We almost lost our democracy and still could where you talk about your experiencesat the capital on january 6. The chapter is called the insurrection and there was a part i thought you could start us off with. Its sort of right after the folks who were loyal to the former President Donald Trump came on january 6 two storm the capital basically. It was an insurrection and they were trying to overturn the results of the election that were being tabulated for joe biden for winning the election. Of course the capital was on lockdown that day. You give a fairly gripping account of whathappened and this is a little of the aftermath. Can you take us away . The following day i felt a mixture of sadness over what our country had gone through and embarrassment at how we appeared in the eyes of the world, anger at the irresponsible actions of my colleagues who had spread lies about theelection for months and brought this on themselves inthe nation. Toward the president who had instigated the rebe
10 00 a. M. , maria butina. Status hearing. Heres what i dont understand, rachel. I thought the Mueller Investigation was over. I thought that until i watched your show tonight and now im wicked confused. I will drop off the transcript from that hearing in your studio on my way out if you want. Its amazing. Yeah, so, we dont really have kind of clarity, kind of surgical ends of whats going on here legally. No, its interesting. In the barr report, in William Barrs fourpage summation of what he says mueller came to in his investigation, remember he did have that one line that was sort of ambiguous as to mueller handing off different elements of the investigation to other prosecutors and other elements in the Justice Department. We didnt know at the time if that was retrospective, if that was just describing something he did earlier in his investigation in ways that we could see and already knew about or whether that meant he was still doing that now. Weve seen all week long him handing o
Your show tonight and now im wicked confused. I will drop off the transcript from that hearing in your studio on my way out if you want. Its amazing. Yeah, so, we dont really have kind of clarity, kind of surgical ends of whats going on here legally. No, its interesting. In the barr report, in William Barrs fourpage summation of what he says mueller came to in his investigation, remember he did have that one line that was sort of ambiguous as to mueller handing off different elements of the investigation to other prosecutors and other elements in the Justice Department. We didnt know at the time if that was retrospective, if that was just describing something he did earlier in his investigation in ways that we could see and already knew about or whether that meant he was still doing that now. Weve seen all week long him handing over more pieces. We got confirmation today that the grand jury that hes convened in d. C. Is robustly continuing its work under new prosecutors. So that means