environment. that s fine, yeah, they are both important in their own way. in different ways, some important for tomorrow, less than yesterday. i don t even know what i mean by that. have a great weekend, chris. you too, alex. thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. this january 6th rioter, the one in the queue shirt at the front of the pack here, his name is douglas austin johnson. he has now famous for having chased capitol police officer, eugene goodman, up the stairs in the capital. he actually did not even know what building he was invading on january 6th. this is me touching the white house. bring the white house! that s what we do! touching the white house, very close but still a few blocks down pennsylvania avenue, mr. johnson. anyway, despite not knowing where he was, johnson didn t know why he was there, wherever there was. this is from his interview with fbi agents two days after the attack on the capitol, quote, i went in there, i wanted, you k
trump s tenure in the run up to january 6th, particularly a meeting that occurred on december 18th, 2020, roughly six weeks after election and a few weeks below before january 6th in the oval office between donald trump and his most conspiracy obsessed outside advisers lawyers. it was just one of trump s last-ditch efforts to cling to power and overturn the election. on friday, december 18th, this team of outside advisers paid him a surprise visit in the white house that would quickly become the stuff of legend. the meeting has been called unhinged, not normal, in the craziest meeting of the trump presidency. they brought to the white house a draft executive order that they re prepared for president trump to further his ends, specifically they propose the immediate mask seizure of state election machines by the u.s. military. take a second to think about how that would ve gone over. the immediate massacre of u.s. voting machines by the military. what would that mean? what
kind of huge spurred of investment, it is just not something that was a given three years ago. it is not something we knew what s going to happen in 2018. all right, robinson who has been covering this so well at heat map, thank you so much for your time tonight, i appreciate it. absolutely, thank you for having me. that is all in for this week, alex wagner tonight starts right now, good evening alex. arts right now, good evenin i reade entourage that this could be the coolest summer we remember from now on. yes, exactly. i think it is a simpson s joke, isn t there is some sense joke where they are like, this will be the hottest summer of my life, and homer says the coolest summer of the rest of your life, i sort of remember that. i m not trying to leave you hanging, and i m going to now admit on national television that i m not is simpson s watcher. oh, interesting, okay. that s the thing i just learned about you. but i do care about the