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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...

Had said. so its sort of a legalese answer and the committee has been very purposeful in their language around that. but i will say what raskin told us is the furthest weve had a committee member go. and raskin was largely in the hearing room, in the room with cipollone for most of those eight hours so he was someone hearing this firsthand. i do think when we think about the ways former trump administration officials have been used, they want to get us as close in the room as possible. that meet...

Has to and will operate by that statute. you know, there are a lot of monday morning quarterbacks in the terrorism business. >> if i could just interject. going back to what john mccain objected to when he talked about her statement, whether -- an answer that he said was disqualifying. i think that goes to your point, that if this should happen again and there is a conversation behind the scenes about torture that she personally would come forward and say, im not doing this again. its her legale...

Campaign wasnt more forthcoming about this? >> i think that mark elias, representing the campaign and the dnc, his firm was the one funding this. so certainly he gave a legalese answer to reporters off the record and on the record. and thats been corrected through this reporting. but it wasnt something that we were talking about on the campaign. there were no meetings we were talking about a dossier. we were not aware of this dossier at certainly my level and as reported, brian fallon reported y...

Political decision. we rely on our foreign friends and allies and partners to give us intelligence. if they turn off that intel j , intelligen intelligence, if they dont trust us, were going partially blind. >> were in a situation with the white house where there seems to be a critical situation one after another after another. when you talk to the folks on capitol hill, and im saying democrats as well as republicans, the one, for lack of a better phrase, bright spot that they would point to wou...

Leapt me ask you this, mary, im confused. who is in charge of figuring out what happened to this plane. >> thats an excellent question. who is in charge is the malaysian officials. they delegated the search to australians and people have been happy with their diligence and efforts but when the part washed up on shore of french territory then the french claimed they had authority to get into the investigation. they could have let the investigation remain with those already involved in the investi...