Days leading up to the maga invasion at the capital. The basis of the president s second Impeachment Trial starting next week. The genesis of the siege, revealing it wasnt an up rising but a coordinated campaign by the former president and his allies. That was rooted in a lie that was so convincing to some of his most devoted followers it made the assault on the capitol almost inevitable. And a growing list of people and organizations involved in planning, promoting and financing the rallies that precipitated the insurrection. Alex jones, ali alexander, the pilly gee, mike lindell, and people who have been in the Republican Party, and establishment groups like the republican attorneys general association. The heiress to the publix supermarket fortune. Her money paid for the lions share of the 500,000 at the ellipse where the former president spoke. Before they converged on washington, all the forces rallied around a single goal of stopping the socalled steal. And the times reveal, some made overtures like the proud boys and others at the event. The organizers promoted themselves in a Video Wielding Fire Arms as they built their radical coalition. And they knew something violent was coming. The man who bragged about, steve bannon, whom trump has since pardoned of felony charges, hinted that would take place would be more than a mere rally. All hell is going to break loose tomorrow. Just understand this. All hell is going to take place tomorrow. I will tell you this. Its not going to happen like you think its going to happen. Its going to be quite extraordinarily different. And all i can say is strap in. All hell . You say . And of course the words of a florida man himself, just minutes before his supporters sacked the capitol. We have to fight much harder. Were going to walk down to the capitol and were going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women and were probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them. Because youll never take back our country with weakness. Despite the bloodshed of that day, loyalists to the former president cant their attempts to sab teenage the verification of bidens victory. Rudy giuliani called Tommy Tuberville of alabama asking him to slow or delay the counts. And it prevented the National Guard from quickly restoring order. The Acting Secretary Of Defense restrained the d. C. Guard from fully deploying according to a memo issued two days before. And there are details on the last ditch legal maneuvers. The times reveals the Supreme Court lawsuit was secretly drafted by lawyers close to the white house. Lets turn now to Sheldon Whitehouse of rhode island who serves on the judiciary committee. Senator, i think we have to talk about the coordination of the money. Were seeing this siege was not spontaneous. It appears to have been planned by a variety of groups from the tea party on, including people in the white house. And then we get to the money. And i big donors, like the publix supermarket heiress putting money into it. I have been asking the fbi and the Department Of Justice from the the beginning to treat it as a kind of investigation to do the work to find out who is behind it. You follow the money, you look at the groups, the funder, you figure out who the kingpins and instigators are. They want to arrest all the characters who were smashing the place up. But there is more to it than this. Little by little, they are starting to look into it. And its essential to look at it as an organized effort, not a spontaneous one. I want to note im just someone is telling me in the ear, the senators meeting in the white house have just come out. We will get to the that in a moment. I want to stay with senator whitehouse now. You have funding this operation. There they are. That is Susan Collins of maine speaking. We know the Publix Heiress has not only been a donor to what happened on the sixth, the rally, she helped fund it but she is a big donor to ron desantis and then you got the things the penalty was saying. Right . Theyre getting this thing funded. We know theres going to be a rally there. We know it looks like the Department Of Defense told the National Guard to stand down and let whatever was going to happen happen. And you have the president saying after the siege happens, that is what happens when you hurt me. He tweeted, these are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously ripped away. Do you think we have criminal collusion between the funders and the president and maybe even the secretary of defense at the time . Look, i have been a prosecutor and i dont look to get ahead of assigning guilt. I think the important thing is we do a thorough investigation. I asked for an investigation of Senators Cruz and hawley. I have been pestering the Department Of Justice, and there is also the dark money funding. We dont know who the donors are. But behind raga, the republican attorneys general association, its a defense fund that takes money from anonymous donors in big amounts and we need to dig into that, and they need to understand exactly what went on so they are apply the law of aiding and abetting. So they can apply conspiracy law. Let me ask you this. You have been really great about this. You do the talks when you in the United States senate. You talk about dark money. Are we at a point now where we have to fear that our democracy is being under mined and the under mining of it is financed by billionaires, but dark money, with the goal of Undoing Democracy and establishing something other than democracy to their benefit . Yes. While trump was a flamboyant offense to democracy, there was always a Creeping Insinuation of dark money into our political system. And it is probably just as dangerous as trumps policeman buoyant excesses. This is not the knife in the eye ball. This is the cancer in the body. But you got to get both out if you want the patient to be healthy. It is a frightening thing. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, you follow it daily. I appreciate it. Thanks for joining us. I appreciate your time. Good to be with you. Lets turn to katie benner from the new york nims, and nicholas rasmussen. You have doing incredible reporting. Katie, i want to ask you based on your recording, how deep do the ties go to what have come to be seen as standard republican groups . The tea party patriots, groups that funded the tea party, a lot of billionaires that wanted a vanear of a republican. The ties are very deep. There is a lot of money that poured into it before the insurrection. And the Republican Party, and establishment parts of the party, never really believed that things would go off the rails the way it did on january 6th and its a theme we saw again and again with trumps presidency where people were looking at the long game and trying to ignore the unsavory attempts from him. People believed they would get things they wanted, power, the et cetera, without a disaster, and trump has proven with the insurrection we saw january 6th with his post presidency behavior that he controls not only the money but essentially the party itself. And you know, mr. Rasmussen, thank you, and Welcome To The Show as well. When you have insurgency, say were not talking about the United States. We start to think about the ties insurgents have to political forces, governmental forces. Is insurgency. Its getting funding from someone, political backing from somewhere. Dont we have to start thinking about that effort to overturn the democracy in those terms . You have a large pool of violent extremist it is a use a term the department of Homeland Security used, in a bulletin they issue the last week, and the large pool of violent extremists that are motivated by a doe mystic political ideology, they are incited to carry out violent attacks. And as we have seen in oversea settings, when we talk about foreign terrorist organizations, some of the groups like to keem themselves at arms length from the violence. They like to promote the narrative and they like to be at arms length and act surprise when the logical outcome after the narrative actually turns tout be violence as we saw on january 6th. Let me play for you, chris ray, the director of the fbi, testifying before congress about the threats to domestic security. What i can tell you is that within within the Domestic Terrorism bucket, racially motivated Volume Extremism is the largest in the group, and win that, people ascribing to a white supremacist ideology is certainly the biggest chunk of that. You also had the new second of date mr. Blinken tell he told axios the following about us. I was very worried. I did not want to you have a coup, shooting and god forbid loss of life. It is just that after Something Like this, i believe it would be very difficult for the world to see the United States as a symbol of democracy in the world. Katie benner, i will start with you on this. Are we looking at a Republican Party that is increasingly willing to look the other way or utilize militant groups like the proud boys for their own political benefit . I say were looking a the a Republican Party that is still the party of trump, and as a leader, he is going to do those things. We have in the reporting, one of the phenomenal that we saw that was interesting about the violent extremists, they came at the hest of the former president. And the president appealed to groups like militias to show up, and they showed up at Polling Stations in the election. So we saw a very unusual its hard to overstate how unusual this is. Militias like the oath keepers, they are antigovernment, they are antiauthority, and they felt they had in the white house, an ally and someone who stood for them. And that is going to be difficult for the Republican Party to grapple with as trump continues to control that party. That is my question to you, mr. Rasmussen. If donald trump is still able to and command extra governmental violent forces and they still answer to him and some members of congress answer to him as well, how much danger are we in . That is the key take away they did over the weekend. They talked about a situation where you have the professionals, including the fbi director speaking precisely and clearly about what they see domestic extremist threat, and yet you had a justice department, a department of Homeland Security that was misdirecting, look over here at antifa, and police violence, and instead, the preponderance of the risk we face, Domestic Terrorism, is tied to far white groups, and the groups they get from a political leader, not something they to sh be comfortable with. A wink, a nod, something they are acting in accord, a leader in Public Office wants. That should be unacceptable. Yeah, indeed, and some of the people are still in the United States senate and the house right now. Katie benner, great reporting, nicholas rasmussen, thank you both so much. Up next, biden getting his 1. 9 Trillion Covid relief package through congress. Republican senators just finished a meeting with President Biden. They demand he gut his own bill. 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They are offers less in stimulus and less in insurance. Democrats on the hill are prepared to go at it alone. Chuck schumer began to reconciliation to pass the plan with a majority. Joining me now is senator cory booker. I will put up a list of those who met with the president. Its your round robin. The mitt romneys, Susan Collins, rob portman. Its no democrats in there. It was not bipartisan. It was a meeting that they said throw your plan out, and do ours. I celebrate the president of the United States meeting with people across the aisle to have constructive dialogue. Four years ago, trump wasnt doing that. And the Affordable Care act. He was moving unilaterally to do a muslim ban. He was moving to give the largest tax break, to give a tax break to the wealthiest of people and corporations. I wish we saw that bipartisanship. In the worst economic crisis since world war ii, where its the most unequal recession in the modern era. We cannot afford to scrap the most vulnerable among us. We have 40 million americans who go to bed food insecure and we have challenges facing states that are laying off literally thousands of critical workers, firefighters and police and more. This is the time to act big and i am hoping our republican colleagues will come to the table to work with us on a very large plan. You know, i will stipulate i am far more petty than you or joe biden. That is why im not in politics. But when you read me that long list of things that donald trump came in and do unilaterally, his base has like a negative obsession with muslim. They have a negative obsession with nonwhite immigrants. They have negative obsessions with all kind of things, and he said, i hurt those people. Watch me hurt them. The cruelty was the point. He didnt ask you, senator booker, is it okay with you . You have joe biden coming in, the 80 Million People who voted for him voted for help. They didnt vote for Susan Collins to not be concerned about it. Isnt it let me play for you this is joe biden, senator jon tester, and Chuck Schumer saying what they were going to do. Take a listen. I support Passing Covid relief with support from republicans, if we can get it. But the covid relief has to pass, no ifs, ands or buts. I dont think 1. 9 trillion, even though its a boat load of money, is too much money. Now is not the time to starve the economy. It makes no sense to pinch pennies when so Many Americans are struggling. The risk of doing too little is greater than doing trooch. A snap benefit increase, and more money to get to the 29,000, you have a Child Tax Credit you want to see put in. Isnt it better politics to just pass it . Again, we have to pass that. You say the tax credit. Let me be clear. He has a cutting of black poverty in the country, latino poverty, by half. That is dramatic. I agree, we made commitments to these things. We need to do it. I d