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tonight, the january 6th hearings. good evening. thank you so much for being here with us tonight. we know that you have a lot of options for where to watch and how to watch tonights hearing. it makes us all the more grateful that you have chosen to be here with us on msnbc. im rachel maddo with joy reid. tonight is a big night for us. a big night for american democracy. we have had a few other instances in our modern history of big, public hearings. all the networks scuttling their sc...

And frankly, there is no idea more un-american than the notion that any one person could choose the american president. >> what president trump demanded that mike pence do wasnt just wrong, it was illegal, and it was unconstitutional. you will hear this and great detail from the vice presidents former general counsel. witnesses in these hearings will explain how the former vice president and his staff informed president trump over and over again, that what he was pressuring mike pence to do was ...

As you will see in the hearings to come, president trump believed his supporters at the capital -- and i quote, we are doing what they should be doing. this is what he told his staff as they pleaded with him to call off the mob to instruct his supporters to leave. over a series of hearings in the coming weeks, you will hear testimony, live and on video, from more than half a dozen former white house staff in the trump administration. all of whom were in the west wing of the white house on januar...

Republic. thank you, mister chairman. >> as we provide answers to the american people about january 6th, its important that we remember exactly what took place. that this was no tourist visit to the capital capitol. most of the footage we are about to play has never been seen. the select committee obtained it as a part of our investigation. this isnt easy to watch. i want to warn everyone that this video includes violence and strong language. without objection, i include in the record a video pr...

The capitol. hes only after multiple hours of violence that president trump finally released a video, instructing the riotous mob to leave. and as he did so, he said to them, quote, we love you. and you are very special. you will also hear that in the immediate aftermath of january 6th, members of the presidents family, white house staff and others tried to step in to stabilize the situation. quote, to land the plane before the presidential transition on january 20th. you will hear about members...

Resources they were devoting to it. they were talking about sedition, seditious community. weve seen the charges brought. its still mind blowing that were talking about seditious conspiracy charges. its something you would read about in your history book. we have two pro trump conspiracy groups, both charged with seditious conspiracy in january and now again this week. that puts it even sort of starker cast around the shadow. >> by the way, one of the things were going to see in the hearing toni...

Conversation, that begins tonight, with the country. i expect that to happen, along with damning video, damning audio. and then, watching the republicans continue to pivot into the lie that this is a nothing burger. >> michael, this is nikole. a former colleague of both of ours called me today and said i havent seen liz cheney this focused on a threat to the country since the post 9/11 era. she talked about trumpism as the existential threat to democracy, the same way she used to talk about thos...