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>> the strategy is to blame people, his advisors called, the crazies, for what donald trump did. this, of course, is nonsense. president trump is a 76-year- old man. he is not an impressionable child. donald trump cannot escape responsibility by being willfully blind. nor can any argument of any kind excuse his behavior during the violent attack on january 6. >> that is the public narrative, but for the legal case, a congresswoman liz cheney dropped a bombshell. she said that trump tri...

with this reporting, quote, the former president has called witnesses throughout the investigation according to those who spoke anonymously to reveal conversations. they ruled out a number of former officials as the recipient of this latest call highlighted by cheney saying it was not former white house counsel pat cipollone whose deputy patrick philbin, former media officials, matthews or former pascale. the allegations of witness tampering by trump and his associates, though, do add ...

reportedly involved federal agents spending most of the day at mar-a-lago was related to classified information that trump took with him when he departed the white house in january of 2021. an attorney for the former guy told nbc news that trump and his team had been, quote, cooperative with fbi and doj officials every step of the way, unquote, but then added that the bureau, quote, did conduct an unannounced raid and seized paper. "the new york times" reports that it wasnt the first t...

>> more testimony from the indicted leader of the oath keepers jason rhodes. we begin tonight with trump summoning the mob, a memorable line from liz cheney laid out exactly what happened. president trump assembled the mob and lit the flame of this abeing at all. todays hearing spelled out exactly how the mob was summoned that day and as with most things donald trump can be traced back to a tweet. in this case on december 19, 2020. as the committee showed its important to note what hap...

extremist organizations and giving them directive. we have not seen that sort of direct communication before. and that concerned me. >> to clarify further, you were worried and others at twitter were worried that the president might use your platform to speak directly to folks who might be incited >> i believe twitter relished in the knowledge that they were also being favorite and most used for the former president, and enjoyed having that sort of power within the social media ecosyst...

cnn has confirmed many probes connections between extremist groups and trump associates, roger stone and others. we also bring him a specific mean committee asked former white house counsel pat cipollone about and what he told them. at the last hearing we saw former white house insider, top aide to chief of staff, mark meadows, testified that the former president knew the mob was about to incite and said marching into the capital was armed. >> i was in the vicinity of a conversation wh...

of this city. >> hundreds upon hundreds of people have turned out to give this last farewell. >> life from our worlds, orbiting stars, far beyond our own. live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster. >> it is tuesday, july 12, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where the house committee investigating the capitol hill riot is set for its seventh hearing looking to draw connections between former president trumps role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election...

links between extremist groups like the oathkeepers and the proud boys and members of former president trumps inner circle. marshall cohen is live in washington this morning with a preview for us. how does the committee plan to connect those dots, marshall? >> reporter: good morning, it is all about the right wing extremist groups and donald trump and the committee has been making the case that this was so much more than a wing k and a n, this was a real affiliation to create a violent...

she was active in her efforts to try to help with the overturning of the election. some committee members i have talked to are skeptical as to whether or not she was playing an influential role in all of this, but still, the committee is interested in the role she was playing. at this point, theyre still open to talking to people, even though it does appear that their investigation is heading toward the finish. we know for sure, jake, they have a big witness coming in this week, and th...

say, listen, listen to what were going to tell you. in addition to what we told you in the previous handful of hearings. listen to what were going to tell you. watch what were going to show you today. after he was told by officials on the federal level, inside the white house, on the state level, anybody who he could listen to, who actually knew what was going on, who had the evidence. especially bill barr, he just looked for people who would tell him what he wanted to hear. and then w...