in Washington.
Geoff: The January 6 committee
is moving to primetime.
The committee plans to present
unseen documents and provide new
witness testimony about the
capital insurrection.
The committee has interviewed
dozens of witnesses behind
closed doors so far, including a
former attorney general, William
Barr, whose sources say met with
house investigators for more
than two hours this week.
In the committee this past week,
they put out a statement that
says they will present
previously unseen material.
Give us a sense of what that
might be.
>> Exactly right.
They want to show all of the
materials they got from mark
meadows and testimony from
others connected to the militia
groups and testimony from those
who shot the documentary footage
and accompanied the various
actors from election day through
the insurrection.
So none of this has been seen by
anyone before, other than the
investigators on the January 6
committee so for the first time
they are going to present this
and they plan to show a roadmap
of criminality.
Then they will dive into the new
material.
Geoff: Jamie Raskin said a
couple of months ago that this
will blow the roof off of the
house, that is the phrase he
used.
Is that the sense you get >> It
certainly -- is that the sense
you get?
>> It certainly seems to be.
Every time we have had a new
court filing and seeing the
evidence, it's a huge deal.
If that is just what they are
making public, the expectation
is these hearings will be a
really big deal.
Geoff: What is the goal of the
committee?
Are they trying to change
people's minds?
Or are they really introducing
their work product so it exists
in the public work record to
prevent this from happening
again?
>> The committee will say it is
a legislative purpose but it is
clear that they aim to show
potential criminality by the
former president people in his
inner circle.
They want to present that to the
American public and their hope
is that they can show, this is
what the council believes and
you should believe this to come
and this is why.
Geoff: There was frustration
among committee members that the
doj was not moving quickly
enough to enforce subpoenas.
This has changed given the
development with Navarro but how
will this affect ability to
connect the story and stitched
together tapestry of events?
>> I don't think it affects it
at all.
The primary evidence is photos,
text messages, emails.
And they already have it not
from Republicans on the congress
side but from recipients and
those sending text messages.
Geoff: Some members of the
committee have hyped public
hearings as being a watergate
style moment and yet these
hearings are happening in the
middle of the summer, within two
weeks in June and most hearings
will be held during the day.
Will they be able to break
through?
>> The idea is the two weeks
will be big revelations we have
not seen before.
Evidence of conspiracy and
criminality.
This is the aim.
As whether they will break
through, the committee is
starting to think that their job
is wrapping up.
The meat on this is the doj,
they will send all their
evidence to the justice
department and at the end of the