shouted out to join the debate. they were already in those early hours, doing more than preparing for a speech that day. they had a specific operational plan that morning. and a filmmaker embedded with them saw that and recorded it. as we begin this hour of msnbc tonight, and we dig into what s important on what transpired the week and during all the buildup to the january 6th hearings reaching this investigative findings stage, it s important to listen to what that star witness then embedded filmmaker told us. because that s why he was one of the star witnesses. that s why 20 million people were subjected to hearing exactly what he said last night. we met up with the proud boys somewhere around and they are starting to walk down the mile easterly in a direction towards the capitol. there was a large contingent, more than i expected. and i was confused, to a certain extent, why we were walking away from the presidents speech. because that s what i felt we were there to co
them saw that and recorded it. as we begin this hour of msnbc tonight, and we dig into what s important on what transpired during the week and all the buildup to the january 6th hearings reaching the investigative findings stage, it s important to listen to what that star witness, the embedded filmmaker, told us. because that s why he was one of the star witnesses. that s why 20 million people were subjected to hearing exactly what he said last night. we met up with the proud boys somewhere around 10:30 am and they are starting to walk down the mall, easterly in a direction towards the capitol. there was a large contingent, more than i expected. and i was confused, to a certain extent, why we were walking away from the president s speech. because that s what i felt we were there to cover. that s what he was there to cover. that s what many people would have thought. that there was a different plan. committee chair bennie thompson the testimony and other evidence to pres
here. from all of our colleagues across the networks of msnbc news, thank you for staying up late and i will see all of you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow now it is a top of the hour. we are looking at live images of the cannon caucus room at the u.s. capitol. members of the january six investigation are about to enter the room and take their seats. in terms of what we are expecting, here betty thompson is expected to gavel the hearing in the session. as i was mentioning we expect opening statements both from chairman thompson, and from the republican vice chair liz cheney. we also know that there are two live witnesses, who are slated to testify tonight. capitol hill police officer who was injured, and the attack. also documentary filmmaker, who captured footage on january 6th that we will be seeing for the first time tonight. he is and that it with the pro trump paramilitary group, the proud boys that was a subject of a seditious conspiracy, federal felony indictment earl
general bill barr and former president trump s daughter ivanka trump and disturbing footage of the violent attack that took place on the capitol, the committee made out exactly how the hearings will show that this was a culmination of an ateamed coup and they say the former president was at the absolute epicenter of it all. here is some of what we saw. donald trump, the president of the united states, spurred a mob of domestic enemies of the constitution, to march down the capitol and subvert american democracy. i made it cleardy not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff which i told the president was bullshit. i respected attorney general barr so i accepted what he said and was saying. president trump assembled a mob, assembled a mob and lit the flame of this attack. president trump is wrong. i had no right to overturn the election. pat cipollone threatened to resign. i kind of took it up to whining to be honest with y
tonight, the january 6th hearings. good evening. thank you so much for being here with us tonight. we know that you have a lot of options for where to watch and how to watch tonight s hearing. it makes us all the more grateful that you have chosen to be here with us on msnbc. i m rachel maddo with joy reid. tonight is a big night for us. a big night for american democracy. we have had a few other instances in our modern history of big, public hearings. all the networks scuttling their schedules to air the proceedings live, but none of us have ever covered something quite like this before. the january 6th investigation is about the first time in american history that the transfer of power between presidents was not peaceful. tonight in the ornate cannon caucus room inside the u.s. capitol the january 6 ths investigators said they would give them a skralg amount. the investigators plan to show video footage from the attack that s never been seen by the public before, including