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Footage evacuating the capitol on January 6, and capturing her unfiltered reaction to the Violence And Chaos of that day. And i think to a certain extent its Bidens Fault and harris is for let me get my slide. Trump says that President Biden and Vice President harris are some responsible for the attempt on his life im leader want us to get an interview scheduled before The End of the month at least five weeks of ridicule from her opponents, Kamala Harris has scheduled her first sitdown. What she needs to do in this interview 6 00 a. M. Here in washington. A live look at the Washington Monument on this wednesday morning. That is the White House down in front of her, but its getting darker Guys Fall is here good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us. Donald trump indicted once again, the republican Nominee Hit with a Superseding Indictment from special counsel Jack Smith. That case has been on hold after the Supreme Court granted trump partial immunity for official acts taken as president and that distinction, official versus private acts is central to this new indictment. Smiths office writes this quote, the defendant had no official responsibilities related to the certification proceeding, but he did have a personal interest as a candidate in being named the winner of the election . Trump responding in a lengthy multipart statement on his truth social platform says, quote, this is merely an attempt to interfere with the election or as he put it more succinctly, in a followup post quote, persecution of a political opponent the reignition of the case underscores that Novembers Election has uniquely personal stakes for Donald Trump. If he wins, trump will once again wield the awesome powers of the presidency, including the legal authority to shut this and any other federal case against him down. At the core of the case are trumps alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election culminating on January 6, 2021 capitol due to the very top, and it looks like were trying to breach the Capitol Building there is this time strong action is needed im sorry a traitor. But we would of course you are seeing is footage obtained by Cnn Airing for the first time here on cnn this morning of January 6 and the evacuation of lawmakers including Thenhouse Speaker Nancy pelosi. It was filmed by her daughter, Alexandra Pelosi as part of an Hbo Documentary was turned over to congress. And it shows how pelosi reacted when she was told shed have to evacuate the capitol and go to Fort Mcnair i dont and the footage shows her questioning how the capital and possibly have been unprepared for what happened that day all right i so i guess i understand why they are not i feel smarter we have responsibility tearing. We did not have any accountability for what was going on there, and we should have this is ridiculous why werent the National Guard there to begin with i thought that they had sufficient question are they dont know they clearly didnt know. And i take responsibility for not having them just prepare because its stupid that we should be a situation because they thought they had won they thought these people would act civilized these people gave a damn. Sure wow, joining me now to discuss Marcus Childress, former investigative counsel for the house January 6 committee. Stephen collinson, cnn, senior politics reporter, brad woodhouse, Senior Adviser at the Dnc Farmers Senior Adviser at the dnc. Matt gorman, former Senior Adviser to tim Scotts President ial Campaign Welcome to all of you this morning. Marcus, im grateful that you are here at the table with us today because you ive spent so much time working on the January 6 committee. Really understand so much about that day . Can you help us understand . I was really struck by what Nancy Pelosi was saying. There, that she takes responsibility, that she feels like they should have done more to make sure the National Guard was already at the capitol. Can you help us understand what this means . Yes. So at this point, it appears i dont have the exact time stance by believes is right when she leaves shes being escorted out to a secure location. And what i think you really just see, theres the raw emotion of that day of Speaker Pelosi Feeling like we should not have allowed these rioters to stop our official proceeding from moving forward. Look, there were tabletop exercises prior to January 6 of 2020, just like Theres Tabletop exercises going on right now preparing and for the 2024 election. And i feel like members were worried about this possibility of rioters getting into the capitol. They were worried about the possibility of Candidate Trump at that time getting folks excited to go and try to stop this official proceeding and stop Vice President pence and what you see there as secret pelosi just being raw. I just having raw emotion about letting down her the members, letting down the staff, which hes talked on her book tour. They were going to position they didnt want to be in its its pretty shocking to see to be honest, just because you only seem to the Surveillance And Cant know really normally hear what shes saying. But it does line up with what a lot of members and what the leadership felt that day as terms of just letting Candidate Trump almost stop. What was an important congressional proceeding . You can hear the anger in her voice as well. Seven collinson, you paint big pictures for us every day and i know youve written about Donald Trumps Superseding Indictment. I was just struck by how this new Footage Kind of underscores and sort of pulls out the picture that Jack Smith is painting. Obviously, he was forced to do this because of the Supreme Court immunity ruling but this all really does thrust January 6, the events of that day back into the spotlight as well as of course, Indicting Trump again and reigniting the narrative that he wants to push about persecution against him. How do you see what we just have learned about how pelosi handled that day . How do you understand how it fits in with Donald Trump and how its going to affect the race well, its shocking again when you see that this issue has faded somewhat from the campaign during the whole period of President Bidens debate performance, him having to step down, the excitement over the new democratic candidate but looking at that again, it brings it all back and it raises the question of how has it been so difficult to bring a president who tried to subvert democracy to account before the next election in which he standing and it raises the questions about what would happen if he wins this new indictment is not going to decide the election, but the election probably will decide the fate of this case because if trump gets back into power, he will appoint an Attorney General and this will be all washed under the carpet if harris wins, presumably therell be the space for smith to continue pending Supreme Court interventions to get this case to fruition but i think when we look back in, when future generations because look back at this, they will puzzle about the question of how this took so long to deal with in the american political and legal system to the extent to which the person who is widely seen as responsible for those for that footage has a chance to become president again, right . Well, this is of Course Something that the Trump Team is trying to bring into this conversation at Matt Gorman and brad, i welcome you to weigh in on this as well, because this is just outside the 60 day window. That is the unofficial department of Justice Policy in terms of bringing an indictment, are announcing investigations into political candidates, its not written down, but we know from the Doj Inspector generals report, this is kind of a rule that they try to follow. Obviously, it was in focus in 2016 when we were dealing with hillary clinton, Jim Comey and her emails but theyre basically saying, yes, i know in brands like youre there but at the same time, theyre basically making the argument like this. It was too close to an election to deal with this matt, how do you see this . When we know how it played in the primary . When trump was indicted, Ron Desantis will say he thinks he lost the election in no small part because of that. But now were in a final sprint of a general election that has been historically unprecedented. How does this fit . In with all of it . Ill leave the legal machinations that the smarter people on the other side of table, i think from politically, i think the Harris Campaign is a choice to make, right . Theyve had a decent job. These last six weeks, kind of messaging joy, and a lot of these other things this is not joy. Know well as the opposite, i just mean like January 6, right . This story, this is not a joyous story its no, no, its not. And youd put when she first took over the ticket, there was talk about the paradigm of the prosecutor versus felon that that sort of dichotomy does she go back after that . I think its a discussion her team and would want to have because if joys been working, what youve been doing has been working just like weve been talking about with not doing interviews, if what has been doing has been working, there is a hard case to make to go off that so i think in spite of all of the news of late if whats been working in working, keep going. Yeah. Brian well, first of all, the delay here is Donald Trumps right. I mean, he was the one in court trying to delay the case, delay the case, delay the case. They one thing we learned is is that, you know, is that maybe he didnt get much out of the supreme Court Ruling as they thought, because these but these for these four charges had been maintained in a superseding Superseding Indictment. So well look the american people saw what happened there, seeing this footage of pelosi, pelosi for the first time, the judgment here is going to have to be made at the at the Ballot Box and look for all my democratic friends. This race is called this race is close. Joy is not going to do it all together. Its not there has to be a case prosecuted against Donald Trump. Im not talking about the case in court, but a case on the Campaign Trail. And so it cant all be Joy And Hope and happiness. Look, i was in chicago, it was all joy, Hope And Happiness but we got to prosecuting a case against Donald Trump January 6, as part of It Abortion Bans are part of it. Project 2025 is real, real quick. I think coming out of each Partys Convention in milwaukee had from what youre saying, Thats Chicago had it. There isnt a tendency as you come out of these things the week or two after to be a little bit higher, drone Supply Right . So i think its important for we certainly had that with biden dropped out of the race within days of the convention. I mean, if youre saying democrats out now, its important to kind of come back down and come off the quoteunquote vibes from each party. I would advise both sides to do that, but coming back now, what im nervous about reading the Superseding Indictment that were seeing a lot of the same behavior thats in the Superseding Indictment being played on the Campaign Trail right now. And that was the number one thing that will least was my team. A lot of our personal goal in the January 6 committee was to make sure another January 6 never happens again. Then what do you see being said on the Campaign Trail is going to be rigged. Theyre going to cheat this is exact quotes that you see in the Superseding Indictment and the prior indictment and so i think you have to have real concern about getting out to the Ballot Box to your point, but also a concern of whats going to happen in that time period between Election Day and January 6 of 2025. And Thats Something that has me im not going to live very unsettled pelosi speak to that a little bit like how could we not have been prepared for this there seems to be something of a sense of that. Now as well as stephen, i mean, understanding based on what happened on January 6, what could happen potentially in this election. And you have heard Trump Kind of escalate this rhetoric around cheating and, and things not being fair since harris was elevated to the top of the ticket . Definitely. And as the race tightened, hes started to say, well, of course, ill accept the result as long as its free and fair. And we will know what that means in reference to 2020. And it was before about this time before the 2020 election that he was starting to raise those issues. What was interesting yesterday was this was a Trump Campaign has really struggled the last few weeks. Soon as that indictment went down, the Muscle Memory was back out there. The Fundraising Appeals are out there its all a witch hunt, et cetera, et cetera. Does this give trump a foundation trying gather himself again . Or does this play into those swing states, the moderates, the suburban voters who look at this again that validates harris his message that we have a fleeting moment to move on from all of this yeah. I mean, matt again, with, trump. I mean, this worked for him in a primary does leaning into this, do you think thats a strategy for him that is one thats going to add to his bottom line. I dont think either party leaning into this kind of works when were another i think this would be different if biden was the nominee because he had far more comfort going after the Democracy Sort of thing. I think mccarthy, but Kevin Mccarthy put this best, right . The more trump is talking about his own problems and not voters problems. Thats a problem for him. I would say the same thing with camila and tim like i think they would have a better chance going after less about this and democracy. Theyve already kind of jettison a little bit of that. And more of kind of candidly what theyve been doing on the policy policy front. Well, look, i think democracy is going to still be a big a big issue in this race. There was a lot of that discussion at the convention last week, but weve gone beyond democracy is a single term. Were talking about freedoms and so it is January 6, its threats to democracy. Its truck basically mount looks like he would mount another for insurrection if he, if he lost. But its also about freedoms and about ivf. Its about abortion its about basically making the same argument. Hes making. Youve got we heard it out a little bit. What hes doing saying this needs to be big. This can be included, but it needs to be bigger i mean, it was it was so central part of bidens entire i mean, look, remember he his his animating feature of running in 2020 was what happened in in charlottesville. So i think that thats what got him back in the political game was what he saw as the threats then and then of course later on, we had January 6 so i think i think it is different with the change at the top all right. Marcus childress before i let you go you talked about being afraid of what might happen here based on what you what you saw that day. Im interested to know based on what you watched there with her saying that she took some responsibility is that something that trumps team potentially uses in this January 6 case if it goes forward, i feel like the Trump Team uses anything in litigation would be completely candid, right. No matter what Speaker Pelosi would have said in that video, im sure the Trump Team would find a way to put it in a filing that will get litigators do im not trying to knock his team at all. This would good lawyers do. So. Look, im not going to give it too much weight but she said and i think what we saw was a raw, empathetic Leadership Moment from Speaker Pelosi. And its something that shes also been saying as he travels around the country talking about our book, i think i think its very endearing. And as a former Military Officer is once you actually expect a people, right . You expect your officers and the people in charge to take responsibility. Something goes bad and you see her doing and that in part, but also keeping the limelight on on former President Trumps actions. Yeah, were going to talk a bit more about that later on in the show because theres some more new footage from the day after January 6, where she really focuses in on trump, marcus. Thank you so much for being here this morning. I really appreciate it all right. Coming up, republicans have been demanding it. Now. Kamala harris will Sit Down for her first interview. Its going to be joined with her Running Mate Tim Walz pauls since the beginning of the campaign. And its going to be right here on cnn plus an animal Rights Group is demanding an investigation into Rfk Jr. After for a bizarre story came to light about his cutting off the head of a dead Whale And J. D. Vance has brushed off his childless Cat Lady these comments as a onetime thing. But do another resurfaced. It doesnt other resurfaced interview tell a different story so many of the leaders of the left and i hate to be so personal about this, but there are people without kids trying to brainwash the minds of our children tomorrow. The most anticipated interview of this election, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz Sit Down with Dana Bash for the first interview. 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