Speaker 1: Hey, this is a pretty big deal. Former Attorney General Eric Holder
is now predicting that Donald Trump and his top administration officials will be indicted,
will be indicted. Newsweek writes Former Attorney General Eric Holder predicted Friday that Trump,
as well as other top officials from the former president's administration, will be invited by the
indicted by the U.S. government over the events of January six, 2021, and their efforts to change the
2020 results. In early May, Holder told CBS News he believed Trump's actions related to January
six merit an indictment. Hundreds of Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol that day
after the then president told them to walk to the federal legislative building and fight like hell
to save their country. Those directions came after Trump claimed for months that Biden's
victory was fraudulent while pressuring officials across the country to overturn the win. On Friday,
in an interview on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, Holder reiterated his view
that Trump should face indictment. Let's take a look at this video of Eric Holder explaining
this here to Bill Maher on his show Friday. Speaker 2: If you were still the attorney
general about Trump and January six, well, I'll tell you, if you'd asked me that question about a
year or so ago, I would have said I. Been awfully concerned about the divisive nature of bringing a
case against a former president. But now, because of what we know, what great journalists have done,
the leaks that have come from the January six committee, if you show me that Donald Trump was
involved in the efforts to, in essence, foment a coup, and you can show the requisite intent,
he has to be indicted. Unidentified:
And what would that entail after you indict him?
After you indict him? Well, he would. Speaker 2: Then, you know, you take him to trial
just like anybody else. I think, you know, you can look at what Merrick Garland is going to do.
I think my primary, my first analysis would be what's going to happen to him
in Georgia. Right. We've got him on tape saying, you find me 11,783 is close to a layup, it seems
to me. I've always said the same thing about that. Why don't they just go after that one moment. It's
on tape. You have the smoking gun, he's saying. I mean, I remember when Rod Blagojevich was on tape,
basically, it didn't work out too well for him. No, I know. But but it was it was it was it was
pretty blatant, but it wasn't as bad as find me 11,000 votes. Yeah. Yeah. No, I think as I said,
I think that's close to a layup. The D.A. down there is going to be calling witnesses,
I understand, before a special grand jury. But the interesting thing there is that that
can also be a specification and a federal charge that could be brought in Washington,
D.C. When you're charging him with conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to obstruct, what happened
in Georgia can actually be part of a federal case as well. So I think, you know, I was a federal
prosecutor doing political corruption cases when I first came to the Justice Department for 12 years.
And you get a feel for these things after a while. I get the feeling that I can see where this one is
going. And a lot of my level people in the Trump administration, I suspect the president himself,
people at the Justice Department are all going to find themselves on a little document that
says the United States versus fill in the body. Speaker 1: So there is the prediction and the hope
would be that the Department of Justice will view the upcoming January 6th hearings, which start
later this week as a way to say, well, now we see it all in detail. And while the main purpose
of the January six committee is not criminal investigation, if they uncover we've talked
about this before, if they uncover cover criminal activity, they refer to the Justice Department to
look at it. And what Eric Holder is saying is how that how could they come to any other conclusion?
Now, there are some who will say the hearings are sort of embarrassing enough that you don't need
to indict. That's like the prototypical Susan Collins thing. Republican Senator Susan Collins
loves to say, well, I was very disappointed that they incited the riotous insurrection,
but the hearings were embarrassing enough to them. And that's enough punishment. We
don't need to make this a political show trial. I'm sure they would never do it again. They've
learned their lesson. That's the Susan Collins approach. You'll probably hear that from some
in the coming weeks after we see what the January six committee has, which will be fascinating to
see. We'll have these clips on our Instagram, which you can find at David Pakman show.