The House Judiciary Committee on New Year’s Eve released the full transcript and video of its closed-door deposition with former special counsel Jack Smith, shedding new light on his now-defunct prosecutions of President Donald Trump and revealing previously undisclosed details about covert subpoenas targeting Republican lawmakers and weaknesses in the Jan. 6 investigation.

The more than eight-hour deposition, conducted Dec. 17, shows Smith repeatedly defending the twin criminal cases he brought against Trump, one over the retention of classified documents and another over efforts to challenge the 2020 election, while appearing to give Republicans more fuel for their accusations of Justice Department weaponization under former Attorney General Merrick Garland’s leadership ahead of the 2024 election.