Investigators are said to be looking at the actions of Trump and his allies, including pressure put on then-Vice President Mike Pence to disrupt the certification of electoral votes.
A source close to the investigation told CNN prosecutors are focusing in on the fake elector scheme and the role of lawyers Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman along with meetings that were part of a pressure campaign to convince then-Vice President Mike Pence to disrupt the certification of electoral votes.
“We have a huge number of prosecutors and agents working on these cases,” Garland said. “It is inevitable in this kind of investigation that there will be speculation about what we are doing, who we are investigating, what our theories are. The reason there is this speculation and uncertainty is that it’s a fundamental tenet of what we do as prosecutors and investigators is to do it outside of the public eye. We do that for two important reasons.
On Capitol Hill, in newly released audio, former acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller is heard telling the House Select Committee that Trump never gave an order to have troops ready to be deployed to the Capitol on Jan. 6.
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