He faces four counts, including conspiracy to defraud the United States and to deny voters the right to have their ballots counted. Live now to tim heaphy, former lead investigator for the house january 6th select committee. Thank you so much forjoining us. I think for people who perhaps havent covered every twist and turn of the story, just explain to us why that january 6th select committee was so crucial to what we are seeing now . Facts are what makes cases and determines outcomes, and the select committee uncovered the core facts here. Congress created the select committee to investigate the facts and circumstances surrounding the attack on the capitol, and thats what we did through a series of hearings and ultimately and 845 page report. The committee set forth the core allegations that remain allegations against mr trump, he and his Co Conspirators specifically intended to prevent the transfer of power. So the indictment is built on a determination of fact by the select committe
Why the arraignment is happening here and buy it trial will happen here and buy it trial will happen here is because it s the scene of the alleged crime. but the argument donald trump is making is that it shouldn t be held here, he won t get a fair hearing, thejury pool is biased, and therefore the trial, whenever that will be, should be held in the state of west virginia which is more sympathetic towards donald trump. that argument will really wash with the judge, with the federal courts because it s the same argument that a lot of the january 6th defenders have made. remember, this house is still looking at the cases of the writers of that day, many have been given jail sentences, and when they had their arguments, they made the same argument, that they made the same argument, that thejury pool was they made the same argument, that the jury pool was biased and making claims that the only americans that traumatised by january 6th are washingtonians. so that won t fly
A little hard to talk about them in a vacuum without actually seeing what the department ofjustice has charged, but it looks to be some combination of violations of the espionage act, the false statement statute, the conspiracy statute, and obstruction ofjustice. so those are all serious. and the president has had defences, but they re the usual ones defences make. but also the fact that, as a president and former president, he had certain powers with regard to classified information that no other person in america has. and those are going to be things that the justice department is going to have to overcome in order to prove that he illegally withheld classified information. ok. so we re going classified information. ok. so we re going to classified information. ok. so we re going to come - classified information. ok. so we re going to come back- classified information. ok. so we re going to come back to l we re going to come back to that point. but i want to go back to what you s