Learn English with Amy Poehler. She is the first woman to serve as a US Attorney General in 20 years. She was sworn in on January 6th, 2019, as the committee investigating the Trump administration held its first hearing.
00:00:00.000Separated by a giant ocean, it's a war that should have never started, and it wouldn't have started if the 2020 U.S. presidential election weren't rigged.
00:00:11.440It was a rigged election. Everybody now knows that. They found out. People will soon be prosecuted for what they did.
00:00:19.020Trump says you're a criminal and you belong in prison.
00:00:23.940He says you belong in prison, not because you did anything wrong, mind you, but because you did everything right.
00:00:30.360You pursued the facts. You followed the law. You stuck with extreme caution to every rule of professional responsibility.
00:00:47.220Everybody here knows what you did wrong in Donald Trump's eyes and why he says you belong in prison.
00:00:54.300You found, and I quote from your sworn testimony before the committee, you found proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power.
00:01:12.080When asked whether you believed the evidence was enough to obtain a criminal conviction against Donald Trump at trial, you had a one-word answer.
00:01:22.740When asked if Donald Trump was responsible for the violence that took place at the Capitol on January 6th, you said our view of the evidence was that he caused it and that he exploited it and that it was foreseeable to him.
00:01:37.000You found that Trump knew that Trump knew he had lost the election.
00:01:41.840How? Well, his own attorney general, William Barr, repeatedly told him so and described all of Trump's theories as BS.
00:01:49.120Trump's, Trump's top campaign advisors, told him he lost the election.
00:01:54.360Vice President Pence told him he lost the election.
00:01:58.020More than 60 federal, state, and court decisions, including eight rendered by judges, he appointed to the bench, rejected every outlandish election fraud and corruption claim that he made.
00:02:11.000Trump himself even privately acknowledged it, gesturing to Joe Biden on TV and saying, quote,
00:02:17.240quote, can you believe I lost to that effing guy?
00:02:21.000He knew he lost, but he threw everything into his big lie, which some people, even in this room to this day, will stand by.
00:02:30.560Probably 10 people on this committee who have more conversations with 10, 15 people on this committee who have more conversations with Donald Trump than myself.
00:02:38.560But anybody who says that Donald Trump thought he won that election, that is just plain not true.
00:02:45.300No way, unless he's the best actor in the history of this building.
00:03:05.540And I think on January 6th, I think, I can't believe there were any congressmen here who didn't think Joe Biden was going to be sworn in as president.
00:03:16.740So this was, it was a riot, but it wasn't a threat to the future of the republic.
00:03:22.660...souls made you aware that President Trump is live tweeting, live, I guess you call it truth, socially, as we speak.
00:03:29.480Are you aware of this, about this hearing?
00:04:06.800Mr. Smith, if you care to respond, I'll give you an opportunity.
00:04:10.720But I will simply say, we are grateful for your service to this country.
00:04:16.680We appreciate your fidelity to the rule of law.
00:04:19.900And I would echo the comments that have been made by my Democratic colleagues to ignore the noise that you hear from so many of my colleagues who would debase themselves in this way.
00:04:30.740Today, it is, in my view, subversive of the oaths that we took to defend the Constitution.
00:04:41.880I'm happy to give you an opportunity, Mr. Smith, if you'd like to respond.
00:06:15.440There's been a lot of discussion about witnesses today.
00:06:19.100Perhaps the chairman could muster the courage to call the four witnesses who I see, the American public may not see, I see, standing behind you, Mr. Smith,
00:06:28.080with the four police officers who risked everything, life and limb, to do what?
00:06:35.860To protect the Republican members on the dais.
00:06:40.860It's an outrage that they now sit here and have the audacity to try to rewrite history in front of the very officers who sacrificed everything to protect them.
00:06:52.860I've heard by Democratic judges, Republican judges.
00:06:56.520One of the cases he filed was in the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:06:59.560Like, of course he knew he lost because he lost and it wasn't particularly close.
00:07:04.360But that's that's why he has to continue to spreading the big lie today.
00:07:08.640It's the reason why, you know, just think about it this way, Nicole.
00:07:11.240In the last three weeks, he has said, number one, he wished he had seized the ballot boxes in 2020.
00:07:16.720Well, that's a hell of a piece of evidence that Jack Smith didn't have.
00:07:20.340But what comes out of the words of Donald Trump's own mouth now to The New York Times,
00:07:24.840he has said that he wished we don't have elections in the midterms at all.
00:07:30.640Well, that's like a hell of a piece of evidence. Right.
00:07:33.400And he says that because because incumbent presidents tend to lose the midterm election.
00:07:38.320So let's everyone bookmark that for this November when Donald Trump says that they actually won the midterm elections.
00:07:44.260And that's why he needs to seize ballot boxes and the like.
00:07:47.460And then third, and this is the one that's most chilling, given the testimony today, is on the stage yesterday in Davos.
00:09:36.580Thursday, 22 January, Year of Alert 2026.
00:09:45.840What a way to start off the first day of the second, or I guess the second day of the second year of President Trump's third win for the presidency.
00:09:56.940Julie, because Rachel Maddow is going to have a special night, we're going to get called to that, do more of this tomorrow.
00:10:02.120Just my observation, because I don't know the details to the level you know the details to.
00:10:07.700I know the details of 2020 and how President Trump won in January 6th, but the rest of it is your area of expertise.
00:10:15.680One thing I will say that I know MSMAC and CNN very well of watching us so much and curating years, all the way back from the Breitbart days.
00:10:25.500There's a lot of long faces over there's a lot of knitted brows that Nicole Wallace had, you know, they had Mark up there and they had Weissman up there and they had Wagner up there.
00:11:35.200I think they had collaborated on the areas that they were really going to zone in on Jack Smith.
00:11:41.420I think they took enough time talking about his collection, his unconstitutional, unlawful collection of subpoenas for the phone records of U.S. senators and House members.
00:11:54.840I didn't want them to spend too much time on that.
00:11:58.860And they did tie it into the larger unconstitutional behavior of Jack Smith.
00:12:04.000And I think there were some interesting nuggets that were disclosed today that the committee and Republican leaders in both the House and Senate and perhaps the Department of Justice should follow up on.
00:12:15.100And I think that Smith's testimony opened the door, just like last December, for at least some false statement charges against him and certainly other charges related to his misconduct as special counsel.
00:13:01.680Jack Smith also claiming last month and today that classified documents, highly sensitive documents, classified documents were found in boxes in a ballroom and bathroom at Mar-a-Lago.
00:13:17.920There is no way that Jack Smith could prove that.
00:13:20.560In fact, at the end of the documents case, before Judge Cannon tossed that indictment in July of 2024, one of his lead prosecutors had to disclose that they didn't even know if these alleged classified papers were in the boxes that had been moved around Mar-a-Lago that represented the basis of the obstruction charge.
00:13:43.260I know I'm getting in the details here, but he's making claims under oath about these cases that he cannot prove.
00:13:51.740And I hope that the DOJ and Congress follows up on that.
00:14:09.260And particularly, I agree with you, the shout out to Jim Jordan and the very organized, because, you know, I was the first to say, hey, I don't know, Gates is not around.
00:18:27.260The 2026 election is not going to be run by letting you have a bunch of people there that are not American citizens voting in these hell holes.
00:19:17.400And we know this from, of course, Steve Sund, Harry Dunn's one-time boss, the chief of Capitol Police on January 6th, who was then the scapegoat for the security failures and forced to resign after or was actually sort of fired by Nancy Pelosi.
00:19:33.140He asked for days before January 6th and pleading throughout that afternoon for approval from Nancy Pelosi's security chief on the Capitol Police Board and Mitch McConnell's security chief on the Capitol Police Board to authorize the use of the National Guard.
00:19:55.720So, I mean, and the National Guard was only one part of it.
00:19:59.420So, Capitol Police, plenty of officers, all of them were on call.
00:20:04.760All of them knew that something was going to go down on January 6th.
00:20:09.480D.C. Metro Police, Mike Fanone and Daniel Hodges, who was there yesterday, showed up like stormtroopers, head-to-toe riot gear, start beating the crowds with batons.
00:20:20.240Capitol Police had already been firing pepper balls.
00:20:23.140They're using rubber bullets, tear gas against this crowd outside.
00:20:26.400This was a, if anyone wants to describe it as a riot, it was a police riot.
00:20:32.580It was started by Capitol Police and thugs like Mike Fanone.
00:20:41.020He has, all four of them have lied under oath about what they saw, what they heard, the extent of their injuries.
00:20:47.660I've asked the new January 6th Select Committee to bring those four officers back to the Congress under oath, under subpoena, and repeat the lies that they've told, not just before Congress and the first J-6 committee, but in court as witnesses and victims seeking harsher sentences for J-6ers.
00:21:10.220So, they need to be held accountable to, but back to Jack Smith, I think the American people saw exactly what sort of a low-life lying dirtbag the president and his team had to deal with for two years.
00:21:25.560And, hopefully, this is just the start of not just public accountability for Jack Smith, but legal accountability for what he did as well.
00:21:35.780I'm going to go, we're going to take, we're going to bifurcate these and you're going to go down both, take us, you're going to be our Sherpa taking us down both paths.
00:21:43.420In all the hours you sat in courthouses and watched, because you're the witness, you're the living embodiment of somebody that dedicated themselves to this, listening to the J-6 trials, did it ever come up in any trial or any importance of any trial?
00:22:00.960Exactly what Harry Dunn just said, that they weren't, they weren't prepared, they weren't notified, intelligence had not been spread, they were not up with the security that they needed, they didn't have the barricades right, they didn't have the staffing right, they didn't have the right people there.
00:22:18.360Did that ever come up and any comment at all about a police riot, about what really happened here?
00:22:23.480This was a fed surrection in all the trials you sat through, in all the peoples whose lives were broken, were bankrupt, their families were tormented, their families were crushed, and they got sent to federal prisons.
00:22:38.080No, because the judges prevented, prohibited that sort of testimony from coming up.
00:22:43.460There were a handful of J-6ers who filed motions seeking to make a self-defense argument.
00:22:48.880J-6ers who had been attacked by police and wanted to make self-defense arguments, and those motions, of course, were denied by federal judges.
00:23:01.500Hang on, this is why we, this is why we, this is why we got to impeach Boesburg and get these federal judges.
00:23:07.140I've never said this about my case at all, but I noticed my case and Navarro's case, exactly like the rest, you weren't able to put, they didn't allow you to put on a defense.
00:24:28.820This is why people are getting angry, and folks about to understand, unless this is taken care of, you're not going to get certain low propensity voters to turn out, because they're just going to say, I had a belly full of it.
00:24:42.420This right now, the president was in Davos and said, hey, we're going to see some indictments.
00:24:46.860I'd like to know who's in charge of this, and we got to see it.
00:24:50.540Jack Smith should have been had to, we should have had to transfer him from a federal detention center yesterday so he could testify in shackles.
00:25:44.860I mean, unfortunately, the five-year statute of limitations for holding any of these police officers accountable for excessive force, lethal force, that's expired.
00:25:57.840I mean, this is why, Steve, all of the security footage captured by cameras inside and outside the Capitol were under strict protective orders.
00:26:10.620That's how defendants only got clips that the Biden DOJ produced.
00:26:28.260Was not shut down because there were a bunch of domestic terrorists and that platform helped organize the events of January 6th.
00:26:35.300No, the reason why, because Parler was filled with clips of what police did to protesters outside that day, how they initiated those confrontations.
00:26:51.920That's why Twitter shut down tens of thousands of accounts, including the president's, because they did not want clips of what police had done that day.
00:27:00.200I will tell you, the first time I saw a video, it was sent to me by a J6er who was in the gulag, Cash Kelly, actually.
00:27:07.880And he sent to me through his girlfriend video of police throwing flashbangs into the crowd.
00:27:27.400So that's why they wanted, they shut down all of those accounts, they deplatformed Parler, they put all the Capitol security footage under strict protective orders, and they also did the same with D.C. Metro Police body-worn camera footage, which we started to get through the trials.
00:27:46.820And now Judicial Watch, under Tom Fitton, is asking D.C. Metro Police for all the entire trove of D.C. Metro body-worn camera footage, and they're telling Tom Fitton, you need to pay us a million dollars to get all the footage.
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00:31:46.140Julie Kelly, your thoughts and observations before you punch out on us, ma'am.
00:31:50.340Well, I'm hoping that this grand jury, a grand conspiracy investigation happening in southern Florida with two grand juries impaneled,
00:31:58.300including one in the courthouse run by Judge Aileen Cannon, is really focused in on Jack Smith, including his testimony,
00:32:06.640the false assertions that he has made, especially related to the documents case.
00:32:12.200So hopefully that is where the focus of anything liable for Jack Smith is happening.
00:32:18.220Because, Steve, as you know, and we've got to be honest, these same judges who I saw act as nothing more than a rubber stamp for the Biden DOJ
00:32:30.100And this also includes D.C. grand juries who brought, you know, hundreds of criminal indictments against J6ers for minor offenses.
00:32:39.560And they can't even get indictments for repeat violent felons in Washington, D.C. from these D.C. grand juries.
00:32:48.440And then, of course, the trial juries repeatedly acquitting defendants who the Trump DOJ has brought to trial.
00:32:58.300So it's almost a non-starter in D.C., which is why I really hope what is happening in southern Florida will be very aggressive and fruitful.
00:33:10.180That being said, you know, yes, Congress has a lot more work to do with Jack Smith and his team in continuing to expose.
00:33:18.780I think a lot of people saw Jack Smith for the first time yesterday.
00:33:21.800A lot of people learned for the first time what Jack Smith did to the president, to members of Congress, to conservative activists.
00:33:30.760And his responses, hopefully most Americans will look at that and think, this is what we spent $50 million on.
00:33:38.620This was the most powerful man in Washington for almost two years.
00:33:43.160And hopefully they will want more answers because I know that I do.
00:33:47.100Where do people get all your writings, your substack, Twitter, all of it to stay up with you, ma'am?
00:33:55.580My substack is declassified with Julie Kelly.
00:33:59.000I also have a ton of reporting on both cases over the past few years at Real Clear Investigations and, of course, on XJulie underscore Kelly, too.
00:34:18.700Ben Burquam, you went into, okay, so there's a, I have Hayden Daniels on here in a minute from The Federalist, Sean Davis' great site that's totally free.
00:34:32.680About President Trump, it couldn't be clearer right now.
00:34:36.840President Trump has to go full Andrew Jackson on this insurrection.
00:34:40.300And Hayden walks you through the history of this.
00:34:41.940If you look at the lead story in the New York Post today, and I'm going to have some folks on here from Arizona, including Greg that you've seen before running for the attorney general in the Republican primary.
00:34:53.400The Arizona AG shocked the local news station by saying, oh, well, I think because of the stand your ground laws in Arizona that, you know, illegal alien invaders can sit there and gun down ICE agents.
00:35:10.240You saw Spanberg yesterday, the first thing she did, the wicked witch of the East, what she wants to be the running mate for Newsom.
00:35:21.840She basically outlawed any ICE executive orders, you know, that there's no cooperation with ICE.
00:37:58.260They did not go through a process, and they're going to get the hell out of here.
00:38:01.560Oh, and while we're doing that, why don't we put a ban on all of the immigration scams, the quote-unquote legal immigration, which is a total scam, shut it all down for, let me just pick a random number.
00:38:27.920Why don't we do that and shut down these H-1B visas immediately and ship every H-1B holder back home and make that billet available instantly for some American kid or young man or woman that has slogged through, I don't know, 16 years of education in STEM and got number one in their class all the time and sitting there in either an underpaid job at Starbucks or no job at all.
00:39:20.640You guys helped on it because you knew what Biden was doing and everybody sat there and everybody said, this is the border secure, the border secure.
00:39:28.280Even they're saying now, oh, well, you know, that's one thing Trump did.
00:39:53.740You think General Jackson, the hero of New Orleans that crushed the British army and made sure the British understood, no coming back here, bro.
00:40:06.580I'll make up a team of, you know, a dog's breakfast of individuals down in New Orleans and we will crush you.
00:40:14.300We ended that like he ended Calhoun and those guys in in South Carolina who were kind of pushing for, you know, we think the states actually are supreme here.
00:41:34.800Now, this thing in Baltimore is dangerous because they're saying this is the new peace committee.
00:41:39.080What they are is to start to make the case in the media that you can't have ice coming in anymore.
00:41:45.360You can't have ice coming in and take the bad hombres out.
00:41:48.080They don't mind even having these deranged criminals feasting on the local communities of many times American citizens, African Americans, Hispanic American citizens.
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00:46:06.280Well, you just gave out, and let me get this straight, you brought how many, you gave me one that you're so gracious, freedom for pre-born babies.
00:50:52.480You can sign up to join our prayer team because I have to tell you, the death threats, the vandalizations have only increased since Charlie's assassination.
00:51:14.380That has to be done any time that there's vandalism of a pro-life group.
00:51:19.420If there's attacks on a group, doxing, harassment, or any of the pro-life clinics that are supported,
00:51:24.420every single one of them needs to be put behind bars.
00:51:27.240And we are going to continue to fight to do that, and we're going to track them all down, too.
00:51:31.180Jack, we're going to come back to you, but right now, give social media so people can follow your streaming while you're out there covering this live.
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