Hi, everyone. It's Forecarcourt in New York, a potential sign today that the work of Special

Council Jack Smith and the two probes into the conduct of the disgrace twice impeached

ex-president are moving full speed ahead. Spotted at a DC Courthouse today where a grand jury

is meeting, conservative activist Tom Fitton. NBC News also noticed at least one prosecutor

from Special Counsel Jack Smith's office. Now while we do not know, exactly why Mr. Fitton was

at the Courthouse today, here's what we do know about him. Fitton has been an outside advisor

to the ex-president with a key role in both the documents investigation and the story of the

January 6 insurrection and everything that led to it. Fitton was among a select group of people

that included Roger Stone and Steve Benin, urging Trump to declare victory regardless of the results,

the actual legal results of the 2020 election. Now the January 6 select committee sites

a memo that Fitton wrote for Trump in the run-up to election day. I think the summer before the election

as evidence that in the words of committee members Zoe Laufgren, the big lie was quote,

intentional, premeditated, and a plan concocted in advance. Here's a snippet from the January 6

select committee's final hearing. A few days before the election, Mr. Trump also consulted with one

of his outside advisors inside activist Tom Fitton about the strategy for election night.

The select committee got this pre-prepared statement from the National Archives. As you can see,

the draft statement, which was sent on October 31, declares, we had an election today and I won.

And the Fitton memo specifically indicates a plan that only the votes counted by the election day

deadline and there is no election day deadline would matter. Everyone knew that ballot counting

would lawfully continue past election day, claiming that the counting on election night must stop

before millions of votes were counted was as we now know a key part of President Trump's

premeditated plan. On election day, just after 5 p.m., Mr. Fitton indicated he'd spoken with the

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