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behind the scenes. a specific meeting inside the white house is looming large. a meeting the committee says has been described to them as insane. a meeting thats preceded by hours, former president trumps tweet calling on supporters to be at a protest in jog on january 6th and that it would be wild. committee member jamie raskin who will lead todays hearing said when trump wrote this, he became the first president in american history to call for a protest against the peaceful transfer ...

say, listen, listen to what were going to tell you. in addition to what we told you in the previous handful of hearings. listen to what were going to tell you. watch what were going to show you today. after he was told by officials on the federal level, inside the white house, on the state level, anybody who he could listen to, who actually knew what was going on, who had the evidence. especially bill barr, he just looked for people who would tell him what he wanted to hear. and then w...

colleagues it would be eccentric to change governments when were delivering so much. i regret not to have been successful in those arguments. >> and theres big breaking news from moscow. appearing at her trial today wnba star center brittney griner has pleaded guilty to drug charges but said it was accidental, just one day after president biden spoke with her wife cherelle by phone. her plea to perhaps accelerate the end of the trial, perhaps lead to negotiations to her release. well h...

the committee will also link those groups of former presidents inner circle trying to tie them to roger stone and michael flynn. >> select committee member congresswoman murphy will jointly lead the session said expect details linking trump to the violent mob. >> do you think people will be surprised by what they hear? >> i think the hearings always have surprises so i anticipate tomorrows hearing is nothing short of that. >> we expect to hear pat cipollones closed door interview inclu...

very political nature in this case. i dont think we need any of those things. you have norm eisen filing a brief in the case. hes been all over anti-trump stuff forever. just play it straight. if the documents are as the government says, theyre going to have to be a lot of answers provided. >> and here now is the aforementioned norm eisen, former house judiciary special counsel and donald trumps first impeachment trial, as you heard, norm filed a brief in opposition to trumps request f...

waves. i missed the initial waves. i looked out and saw the entire dance floor submerged. i saw all of our bud vases and everything knock aed over. and at first, it was oh, my goodness what a disaster but it turned out to be really good union. >> yeah, to kind of gauge what happened, we looked at it thinking okay, its basically this little area that got taken out, were going to continue, the ceremony is on the other side, our coordinator and the whole event sprung into action with a lo...

primetime address on threats to american democracy, and what the white house is calling a battle for the soul of the nation. this hour, house minority leader kevin mccarthy is already in california and set to make his own remarks, slamming joe biden for calling some americans semi fascist. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off. im pamela brown, and you are in "the situation room." our top story tonight, a hearing on former president tru...

trump lawyer jim trusty described the battle over whether the documents were kept as comparable to a dispute over to an overdue lie b. the judge indicating if she appoints a special master, she may still allow the intelligence community to review the seized documents as part of a damage assessment. prosecutors, meantime, arguing the special master was unnecessary and saying trumps team has offered no evidence there was any disregard for the former presidents rights. as the judge asks, ...

violent actions. youll also hear from stephen ayres who was directly influenced by president trumps tweet to travel to washington for a day he said would be wild. >> and there is immense pressure on the committee today in what could be a put up or shut up moment to prove to the nation that there is a direct link between former president donald trump and those extremists responsible for the chaos at the capitol. theres a lot of expectation on new video clips of former white house counse...

requested a colonel convicted of murder and added along this infamous arms dealer for wnba star brittney griner and paul whelan. >> we have a team of correspondents covering these breaking developments. frederik pleitgen is in moscow for us. lets start with natasha bertrand, who is breaking this exclusive. what have you learned. >> reporter: what weve learned is that in response to the russian proposal to trade that arms dealer, viktor bout for the two americans detained in russia, pau...