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had a few minutes with the report. andrew, let me get your first reactions to anything that has leapt out at you, if anything. recognizing that youve only had a few minutes, im gonna give you more time to read, this but this is just your first headline reaction to it. >> yeah no i see dan and i are doing the same thing. we are trying to do two things at the same time. this is a monumental, or as you said, it is over 800 pages and there are four appendices that look fascinating, address...

That this written report carries with the same kind of drama that was part of the construction of the televised hearings of the committee because each chapter, this is a congressional report. which normally is the driest kind of reading you could possibly have in front of you. the chapter title for chapter six that youre just discovering is the chapter title is be there will be wild. and its a quote, of course there is a famous quote now. from donald trump urging people to come on january 6th, a...

Will still be covering the contents of this report. i just had an opportunity to glass at pages here and there, i look down at this page and icy, trump made, during the right saying " potus im sure is loving this. " daniel goldman, thats the kind of stuff that apparently is all over this report that is all material that was not revealed publicly during the public hearings, which also had tremendously important material. >> yes, and you waste a really good point which is -- im really interested i...

Released just at the beginning of this hour. you heard that from andrew weissmann, representative-elect daniel goldman, and barbara mcquade. i can never thank you all enough for carry us through this tonight! this coverage -- it -- is just the most important possible delivery of this report that we could have done. you are the team that we wanted to do it with. thank you very much for joining us tonight! >> thanks lawrence. >> thank you. msnbcs breaking news coverage now of the january six commi...

Of this hour. andrew weissmann, daniel goldman, please go back to reading so you can rejoin us with more of what you are finding. in this report. that i am unable to read because i am on tv here, thank you very much for what youve done with us so far. were gonna be joined now by barbara mcquade, former federal prosecutor. barbara, i have to say, and i want the audience to know. i have never been more dependent on our guests than i am tonight. it is an 800-page report. which dropped as of walking...

Witnesses took the fifth, or refuse to testify for some other reason. and, obviously thats everybodys right to assert the fifth amendment... but, they also know there was a number of frivolous claims of executive privilege or absolute immunity. it is very hard for congress to litigate in a timely manner -- but we do know that the prime of justice has already litigated several of those claims and it is, i think, without a doubt the department will get a lot more testimony from many of these witne...

I am tonight. and ive never been more confidence in the guest on this program being able to do a better read of this report then i could. so, andrew weissmann, let me go back to you -- i have no idea how to direct specific questions to you about this because i havent read a single page of it. im going to rely on you to deliver what you found since youve been reading during -- or while barbara was speaking. >> well, one thing to pick up on what barb has been saying, is that this is such a luminou...

People are going in and pleading with him to issue some sort of a statements -- and the statement he issues is not what they want, a very forceful condemnation and request, a demand that people leave. he sends this thing that just put or pours fuel on this fire about mike pence. its that piece of it that i think could overcome this very high bar of what is incitement. that, again lawrence, the kind of conviction that could, under the 14th amendment, preclude donald trump from ever holding public...

Skimmed that part of the report but if theres anything that i think the senate needs to take up in terms of, there isnt going to be a house hearing on. this would be useful to have this senate take up exactly what happened here. was the politics. was it race, was a combination of the? too was a confidence? why werent we prepared for what happened here. so that is my quick take on it. >> andrew please, youre free to continue reading this over 800 page report while daniel goldman gives us his firs...

Because of the very high bar that the supreme court has set for political speech, i didnt think that was going to do it. this language was vague, he talked about peacefully -- but what the committee said is, its a speech, but its also the tweet that donald trump set at 2:24 p m when he said, mike pence didnt have the courage to do what was right. >> yes. >> united states demands the truth. the report has some detail about what led up to that moment. donald trump returns from the ellipse at 1:21 ...