conditions were right. and when it was, we took the shot. with something like this the only antecedent that comes to mind really is that famous image of president obama and secretary of state clinton and others in the situation room watching the raid unfold that ultimately killed osama bin laden. i just have to ask you in terms of historians looking back at this day these briefings, these planning sessions, the president s decision process was it gravely interrupted? was the process interrupted at all by the fact the president has covid and he s been in isolation on and off during the time this was all being decided? no, not at all, rachel. he worked right through his time with covid. in fact, he s still isolating now and he has a rebound case here. it did not affect his decision making process at all. he was able to constantly stay in touch with his security team
that famous image of president obama and secretary of state clinton, and others in the situation room watching the raid unfold that ultimately killed osama bin laden. i have to ask you, in terms of historians looking back at this day, these briefings, these planning sessions, the president s decision process, was it gravely interrupted? was it a disconnect was the process interrupted at all by the fact that the president has covid, and he s been in isolation on and off during the time that this was all being decided? no, not at all, rachel. i mean, he worked right through his time with covid. in fact, he s still isolating now. i think, as you know, he has a
times reported last month that the proud boys military group not only recorded the video planning sessions for january 6th, but a least one of the recordings was seized from the phone of the group s leader by the fbi this year in 2022. quote and a copy was recently obtained by the times. so these big brains in this pro trump fascist group. they first of all decided to do their organizing on videotape conference. then they made recordings those planning sessions which is him using, then their leader guy cap to the recordings for at least a year after the capitol attack. he then had them seized by the fbi and also they have made their way to at least one reporter who was published pieces of them at the new york times. like i said, i don t know exactly with the january 6th as
of all, decided to do their organizingou on video conferenc andor then they made recordingsf those planning sessions, which is amazing, then their leader guy kept the recordings for at least a year after the capitol attack. he then had them seized by the fbi, and also, they have made their way to at least one reporter who was able to publish pieces of them at the new york times. so yeah, like i said, i don t know exactly what the january 6th investigation has but it s got to be a help to have guys like this right in the middle of your criminal conspiracy. i mean you pray in investigations of all kinds for targets like this. did you literally leave bread crumbs, too? that s why the leadership of both of these pro-trump armed fascist groups are about to be put on trial for sedition. part of the way you re able to
the election was not legally sound. the white house counsel explained that to them and the scheme went ahead anyway and meadows was a point person for all this. he was the point person between donald trump and the white house and people outside of congress who were trying to overturn the election. that includes members of congress. for me, what was one of the most stunning revelations last night in the filing was just how deeply involved republican members of congress were. they were sitting on planning sessions in the white house. they were trying to talk to mike pence s staff. they were directly communicating with mark meadows. there was one text exchange revealed that scott perry of pennsylvania was texting the day after christmas mark meadows about this idea of getting rid of the head of the doj and replacing him with someone who was more siympathetic. that s why they want to speak to scott perry in front of the committee, but he has refused to cooperate. right.