means at this point. and by the way, you said
everyone is very curious about it, it raises more questions than answers. i know that there are a lot of minds left immediately to rosemary woods, in the 18 minutes deleted watergate tapes. but it could just as well been donald trump using a personal cell phone, or someone else s cell phone, to communicate with senators, with representatives and with other people out on the street. so we just don t know what it means at this point. and by the way, you said most of those phones, almost all of them, possible except the president s official cell phone, are not secure communication devices for a president to use. then again, echoes the accusations and claims they were making about clinton back in 2015, 2016, about her not being careful enough in using security in her own
the significant discrepancy. the discrepancy strongly suggested that someone interrupted the automatic white house recording system in the hours immediately before, or after important conversations between the president and john dean. the watergate special prosecutors described the inconsistency between the white house logs, and the automatic recording equipment as unexplained, and substantial. the watergate missing tapes, 18 and a half minutes of conversation between the president and his advisers that mysteriously went missing during the watergate investigation. president nixon would eventually blame the missing tapes on his secretary, rosemary woods. nixon secretary played along, and even try to physically demonstrate how she might have deleted the recordings to an incredulous trump pressed, who dumped her explanation, the rosemary stretch. those missing 18 and a half minutes would become infamous, and then during part of the watergate cover-up for years to come. now, today, as ru
the watergate missing tapes, 18 and a half minutes of conversation between the president and his advisers that mysteriously went missing during the watergate investigation. president nixon would eventually blame the missing tapes on his secretary, rosemary woods. nixon secretary played along, and even try to physically demonstrate how she might have deleted the recordings to an incredulous pressed, who dubbed her explanation, the rosemary stretch. those missing 18 and a half minutes would become infamous, and then during part of the watergate cover-up for years to come. now, today, as russia and ukraine engage in peace talks, none other than watergate reporter bob woodward and his reporting partner bob costa broke a new story about missing trump white house records. here is the headline from the washington post, quote, january six white house logs given to house shows seven hour gap in trump calls. washington post reports that records of