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Into what happened at the secret service on january six is just beginning. joining us now, democratic congressman adam schiff of california, chairman of the house intelligence committee. he is a member of the january 6th select committee, and served as the lead impeachment manager for the first impeachment trial of donald trump. thank you very much for joining us tonight, as this important hearing approaches. we are seeing in the secret service story your committee is still developing evidence t...

Coming to your houston. going to get you and liz cheney. going to get you too little -- . ha. >> congressman kinzinger released a three-minute sample of the kinds of calls he has been getting. actually not him but his interns and have been fielding at his office. thanks to trump supporters, threats to members of congress have increased dramatically since donald trump became president. they are up 100 and 44% since 2017. and as a downward six committee continues its work, the threats will surely ...

Is now formally in the hands of the u.s. senate. the first president to be impeached twice also becomes the first ex-president to face an impeachment trial. ♪ reporter: good morning. all eyes on washington today and the start of former president trumps second impeachment trial. ♪ reporter: the lead impeachment manager, congressman jamie raskin, has been holding daily meetings with the rest of the managers, and they want to incorporate visual elements as much as they can. jamie raskin: thank ...

Served as lead impeachment manager during donald trumps second impeachment trial. congressman, first let me start with you on the makeup of your committee and how we got to it. because i do think its worth taking a step back to remember that the speakers decision not to see to those two members was pretty bold, was pretty outside president. do you think it has paid off? >> lets take two steps back first, chris. there was originally a proposal by the republicans, which we agreed to, to have an in...

Phone call to president zelenskyy was a perfect phone call. we learned today that ali alexander, who was involved in organizing the trump rally on january 6th that occurred before the attack on the capitol testify to a washington d.c. grand jury on friday, which is just about six months after he testified in an eight hour deposition to the january 6th committee. so, pat cipollone knows that the washington d.c. grand jury is operating about six months behind the january six committees investigati...

Congressman adam schiff is a democrat of california. he sits on the january 6th committee. he was the lead impeachment manager during the first impeachment of donald trump. and congressman, let me start just on that. what are we to believe? what are we to understand from the evidence your committee has introduced about what donald trumps plan was to do? when he led the armed mob into the halls of e u.s. capitol? >> it was to succeed where he had failed through any other means, and that was to st...

States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts. >> i felt like he was pouring gasoline on the fire by tweeting that. >> the police couldnt control the situation and do their job. >> hang mike pence! hang mike pence! >> at 2:26 p.m. secret service rushed vice president pence down the stairs. >> approximately 40 feet. thats all there was. 40 feet between the vice president and the mob. a confidential informant from the proud boys told the fbi, the proud boys would have killed mike pence if gi...

Of the supreme court as we know it. today, marc short, who served as vice president mike pences chief of staff, said that mike pence knew from the beginning that he had absolutely no power to overturn the election. >> i think what was very clear is the vice president has always been a constitutional conservative. and i think he knew what his constitutional duty was that day. he knew it from the beginning. and i think he was clear with the president and so is our office, clear about what we viewe...

Demanded that mike pence do wasnt just wrong. it was illegal and it was unconstitutional. you will hear this in 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 illegal. >> last night, the january 6th committee held its first hearing on the attack on our democracy. who is the first hearing of seven, which a...

Donald trump is gone. but your dishonor will remain. >> a very powerful message from the january 6th committee vice chair liz cheney tonight. another member of the january 6th committee joins us now. maryland congressman jamie raskin. he was also the lead impeachment manager at trumps second impeachment trial. he has been busy over the last two years thank you so much for joining us tonight, i know it has been a busy one. but it is done. im quite sure your democratic colleagues have called you, ...