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Tornado on the ground near hillsdale, oklahoma. It is lesson 75 people about 100 miles north of where we are right now. All of this is on the heels of the outbreak we just described yesterday for the north. Nebraskas at the heart of it. There are stunning images of homes leveled, foundations exposed. We heard from a man who described sheltered in place with his family, unsure of what was coming next. I could see the storm way out to the west here, coming out 204th and i pulled into the neighborh...

Theories, many of them to march on the capitol armed and many of them were charged and went to jail. now hes convincing many of his supporters that the fbi is corrupt and that maybe violence is the answer. so that is how this directly impacts people and that is why it is hugely important to get to the bottom of this because it does impact your life. >> were going to take a quick break. one point i do want to make that follows up on that, there have been two theories of this from the beginning, v...

Seriously interested in an insurrection he would have issued a video, this would not have said what it said it would have been a call to arms. right? leading an insurrection. he would have called everyone who could hear his voice to come to the capitol armed. armed. to take over the capitol building. he would have called out the u.s. military, whether they would respond or not, to come to the capitol building and circle it, arrest the vice president. and arrest other officials and members of con...

Do you think this time it is hurting him? >> i do you think its hurting him, not in a direct way, but rather than his supporters, the ones you mentioned who were one-time supporters, they had had enough. and there are certain things, yes the throwing of plates which is really easy to imagine trump doing and maybe the story about him trying to reach over and grab a secret service agent are kind of salacious. but the fact that he knew that people were armed and going to the capitol armed and he di...

Secret service not to mag people who had firearms because he could speak to them, have a better rally, and then send them to the capitol armed is really the undisputed stunner. >> i would add a layer to that, clint, which is all the talk about the oath keepers, hearing the word proud boy, closer to the planning of the january 6th rally, when mr. giuliani would be around. members of those groups are already facing charges of seditious conspiracy. do you think this testimony winds in? >> i absolut...

Did, they would have the weapons taken away, the presidents response wasnt good, we dont want them to have weapons, the presidents response was, take the magnetometers down. he wanted them to be able to march with him to the capitol armed. and so his knowledge, his intent, i think, we got the most direct view of that in the testimony is today. the fact that when that attack was going on, having been frustrated in his efforts to accompany this armed mob, he is sitting in the safety of the white h...

From these events. up until yesterday, the public wasnt aware that the president knew, the crowd, the mob, was armed. and he wanted them to be able to march on the capitol armed. imagine how the capitol police, who were injured over 140 of, them during that attack, knowing that the commander in chief -- who is supposed to be protecting them and our institutions -- was one of that mob, to be able to go to the capitol. armed. it really is astounding. >> i mention former white house counsel pat cip...

>> and everyone ultimately was going to wind up at the capitol. what he says is let everybody in or -- im sorry. he says let everybody in. >> he says get rid of the magnetometers. >> and instead he knows and wants all these people to go to the capitol armed. and i think the fact that he is encouraging armed people to go to the capitol raises his level of culpability a great deal. >> and all he -- one of the things he cared about was he didnt think the picture was going to look really good. that ...

Monetary sustenance. and now they want to say, were back. but it takes time. and now, looking back at the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol, and looking at a fbi document, leading up to the day users in multiple platforms they discussed traveling to the capitol armed or looking at plans to start a revolution on that day. joining us now is nbc news national security and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, and help us to understand why this is significant, because you and others have s...