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People in jail. they are vicious, violent and radical left thugs, they dont think theyll be held accountable for rigging the 2020 presidential election, the january 6 committee is a cover-up for what happened on november third and our country wont stand for it. >> your phrase was tick tock, expand on that what you mean? >> i dont think the president hides his emotions very well at all and historically for him, when he sends out something like this its indicative he learned something we dont know...

Disappears into the midterm elections so i think its just a practical matter, they got three, four, five months here into the new year to get at least the congressional part of this investigation wrapped up. criminal investigations are another matter. >> well get into that as well, luke, lets talk about the text messages josh mentioned, of course the former chief of staff mark meadows reading some of those. were under siege, armed stand off at the house chamber door, were all helpless, mark, sto...

Domestic rortder and msnbc contributor. josh, let me start with this one, we are almost one year in, how close are we to figuring out what happened in the lead-up to january 6 and how to prevent it, from happening, going forward? >> well, i think theres been considerable progress on the second half of that question yasmin, in terms of what can be done at tactical level for the capitol to prevent this happening again. in terms of what happened on january 6, i think theres been some progress, the ...

And publicly say all options are on the table. they would never rule anybody out. you followed the facts and followed the law, but the keep in mind, in order for a criminal investigation on the president, would be both a matter of reaching a very, very high bar with evidence and then also understanding that if something like that were to go to trial, it would have to first get past the district court level, then the appeals court level so this would have to be the very strongest case possible. t...

What we still dont know is what was president trump doing? i think there have been some sketchy reports that he was watching tv and seemed satisfied or happy with what was going on but yet to get really firsthand accounts of what was the president doing as the violence unfolded and as he seemed so reluctant to make a sort of statement to call off his folks. >> and josh, the clock is ticking. i mean the midterms are around the corner here in which republicans could take back control of congress, ...

Later go on to take their own lives. while the january 6 committee continues their investigation and courts hand sentences to individual members of trumps mob, there are growing fears that the people at the top, the people who fed the rioters steady lies, and whipped into a frenzy may escape accountability. as the quote, an unpunished clause is -- former attorney general in washington, counter intelligence for the fbi and msnbc security analyst, and chuck rosenburg, senior attorney, fbi official...

Talking about the thinking behind the scenes there. what do you make of this? do you believe justice department should be launching investigation into the former president and is there possibility its already going on and we dont know about it. >> i think theres definitely for prosecuting president trump, we heard michael sherwin active attorney in the district of columbia back on the aftermath of january 6 saying they would investigate everybody who had anything to do with this to the highest l...

Find the votes that he thinks belongs to him would not be evidence of a crime, it would be evidence of delusion, thats precisely why you do investigations, in order to establish the hardest thing in these criminal cases, intent. what did the president know to use and borrow an old phrase and when did he know it? so the reason these investigations take time is that theres an easy part and a hard part. the easy part is having the phonecall. the hard part is proving, demonstrating what it is the pr...

The man who received the longest sentence yet for the attack on january 6, whats at stake for trump allies and could the president ever face legal charges? well ask our legal panel, next. >> were televising the breach. >> the capitol is a free place to go, you can go through the capitol, but you got to go through metal detectors and security, and when you breach that you havent gone through security and you got to imagine that that is making a lot of the capitol police and other folks inside the...

Three generals come forward in a piece published by washington post warning of, quote, lethal chaos inside our military with the next u.s. election. with that, lets get started. weve been tracking major developments this week in regard to the january 6 capitol, on monday, text messages sent to and from trumps former chief of staff mark meadows in the lead up and day of the attack. even trumps own son, don jr., they were begging meadows to do everything in his power to get trump to call off his...