of the efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. they were very interested in some of the interviews that the generals whigs committee has already conducted. the committee was reluctant to canned over those transcribed interviews to the department of justice, because they considered their work and their property, and they wanted to be able to have it in their possession as their investigation moved forward. this became something of a standoff between the doj and the january 6th select committee. and now they re starting to find areas common ground, and chairman bennie thompson told us today the first batch of information that they re gonna hand over to the department of justice is the information that they ve gleaned about this effort to file a fake set of electors that would ve been sent to congress had a january 6th. that s pretty significant, because we haven t seen a lot of detail about that aspect of the department of justice s investigation. so, it shows that inves
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at least, at these fake electors. i think it s really important to their investigation that they re able to gather as much information that is relevant to ongoing investigations that they already have. so, they are working under theory, for example, of conspiracy to defraud the united states as an effort to overturn the election. if they are looking at violations of the electoral count act, or basically the issue of fraud that was conducted against the united states by trying to file fake electors, and trying to change the outcome of the election through fraudulent means. withers documentary evidence or, interviews would be relevant to the departments investigation. both from the perspective of evidence they might want to obtain, and also from the perspective of exculpatory evidence, or conflicting evidence that the committee might obtain as compared with the justice department needs. why won t the committee turn over everything they have to