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Said. >> all of a sudden president bush was leaving and i couldnt conceptualize all the things that were happening that day. as he began to explain what had happened, it was quiet and i remember just feeling dark and looking to my teachers for support im like okay what is going on? its gotten really quiet. everyone was happy, the mood changed a lot. looking at their faces just saw confusion and fear. and later i began to find out that as i watched tv and i watched the towers on cnn actually that...

>> trump lost, these reviews are recounting that trump lost. its a strange way to distract from it as a rhetorical exercise. they also give people the misinformation where there is smoke, there is fire. you know this as a prosecutor when you have an investigation, its improper to imply that someone being investigated that someone did something wrong. you gather the facts and we may not here about some of the pain staking work that prosecutors do. >> here we sit in september 2021, still giving ox...

And provide top shelf free legal te fence to these election officials who really need defending. joining us is on the advisory board of the new election official which is just announced today. thank you for being with us today. >> i appreciate you covering this, rachel. let me ask you about your own experience these last few months starts after the election and how that led you to decide to take part in this effort. >> yeah. listening to your recounting the ongoing threats, the very specific thr...

Election threatening violence if she didnt overturn bidens victory in that state to. she and raffensperger are both among many officials from both parties who have been threatened in states around the country. but who are now advising this new effort to stand up and provide top shelf, pro bono legal defense to these elections officials to really do need defending. joining us now is michigan secretary of state joscelyn benson, she is on the advisory board of the eoldn that was just announced toda...

Defending. joining us now is michigan secretary of state, secretary benson, on the new advisory board of the new election official which is just announced today. thank you for being with us today. >> i appreciate you covering this, rachel. let me ask you about your own experience these last few months starts after the election and how that led you to decide to take part in this effort. >> yeah. listening to your recounting the ongoing threats, the very specific threats we continue to receive, i ...

Vinny, walk with me inside. i want to show folks your home. weve been doing this all day. showing people the inside of homes of people that have been totally ruined, totally demolished because of this flooding. its important for folks to see -- you got it, tim? i will give tim a bit of help up the steps. its important for folks to see the destruction that is left by these high floodwaters. one of the reasons why is because the water just got so incredibly high. vinny was recounting to me -- come...

Pretty soon after that where we werent quite sure what we were doing in afghanistan, how long we were going to stay or what exactly we were trying to accomplish. really rapidly, the united states became distracted by planning for the war in iraq and we forgot about afghanistan and let that drift. >> yeah, mike barnicle, six months in, craig writes and in his interviews finds the united states felt its mission had been accomplished inside afghanistan and began to turn its sights on the war in ira...

"ms. teacher, you got it mistaken, you think i just copied off my brother." he said, "the problem is not that im copy, the problem is that my brother and i have the same dog and we wrote about the same doggish ways." i come to washington recounting what martin just guy the history, to tell you that the same doggish ways that they had in the 1860s, the same doggish ways they had in 1924, the same doggish ways they had in 1942, the same doggish ways, we had to fight strom thurmond and had to fight...

There is an investigation into the preferential treatment for his testing for his family and private residence than by the state department health officials moving the samples to the front of the line. there was over $5 million of a book deal and an investigation into using his staff to help write this. id imagine that some of these investigations we may not hear is much about going forward. maybe theres going to be a dead-end that we are going to b asking what happened to this. we need closure ...

Time. >> reporter: i think its very significant, poppy. look, yesterday was about setting the table, reminding people what officers, what staff, what members, what the country really went through on january 6. those recounting of those harrowing experiences very emotional, and obviously the next step is really redefining what the time line was. and members are going to be having discussions on the select committee to try to decide who is most important to hear from. they arent saying yet who the...