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Theyre grown adults. >> talk about the first impeachment, which was more abstract, international. people didnt have their heads around it. there was a concrete thing that happened on january 6th. and its not just charging people breaking through the wall. we were talking about when we were having our throwback to 2002, i named two or three crimes. theres obstruction of justice, intimidating an officer, obstruction of official proceeding, obstruction of congress, all these crimes that came up in ...

And to be able to then tell the committee. theres been bread crumbs before about the idea of the slide away so and so is watching, theyre watching out. innuendo is not gonna cut it in a legal courtroom. >> i sat here for the first impeachment, second impeachment, bombshell indictment tomorrow. >> im picturing seditious conspiracy, it wasnt me. witness tampering, it wasnt me. obstruction against united states, it wasnt me. >> why is here is a frankston ahtra rendition? (laughs) im just kidding, s...

A okay. maggie, an attempted phone call from the president to a white house support staff member. important why? >> well, for a couple of reasons. the committee seems to think if this is -- you know, this is the conversation that they were referring to the other day in testimony as another act of possible witness tampering. so this sounds like it was somebody who trump tried to reach out to, who trump does not routinely talk to, for what reason we dont know. a phone call alone, john, is not nece...

Most interesting thing about this phone call is that it is twofold. one, the president makes it after somebody else on his team contacts cassidy hutchinson. the whole hearing with cassidy was essentially rushed, because there is this idea that she felt a little bit threatened by a phone call from somebody in trump world, saying that they knew that she would be loyal. she would stay loyal. and the bizarreness of this second call is that the president makes it. the former president makes it to som...

Are happened january 6th, when we saw that stacked military formation going up the stairs of our capitol. 0ur correspondent nomia iqbal has been following the hearing, and talked us through whats happened so far. there were two parts to todays hearing. the first part revolved around something that was referred to as an unhinged meeting which happened in mid—december, in which donald trumps advisers were telling him to concede the election, but he was listening to a group of unofficial advisers...

The next day, which is where we get into the second part, he put out a tweet in which he said to his supporters to come and protest onjanuary 6th — "be there, will be wild" is what he wrote. and then the committee focused on people that did turn up. one of them was a man called stephen ayres, who has now pleaded guilty to obstruction charges that day. he talked about how he deeply regretted listening to donald trump. we also heard from a former member of the oath keepers, an extremist group wh...

To remain in office. members of his inner circle explained how mr trump ignored their advice to concede the election, and instead summoned a mob to washington. our correspondent nomia iqbal has been following the hearing. there were two parts to todays hearing. the first part revolved around something that was referred to as an unhinged meeting which happened in mid—december, in which donald trumps advisers were telling him to concede the election, but he was listening to a group of unofficial...

He reads the transcripts, but to the larger point, i hope carol is right. i hope its an iceberg analogy of whats going on at the justice department is below what we can see. at liz cheneys closing remarks yesterday, actually were a fantastic road map for a case against donald trump from not only from witness tampering, from intimidation of witnesses and from obstruction of a civil procedure, of a conspiracy to defraud the united states and of seditious conspiracy. i thought the highlight of the ...

White house communications director under trump, and elliott williams is a former deposition si assistant attorney general. welcome to all of you to the conversation. elliott, let me start with you. drawing the direct line from the former president from the administration to those responsible for the physical violence there at the capitol, did the 1/6 committee do it. >> from the doj perspective, i would say no because drawing that direct line means hes getting the information himself not throug...

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