Jan. 6th Committee's Record Requests (with Kim Wehle & Mark Hosenball)
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4.0 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The January 6th committee is in full swing. It has made sweeping requests for records and information as they work towards discovering what actually happened leading up to the insurrection on the US Capitol. Will the requests reveal Trump administration officials had a hand in the attack? And if so, what will become of them? Who will receive a subpoena and who will claim executive privilege? And how long will this whole process take? Mark Hosenball, investigative reporter for Reuters, talks about his latest article on the FBI's findings and Kim Wehle, Professor of Law, talks about what the consequences could or would be as it all plays out.
GUESTS:
- Kim Wehle (@kimwehle), Professor of Law, Fmr Asst US Attorney, Author.
- Mark Hosenball (@Reuters), investigative correspondent at Reuters. Formally of Newsweek and Dateline NBC
HOSTS:
- Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
- Daniel Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo News
- Victoria Bassetti (@VBass), fellow, Brennan Center for Justice (contributing co-host)
RESOURCES:
- Jon Ward's latest Yahoo News article on Jan. 6th committee and its requests - Here.
- Mark Hosenball's article on FBI's findings in regards to insurrection being a coordinated attack. Here.
- Kim Wehle's latest article on Trump's lawyers abuse of the court system for political gain. - Here.
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| 0:00.0 | Nearly eight months after a fanatical mob of Trump supporters invaded the U.S. Capitol, |
| 0:07.0 | the House Select Committee investigating the events of January 6 has signaled as preparing |
| 0:11.5 | for a sweeping probe that will leave no stone unturned. |
| 0:15.7 | This week it sent a wide-ranging request for documents to eight federal agencies seeking |
| 0:20.6 | emails, text messages, and phone records of former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows |
| 0:25.4 | and other top Trump staffers, as well as Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, Lara Trump, Donald |
| 0:30.7 | Trump Jr., and Jared Kushner, not to mention Rudy Giuliani, Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, |
| 0:36.4 | and Steve Manon, as well as members of Congress and their staffs. |
| 0:40.6 | It's a breathtaking, possibly unprecedented request, but raises the question, what will |
| 0:45.6 | they actually find? |
| 0:47.4 | Well there's no doubt many of those from whom the committee is seeking documents actively |
| 0:51.2 | promoted the bogus idea that election fraud had robbed Donald Trump of the second-term |
| 0:56.2 | in office. |
| 0:57.2 | A new Reuters report states that so far the Justice Department, in its own investigations, |
| 1:02.5 | has uncovered scant evidence that the January 6 rioters were being directed to commit |
| 1:07.0 | violence as part of a criminal plot from the top to overturn the election. |
| 1:11.2 | We'll talk to the reporter who broke that controversial story, Mark Hosenball, and we'll |
| 1:15.9 | check in with law professor Kimberly Waley on what the investigation might yet uncover |
| 1:20.3 | on this episode of Skull Duggery. |
| 1:46.1 | Michael Isigov, Chief Investigator, correspondent for Yahoo News. |
| 1:52.5 | And I'm Victoria Besedi, a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. |
| 1:56.5 | So we're going to take a break today from the events in Afghanistan, which we've been |
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