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horrible thing that is playing out there. thank you so much for coming on the show. >> thank you. also, tonight. former-president donald trump kicking off his revenge tour against republicans who voted to impeach him. first, on the list? gop congressman anthony gonzales. trump rallied in ohio this evening, in support of his primary challenger, max miller, a former-trump aide. as trump returned to the campaign trail, his business braces for criminal charges. the manhattan district attorney's office informed trump-organization lawyers that the company could face charges. and we have learned that those charges could come down, any day now. and a quick-programming note for you, as we get new details act about what happened on january 6th. drew griffin talks with those who were there. assault on democracy, the roots of trump's insurrection, airs again tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern, just a few minutes from now. but up next. president biden is back pedaling after republicans slam what they say was a threat to veto the

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oh, my gosh, we're storming the capitol. i was inside the capitol. i went life in the moment and stuck my head out and said this is my house. super sad that this is america and americans are being beaten for wanting to save their country. so welcome to communist america. aren't you so fucking proud. >> reporter: by 4:00 vice president pence was calling the acting secretary of defense, demanding he clear the capitol. a moment later, battle raging, trump finally tweets a pretaped statement. >> i know your pain. i know your hurt. we had an election that was stolen from us. but you have to go home now. >> reporter: then inexplicably tells the mob -- >> you're very special. >> reporter: donald trump asked everybody to go home. he put out a tweet. it's a minute long.

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when he's drinking. >> it snow bald. he started going on these websites that essentially were a vacuum. >> reporter: he would move to rural ohio and find comp companionship from a transgender bar owner named jessica watkins who would recruit into the oath keepers. >> he found a purpose in his life. because he was at rock bottom. anybody that cared about him didn't want anything to do with him anymore, because of his drinking. >> reporter: you consider him, what, a domestic terrorist? >> i didn't. but i do now. >> reporter: his family says trump shares the blame. >> trump gave them a boogeyman. trump gave them someone to fear or to blame things on. he gave them an excuse for their lot in life.

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why did you have to do that, you know. >> that sounded like a fuckiing gunshot. i know gunshots pretty well. i knew that this was real and people were being killed. >> reporter: ashley babbitt would die because of trump's big lie. she would not be the last. has been helping people act on their love. okay? so they can look back, and say, "we did good". ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ introducing the new bud light seltzer retro summer pack. my plaque psoriasis... ...the itching ...the burning. the stinging. my skin was no longer mine.

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in the immediate aftermath, there was no doubt who had caused it. >> president trump is practically and morally responsible. >> republicans briefly united with democrats in disgust. >> the president bears responsibility for wednesday's attack on congress by mob rioters. >> reporter: republican house leader kevin mccarthy who begged donald trump to stop the riot while it was happening. >> i called the president, i begged him to go talk to the nation. >> reporter: within weeks would do an about-face. >> i don't believe he provoked if you listened to what he said at the rally. >> if you don't believe that trump had anything to do with this insurrection, why were you calling him to have it called off? >> in the heat of the moment, everybody knew what the deal was. >> reporter: kevin mccarthy would fly to mar-a-lago. >> if the president was the party's nominee, would you support him? >> the nominee of the party, absolutely. >> reporter: in that hypocrisy,

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period. >> i think he in his own mind cooperate tell the difference between what was true and what was false. i don't think it particularly mattered to them. >> reporter: john bolton was trump's national security advisor. >> if he could equips people that what he wanted to be true was true, he would try to do it. >> reporter: the weeks he took office, he would launch the phrase he would use to get away with anything. >> you are fake news. >> reporter: donald trump told his supporters they could no longer trust the officials, the official accounts, the news outsidelets to present actual facts. from now on it was trump who would tell them what to believe. >> a few days ago i called the fake news the enemy of the people, and they are. they are the enemy of the people. >> reporter: he would lie about anything. >> and just remember, what you're seeing and what you're

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misunderstood what happened with social media. the scale of change it has brought about. >> reporter: trump supporters like him increasingly tune out regular news outlets and paid attention to facebook. >> facebook is where i got a lot of my media from. i feel you could gleep more of the stuff that maybe interests you and isn't coming from a mainstream media outlet. >> reporter: drisinformation competes with truth and facts. a perfect moment for donald trump to launch a presidential bid. >> i will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and i will have mexico pay for that wall. >> reporter: trump's followers were led to believe american society was under attack and only trump could save them.

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of fake news, trump would use the power of fear over and over again to motivate his base. >> he never thought of himself as p of the united states. he thought of himself as the president of his political base. he accentuated their sense of resentment, bitterness, of loss. >> reporter: part of his political base including white supremacists. >> he saw those people as trump supporters and he just lacked the ability or the willingness to consider the broad or implications. >> reporter: the former spokesperson for steve bannon's breitbart news could see the news site attracting more and more racists. >> the overt racist comments from our audience was littered across their pages. we can probably proclaim our white pride and it's ok because the most powerful person in the world is with us right here,

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spokesman said the aim was to change america and ban on directed every story on breitbart arson home page. >> truth and fact is a word that's not used there. it's more about what does the conservative side believe about this and how do they amplify that. >> reporter: breitbart's headlines were built on fear, fear that the 2nd amendment was being threatened, fear of obama, and most of all, fear of. >> this is why bannon and trump are great together. they are ultimately perpetuating a massive con. they could give two craps about their base. >> reporter: trump had emerged as the perfect candidate to drive bannon's alt right vision to the white house. and it would be perfectly timed with the rise of social media. >> donald trump would not have

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crying. my mom was tore up about, but i mean, which mother wouldn't be, you know. >> reporter: yet the president had still not told his followers to stop. republican house minority leader kevin mccarthy urges him to call it off. >> i begged him to talk to the nation, don't do it by twitter. >> he did talk to mckavrty. mccarthy told him what's happening. trump's reaction was they must be more upset than you are about the election results. >> donald trump is watching this on television and i'm wondering what is he doing to stop this? we know now he dip do anything. not doing anything while the capitol was being desecrated i thought was undefendable. >> there were people over the stairs and waving flags. people standing.

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