General Discussion

Around 5 hours 39 minutes - an FBI agent considered as a witness in the case provided more information than requested, including personal emails. Those emails included a dispute between the potential witness and a family member about January 6. That agent was removed from consideration as a witness to avoid the appearance of the potential for the appearance of political bias (and to send a message to his staff that politics would play no role in the investigation).

Around 5:42 - questioning about putting information in the public domain before the election so people could use it to make voting decisions - absolutely not. Pointed to record - in which his office proactively communicated that it had no objection to their evidence in case (already submitted) being embargoed until Trump's team filed theirs (after the election) - at a stage when Smith had no obligation to respond to Trump's motion until AFTER the election..