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January 6 committee zeroes in on former Trump cabinet officials

Anderson Cooper 360

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3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol is zeroing in on members of former President Trump’s Cabinet and wants to learn more about the conversations around possibly invoking the 25th amendment. The panel recently interviewed former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren is a member of the committee and tells Anderson Cooper how cooperative these latest witnesses have been. Plus, at least eight people are dead in eastern Kentucky after heavy overnight rains caused devastating, widespread flooding. CNN Senior Correspondent Joe Johns is in Kentucky and joins AC360 to give an update on the recovery efforts.  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good evening.

0:01.0

There are major new January 6 developments tonight in both the House Select Committee's

0:04.9

investigation and the Justice Department's criminal probe.

0:08.2

First, the Select Committee and the key members of the former administration who are now

0:12.0

cooperating with it or could be about to, or talking about former cabinet level officials,

0:16.8

with firsthand knowledge of what the former president was saying.

0:20.4

Last night in the program, we talked about pieces of a puzzle, and these could be significant

0:24.7

ones, because these are men who could speak if they choose about what the former president

0:29.4

was asking their departments to do, or even what some of them were reportedly discussing

0:33.6

among themselves about using their own constitutional power to stop the president.

0:38.6

What those who talked already have said to the committee and what others might say, we

0:42.8

just don't know, but what they could say, given the positions they held and what they

0:46.7

were privy to, is potentially formidable.

0:49.2

They include former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who we first reported last night,

0:53.4

is expected to sit down with the House Select Committee, perhaps as soon as this week.

0:57.6

Also former Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin, who we learned just today, has already been

1:02.0

interviewed by the committee.

1:03.8

Sources also telling us that negotiations are underway with the former director of National

1:07.2

Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, for a sit-down with him.

1:10.9

And finally, there's former Acting White House Chief of Staff, Mick Mulvaney, who we spoke

1:14.5

with earlier this week on the program.

1:16.7

He was spotted on his way out after speaking with the committee today.

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