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>> do you think you have a better understanding of him, now that you have written this book? i should note, for people, the book does not start with inauguration day on 2017. it goes back to his family, his roots, his father, fred, who, no offense, sounds like an awful dad to have. do you think you understand him better now, having plunged into his background more for this book? >> i think there are parts of him that i understand better than before, but the goal had always been, because i come from new york, and i have covered new york politics, and aspects of new york's various syst...

What he was up against, and trying to keep them all safe, i just could not believe. it is unbelievable. >> so, d. c. has requested the national guard, and has been denied by d. o. d.. i would like to know a good reason why. i apologize. >> don't apologize. please. >> please, the whole capitol is a rampage. there are some sitting in the chair and the senate. there has been shots fired, and we need a full national guard component, right now. was it denied at first? okay, then i won't -- we need them fast. we need it. we are like a third world country here. we have to run and evacuate the capitol...

>> congressman adam schiff, joining us now. congressman, i have to say, when i was watching this, and seen this unfold, seeing the text messages, the emails, it was advanced notice. a secret service. i couldn't believe that this was known, and wasn't, a, prevented, put the, that they want to bring the president of the united states in this area. what are the next steps, now that we have the subpoena voted on? are you going to try to get more people, aside from the former president, to talk about this? >> well, first of all, you are absolutely right. it is shocking when you see, in vivid detail...

That we have failed. it is a complete victory for them. remember, pence refused to leave the capitol. they wanted this image, on behalf of the united states and the world, right now, is happening. they had to stay there, and get the job done. >> they had to do that. >> there is another clip, earlier, where i'm paraphrasing here, there is a show of strength or paraphrasing here, and the continuity to government. there is this idea that america, things happened that we happened with torture, more like you said, third world countries, using the term he used. if we saw that happened, all those new...

Learned a whole lot today from the brand new evidence of the committee, uncovered, and told the american people. congressman adam schiff, laying out some of the damning details. >> days before january 6th, the president senior advisers at the department of justice, and fbi, for example, received an intelligence summary, that included material, indicating that certain people, traveling to washington, were making plans to attack the capitol. this summary noted online calls that they would occupy federal buildings. rhetoric, about invading the capitol building. >> they said, during one of these c...