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🗓️ 15 October 2022
⏱️ 90 minutes
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0:00.0 | Good morning to you. It is Saturday, October the 15th. I'm Ali Velshi. |
0:10.2 | The January 6th Committee has received hundreds of thousands of pages of documents and interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses in its investigation of the January 6th insurrection. |
0:20.3 | But it wants to hear from one more person, the disgraced former president himself. |
0:25.2 | At the end of its likely final investigative hearing on Thursday, all nine members of the |
0:29.6 | committee voted to subpoena the twice impeached insurrectionist ex-president to compel him to |
0:34.7 | testify. |
0:35.8 | Liz Cheney, the committee's Republican vice chair, said more than 30 witnesses invoked |
0:39.9 | their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when they were interviewed. |
0:43.9 | Many of them, like Roger Stone and John Eastman, did so to avoid answering questions about |
0:50.1 | their interactions and discussions with the former president. |
0:53.5 | So now, by subpoenaing him, the committee's giving Trump the chance to clear things up. |
0:59.3 | Chances of that happening are highly unlikely. |
1:01.9 | After all, the only things he knows how to do are deflect, deny, and lie, |
1:05.6 | at least until he's made to take responsibility for his words and actions under oath. |
1:12.0 | Just a couple of months ago, Trump himself invoked his Fifth Amendment right nearly 450 times |
1:17.1 | when he was deposed by New York State Attorney General Letitia James in her investigation of him |
1:22.6 | and his business. |
1:24.6 | That's just one of at least half a dozen civil or criminal cases involving Trump at the |
1:28.8 | moment, and things aren't looking great for him. Just this week, the Supreme Court rejected the Trump |
1:34.5 | team's emergency appeal to have a special master review the classified government documents that the FBI |
1:40.0 | retrieved from Mar-a-Lago in August. Just yesterday, the Justice Department seized on its |
1:45.9 | latest legal victory at the Supreme Court and filed a new appeal to get rid of the special |
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