Stewart Rhodes’s and Oath Keepers’ lawyer Kellye SoRelle arrived in Washington on the afternoon of January 5th. They immediately went to Freedom Plaza, where President Trump had instructed rally organizers to give some of his most extreme supporters time to speak. Leaders of different groups, including Rhodes encouraged President Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act and call up combat veterans who are “ready to step in and do what is needed.”

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President Trump’s tweet on December 19th conveyed a sense of urgency which provided the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys the opportunity to work together for a common goal. In the days that followed, this section explains how groups met together through video meetings to discuss plans for January 6th. It also documents where weapons caches were placed outside of D.C. as part of their contingency planning.

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This section describes another organization involved in the January 6 events: The Oath Keepers. The group called for President Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act throughout December 2020, arguing that the President needed to do so to “Stop the Steal.”  In a message to the Oath Keepers, group founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes wrote: “We need to push Tump [sic] to do his duty. If he doesn’t, we will do ours." Rhodes believed that the President could empower militias like the Oath Keepers to enforce law and order after other Americans refused to accept President Trump’s rule.

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This section describes the background of the Proud Boys group and how their growth was impacted following a statement by President Trump during a debate.  As former Vice President Joe Biden’s victory became apparent, Proud Boys leaders directed their ire toward others in the Government. The group was involved with a couple key events in Washington D.C. ahead of January 6th. Additionally, they created an encrypted chat to help the group's leaders coordinate in advance of their efforts to storm the Capitol.

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President Trump’s “be wild” tweet immediately mobilized extremists and conspiracy theorists in the “Stop the Steal” coalition. “Stop the Steal” events and other protests throughout 2020 helped build the momentum for January 6th. Two of these rallies in Washington D.C. were critically important. “Stop the Steal” organizers also  tried to use the mob they had assembled—including extremists from the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Three Percenters and Groypers—to intimidate lawmakers and overturn the election results in Georgia.

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Electors around the country met to cast their Electoral College votes in December 2020. Their vote ensured former Vice President Joe Biden's victory and cemented President Donald J. Trump's defeat. President Trump however, had no intention of conceding. As he plotted ways to stay in power, the President summoned a mob for help. On December 19th, President Trump tweeted: “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!” This section summarizes the various groups that helped to orchestrate the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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After January 6th, John Eastman reached out to Eric Herschmann, a lawyer in the White House Counsel’s Office, to talk about litigation in Georgia on behalf of the Trump Campaign. Herschmann used the opportunity to berate Eastman and to recommend that he find a criminal defense lawyer. Eastman later reach out to Rudy Giuliani about being on a list for presidential pardons.

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This section describes the actions taken by Vice President Mike Pence on January 6th after rioters broke into the Capitol. The Vice President refused the Secret Service’s first two attempts to evacuate him from his ceremonial office, but was ultimately forced to a more secure location. He decided he was staying in the building unless there was imminent danger to bodily safety, because he did not want to provide a win to the rioters.

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5.3 - President Trump and His Allies Continue to Pressure the Vice President on January 6th, Threatening His Life and Our Democracy

• President Trump Has a “[H]Eated” Conversation With Vice President Pence Before His Rally on the Ellipse
• Trump, Eastman and Giuliani Continue to Pressure Vice President Pence at the Ellipse Rally
• President Trump Directs the Angry Mob at the Capitol to Pressure Vice President Pence
• The Vice President Waited to Release His Statement Out of Deference to President Trump, Who Was Still Speaking on the Ellipse, and Ultimately Released It Just Minutes Before the Joint Session Convened at 1:00 p.m.
• Vice President Pence Adheres to the U.S. Constitution and Complies with the Law Governing the Certification of the Presidential Election.

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5.2 - President Trump and His Allies Exert Intense Public and Private Pressure on the Vice President in Advance of the Joint Session of Congress on January 6th

• January 2, 2021: The Vice President Meets With His Advisors, Cementing His Intended Path for the Joint Session
• January 2, 2021: Eastman and Bannon Question the “Courage and Spine” of Vice President Pence
• January 3, 2021: Eastman Drafts Another “January 6 Scenario” Memo “Wargaming” the Ways That Vice President Pence Could Change the Outcome of the Election.
• January 4, 2021: President Trump and Eastman Meet with Pence and His Staff in the Oval Office.
• January 4, 2021: President Trump Publicly Pressures the Vice President During a Rally Speech in Georgia
• January 5, 2021: Eastman Pressures Pence’s Staff in a Private Meeting While President Trump Tweets
• January 5, 2021: President Trump Again Pressures Vice President Pence in a One-On-One Meeting at the White House and Another Phone Call With Eastman
• January 5, 2021: An Accurate New York Times Article About the Vice President Prompts a False Statement in Response by President Trump
• January 5, 2021: Bannon Publicly Amplifies the Pressure on Vice President Pence

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5.1 - President Trump and His Allies Embark on a Desperate Gambit to Block Certification of the 2020 Presidential Election

• The Intellectual Framework for the Theory That the Vice President Could Change the Outcome of the Election at the Joint Session Emerged From Discussions Among the Lawyers Working With the Trump Campaign After the 2020 Election
• Kenneth Chesebro Articulated a “President of the Senate” Strategy in Early December, When the Trump Campaign Was Convening “Alternate” Electors in Key States President Trump Lost
• On December 23, John Eastman Drafted the First of His Two “January 6th Scenario” Memos, Articulating the Argument That Under the Constitution the Vice President Is the “Ultimate Arbiter”
• Eastman Changed His Evaluation of the 12th Amendment, and the Role of the Vice President, After President Trump Lost the Election
• Eastman’s “January 6 Scenario” Clearly Required the Vice President To Violate the Electoral Count Act, the Federal Law Governing the Certification of Presidential Elections
• Eastman’s Theory Was—in the Words of President Trump’s Senior White House and Campaign Officials—“Insane,” “Crazy,” “Nutty” and It Would Never Practically Work
• The Vice President’s Conclusion That He Did Not Have the Ability to Affect the Outcome of the Election
• President Trump’s Allies Filed Lawsuits Seeking a Court Order Directing Vice President Pence Not to Count Certain Electoral Votes
• Other Individuals Advising President Trump and His Campaign Also Advocated for a Role for the Vice President at the Joint Session

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As January 6th approached, President Trump turned on his own Vice President. This chapter describes the pressure placed on Vice President Mike Pence in the days leading up to January 6th. It also provides evidence that President Trump knew what he was doing was in violation of the Electoral Count Act and the U.S. Constitution. Finally, sending his supporters to march to the U.S. Capitol was one last attempt to pressure Vice President Pence into taking one of the two options that President Trump and John Eastman believed would either keep Trump in office or delay former Vice President Biden from taking office.

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The most senior DOJ officials stopped President Trump from co-opting America’s leading law enforcement agency for his own corrupt purposes. This short section concludes with a quote from Jeffrey Rosen regarding his short time as the Acting Attorney General.

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On January 3rd, Clark informed Rosen that he had decided to accept the President’s offer to serve as the Acting Attorney General. Rosen took four steps to try and prevent Clark’s ascension to Attorney General. At Rosen’s request, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows arranged a meeting with the President that evening. The threat of mass resignations ultimately prevented Clark from taking over as acting Acting Attorney General.

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On Saturday, January 2nd, Rosen and Donoghue told Clark that he should stop meeting with the President. Clark told Rosen that he would decline the offer to become the Acting AG if Rosen and Donoghue signed his letter to officials in Georgia. That same day, President Trump attempted to coerce Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger into finding enough votes to win the state.

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On December 31st, 2020, President Trump returned to Washington, DC, after celebrating Christmas in Florida. The President once again raised the prospect of naming Clark the Acting Attorney General. Trump also floated the prospect of naming a special counsel to investigate the allegations surrounding the elections. During the December 31st meeting, the President also raised the prospect of seizing the voting machines. However, the DOJ pushed back, saying they had no basis to seize voting machines from the States.

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On December 30th, Acting Attorney General Rosen had a phone call with President Trump that included a discussion about the proposed United States v. Pennsylvania lawsuit. During the call, Rosen clearly explained to the President that DOJ could not file it.

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In a meeting on December 29th, senior DOJ officials were presented with a draft civil complain tentatively called United States v. Pennsylvania. The DOJ looked at the lawsuit and determined they could not file it for multiple reasons. One primary reason was the proposed lawsuit lacked merit. This chapter also brings up a new allegation of a conspiracy involving an Italian company that was involved in changing votes in the Presidential election.

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On December 28, 2020, Jeffrey Clark sent a five-page draft letter to Department of Justice leaders for their signature. If signed and sent, the letter may have provoked a constitutional crisis. The letter was a recommendation to Georgia state leaders to hold a special session in light of "significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election." It also supported the notion of competing slates of electors in other contested states.

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Representative Perry was one of President Trump’s key congressional allies in the effort to overturn the election’s results. When Perry called Donoghue on December 27th, the Pennsylvania Congressman saidthat President Trump asked him to call. Perry said he didn't think DOJ had been doing its job on the election. Because Pennsylvania’s election site had not been updated, it led to claims that there were more votes counted than there were actual votes cast in the state.

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President Trump made several allegations during a December 27th call with Acting Attorney General Rosen. Acting Deputy Attorney General Donoghue was conferenced in and said the President was becoming more adamant that they weren't doing their job. President Trump wanted the Department to say the election was corrupt, so he and the Republican Congressmen could exploit the statement in the days leading up to January 6th.

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Congressman Scott Perry, a Republican from Pennsylvania, introduced a little-known DOJ official named Jeffrey Clark to the President. While Clark was the Acting Head of the Civil Division and Head of the Environmental and Natural Resources Division at the Department of Justice, he was introduced to the President. Clark said that if Trump would change the leadership at the DOJ, he might be able to do more to support the President’s claims about the election.

Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue provided details to the Select Committee about his first meeting with President Trump on December 15th, the day following Barr's resignation. Donoghue said this meeting was primarily focused on the ASOG report auditing the voting machines in Michigan. Trump was adamant that it proved that the election was defective and the Department should be using that report to tell the American people that the election results were not trustworthy.

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On December 14, 2020, Attorney General Barr submitted his resignation to President Trump. This section provides details about the reason why Barr turned in his resignation and his final Oval Office meeting with President Trump. Before Barr resigned, Trump pressed him to continue to investigate in Michigan after the Allied Security Operations Group (ASOG) released a report on Dominion voting machines in Antrim County.

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After President Trump attacked the DOJ, Attorney General Barr decided to speak out. He invited an Associated Press reporter to lunch on December 1st. Barr told the journalist that the department had not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election. Trump called Barr into the Oval Office and the Attorney General offered his resignation.

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On November 23rd, the Attorney General was called to the White House to meet with President Trump. President Trump didn't feel the Department of Justice was doing enough to investigate his election fraud claims. Barr explained to the President why he was wrong. DOJ, was willing to investigate any specific and credible allegations of fraud. The fact of the matter was that the claims being made had no merit upon further investigation.

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Note: This is the first section of Chapter 4. Unlike the previous three chapters, Chapter 4 does not have an introduction.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr knew there would be trouble before all the votes had been counted. As was expected, the early vote tally favored Republicans on election night because the mail-in ballots were not yet fully counted. This occurred in 2020 and in previous elections. The President knew of this phenomenon but exploited it on election night, as he and his allies had planned to do. According to Barr, President Trump exploited this timing gap and used it as “the basis for this broad claim that there was major fraud.”

As January 6th approached, there were members of the Republican party who expressed grave concerns about the fake elector effort. It was becoming clear that the Trump team wanted the fake electors’ votes to be considered on January 6th even without authorization the states. This section describes some of the last moment attempts to deliver some of the fake elector documents to Vice President Mike Pence shortly before the joint session of Congress.

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On December 14th, using instructions provided by Kenneth Chesebro, the fake Trump electors gathered and participated in signing ceremonies in all seven States. All seven of these invalid sets of electoral votes were then transmitted to Washington, DC. This section describes how some were encouraged to maintain secrecy or even hide overnight to try and legally be in the proper place to sign the faked documents.

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Campaign lawyers as well as the Office of White House Counsel expressed concern over the plan to have fake electors submit their votes for President Trump. Legal staffers reduced their involvement in the fake elector effort when they felt there wasn't a feasible scenario where the courts could decide that President Trump actually won any of the States he contested. This section explains how Rudy Giuliani and Kenneth Chesebro led the effort to organize the fake elector plan at the direction of President Trump.

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In early December, the Trump Campaign took note of Kenneth Chesebro’s fake elector plan and began to put it into action. In early December, Mark Meadows forwarded a copy of Chesebro’s November 18, 2020, memo to Jason Miller to set up a meeting. By December 7th or 8th, it appeared that President Trump had decided to pursue the fake elector plan and was driving it.

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The plan to use fake electors emerged from a series of legal memos written by Kenneth Chesebro, an attorney based in Boston and New York recruited to assist the Trump Campaign as a volunteer legal advisor. Memos by Chesebro in November and December, discussed in this section, laid the foundation for the plan that Vice President Mike Pence would need to help enact on January 6th.

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December 14, 2020, was the date when certified electors met to cast their electoral votes for the candidate who won the popular vote in their respective states. However, groups of fake electors also met on this same date to cast electoral votes for President Trump in states that he had lost. This was part of a coordinated scheme that took shape as ‘President of the Senate’ strategy discussed throughout this chapter.

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The January 6th Report: A reading of Chapter 2.7 - The Harm Caused by Demonizing Public Servants

President Trump and his team’s practice of naming and viciously criticizing people had real consequences. Governors, secretaries of State, State legislators, State and local election officials, and frontline election workers were subjected to public demonization and subsequent spamming, doxing, harassment, intimidation, and violent threats. The final section of chapter two details some of the harm caused.

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The January 6th Report: A reading of Chapter 2.6 - The Final Outreach to State Legislators

President Trump’s Campaign team, advisors, and volunteers generally acted in accord with a “Strategic Communications Plan” when engaging with State officials. Pieces of the plan had been in place for some period of time before the document was created, but it may have been the “catalyst” for memorializing the plan as the deadline of January 6th approached.

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The January 6th Report: A reading of Chapter 2.5 - Some Officials Eagerly Assisted President Trump With His Plans

This section focuses primarily on President Trump's coordination with Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano and their efforts leading up to January 6. By coordinating a group of Pennsylvania State senators to meet with President Trump in the Oval Office, they were able to persuade an estimated 20 members toward overturning the election in the state. It also details how Pennsylvania’s stringent lobbying laws prevented additional pressure being placed on state legislators. Instead those efforts were directed toward Arizona.

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The January 6th Report: A reading of Chapter 2.4 - An Outright Request for Victory

Beyond asking State officials to not certify, to decertify, or to appoint Trump electors for consideration during the joint session, President Trump and some of his closest advisors inserted themselves directly into the counting of ballots and asked, outright, for enough votes to win. This section documents some of the communications that led to the widely reported call from President Trump to the Georgia Secretary of State asking to find enough votes to win.

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The January 6th Report: A reading of Chapter 2.3 (Intro) - Outreach and Implementation of the Plan

Just one day after the State-focused plan came up in the Oval Office, President Trump started taking concrete steps aimed at State legislators. In the weeks that followed, the President led an outreach aimed at officials in States he lost but that had GOP-led legislatures, including in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Arizona. The six sections provide further details regarding the efforts.

• President Trump’s Early Pressure on Public Servants (3:04)
• Efforts to Prevent State and Local Officials From Certifying the Election (9:21)
• Efforts to Replace Electoral College Electors and Overturn the Election (14:32)
• Meetings With State Legislators—the “Hearings” (15:08)
• The Trump Campaign’s Barrage of Phone Calls to State Legislators (27:12)
• Outreach by President Trump and Senior Aides (29:33); Michigan (29:53); Pennsylvania (33:24); Arizona (42:03); Georgia (47:59)

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The January 6th Report: A reading of Chapter 2.2 - The Plan Emerges

An article published in The Atlantic in September 2020 reported that the Trump Campaign was discussing contingency plans to bypass election results and appoint electors in battleground States where Republicans held the legislative majority. Pushing claims of rampant fraud, that's what the Trump team ultimately did. This section explains how the plan came together to reach out to State legislators to set aside the popular vote and exercise their power to choose a slate of electors.

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The January 6th Report: A reading of Chapter 2.1 - The Electoral College, and President Trump’s Attempt to Subvert It

President Trump and his advisors tried different ways to change the outcome of the election in different states. They pressured local and State elections officials to stop counting votes once it became clear that former Vice President Joseph Biden would prevail in the final count. They pressured Governors, secretaries of State, and local officials not to certify the popular vote in several swing States that Biden had won. When that didn't work, they pressured State legislators to disregard the vote counts and appoint Trump electors to vote in the electoral college.

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The January 6th Report: A reading of Chapter 2 (Introduction) - “I Just Want to Find 11,780 Votes”

In a telephone call on January 2, 2021, President Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger about finding additional votes in the state. Trump’s phone call with Raffensperger received widespread coverage after it was leaked. However, Georgia was not the only State targeted by President Trump and his team. The call was one element of a larger and more comprehensive effort explained in this chapter.

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The January 6th Report: A reading of Chapter 1.9 - President Trump’s January 6th Speech

At noon on January 6, 2021, President Trump addressed thousands of his supporters at a rally just south of the White House. By the Select Committee’s assessment, there were more than 100 times during his speech in which President Trump said that either the election had been stolen from him, or discussed how votes had been compromised by a specific act of fraud or through major procedural violations.

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The January 6th Report: A reading of Chapter 1.8 - President Trump Repeatedly Promoted Conspiracy Theories

This section of the report gets into some of the conspiracy theories generated following the election. The Department of Justice, state authorities, judges, experts, journalists, other Federal officials, and even members of his own legal team were forced to run down and try to debunk or explain a number of them. The President’s own campaign team ultimately believed that there was no significant fraud in the election.

• Dominion Voting Systems (7:40)
• The State Farm Arena Video (29:05)
• The Fake Ballot Myth (35:59)
• The “Multiple Counting of Ballots” Fiction (41:24)
• The Imaginary “Dead” and “Ineligible” Voters (42:35)

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This episode is a reading of Chapter 1.7 - President Trump Had His Day in Court.

In this section of the first chapter, the committee says that the Trump Campaign and allies of President Trump filed 62 separate lawsuits between November 4, 2020, and January 6, 2021. The chapter provides details from several of the cases, the political orientation of the courts and how contentions the votes were among the judges involved.

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This episode is a reading of Chapter 1.6 - President Trump’s Campaign Team Told Him He Lost the Election and There Was No Significant Fraud.

In this section of the first chapter, the committee shares the testimony from many of President Trump's staffers about how their attempts to find fraud in the election, but came up with nothing significant enough to overcome the votes they needed in several states. Instead, they developed several talking points that would be repeated in the following months leading up to January 6th.

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This episode is a reading of Chapter 1.5 - Post-Election: President Trump Replaces His Campaign Team.

This is the Select Committee's summary about the release of his campaign team that referred to itself as "team normal." In their place, Trump promoted Rudy Giuliani and several investigators and lawyers to assist him. As discussed later in the report, these players became key figures in President Trump’s efforts to overturn the election.

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This episode is a reading of Chapter 1.4 - President Trump’s Launch of the Big Lie.

The Select Committee provides the origin of President Trump's claim of election fraud as he often referred to “dumps” of votes that were injected into the counting process and that his supporters latched onto these false claims. 

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This episode is a reading of Chapter 1.3 - Trump’s Pre-Election Efforts to Delegitimize the Election Process.

The Select Committee explains that it found dozens of instances in which President Trump claimed that mail-in voting would produce a "rigged" election. This short section is a precursor to President Trump’s launch of the Big Lie, explained in the following section, and provides context for future efforts to delegitimize the election.

This episode is a reading of Chapter 1.2 - Trump’s Pre-Election Plans to Declare Victory

The following episodes will be released in subsequent days:

• 1.3 - Trump’s Pre-Election Efforts to Delegitimize the Election Process
• 1.4 - President Trump’s Launch of the Big Lie
• 1.5 - Post-Election: President Trump Replaces His Campaign Team
• 1.6 - President Trump’s Campaign Team Told Him He Lost the Election and There Was No Significant Fraud
• 1.7 - President Trump Had His Day in Court
• 1.8 - President Trump Repeatedly Promoted Conspiracy Theories
• Dominion Voting Systems
• The State Farm Arena Video
• The Fake Ballot Myth
• The “Multiple Counting of Ballots” Fiction
• The Imaginary “Dead” and “Ineligible” Voters
• 1.9 - President Trump’s January 6th Speech

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On December 22, 2022, the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol released their final report. This podcast is a reading of that document without any additional commentary.  

This episode is a reading of Chapter 1.1 - The Big Lie Reflected Deliberate Exploitation of the “Red Mirage”

The following episodes will be released in subsequent days:

• 1.2 - Trump’s Pre-Election Plans to Declare Victory
• 1.3 - Trump’s Pre-Election Efforts to Delegitimize the Election Process
• 1.4 - President Trump’s Launch of the Big Lie
• 1.5 - Post-Election: President Trump Replaces His Campaign Team
• 1.6 - President Trump’s Campaign Team Told Him He Lost the Election and There Was No Significant Fraud
• 1.7 - President Trump Had His Day in Court
• 1.8 - President Trump Repeatedly Promoted Conspiracy Theories
  • Dominion Voting Systems
  • The State Farm Arena Video
  • The Fake Ballot Myth
  • The “Multiple Counting of Ballots” Fiction
  • The Imaginary “Dead” and “Ineligible” Voters
• 1.9 - President Trump’s January 6th Speech

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On December 22, 2022, the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol released their final report. This podcast is a reading of that document without any additional commentary.  

This episode is the introductory section of Chapter 1 - The Big Lie.

The following episodes will be released in subsequent days:

• 1.1 - The Big Lie Reflected Deliberate Exploitation of the “Red Mirage”
• 1.2 - Trump’s Pre-Election Plans to Declare Victory
• 1.3 - Trump’s Pre-Election Efforts to Delegitimize the Election Process
• 1.4 - President Trump’s Launch of the Big Lie
• 1.5 - Post-Election: President Trump Replaces His Campaign Team
• 1.6 - President Trump’s Campaign Team Told Him He Lost the Election and There Was No Significant Fraud
• 1.7 - President Trump Had His Day in Court
• 1.8 - President Trump Repeatedly Promoted Conspiracy Theories
  • Dominion Voting Systems
  • The State Farm Arena Video
  • The Fake Ballot Myth
  • The “Multiple Counting of Ballots” Fiction
  • The Imaginary “Dead” and “Ineligible” Voters
• 1.9 - President Trump’s January 6th Speech

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This is a reading of the first volume from the five-volume Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence United States Senate on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election. This document focuses specifically on Russian efforts to attack our election infrastructure. It explains security concerns with various U.S. voting machines, the ability for DHS to provide support to the states, and scenarios for potential disruption to our elections.

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I. INTRODUCTION (2:28)

II. FINDINGS (3:13)

III. THE ARC OF RUSSIAN ACTIVITIES (7:52)

IV. ELEMENTS OF RUSSIAN ACTIVITIES (14:17)

A. Targeting Activity (14:21)

B. Russian Access to Election Infrastructure (31:26)

1. Russian Access to Election Infrastructure: Illinois (32:16)

2. Russian Access to Election Infrastructure: State 2 (35:46)

C. Russian Efforts to Research U.S. Voting Systems, Processes, and Other Elements of Voting Infrastructure (40:32)

D. Russian Activity Directed at Voting Machine Companies (40:50)

E. Russian Efforts to Observe Polling Places (41:23)

F. [Redacted] (42:13)

G. Russian Activity Possibly Related to a Misinformation Campaign on Voter [Redacted] (42:19)

H. Two Unexplained Events (43:10)

1. Cyber Activity in State 22 (43:13)

2. Cyber Activity in State 4 (43:20)

V. RUSSIAN INTENTIONS (45:54)

Chaos on Election Day: Three Scenarios (49:25)

VI. NO EVIDENCE OF CHANGED VOTES OR MANIPULATED VOTE TALLIES (50:54)

VII. SECURITY OF VOTING MACHINES (56:23)

Direct-Recording Electronic (DRE) Voting Machine Vulnerabilities (1:00:45)

Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (1:06:32)

VIII. THE ROLE OF DHS AND INTERACTIONS WITH THE STATES (1:09:37)

A. DHS's Evolution (1:10:17)

Critical Infrastructure Designation (1:15:21)

B. The View From the States (1:18:17)

C. Taking Advantage of DHS Resources (1:25:53)

IX. RECOMMENDATIONS (1:30:30)

MINORITY VIEWS OF SENATOR WYDEN (1:48:19)

ADDITIONAL VIEWS OF SENATORS HARRIS, BENNET, AND HEINRICH (2:02:54)

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• The Trump Middle East Marshall Plan: 2019 Congressional Oversight Reports
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On January 25, 2021, the House of Representatives delivered a single Article of Impeachment against President Trump to the United States Senate. On January 12, 2021, the majority staff of the House Judiciary Committee released the first public staff report detailing the events of January 6, 2021, when insurrectionists broke into the U.S. Capitol.

The event occurred as the House and the Senate met in a Joint Session of Congress, with the Vice President presiding, to count the Electoral College’s votes for President. In response, the House of Representatives called for the impeachment of President Donald J. Trump.

The report details the history, purpose and meaning of the Constitution’s Impeachment Clause, and establishes that President Trump’s conduct as set forth in the Article of Impeachment satisfies the standard for high Crimes and Misdemeanors. The majority staff of the House Judiciary Committee prepared this report for the use of the House Rules Committee to accompany H. RES. 24, titled "Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, For High Crimes and Misdemeanors."

INTRODUCTION (2:47)

I. Factual Background (9:36)

I.A. Conduct Leading Up to January 6, 2021 (10:34)

I.B. The January 6, 2021 “Save America Rally” (22:22)

I.C. The Attack on the Capitol (29:30)

I.D. President Trump’s Response to the Insurrection (37:42)

I.E. The Events of January 6th Were a Result of and Incited by the President’s Course of Conduct (44:27)

II. The Need for the House to Impeach President Trump (50:47)

II.A. Standards for Impeachment (51:13)

II.B. Application of Impeachment Standards to President Trump’s Conduct (54:11)

II.B.1. The Article of Impeachment Charges an Impeachable Offense (54:26)

II.B.2. President Trump Committed the Charged Impeachable Offense (1:03:24)

II.B.3. President Trump’s Conduct Harmed Core National Interests (1:15:53)

II.C. The Irrelevance of the Criminal Code and the Brandenburg Test (1:26:08)

III. The Need for Immediate Consideration of Impeachment (1:31:15)

III.A. Imminent Threat to the United States (1:34:10)

III.A.1. President Trump Failed to Protect the Capitol, the Vice President, and Members of Congress During the Joint Session of Congress (1:35:02)

III.A.2. President Trump Has Demonstrated No Remorse Since January 6th (1:42:18)

III.A.3. President Trump’s Actions Are Consistent with His Past Pattern of Undermining the Public Peace and the Orderly Operation of Democracy (1:49:59)

III.B. The Need to Establish Precedent That Such Conduct by a President Is Unconstitutional and Contrary to Our Democratic Values (2:00:35)

CONCLUSION (2:05:13)

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• The Trump Middle East Marshall Plan: 2019 Congressional Oversight Reports
• Turkey’s October 2019 Incursion Into Syria: Background, U.S. Relations and Sanctions In Brief

The final subsection of Volume 2 is merely one paragraph on page 182 from the report and restates what was in the Introduction and Executive Summary, "While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him."

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Part A of this subsection of Volume 2 provides legal background of the obstruction-of-justice statute most readily applicable to the Special Counsel's investigation: Section 1512(c)(2) of 18 U.S.C. Part B explores how constitutional tension is reconciled through separation-of-powers analysis when the President's official actions come into conflict with the prohibitions in the obstruction-of-justice statutes.

This episode covers pages 159-182 of Volume 2 from the "Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election."

III. Legal Defenses to the Application of Obstruction-of-Justice Statutes to the President (1:14)

A. Statutory Defenses to the Application of Obstruction-Of-Justice Provisions to the Conduct Under Investigation (3:27)

1. The Text of Section 1512(c)(2) Prohibits a Broad Range of Obstructive Acts (5:25)
2. Judicial Decisions Support a Broad Reading of Section 1512(c)(2) (8:45)
3. The Legislative History of Section 1512(c)(2) Does Not Justify Narrowing Its Text (12:58)
4. General Principles of Statutory Construction Do Not Suggest That Section 1512(c)(2) is Inapplicable to the Conduct in this Investigation (16:16)
5. Other Obstruction Statutes Might Apply to the Conduct in this Investigation (20:29)

B. Constitutional Defenses to Applying Obstruction-Of-Justice Statutes to Presidential Conduct (22:03)

1. The Requirement of a Clear Statement to Apply Statutes to Presidential Conduct Does Not Limit the Obstruction Statutes (23:49)
2. Separation-of-Powers Principles Support the Conclusion that Congress May Validly Prohibit Corrupt Obstructive Acts Carried Out Through the President's Official Powers (29:23)
3. Ascertaining Whether the President Violated the Obstruction Statutes Would Not Chill his Performance of his Article II Duties (43:53)

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This episode covers Section II. Factual Results of the Obstruction Investigation, pages 15 to 158 of Volume 2 of the "Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election."

This section of the report details the evidence obtained. Beginning with an overview of how Russia became an issue in the 2016 presidential campaign, and how candidate Trump responded. Included are key events that were investigated: the President’s conduct concerning the FBI investigation of Michael Flynn; the President’s reaction to public confirmation of the FBI’s Russia investigation; events leading up to and surrounding the termination of FBI Director Comey; efforts to terminate the Special Counsel; efforts to curtail the scope of the Special Counsel’s investigation; efforts to prevent disclosure of information about the June 9, 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Russians and senior campaign officials; efforts to have the Attorney General unrecuse; and conduct towards McGahn, Cohen, and other witnesses.

Factual Results of the Obstruction Investigation (1:12)

A. The Campaign's Response to Reports About Russian Support for Trump (3:03)

1. Press Reports Allege Links Between the Trump Campaign and Russia (4:05)
2. The Trump Campaign Reacts to WikiLeaks's Release of Hacked Emails (5:27)
3. The Trump Campaign Reacts to Allegations That Russia was Seeking to Aid Candidate Trump (7:55)
4. After the Election, Trump Continues to Deny Any Contacts or Connections with Russia or That Russia Aided his Election (12:15)

B. The President's Conduct Concerning the Investigation of Michael Flynn (16:44)

1. Incoming National Security Advisor Flynn Discusses Sanctions on Russia with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak (18:07)
2. President-Elect Trump is Briefed on the Intelligence Community’s Assessment (22:34)
3. Flynn Makes False Statements About his Communications with Kislyak (25:08)
4. DOJ Officials Notify the White House of Their Concerns About Flynn (28:20)
5. McGahn has a Follow-Up Meeting About Flynn with Yates; President Trump has Dinner with FBI Director Comey (30:44)
6. Flynn’s Resignation (35:12)
7. The President Discusses Flynn with FBI Director Comey (38:33)
8. The Media Raises Questions About the President’s Delay in Terminating Flynn (41:56)
9. The President Attempts to Have K.T. McFarland Create a Witness Statement (43:21)
10. Analysis (45:58)

C. The President's Reaction to Public Confirmation of the FBI's Russia Investigation (57:21)

1. Attorney General Sessions Recuses From the Russia Investigation (58:15)
2. FBI Director Comey Publicly Confirms the Existence of the Russia Investigation in Testimony Before HPSCI (1:03:43)
3. The President Asks Intelligence Community Leaders to Make Public Statements that he had No Connection to Russia (1:09:01)
4. The President Asks Comey to "Lift the Cloud" Created by the Russia Investigation (1:14:04)
5. Analysis (1:17:37)

D. Events Leading Up To and Surrounding the Termination of FBI Director Comey (1:23:18)

1. Comey Testifies Before the Senate Judiciary Committee and Declines to Answer Questions About Whether the President is Under Investigation (1:24:50)
2. The President Makes the Decision to Terminate Comey (1:28:09)
3. Analysis (1:44:04)

E. The President's Efforts to Remove the Special Counsel (1:54:44)

1. The Appointment of the Special Counsel and the President's Reaction (1:56:03)
2. The President Asserts that the Special Counsel has Conflicts of lnterest (2:00:04)
3. The Press Reports that the President is Being Investigated for Obstruction of Justice and the President Directs the White House Counsel to Have the Special Counsel Removed (2:05:51)
4. Analysis (2:12:04)

F. The President's Efforts to Curtail the Special Counsel Investigation (2:20:49)

1. The President Asks Corey Lewandowski to Deliver a Message to Sessions to Curtail the Special Counsel Investigation (2:21:42)
2. The President Follows Up with Lewandowski (2:24:31)
3. The President Publicly Criticizes Sessions in a New York Times Interview (2:26:31)
4. The President Orders Priebus to Demand Sessions's Resignation (2:28:05)
5. Analysis (2:32:29)

G. The President's Efforts to Prevent Disclosure of Emails About the June 9, 2016 Meeting Between Russians and Senior Campaign Officials (2:37:37)

1. The President Learns About the Existence of Emails Concerning the June 9, 2016 Trump Tower Meeting (2:38:21)
2. The President Directs Communications Staff Not to Publicly Disclose Information About the June 9 Meeting (2:41:03)
3. The President Directs Trump Jr.'s Response to Press Inquiries About the June 9 Meeting (2:43:35)
4. The Media Reports on the June 9, 2016 Meeting (2:47:47)
5. Analysis (2:51:36)

H. The President's Further Efforts to Have the Attorney General Take Over the Investigation (2:56:14)

1. The President Again Seeks to Have Sessions Reverse his Recusal (2:56:37)
2. Additional Efforts to Have Sessions Unrecuse or Direct Investigations Covered by his Recusal (2:59:23)
3. Analysis (3:05:07)

I. The President Orders McGahn to Deny that the President Tried to Fire the Special Counsel (3:09:23)

1. The Press Reports that the President Tried to Fire the Special Counsel (3:10:33)
2. The President Seeks to Have McGahn Dispute the Press Reports (3:11:57)
3. Analysis (3:17:39)

J. The President's Conduct Towards Flynn, Manafort, and Stone (3:25:23)

1. Conduct Directed at Michael Flynn (3:26:15)
2. Conduct Directed at Paul Manafort (3:29:08)
3. Conduct Directed at Roger Stone (3:39:33)
4. Analysis (3:44:28)

K. The President's Conduct Involving Michael Cohen (3:54:42)

1. Candidate Trump's Awareness of and Involvement in the Trump Tower Moscow Project (3:56:37)
2. Cohen Determines to Adhere to a "Party Line" Distancing Candidate Trump From Russia (4:02:42)
3. Cohen Submits False Statements to Congress Minimizing the Trump Tower Moscow Project in Accordance with the Party Line (4:04:27)
4. The President Sends Messages of Support to Cohen (4:14:27)
5. The President's Conduct After Cohen Began Cooperating with the Government (4:20:29)
6. Analysis (4:30:51)

L. Overarching Factual Issues (4:42:44)

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This section explains the basic elements that are common to most of the relevant obstruction statutes and provides definitions relevant to events discussed in Section II relating to potential issues of obstruction of justice. This episode covers the "Background Legal and Evidentiary Principles," pages 9 to 14, from Volume 2 of the "Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election."

Background Legal and Evidentiary Principles (1:14)

1. Legal Framework of Obstruction of Justice (1:18)
2. 1. Obstructive act (2:48)
   2. Nexus to a pending or contemplated official proceeding (3:25)
   3. Corruptly (5:14)
   4. Witness tampering (5:33)
   5. Attempts and endeavors (7:04)
3. Investigative and Evidentiary Considerations (8:12)

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This episode covers the "Executive Summary to Volume 2," pages 3 to 8, from Volume 2 of the "Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election." The executive summary provides an overview of the investigation's focus on a series of actions by the President related to the Russian-interference investigations, and an overview of the constitutional issues raised by the Special Counsel.

Executive Summary to Volume II (0:58)

1. Factual results of the obstruction investigation (1:16)
2. The Campaign's response to reports about Russian support for Trump (1:23)
   1. Conduct involving FBI Director Comey and Michael Flynn (2:17)
   2. The President's reaction to the continuing Russia investigation (3:47)
   3. The President's termination of Comey (5:11)
   4. The appointment of a Special Counsel and efforts to remove him (6:30)
   5. Efforts to curtail the Special Counsel's investigation (7:56)
   6. Efforts to prevent public disclosure of evidence (9:19)
   7. Further efforts to have the Attorney General take control of the investigation (10:19)
   8. Efforts to have McGahn deny that the President had ordered him to have the Special Counsel removed (11:17)
   9. Conduct towards Flynn, Manafort, and Stone (12:12)
   10. Conduct involving Michael Cohen (13:18)
   11. Overarching factual issues (14:47)
3. Statutory and Constitutional defenses (17:18)
   1. Statutory defenses (17:35)
   2. Constitutional defenses (18:27)
4. Conclusion (21:01)

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This episode covers the "Introduction to Volume 2," pages 1 to 2, from Volume 2 of the "Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election." This volume provides details toward whether the President had obstructed justice in connection with the FBI's Russia-related investigations.

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As part of the final section of Volume 1 of the "Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election," pages 174-199, this section explains the Special Council's decisions on whether to exercise its prosecutorial authority with regard to the evidence it found through the investigation.

V. Prosecution and Declination Decisions (1:14)

V. A. Russian "Active Measures" Social Media Campaign (3:03)

V. B. Russian Hacking and Dumping Operations (5:50)

1. Section 1030 Computer-Intrusion Conspiracy (5:55)
2. Potential Section 1030 Violation By [Redacted - Personal Privacy] (15:22)

V. C. Russian Government Outreach and Contacts (18:00)

1. Potential Coordination: Conspiracy and Collusion (19:52)
2. Potential Coordination: Foreign Agent Statutes (FARA and 18 U.S.C. § 951) (22:37)
   1. Overview Of Governing Law (28:38)
   2. Application to June 9 Trump Tower Meeting (31:19)
   3. Application to WikiLeaks and Roger Stone (41:08)
3. Campaign Finance (28:00)
   1. Overview Of Governing Law (48:36)
      1. George Papadopoulos (51:15)
      2. [Redacted - Personal Privacy] (56:15)
      3. Michael Flynn (56:27)
      4. Michael Cohen (59:38)
      5. Roger Stone (1:03:17)
      6. Jeff Sessions (1:07:23)
      7. Others Interviewed During the Investigation (1:10:48)
   2. Application to Certain Individuals (51:11)
4. False Statements and Obstruction of the Investigation (48:18)

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This Section describes the principal links between the Trump Campaign and individuals with ties to the Russian government, including some contacts with Campaign officials or associates that have been publicly reported to involve Russian contacts.

The Office investigated whether those contacts constituted a third avenue of attempted Russian interference with or influence on the 2016 presidential election. In particular, the investigation examined whether these contacts involved or resulted in coordination or a conspiracy with the Trump Campaign and Russia, including with respect to Russia providing assistance to the Campaign in exchange for any sort of favorable treatment in the future. Based on the available information, the investigation did not establish such coordination.

Each subsection begins with an overview of the Russian contact at issue and then describes in detail the relevant facts, which are generally presented in chronological order, beginning with the early months of the Campaign and extending through the post-election, transition period.

This episode covers pages 66-173 of the "Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election."

IV. Russian Government Links To and Contacts With The Trump Campaign (1:13)

IV.A. Campaign Period (September 2015 – November 8, 2016) (2:27)

1. Trump Tower Moscow Project (3:55)
2. 1. Trump Tower Moscow Venture with the Crocus Group (2013-2014) (5:04)
   2. Communications with I.C. Expert Investment Company and Giorgi Rtskhiladze (Summer and Fall 2015) (7:30)
   3. Letter of Intent and Contacts to Russian Government (October 2015-January 2016) (11:14) 
   4. Discussions about Russia Travel by Michael Cohen or Candidate Trump (December 2015-June 2016) (22:11) 
   1. Origins of Campaign Work (33:10)
   2. Initial Russia-Related Contacts (35:45)
   3. March 31 Foreign Policy Team Meeting (40:22)
   4. George Papadopoulos Learns That Russia Has "Dirt" in the Form of Clinton Emails (41:55)
   5. Russia-Related Communications With The Campaign (46:22)
   6. Trump Campaign Knowledge of "Dirt" (51:35)
   7. Additional George Papadopoulos Contact (53:33)
3.  George Papadopoulos  (31:59)
   1. Background (57:16)
   2. Origins of and Early Campaign Work (1:00:22)
   3. Carter Page's July 2016 Trip To Moscow (1:02:17)
   4. Later Campaign Work and Removal from the Campaign (1:07:44)
4.  Carter Page (56:23)
   1. CNI and Dimitri Simes Connect with the Trump Campaign (1:10:57)
   2. National Interest Hosts a Foreign Policy Speech at the Mayflower Hotel (1:13:58)
   3. Jeff Sessions's Post-Speech Interactions with CNI (1:17:41)
   4. Jared Kushner's-Continuing Contacts with Simes (1:19:40)
5. Dimitri Simes and the Center for the National Interest (1:09:51)
   1. Setting Up the June 9 Meeting (1:24:40) 
   2. The Events of June 9, 2016 (1:32:59) 
   3. Post-June 9 Events (1:38:21)
6. June 9, 2016 Meeting at Trump Tower (1:22:31)
   1. Ambassador Kislyak's Encounters with Senator Sessions and J.D. Gordon the Week of the RNC (1:44:44)
   2. Change to Republican Party Platform (1:46:25)
7. Events at the Republican National Convention (1:43:33)
   1. Ambassador Kislyak Invites J.D. Gordon to Breakfast at the Ambassador's Residence (1:51:40)
   2. Senator Sessions's September 2016 Meeting with Ambassador Kislyak (1:52:28)
8. Post-Convention Contacts with Kislyak (1:51:17)
   1. Paul Manafort's Ties to Russia and Ukraine (1:59:02) 
   2. Contacts during Paul Manafort's Time with the Trump Campaign (2:04:35) 
   3. Post-Resignation Activities (2:17:33)
9. Paul Manafort (1:55:05)

IV.B. Post-Election and Transition-Period Contacts (2:23:57)

1. Immediate Post-Election Activity (2:24:41) 
2. 1. Outreach from the Russian Government (2:25:13)
   2. High-Level Encouragement of Contacts through Alternative Channels (2:26:56)
   1. Background (2:30:25)
   2. Kirill Dmitriev's Post-Election Contacts With the Incoming Administration (2:32:41)
   3. Erik Prince and Kirill Dmitriev Meet in the Seychelles (2:35:52)
   4. Kirill Dmitriev's Post-Election Contact with Rick Gerson Regarding U.S. Russia Relations (2:44:10)
3. Kirill Dmitriev's Transition-Era Outreach to the Incoming Administration (2:29:12) 
4. Ambassador Kislyak's Meeting with Jared Kushner and Michael Flynn in Trump Tower Following the Election (2:49:32)
5. Jared Kushner's Meeting with Sergey Gorkov (2:52:42)
6. Petr Aven's Outreach Efforts to the Transition Team (2:57:13)
7. Carter Page Contact with Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich (3:02:16)
   1. United Nations Vote on Israeli Settlements (3:05:03)
   2. U.S. Sanctions Against Russia (3:06:47)
8. Contacts With and Through Michael T. Flynn (3:03:52) 

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Section III of Volume 1 of the Mueller Report describes the Russian Hacking and Dumping Operations. The primary topics include GRU hacking directed at the Clinton campaign; the investigation's look into DCLeaks, Guccifer 2.0 and the use of Wikileaks; the investigation's findings of the Russian efforts to target individuals involved in the Clinton Campaign and entities involved in election administration; and the investigation's findings focus on interactions between the Trump Campaign and Wikileaks as well as the campaign's interest and efforts to obtain deleted Clinton emails.

This episode covers pages 36-65 of the "Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election."

III: Russian Hacking and Dumping Operations (1:14)

1. A. GRU Hacking Directed at the Clinton Campaign (2:58)
2. 1. GRU Units Target the Clinton Campaign (3:03)
      1. Initial Access (6:12)
      2. Implantation of Malware on DCCC and DNC Networks (7:15)
      3. Theft of Documents from DNC and DCCC Networks (9:54)
   2. Intrusions into the DCCC and DNC Networks (6:07)
   1. DCLeaks (12:14)
   2. Guccifer 2.0 (14:53)
      1. WikiLeaks's Expressed Opposition Toward the Clinton Campaign (19:50)
      2. WikiLeaks's First Contact with Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks (21:04)
      3. The GRU's Transfer of Stolen Materials to WikiLeaks (22:50)
      4. WikiLeaks Statements Dissembling About the Source of Stolen Materials (28:05)
   3. Use of WikiLeaks (19:25)
3. B. Dissemination of the Hacked Materials (11:47)
   1. Summer and Fall 2016 Operations Targeting Democrat-Linked Victims (30:24)
   2. Intrusions Targeting the Administration of U.S. Elections (32:28)
4. C. Additional GRU Cyber Operations (30:02)
   1. Role of Roger Stone (36:47)
   2. 1. Background (36:50)
      2. Contacts with the Campaign about WikiLeaks (37:30)
      3. Roger Stone’s Known Efforts to Communicate with WikiLeaks (42:00)
      4. WikiLeaks's October 7, 2016 Release of Stolen Podesta Emails (48:46)
      5. Donald Trump Jr. Interaction with WikiLeaks (52:15)
      1. Henry Oknyansky (a/k/a Henry Greenberg) (55:27)
      2. Campaign Efforts to Obtain Deleted Clinton Emails (57:43)
   3. Other Potential Campaign Interest in Russian Hacked Materials (54:44)
5. D. Trump Campaign and the Dissemination of Hacked Materials (36:04)

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This episode covers the structure of the Internet Research Agency, the funding and oversight of the IRA, and the methods in which the IRA targeted the 2016 U.S. Election, as part of the "Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election (Volume 1)."

The November 2020 update to this section uncovers significant amounts of previously redacted material from pages 14 to 35 of the report.

Russian "Active Measures" Social Media Campaign (1:14)

1. Structure of the Internet Research Agency (4:16)
2. Funding and Oversight from Concord and Prigozhin (7:13)
   1. The IRA Ramps Up U.S. Operations As Early As 2014 (8:58)
   2. U.S. Operations Through IRA-Controlled Social Media Accounts (12:16)
   3. U.S. Operations Through Facebook (15:57)
      1. Individualized Accounts (21:03)
      2. IRA Botnet Activities (24:03)
   4. U.S. Operations Through Twitter (20:11)
   5. U.S. Operations Involving Political Rallies (25:39)
   6. Targeting and Recruitment of U.S. Persons (28:16)
      1. Trump Campaign Promotion of IRA Political Materials (32:15)
      2. Contact with Trump Campaign Officials in Connection to Rallies (34:02)
   7. Interactions and Contacts with the Trump Campaign (31:32)
3. The IRA Targets U.S. Elections (8:52)

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Section 1 of Volume 1 of the "Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election." The section is titled "I. The Special Counsel's Investigation" from pages 11 to 13 of the report.

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This section covers the "Executive Summary to Volume 1" from pages 4 to 10 of the "Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election." 

Nov. 2020 additions are at 1:48, 2:03, and 20:23

Russian Social Media Campaign (1:16)

Russian Hacking Operations (3:27)

Russian Contacts with the Campaign (6:06)

2015 Russian Contacts with the Campaign (7:26)

Spring 2016 Russian Contacts with the Campaign (8:02)

Summer 2016 Russian Contacts with the Campaign (8:59)

Fall 2016 Russian Contacts with the Campaign (12:34)

Post-2016 Election Russian Contacts with the Campaign (13:37)

The Special Counsel's Charging Decisions (18:47)

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On April 18, 2019, the Department of Justice released the "Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election." In June and November of 2020, previously unredacted information was released. With these releases, this is the first of 13 sections that will be re-released to attempt to provide the most up-to-date and accurate version available for free. This section covers the "Introduction to Volume 1" from pages 1 to 3 of the report. 

Preface (2:08)

Introduction to Volume 1 (2:38)

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