you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. just days after a conservative judge labeled him a clear and present danger to democracy, former president donald trump got up on stage and proved yet again he d rather spread lies than admit the truth about what happened on january 6th. these are government tapes where they re stuffing ballot boxes to put it crudely. they re stuffing ballot boxes on government tapes. and what did they say? that was debunked. that was debunked. okay. most people say, oh, it was i didn t know that. no, these are tapes. one, two, guys looking up at the camera, let s see, where s the camera. there it is. trump s own justice department, republican officials in numerous states did not find a single shred of evidence to corroborate any of the nonsense you just heard there. yesterday trump also sided with the capitol rioters again just like he did during the attack. if it were an insurrection that took place at the capitol, you
a windfall profit tax could be used by the treasury and rebated to the states so the states and the treasury could take off the federal and state gas tax. there are a lot of ways you can use the revenue. the point is that the oil companies right now are simply they are price gouging. and, you know, one thing we should mention is that some republican lawmakers claimed that last year s covid-19 aid plan was to blame for the inflation that we re all dealing with right now. what do you make of that? well, i don t think there s anything to that whatsoever. the inflation we re dealing with right now is basically this huge pent up demand coming from hopefully the end of the pandemic coupled with supply shocks as all suppliers worldwide are trying to catch up with demand and on top of that putin s war in ukraine, which is pushing up energy and food
a single shred of evidence to corroborate any of the nonsense you just heard there. yesterday trump also sided with the capitol rioters again just like he did during the attack. if it were an insurrection that took place at the capitol, you would have known it very soon. these were strong people. they were great patriot, they were policemen, firemen, soldiers, they were sailors, most people should not be treated the way they re treated. if i become president some day, if i decide to do it, i will be looking at them very, very seriously for pardons they ve been treated unfairly. next the committee will focus on the pressure company on states to overturn biden s election win a plan summed up in no uncertain words during a call
6th the proud boys started moving toward the capitol even before trump had started speaking. i think that s fascinating they were already moving in that direction as if that was the plan all along. i guess they weren t there to hear trump speak, i suppose. can you tell us what were they talking about during that walk up to the capitol? so we left we arrived at the capitol around 10:30, over at the washington monument and we immediately started walking towards the capitol. and it was mostly it wasn t like a discourse, it was mostly chanting about 1776 or where s antifa, or whose streets or whose capitol. we were walking briskly towards the capitol. that may answer my next question, something i ve been wondering, if you picked up on any communications between the proud boys or other people you
were documenting on that day and folks in trump world? was there any discussion going on between those two camps? well, i don t know. we did film them using their walk ie-talkies but we don t knw what they were using the walkie-talkies for. did you ever hear anyone that day talk about taking the capitol and trying to hold onto it somehow in an attempt to freeze the certification of joe biden s victory? did you pick up on any kind of a plan as to what they wanted to do? no, but there s a live streamer for the proud boys, eddie fisher, he caught a proud boy called milk shake saying they re off to storm the capitol, which he was admonished