CNN anchor Pamela Brown called BS on Trump senior adviser Jason Miller’s suggestion President-elect Donald Trump may have justification to push for jailing the January 6 committee, noting there’s been “no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.”
Trump sat for an exclusive interview this weekend with NBC’s Kristen Welker on Meet the Press, during which Trump lashed out at the members of the committee that investigated the January 6 riot and said they should all “go to jail!”
On Monday’s edition of CNN Newsroom, Miller tried to reinterpret Trump’s remarks, and suggested that J6 committee staff may have committed crimes by leaking classified information and destroying evidence — claims not supported by evidence:
PAMELA BROWN: So we should be clear Trump’s claims about the House Select Committee destroying records is unfounded. But Cheney responded to the president elect’s threats. And we, we have to put this out there, she said in the statement, she called them “a continuation of his assault on the rule of law and the foundations are of our republic.”Will Kash Patel go after members of this committee? And if so, on what specific criminal grounds?JASON MILLER: Yes, I do have to take issue with saying that the select committee didn’t go and destroy records. They’ve wiped everything out –PAMELA BROWN: What evidence do you have for that? They’re on — online.
We just checked this morning.There’s a more than 800 page report with underlying evidence. Its– other agencies did weigh in because they wanted to protect security. Bennie Thompson, for his part, has come out and said this is absolutely false.What evidence do you have?JASON MILLER: Other committees have looked through and said that those records are gone, that they don’t exist, that they’re not there? Even Republicans who are now in charge have said that those records are gone, that they’re not there. So I completely –PAMELA BROWN: Ok well (inaudible).JASON MILLER: — take issue with that. We’re going to have to agree to disagree. But they got rid of it. That look, Liz Cheney is someone who lost her primary, who got bounced out by a very good Republican, who’s been bitter and attacking President Trump ever since. I think Liz Cheney, quite frankly, for what she did. I have my own personal opinions about Liz Cheney.But what President Trump said, if you listen to the entire Meet the Press interview, is he wants everyone who he puts in the key positions of leadership — again, whether that’s Pam Bondi as the AG, Kash Patel, FBI or anybody else — to apply the law equally to everybody.Now, that means if you’re somebody who’s committed some very serious crimes, he has committed very seriousfelonies. Who’s, for example, leaked confidential information in direct violation of laws that are in place. Well, then obviously that set you up for different things.But but as far as the politics aspect, if you listen to the entire interview with President Trump, he said he’s going to leave that up to the law enforcement agents in charge, including Pam Bondi and Kash Patel.PAMELA BROWN: But the things you mentioned — so far, there has been no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
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