Aaron C. Davis

Yeah, this comes up at one point in time with then the head of the Washington field office and the FBI, who says exactly that.

You know, what if we catch somebody having a tryst at this hotel?

I'm not going to subpoena.

He literally says, I'm not going to subpoena the frigging Willard Hotel.

I don't want to collect all this information and be accused of looking too broadly.

You're right, Dave.

It's never easy to get federal prosecutors to talk about just about anything.

I will say, just on the broad picture for a second, it's the fact that we were able to tell some of these stories, that people wanted to talk about this, kind of speaks to this moment and how important folks in law enforcement feel this is and what's going on inside the department.

They're largely, I'd say on the FBI side especially, a group that leans more conservative.

And here they're the ones telling us what is going on inside the department, what's been going on these many years.

We really need to, as a country, stand up and take a look and pay attention to, you know, we did not have still even in that have an easy time with prosecutors talking to us and telling us things.

You know, we are very careful to protect sources in this book because, you know, in this current environment, anyone is a target.

That said, there are some scenes that are pretty wild.

And we found that you do end up with Thomas Windham on a park bench meeting with the head of the investigation for the House Select Committee.

And they're comparing notes at one point in time with the, you know, the

head of the House Select Committee saying, you know, I'd like to start a relationship here so that we can share with you what we found.

You know, Thomas does not offer anything in that moment.

But it goes to this point of there was this period where, unbelievably, almost a year after January 6th, Thomas Windham is the only prosecutor with the mandate to investigate if Donald Trump had done anything wrong in relation to January 6th.

And nobody knows it.

It's like secretly like the most interesting man in Washington for a time.