Hi everyone, it's 4 o'clock in New York with subpoenas out for everything and everyone

from a former vice president to an empty folder and a wave of brand new reporting.

We're getting some of our biggest clues yet about the Direction Special Counsel Jack Smith

is taking the politically fraught and complex and unprecedented investigations of an ex-president

by the Justice Department.

There are major developments in both the January 6th investigation and the probe into Trump's

handling of classified documents.

We get to the documents investigation in a minute, but we begin today with what we now

know about the sprawling criminal probe into the Capitol insurrection and that brazing

coup plotted by the ex-president and his allies, including those in the administration and

in Congress.

As the New York Times reports, Jack Smith, quote, steps up the pace, sorting through a mountain

of evidence from the January 6th committee and looking to interview witnesses that did

not speak to the congressional panel.

From that time to report, quote, did former president Trump consume detailed information

about foreign countries' well-in-office?

How extensively did he seek information about whether voting machines have been tampered

with?

Did he indicate he knew he was leaving when his term ended?

Those are among the questions that Justice Department investigators have been directing

at witnesses, as the special counsel, Jack Smith, takes control of the federal investigations

into Trump's efforts to reverse his 2020 election loss and his handling of classified documents

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