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Know, the rally organizers and what happened after the rally, is that right? >> reporter: yeah, that's exactly right, anderson. and i caught up with jamie raskin of -- of maryland. he is a member of the house select committee. and he explained to me exactly what they were looking for. take a listen. >> well, we are trying to reconstruct the entire chain of events that led to the most violent assault on the u.s. capitol since the war of 1812. and 1814. so it's important for us to figure out exactly what the relationships were between the official rally organizers and the white house. and the vi...

Anderson. and i caught up with jamie raskin of -- of maryland. he is a member of the house select committee. and he explained to me exactly what they were looking for. take a listen. >> well, we are trying to reconstruct the entire chain of events that led to the most violent assault on the u.s. capitol since the war of 1812. # um and 1814. so, it's important for us to figure out exactly what the relationships were between the official rally organizers and the white house. and the violent insurrectionists who launched the violence on that day. >> and -- and i followed up and asked raskin do th...

Reporting by "the new york times" which says he was texting his fbi handler a play-by-play of events during the assault. the times report claims the narrative suggests the proud boys were caught up in mob mentality rather than a coordinated attack. and former reports should always be taken with a grain of salt. still, it raises serious questions about how this will impact the government's case against several proud boy members. i'm joined by arlette and sunderland. what does this times report reveal about communication between the proud boy member and his fbi handler? >> this is really the fir...

Informant at all to me is significant. the issue i think, if you read the story, that's really important and that a lot of people are skipping over is something that's fundamental in the spy business. that is access. if you have somebody, and it looks like this person does not have access to leadership circles in the proud boys. if you have somebody that's not that significant, they can still tell you stuff like where are they meeting? when are they getting to the city? what are they talking about? what are the kinds of places they communicate on the internet? it doesn't tell me it's an intell...

This is the most anti-cop, anti-police statement that donald trump could put out. >> well, that's right. and this may not be the a-team, but these are people who feel like the former president is calling them the a-team and they're people who probably want to be on the a-team, and what's one way of doing that for yourself? even if you're in a group that's only a few hundred instead of 10,000, sparking some violence, maybe initiating a clash with some counterprotesters, that can get you some attention. that can make you more prominent in the websites and in the bubbles in which these groups ope...