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>> plus the justice department marks a new phase of its investigation into donald trump. a federal grand jury subpoena now demands testimony from a key west wing insider. the trump white house counsel pat cipollone. and chinas response to nancy pelosis defiance by dispatching 27 war planes into taiwans airspace. the house speaker says her taiwan visit a clear marker now in the battle between democracy and dictatorship. >> today the world faces a choice between democracy and autocracy...

were coming in to make a citizens arrest. >> hearing number four, the attack on the capitol. >> mika, weve been talking about it this week, its been a theme of violence in american politics. one side promoting violence, that is, of course, the trump wing of the republican party, where theres a consequence starting in 2015 where donald trump in 2016 was saying beat up protesters. i remember the time when they used to go out an a stretcher. >> right. >> if you beat them up, ill pay for y...

election. once again in the spotlight, no one other than wisconsins senator ron johnson. after the committee revealed on tuesday that one of his top staffers messaged an aide to vice president mike pence about johnson passing fake slates of trump electors for wisconsin and michigan to vice president mike pence by hand on january 6th. a pence aide promptly shut it down texting the johnson staffer this, quote. do not give that to him, end quote, but that attempted handoff still begs many...

describing how president trump used the lies he told to raise millions of dollars from the american people. these fundraising schemes were also part of the effort to disseminate the false claims of election fraud. >> without objection -- >> i am the senior investigative counsel at the house select committee to investigate the general six attack on the united states capitol. between election day and january six, the trump campaign sent millions up fundraising emails to trump supporters,...

campaign team, that his claims of election fraud were just lies. >> but they were proposing, that was nuts. >> the mayor was definitely intoxicated. law firms were not comfortable making the arguments that rudy giuliani was making publicly. >> evidence today that former president trump knew he lost, and kept telling lies about it. >> the president accepted that. he said, okay, fine, but what about the others? >> i told them that it was -- it was crazy stuff, and i was doing great, doin...

his campaign knows he lost. his administration knows he lost. and nevertheless, he tells the country, i won. >> we have much more evidence to show the american people on this point than we can reasonably show in one hearing. and today, we will begin. >> tonight, new testimony from the very top of trumps own campaign team, that his claims of election fraud were just lies. >> but they were proposing, that was nuts. >> the mayor was definitely intoxicated. law firms were not comfortable m...

of election fraud were just lies. >> what they were proposing, that was nuts. >> the mayor was definitely intoxicated. law firms were not comfortable making the arguments that rudy giuliani was making publicly. >> evidence today that former president trump knew he lost, and kept telling lies about it. >> the president accepted that. he said, okay, fine, but what about the others? >> i told them that it was -- it was crazy stuff, and i was doing great, doing service for the country. >> ...

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 whats important on what transpired the week and during all the buildup to the january 6th hearings reaching this investigative findings stage, its important to listen to what that star witness then emb...

them saw that and recorded it. as we begin this hour of msnbc tonight, and we dig into whats important on what transpired during the week and all the buildup to the january 6th hearings reaching the investigative findings stage, its important to listen to what that star witness, the embedded filmmaker, told us. because thats why he was one of the star witnesses. thats why 20 million people were subjected to hearing exactly what he said last night. >> we met up with the proud boys somew...

audience at the january 6th hearing on capitol hill, which ended up being a 12 minute suew spouse heavy on rhetoric the arco >> the president of the united states trying to stop the transfer of power. a president that has stood for 220 years even as our democracy face its most difficult test. >> laura: i get it, now benny thompson cares about the transfer of power and making sure it works okay? remember, hes the same benny thompson that voted against certifying george w. bushs election...