saudi saudi arabia? good evening tonight, former president trump lashing out and insulting his daughter ivanka in the process after the january 6th committee laid the blame squarely on him, repeatedly playing video of his closest advisers admitting trump lost the election fair and square in fact one of them was his own daughter ivanka trump who said she agreed with attorney general bill barr that the election was not stolen. in fact your perspective about the election when attorney general barr made that statement? it affected my perspective. i respect attorney general barr. so i accepted what he was saying. trump, tonight, throwing ivanka under the bus after he heard that. as he tries to save himself, writes in part, ivanka trump was not involved in looking at or studying election results. she had long since checked out. nice thing to say, slamming his own daughter and comes as another trump ally who tried to turn the election behind the scenes trying to fight back t
told him he needed to be doing something more. and aware of the rioters chants to hang mike pence, the president responded with this sentiment, quote, maybe our supporters have the right idea. mike pence, quote, deserves it. mike pence deserves it. that s one of several new findings revealed yesterday. you may hear there was nothing new, but that s not the truth. cheney revealed multiple republican congressman, including gop representative scott perry, sought presidential pardons for their roles in trying to overturn the election. trump s attorney general bill barr told him, his claim the election was stolen was bs. ivanka trump testified she believed barr when he said that. and overnight a source close to former vice president pence told cnn that his team did not call the white house for help as the riots unfolded because they did not think the white house, that is the president, would help them. that s the vice president. capitol hill police officers who were attacked an
despite the lawful outcome of the 2020 election and in violation of his constitutional obligation to relinquish power. over multiple months donald trump oversaw and coordinated a sophisticated, seven-part plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the transfer of presidential power. there was also previously unseen video they played from trump s top advisors including former attorney general bill barr. he said in no uncertain terms that he told trump that his rigged election claims that they were a lie, calling it, quote, bullshit. the committee played video of the attack that even for people who lived it and even for people who have seen the playback from every angle, the video presentation was new and alarming and there was also this photograph of a makeshift noose and gallows with the capitol dome in the background. it says quite a lot about that day, and the committee s first witness, a u.s. capitol police officer who described the siege as a war scene. let
here. from all of our colleagues across the networks of msnbc news, thank you for staying up late and i will see all of you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow now it is a top of the hour. we are looking at live images of the cannon caucus room at the u.s. capitol. members of the january six investigation are about to enter the room and take their seats. in terms of what we are expecting, here betty thompson is expected to gavel the hearing in the session. as i was mentioning we expect opening statements both from chairman thompson, and from the republican vice chair liz cheney. we also know that there are two live witnesses, who are slated to testify tonight. capitol hill police officer who was injured, and the attack. also documentary filmmaker, who captured footage on january 6th that we will be seeing for the first time tonight. he is and that it with the pro trump paramilitary group, the proud boys that was a subject of a seditious conspiracy, federal felony indictment earl