Jack Smith

The witness has the right to answer the question.

And there'll be due time to answer the question.

Would you please put my time back and let me finish this?

Mr. Smith, I just want to take a minute and allow you to explain why you requested the toll records of those officials for January 6th.

For the January 6th investigation, correct?

Well, with regard to the toll records that were subpoenaed regarding the period of the 4th, I think it was to the 7th, we had evidence that the president had directed Rudy Giuliani, one of his co-conspirators, to contact members of Congress to try to further delay the proceedings and exploit the violence that happened in the Capitol.

We had evidence that those calls had happened.

We wanted to get more evidence of that to corroborate it for trial.

That is, again, as I mentioned earlier today, a standard part of an investigation to understand who a conspiracy is trying to reach out to, how they're trying to influence people.

And you want a documentary confirmation.

Yes, correct.

They call him crooked.

They call him cruel.

They call him a scumbag.

I've heard you all say it.

You're lucky you're not under Trump.

But when the lights go on and the cameras are on, you're tiny, you're small, you shrink.

Jack Smith then gets a gag order in his investigation on President Trump without filing a single affidavit with the court from a witness that they felt threatened by statements from the president.

President Trump was charged because the evidence established that he willfully broke the law.

The very laws he took an oath to uphold.