'What evidence do you have?' CNN host cuts off Trump aide as he repeats unproven claims
December 09, 2024
CNN's Pamela Brown challenged one of Donald Trump's top allies to provide evidence of criminal wrongdoing by the House select committee that investigated Jan. 6.
The former president has pledged to pardon at least some of the U.S. Capitol rioters and threatened to prosecute the congressional investigators who referred him for criminal prosecution, and Brown asked Trump adviser Jason Miller what crimes those elected officials had committed.
"I do have to take issue with saying that the select committee didn't go and destroy records – they wiped everything," Miller said.
"What evidence do you have for that?" Brown interjected. "They're online, we just checked this morning. There's a more than 800-page report with underlying evidence. ... [Chairman] Bennie Thompson, for his part, has come out and said this is absolutely false. What evidence do you have?"
Trump has claimed multiple times that the select committee destroyed or discarded evidence in violation of the law, but Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) led a House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight probe into those allegations and found that incomplete records were preserved. What committees consider to be official records can vary widely.
"Other committees have looked through and said that those records are gone, that they don't exist, that they're not there," Miller said. "Even Republicans who are now in charge have said that those records are gone, that they're not there, so I would completely take issue with that. We're going to have to agree to disagree, but they got rid of it."
Thompson, the select committee's chairman, told Loudermilk that temporary records were not archived, which he said was consistent with guidance from the Office of the Clerk, and congressional investigators determined that written transcripts of video recordings were sufficient under House Rule VII.
"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," Miller said.
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"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 into key positions of leadership again, whether that's Pam Bondi as the [attorney general], Kash Patel at 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, you've committed very serious felonies, who's, for example, leaked confidential information in direct violation of laws that are in place, well, then obviously that sets you up for different things. 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."
Brown wasn't satisfied with his explanation.
"But the things you mentioned so far, there has been no evidence of criminal wrongdoing," she said, before moving on to another topic.
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