Carol Leonnig

A lot of people who are inside the Justice Department told us, sources told us, like, we should have been walking and chewing gum, right?

We should have been doing both things.

That's the first missed boat.

The next missed ball is Thomas Windham, who is plucked out of a U.S.

attorney's office in Maryland by the Deputy Attorney General's office in November 2021 and basically instructed, you're the lone prosecutor on this case.

go into D.C.

and try to figure out, start looking around to see, are there ties between Trump's orbit and this riot?

And as he begins to do that, he asks the FBI chief in the Washington field office to start a grand jury investigation with him.

He wants to pull the financial records for the Willard, where Rudy Giuliani and the campaign were all based in the days before January 6th.

And, you know, Oath Keepers were there with Roger Stone.

Like, there was all this smoke that had never been looked into.

And the head of the FBI's D.C.

office tells Wyndham, I'm not subpoenaing the friggin' Willard.

His exact words.

It's weird.

He thinks it's inappropriate to start looking at a political campaign and also to pull the records of a hotel where a lot of swanky people probably have affairs.

So he...

Concludes no.

And he blocks that grand jury.

It is not for 15 more months, Tim, after Biden takes office that the Department of Justice finally, I saw your hand on your face, finally investigates these fake electors.