Neal Katyal

Trump had directly involved himself on the false electors plot, not just what you are highlighting in your lead up, which was Trump knew what he was doing was illegal.

The idea that he would go and threaten people, and using the power of his office to try and compel the sort of an election result is unforgivable.

Alternate electors are like alternative facts. It’s not a thing.

I do not understand why this committee hasn’t subpoenaed him. I think it’s totally absurd. He is the key person here.

The obligation of the vice president is to do a lot more than that.

Superbly. And I really hope that the Justice Department hires more to prosecute this case, because they`ll do a phenomenal job.

How can he not be right now before us telling us what happened, how it happened, and what the president did to try and, you know, coerce him on January 6th to decertifying the election.

There are people who are actively plotting against it who just want power. They don’t care about the democracy piece of this, and it’s not just President Trump.

We’ll throw it out any way just so we can try and keep our guy in power.

Thank God for these Pence aides who did the right thing, who advised the vice president to do the right thing.

It is really unthinkable in this country, that we would let that go unanswered.

The idea that Merrick Garland wouldn’t prosecute this, I think is unthinkable.

the facts here look incredibly damning for Trump, both on obstruction of an official proceeding and on conspiracy with respect to both of those, the case looks, you know, really quite strong against Donald Trump.

The difference is that these are criminal prosecutions and investigations by the Justice Department for the last four years we’ve had a smattering of different attorneys general Bill Barr, Whitaker, Jeff Sessions who protected the…

If you’re an idiot, if you, you know, are willfully blind to the facts on the ground, that is not a defense to a criminal charge.

This is now not like the Democrats words or something like that. This is Trump`s own inner circle. Bill Barr saying, dude, you lost and everyone told you you lost.

Liz Cheney, in particular tonight, was beyond outstanding.

it’s more likely than not that Donald Trump committed serious felonies on January 6.

Donald Trump was told repeatedly he lost the election, he was told to by his data people he was told it by Bill Barr, his -- you know, vaunted Attorney General.

The Proud Boys are the very entity that Donald Trump, during a presidential debate, when asked about whether he’d accept the results of an election if he lost, he exhorted them to quote 'stand back and stand by'.

This transcends inflation or even school shootings or any of this. This is the essence of who we are as a country, peaceful transitions of power, about government being not about the individual politicians but on behalf of all of us.

If you can allow an incumbent president to try and use the machinery and powers of this office to file all these bogus lawsuits and incite a -- you know, an attack on the United States Capitol, what can`t you do?

This law goes even further than the one in Texas.

It’s obviously about a war against women.

my hope is that, because he is such an institutionalist, because he cares so much about this country, the Department of Justice, the rule of law, he will look at all of this, he`ll look at what Judge Carter said, he`ll look at what the…