Facts So Far In Trump Coup Probe Suggest Criminal Referral Likely

how serious is the uh set of circumstances that's being described to you by people like jeffrey rosen and richard donahue in this recent testimony well rachel we've seen a lot over the last four and a half years of donald trump and nothing in my experience was more serious than this attempt to overthrow a lawful election corrupting and weaponizing the department of justice absolutely horrifying and the graphic dramatic detail that jeff rosen described made it all the more real to us he conveyed what it was like to live through it in real time and anybody standing up to the president in the oval office feeling the weight of that office and the importance of that historic moment really had a very important role in history and i must say the seriousness of it was conveyed very very importantly during that interview obviously this is important for history um in terms of accountability both at the justice department and for potentially the former president i guess there's the question of what happens to this information we expect that presumably your committee will release these transcripts um we expect from chairman durbin that there may be some report at some point but i was struck by the fact that this weekend after sitting through some of that testimony you said that you see the prospect for criminal charges here um does that mean you're expecting your committee to make a criminal referral or that the the justice department might itself move ahead on these matters already first we have to go forward with our investigation and of course chairman durbin will decide what witnesses ought to be pursued as you've just said b.j pack will testify on wednesday but there are a great many others who had positions of public trust and donald trump's pattern has been to use acolytes and sycophants in those positions of trust whether in the white house or in the congress as well as in the department of justice where he enlisted jeff clark and underling with threats to replace jeff rosen i think the facts already induced in this investigation and reported publicly as you've just done warrant fair consideration for referral to the department of justice i think that there are very important evidence that have to be considered by the department of justice in an investigation of criminal law breaking but the important word you've just used it is accountability if anybody engaged in law breaking they need to be held accountable we want to know what happened so it never happens again and that has to be our common purpose here find the facts follow them and the law wherever they go and get all the witnesses that will voluntarily testify to provide us their truth just as jeff frozen did very [Music] credibly [Music] you

Channel: MSNBC

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Keywords: Rachel Maddow, doj, department of justice, trump doj, trump, trump coup, election 2020, trump election, maddow, msnbc, us news, news

Id: 1FPMO2j88Hc

Length: 3min 30sec (210 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 09 2021

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