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Welcome to Jack, the podcast about all things special counsel.

This is the special audio bonus version where Andy and I, now Andy has joined me since it's not midnight on this second

episode, to read to you, present to you the audio version of Volume 1 of Jack Smith's

final report, as we know, volume 2 can't be released yet because the case against Nauta and

Deo Lavera is still ongoing. And so there's a hearing, it's supposed to be a

hearing this Friday in Cannon's courtroom, although I still don't understand why she's under

any illusion of having jurisdiction. But, you know, Andy, you and I'll talk about that on the regular

episode of the Jack podcast, which will happen this Sunday. But here we go. We're going to start

where I left off last night in the wee hours of the morning. And we're at the top of page 23,

which is section one, subsection E. It's called Mr. Trump's supporters attack the United States Capitol. It says,

Mr. Trump's efforts to remain in power converged and culminated on January 6th the day that Mr. Biden

was to be certified president. That day, Mr. Trump was scheduled to speak at the ellipse to a crowd

of supporters he had summoned to Washington with false claims of election fraud. Around 1 a.m.

on the morning of January 6th, Mr. Trump tweeted, quote, if Vice President Mike Pence comes through for us,

we will win the presidency. Many states want to decertify the mistake they made in certifying

incorrect and even fraudulent numbers in a process not approved by their state

legislatures, which it must be, Mike can send it back, unquote.

Just before he left the White House to give his speech at the ellipse, Mr. Trump phoned Mr. Pence

one last time when Mr. Pence told Mr. Trump that he planned to issue a public statement,

making clear that he lacked the authority to do what Mr. Trump wanted. Mr. Trump expressed anger

at him. He then directed staffers to reinsert into his planned ellipse speech some language that

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