to a committee member, jamie raskin, in his first interview since the hearing. there was never before seen testimony from trump s inner circle, including attorney general bill barr. and the former president s daughter and senior adviser at funky trump. there was also disturbing new footage of the violent attack that took place on the capitol. the committee made out exactly how the hearings will show that this was a culmination of an attempted coup and they say the former president was at the absolute epicenter of it all. here is just some of what we saw. donald trump, the president of the united states, spurred a mob of domestic enemies. to march down the capital and subvert democracy. i made it clear that they didn t agree with the idea of putting out this stuff, i told the president was bullish. it i respect attorney general barr. so i accepted what he said was saying. president trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and let the blame of this attack. president t
general bill barr and former president trump s daughter ivanka trump and disturbing footage of the violent attack that took place on the capitol, the committee made out exactly how the hearings will show that this was a culmination of an ateamed coup and they say the former president was at the absolute epicenter of it all. here is some of what we saw. donald trump, the president of the united states, spurred a mob of domestic enemies of the constitution, to march down the capitol and subvert american democracy. i made it cleardy not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff which i told the president was bullshit. i respected attorney general barr so i accepted what he said and was saying. president trump assembled a mob, assembled a mob and lit the flame of this attack. president trump is wrong. i had no right to overturn the election. pat cipollone threatened to resign. i kind of took it up to whining to be honest with y
statement. it affected my perspective. i respected attorney general barr so i accepted what he was saying. some of the most powerful elements of tonight s committee presentation come from those very people. the former president s most loyal allies including the attorney general and his daughter. with us tonight, msnbc political contributor matthew dowd, former george w. bush strategist and founder of country over party and former republican congressman carlos cavello a member of the republican conference for the first two years of the trump presidency. matt, what does this do to the power and brand of trump moving forward, pushing the big lie, looking to run again, when we have all of this footage of the inner circle saying he was full of it. i think america has become bigger than donald trump and i
republicans are almost all of them, amongst all of the they would be a handful of true believers there but almost all of them know that this is a massive lie. they know it led to this horrible insurrection, this mob that attacked the capitol, they are just trying to survive. they put their political survival above the truth. but, it s different with matt a little bit. the tide is turning. we don t get a talk about it much because. what happened then georgia is a big deal. a big deal! the truth won over trump s lie in georgia. we saw that in california. to a lesser degree on tuesday s primary. hold on. the tide is turning, i really think the truth is getting grounds. if the tide is really turning, if we look at georgia, raffensperger won, brian kemp s want, you know standing with him? mike pence. is mike pence about the stand up and testify before this committee? unlikely. well i don t know if he will
horrible insurrection, this mob that attacked the capitol, they are just trying to survive. they put their political survivor above the truth. but, it s different with matt a little bit. the tide is turning. we don t get a talk about it because. what happened then georgia is a big deal. a big deal! the truth one over trump s lie in georgia. we saw that in california. to a lesser degree on tuesday s primary. hold on. the tide is turning, i really think the truth is getting grounds. if the tide is really turning, if we look at georgia, raffensperger wang, brian kemp s want, you know standing with him? mike pence. is mike pence about the stand up and testify before this committee? unlikely. well i don t know if he will testify before the committee but he has spoken before the american people. he has told the american people that donald trump lied. he has lined up with liz cheney, adam kinzinger, mitch mcconnell to a lesser degree. mcconnell has also said, by the