Carol Leonnig

the electors for their states when they were not, clearly.

So he's seeing like, okay, there's a potential crime.

But at headquarters at FBI, Chris Wray, the director, his general counsel, their deputies are all pouring over the documents of how are we going to

Later, justify in writing that we are investigating Donald Trump.

And here's the killer on that one.

What we learned, and nobody had reported at the time, was that the anxiety was so high, they ultimately concluded they wouldn't name Donald Trump as a subject, but they would name Donald Trump's campaign as a subject, along with Rudy Giuliani and some other advisors that they knew were involved in this coordination.

The clients, so to speak, meaning the lawmakers, the House members who were on the committee, did not want to share.

And they made that very clear to their chief counsel, Tim Heafey.

They felt like, look, we're about to have televised hearings where we're going to report our findings after interviewing hundreds of people, being way ahead of the Justice Department.

And we don't want to give up our scoop, so to speak, to the Department of Justice, which has been lagging.

You know, the investigators on this team, Aaron and I found it so fascinating when we really pulled back the curtain on this team.

There is this incredible group of investigators on the congressional team, mostly former prosecutors, a few lawyers who Hafe hires to help him figure out what happened.

And the pace at which they are moving is devastatingly fast.

especially compared to the Department of Justice.

It's like the little U.S.

Attorney's Office that could.

Tim Heafey, who is the chief counsel, is a former U.S.

attorney with the Department of Justice.

So his goal all along was, let's treat this like a real investigation.

Let's get to the facts.