The Jan 6 Georgia Connection (w/ Charlie Bailey)
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Liz Cheney dropped one more nugget at the end of Tuesday’s January 6th Committee hearing, new evidence that Donald Trump may be contacting witnesses who are being called to testify in an apparent effort to influence what they might say. If true, it’s a federal crime. And Cheney’s statement that the Department of Justice had been alerted immediately set off speculation about another possible avenue for Attorney General Merrick Garland’s prosecutors to pursue. As the committee moves to wrap up its extraordinary series of hearings next week in primetime, the path to a possible prosecution of Donald Trump only seems to be expanding. Not just in Washington, but in Atlanta where Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is accelerating her own investigation. We’ll talk to someone who has their own unique perspective on the Willis probe, Charlie Bailey, a former prosecutor who used to work for Willis, and is now running for Lieutenant Governor against a Republican lawmaker deeply involved in Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
GUESTS:
- Charlie Bailey, (@charlie4georgia), 2022 Democratic LG Nominee, Atty at Cook & Connelly, Fmr. Senior Assistant District Attorney
HOSTS:
- Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
- Daniel Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo News
RESOURCES:
- Isikoff and Klaidman's Fani Willis piece from June. - Here.
- David Knowles piece onGeorgia election officials debunking Trump claim - Here.
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump tried to call a witness in our investigation. |
| 0:08.0 | A witness you have not yet seen in these hearings. |
| 0:12.5 | That person declined to answer or respond to President Trump's call and instead alerted |
| 0:19.2 | their lawyer to the call. |
| 0:21.7 | Their lawyer alerted us and this committee has supplied that information to the Department |
| 0:27.6 | of Justice. |
| 0:29.5 | Let me say one more time. |
| 0:31.4 | We will take any effort to influence witness testimony very seriously. |
| 0:38.6 | That was Liz Cheney dropping one more nugget at the end of Tuesday's January 6th committee |
| 0:43.1 | hearing. |
| 0:44.1 | New evidence that Donald Trump may be contacting witnesses who are being called to testify |
| 0:49.0 | and an apparent effort to influence what they might say. |
| 0:52.6 | If true, it's a federal crime. |
| 0:54.8 | And Cheney's statement that the Department of Justice has been alerted immediately set |
| 0:59.0 | off speculation about another possible avenue for Attorney General Merrick Garland's prosecutors |
| 1:04.0 | to pursue. |
| 1:05.4 | As the committee moves to wrap up its extraordinary series of hearings next week in prime time, |
| 1:10.5 | the past to a possible prosecution of Donald Trump only seems to be expanding. |
| 1:15.4 | Not just in Washington, but in Atlanta, where Fulton County District Attorney Fawn A. Willis |
| 1:19.7 | is accelerating her own investigation. |
| 1:22.0 | We'll talk to somebody who is a unique perspective on the Willis probe, Charlie Bailey, a former |
| 1:27.0 | prosecutor who used to work for Willis, and is now running for a lieutenant governor against |
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