hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. before the january 6th select committee ever got off the ground, before it existed, and well before the first signs ever emerged that the justice department was investigating the trump part of the trump coup plot, before even donald trump s second impeachment trial wrapped up. one local prosecutor in georgia decided she would take on donald trump and the unprecedented assault on our democracy in the wake of the 2020 election and she launched a criminal probe into the conduct of the ex-president and his allies in her state. today, about two years and one week to the day that that investigation was launched, we finally got our first real glimpse into her work. the work of fulton county district attorney fannie willis. portions of her report compiled by a special grand jury were released this morning. the report gives us a sense of the depth of her investigation. 75 witnesses, a mountain of documents and data. along with testimony from
story is being sort of metabolized on both sides of the ideological spectrum. it seems irreconcilable for the fbi, especially an agent that says as opaque a government agency that exists in this country. what do you do about it? the fbi has no answer to this because at the heart of it is an allegedly corrupt fbi agent which is not something that they need right now. they re having a very hard time responding to it other than to come out and point out as fbi director christopher wray has said, look, it s our agents who investigated him. ultimately charles mcgonigal was brought down by our own people, and what wray is saying this demonstrates is that they will stop at nothing to investigate wrongdoing especially if it comes from one of their own and this still leaves a ton of unanswered questions about how he was able to engage in this work. we didn t talk about his travels to albania where he allegedly
what wray and the attorney general are essentially saying is we re going to sort of nationalize or federalize these investigations. so just think of it as a task force or a tracking effort because so much small stuff and big stuff is going on at this stage. the small hacks, the big hacks we ve seen atika loanial and the meat industry. to get a sense what s happening out in the field to focus on crypto currency and other payments that s happening that may disclose cyber attacks and also to compel or demand that the industry itself, critical infrastructure get their act together. and that is both protecting their cybernetwork. and i think what s really important now is separating their business systems, in other words payroll, all those things we think about and end operations. what we ve seen in these big hacks because networks are
theory there was some sort of deep state treasonous plot and coup against him. the inspector general found that in this particular instance the investigation was opened with appropriate predication and authorization. do you have any evidence that the fbi targeted trump campaign unfairly? i don t. what wray said is at odds with what the president and his defenders increasingly rely upon. alternative facts, also known as lies. wray debunked a different lie with this statement. we have no information that indicates that ukraine interfered with the 2016 presidential election. despite the president insisting that the ukrainian president investigate that very conspiracy theory, holding up military aid partly until the ukrainians committed to doing so. according to the white house chief of staff.