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investigation has revealed evidence that mr. cipollone repeatedly raised other and legal concerns about president trumps activities of january 6th and while the select committee appreciates mr. cipollones earlier informal engagement with our investigation, with the ball now squarely in cipollones quote the new york times is out with some important reporting, quote, the subpoena of a white house counsel a rare step for a congressional committee sent a clear signal of the aggressive tact...

republican tried to ambush and hand fraudulent electors to mike pence on january 6th. those stories and reports are coming up. but after a hearing like todays we begin with something more fundamental than a legal breakdown, and more powerful, perhaps, than meticulously going through the evidence, though that also matters. right now we begin with this. what millions of americans saw and heard today from the top republican leader out of arizona in plain, serious, and stern testimony abou...

today. >> you wonder if these people were not in the positions they were at the time, what would have heaped to democracy, wolf? these top-former doj officials described how they were essentially the guardians of democracy. relentlessly pressured by the former president of the united states, donald trump, to use the power of doj to overturn the election results even after doj had investigated the fraud and found there was no widespread fraud. he here is a clip of the remarkable exchang...

and if so, when? >> we are not going to stop what we are doing to share the information that we have gotten so far with the department of justice. >> tonight, the latest on the back of forth between the 16 committee in the justice department -- the connection between the coup plotters and the supreme court and the alleged complicity of certain members of congress, including the senator from cancun. then, the republican governor found vacationing in europe while his state deals with his...

first january 6th hearing broke the news that prior to trumps rally at the lips that day, those proud boys were actually casing the joint. >> just to be aware, to be advised, is probably about [inaudible] proud boys, marching eastbound and its 400 block of independence, actually, towards the, lawn on the united states capitol. >> they went there 10 am, casing the capitol, at various entry points. on wednesday, we also learned about this nine-page document, strangely titled 1700s 76 ret...

new york times broke ground in the collective understanding of what happened on january 6th. the proud boys paramilitary group were part of that crowd storming the capitol that day and donald trump had shouted them out before the election. but the way these groups achieved the grave, remarkable active breaching the capitol, during that long schedule national security, event thats not been fully accounted for. thats what were going to get into right now. because this was, of course, one...

more than a thousand witness interviews including those with leaders from the proud boys from the dojs letter in part, read this, it is now readily apparent that the interviews the select committee conducted are not just potentially relevant to our overall criminal investigations, but are likely relevant to specific prosecutions that have already commenced. well, the news that we alluded to this afternoon, a spokesman confirmed an earlier new york times scoop to our team on the hill th...

week. weve been going through this together. youve probably watched the hearings as we have and weve done our live reactions, but tonight a little later, im going to walk through what i think is the most damning thing we learned this week. stay with us for that if youre interested, but there was an investigation about how the proud boys violence was more methodical. this is new from a "new york times" investigation out today. >> recruits are told to meet at the washington monument the ...

here he is unsparing in his rejection of trump and giulianis election fraud delusions. >> i told them that the stuff that his people were shoveling out to the public was bull [ bleep ]. that the claims of fraud were bull [ bleep ], and you know, made a statement about that, but i reiterated that they wasted a whole month on these claims on the dominion voting machines and they were idiotic claims. i specifically raised a dominion voting machines which i found to be among the most distu...

sophisticated serve-part plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the transfer of presidential power. in our hearings you will see elements of each element of this plan. donald trump and his advisers knew that he had, in account fa, lost the elections, but despite this, president trump engaged in a massive effort to spread false and fraudulent information to convince huge portions of the u.s. population that fraud had stolen the elections from him. on this point, there is...