it s donald trump, but in court under the rules of evidence, you have to actually show that chain for foundational purpose. part of what we re looking at here is the cause and the fact that i m sure you ll remember that the january 6 select committee put together in montage, the response that that december 19th tweet got from extremists. take a look. it s saturday, december 19th, the year is 2020 and one of the most historic events in american history has just taken place. president trump in the early morning hours today tweeted that he wants to the american people to march on washington, d.c. on january 6, 2021. and now donald trump is calling on his supporters to descend on washington, d.c., january 6th. he is now calling on we, the
committee showed a video of the violence from that day. and in the very first frame of footage, filmed at ten a.m., you see the proud boys marching to the capital. proud of your boys, proud of your boys. yeah, the advice, they re probably about 300 proud boys. they are marching eastbound and it s 400 blocks of kind of towards the united states capitol. the proud boys also featured prominently in the later hearing. new york congressman, jamie raskin, laid out how donald trump s tweet in december, 2020, telling his followers explicitly to come to d.c. on the six, be there, will be wild, spurred the proud boys and the oath keepers to conspire together. trump s december 19th tweet motivated these two extremist groups, which have historically not worked together, to coordinate their activities. december 19th attended anti-2 am, just hours after president
to the capital. proud of your boys, proud of your boys. yeah, the advice, they re probably about 300 proud boys. they are marching eastbound and it s 400 blocks of kind of towards the united states capitol. the proud boys also featured prominently in the later hearing. new york congressman, jamie raskin, laid out how donald trump s tweet in december, 2020, telling his followers explicitly to come to d. c. on the six, be there, will be wild, spurred the proud boys and the oath keepers to conspire together. trump s december 19th tweet motivated these two extremist groups, which have historically not worked together, to coordinate their activities. december 19th attended anti-2 am, just hours after president trump s tweet, kelly meggs, the head of the florida oath keepers, declared an alliance
don t think there s a snowball s chance in hell he would veto it, because i don t expect jack smith will prepare something so off the charts. but if you listen to what he s saying, he s saying the same thing he was saying before the appointment of jack smith, which is that everyone who was participating in the prevention or deterring the peaceful transfer of presidential power is going to be held to account. i think what carol is saying, though, this is evident in the days and hours after the december 19th tweet. i am hardly, as you know, going to say the department of justice was where it should have been at all times. i don t think that s true. i think that separating the efforts of reporters, which has been amazing, between the two of them, they have led the department to be where it needs
something more than an anti-government group, they had a rapid reaction force with guns in virginia, they attacked the the storm clouds were brewing but nobody recognized that. that explains why nothing goes into place after trump calls them. your colleagues have reported on trump s december 19th tweet where he goes, we know now from your colleagues that he leaves a meeting where he wants to overturn joe biden s victory and in sort of a fit of a peak at the pillow guy and the overstock guy and everyone he has working on the coup, he sends out the tweet, come to washington, it ll be wild. does your reporting suggest that anything happens after that or is that in the same category of speech from a political leader? i think it s in the same category as speech. i don t think anybody an tis paid there ought to be an