For a very long time.
I have been exceptionally critical of merit Garland and the entire department of justice
for not yet taking action against Donald Trump.
In spite of the massive amount of evidence we have that the guy likely committed criminal
activities and even democratic members of Congress members of the January 6th committee
have echoed those same sentiments.
Wondering why the hell the DOJ is not doing anything well, as it turns out, it may actually
be the fault of the January 6th committee.
According to her report from the New York times that came out on Wednesday, following
Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony on Tuesday, the DOJ was reportedly blindsided by her testimony.
They watched it unfold on TV, just like the rest of us.
And they had no idea that she was about to come in and drop that many bombs on that committee.
Here's what the New York times said.
The federal prosecutors working on the case, watched the aids appearance before the house
committee investigating the January 6th, 2021 riot and were just as astonished by her account
of former president.
Donald J Trump's increasingly desperate bid to hold onto power.
As other viewers, the panel did not provide them with videos or transcripts of our taped
interviews with committee members beforehand, according to several officials, leaving them,
feeling blindsided.
The DOJ, according to this report has been asking the committee, give us some videos,
give us some transcripts.
Please share the evidence.
And according to this report, the January 6th committee has said, Hey, we appreciate
your offer here, but we would rather wait until we're finished to turn all of this over
to you.
We will give it to you.
Don't worry, but we're just gonna wait till we're all done.
So all of this anger that I have had that a lot of the viewers have had towards the
DOJ may be a little misdirected.
And again, this is a little bit astonishing.
I mean, this report blindsided me because members of that committee have come out and
said, why isn't the DOJ doing anything about this?
They're not able to do anything about it because you're hoarding all the information you're
holding all of the evidence and you are not sharing it in spite of the fact that the DOJ
has actually been asking for it.
So to me, I think that's a rather big deal.
And look, I, I, I totally understand.
I totally get it that the committee doesn't want to just give all their information away.
They're still building their case.
They're still working with it,
But you are not a prosecutorial body.
The DOJ is the DOJ has the ability, the authority to impanel a grand jury.
And maybe if you were sharing that evidence with them, if you were giving them these transcripts
and these videos, maybe they would've already done that.
We obviously cannot say for sure, now I have admired the work of this committee.
I have repeatedly said they have exceeded my expectations.
They have played it very well, but I will go ahead and say right now that this is a
massive miscalculation by the committee that could easily and likely has put that DOJ a
year behind where they should be, which means they may not have time to conduct a full and
thorough investigation.
If they don't get that material until the committee ends their work.
That's why this is so dire.
If that committee holds onto this material until the midterms and then hands it over
to the DOJ that gives the DOJ two years.
And to be honest, they're not gonna wanna wait until the next election.
So really about a year and a half, I don't know that that's enough time.
This committee has been, uh, uh, working for now.
This is their 12 month cuz they started last August.
We're now in July, this is their 12th month.
So they've been doing it for a year.
And as far as I can tell, they've barely scratched the surface and yeah, they've done a lot of
the leg work.
Maybe that will help the DOJ once they do turn these things over, but the DOJ is gonna
have to reconduct all these investigations.
They have to get that stuff under oath for them on the record, the committee made a big
misstep by not sharing this information with the DOJ and allowing them to conduct a concurrent
investigation.
And that is something that even, I didn't know, until this report came out.