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trumps tenure in the run up to january 6th, particularly a meeting that occurred on december 18th, 2020, roughly six weeks after election and a few weeks below before january 6th in the oval office between donald trump and his most conspiracy obsessed outside advisers lawyers. it was just one of trumps last-ditch efforts to cling to power and overturn the election. >> on friday, december 18th, this team of outside advisers paid him a surprise visit in the white house that would quickly...

Imagine we wouldnt be sharing that with the justice department. its amazing, knowing what i know now. there was no tiger team sharing the information. for me it was doing counterterrorism for a long hours looking at that is a terrorism investigation. i really felt there should have been -- the first day we started. in hindsight i think that might have been a mistake that kind of data sharing wasnt happening. >> to that point, there was a back and forth, both while you are working with committee ...

Own people and numerous, numerous war crime allegations, the u.s. policy that hes got to go, that is the policy. look at him now. >> looked, more importantly i dont know anybody, we could spend a decade and a half doing counterterrorism. i dont know anybody that thinks you can do to counterterrorism width requires a stablism or a place for people to go back to a light footprint conveys a place for people to be. if syria goes up in flames again, as they have, its not that we dont care. it creates...

Wheat from the shaft. when i was at the white house doing counterterrorism, there was a group of analysts and reports i turned to every day because i trusted their judgment, i trusted their experience, and theres another set of auntil sis that was just warmed over, the type of stuff frankly that i would see in classified one day and id see unclassified the next day. so that was a problem pre- 9/11 and its still a problem today. >> all right. nbcs counterterrorism analyst roger cressey. pete will...