the democrats january 6 committee
holding their one-sided prime time
hearings last night members of the
committee claimed president trump had
quote spurred a mob of domestic enemies
close quote to attack the capital in an
attempt to overturn the 2020 election
results for more let's go to chief
congressional correspondent chad pergram
good afternoon the committee aimed to
tie the riot to former president trump
the panel played new audio and videotape
of those close to the president that
included former attorney general bill
barr who said there was no fraud in the
election
wyoming republican liz chaney invoked a
painting in the capitol which shows
president george washington resigning
his military commission
cheney says former president trump did
all he could to stay in office
with this noble act washington set the
indispensable example of the peaceful
transfer of power
what president reagan called nothing
less than a miracle
the sacred obligation to defend this
peaceful transfer of power
has been honored by every american
president
except one
there was dramatic testimony from u.s
capitol police officer carolyn edwards
she sustained a traumatic brain injury
defending the capitol
there were
officers on the ground
you know
they were bleeding they were throwing up
they were you know they had
i mean i saw friends with blood all over
their faces i was slipping in people's
blood
house speaker nancy pelosi rejected the
pics of house minority leader kevin
mccarthy to serve on the committee so
there are two gop members on the panel
okayed by pelosi republicans assert the
panel lacks
legitimacy
this is their desperate attempt to try
and revive something
that has been investigated by the senate
they didn't have anybody coming in to
challenge why the speaker didn't take
appropriate security measures the panel
wants to show the public that the former
president tried to delay certification
of the election with the riot now three
hearings next week but washington
democrat pramila jayapal doubts the
committee will sway the gop
back to you
chad thanks
and republicans are hitting back tearing
into the highly publicized hearings as a
circus meant to divert attention away
from the biden administration's numerous
problems
all they're doing is trying to paint a
new political narrative that voters need
to think about in november because the
democrat agenda has failed i think the
country sees it for what is as a
partisan political uh committee
that the american people are focused on
a whole lot of other issues last night's
hearing was a prime time dud nothing
came out of it that we didn't know
before and it didn't change anybody's
minds they want to throw donald trump
trump in jail if they can't get that
done they want to prevent his name from
appearing on the ballot it's not about
investigating january 6.
all right well i'll start with you what
about the claim that that he just made
that nothing new was brought out last
night that they said that there would be
new evidence there would be new you know
information
what new did we learn last night
nothing because it's not an honest
pursuit of the truth i think everyone
who is being honest can look at january
6th said it was a shameful day in part
as a riot ensued at the capitol i don't
want to steal any talking points we have
conversations offset and i was having a
nice conversation with sean a little bit
earlier about the true nature of this
show trial and whether or not it's an
honest pursuit of the truth i want to
leave it to sean who served in congress
about exactly how this is set up to be a
reality show but i will say this if this
were an honest pursuit of the truth and
you were looking to say what is a threat
today to our country you would talk
about the attempted assassination
attempt of a supreme court justice you
would talk about another target by a
group called ruth sent us towards
another supreme court justice but the
fact that we're focusing on something 17
months ago requires us to ask the
question is this an honest pursuit of
the truth well you know degan the fbi
knew ahead of time that there was going
to be a very large protest they knew
ahead of time but they did nothing in
terms of heightened security they claim
that it was an intelligence failure and
on august 21st curiously the fbi there
was a report that quote there was scant
evidence that the capital attack
was organized to overturn the election
as opposed to just being a protest so
there would have been no problem had
there been heightened security
we've got five more
of these hearings maybe that comes out
maybe it doesn't it's very clear given
the why now of all of this it's to maybe
prevent uh
the gross shellacking that the democrats
are going to get in in november maybe it
won't be quite as bad you said reality
show i am a voracious consumer of
reality television
and if james goldston that abc news dude
who they brought in he ain't putting
last night on his resume he put liz
cheney up there for more than half an
hour talking over graphics and photos
and then just toss into video it was
intensely boring and then you always
want to have somebody like
likable relatable who's fierce in a
reality show cast who do we have come
who on that on that panel on that
committee jamie raskin we want to watch
him for five more episodes he wanted to
get rid of the electoral college when al
gore lost or my personal favorite adam
schiff
was he peddled the collusion theory for
so many years and talked about there's
more than circumstantial evidence in
plain sight of the russia collusion hoax
i would rather be locked in a
port-a-john than have to watch adam
schiff for five episodes of anything
well i'll share with you because i don't
know about that
that even joe biden didn't watch last
night so but sean
actually we have sound let's let's take
a listen to it
the insurrection on january 6 one of the
darkest chapters in our nation's history
a brutal assault
on our democracy brutal attack on law
enforcement some losing their lives
and we we heard about it last night we
can unite and defend this nation
democrat and republican
allow no one
to place a dagger at the throat of our
democracy that's what those hearings are
all about i didn't get to watch them
last night because i was doing other
business but i tell you what there's a
lot a lot going on yep he didn't get to
watch them but congressman sean former
congressman sean duffy you know nancy
pelosi's name has been thrown around a
lot you know that she didn't approve her
or she knew ahead of time and the
question that i have
is why wasn't nancy pelosi called as a
witness what did she know when did she
know it we know she's in charge of
security after all she ultimately
brought in the national guard she
ultimately put in metal detectors but
not for that so i'll get to that uh
answer that question but i did reality
tv so i met my wife on reality tv i was
on the real world back on mtv please
don't pull up clips you weren't likable
relatable rachel was i was not but but
the bottom line is you can actually edit
anything you want to make people to
believe what you want in the edit bay
and so here you have nancy pelosi who
says i'm going to edit this production
and present it to the american people
and by the way the theory of my case the
theory of january 6 is so weak that i
can't allow jim jordan and jim banks
republicans to sit on the committee and
actually look for evidence we can we
can't get the videotape from the uh from
the congress we you know we don't know
what involvement law enforcement had we
we're not even going to talk about that
donald trump actually authorized the
national guard to come and protect the
very place that he wanted to have an
insurrection allegedly and so we all
know this as lawyers that we have trials
in courtrooms where both sides present
evidence this is a show trial we don't
have show trials in america where you
try to convict people in the court of
public opinion but if we're going to
talk about overthrowing an election why
are we talking about russia collusion
where you had the the greatest power
centers the democrat party law
enforcement and the media working
together to overthrow donald trump four
years wall-to-wall coverage you had two
impeachments where they tried to undo
the 2016 election and we're talking
about a couple of guys from around not a
couple of thousands of people around the
country coming into the capital
this was child's play compared to the
orchestration of russia collusion and
why don't we have that hearing okay so
uh i jessica we're going to come to you
on this i just want to ask you one
question and that is that the chair
benny benny thompson says that the job
of the january 6th committee is to make
sure they put together the evidence and
recommend make recommendations to
congress um it's not their job to
prosecute but i thought he was more than
disingenuous when he says i hope the
attorney general's listening and i hope
the attorney general you know if he
wants evidence will be happy to give it
to him especially since a judge says
donald trump probably committed a crime
and that judge was an obama appointed
judge who didn't hear all the evidence
who was only there to monitor discovery
you know it sounds kind of one-sided but
tell me what you think
well i think basically the opposite of
what everyone has said so far on this
table i i was on air last night with
brett martha to discuss this i thought
there was a lot of new information and
everybody actually seems to agree with
that right and left people were
commenting so
here are some things that are new donald
trump knew that he lost the election he
knew that he lost the election because
bill barr told him that he lost the
election and if you saw his testimony he
was quite animated he used the bs word
that he told him enough with this ivanka
trump his daughter his number one aide
most trusted ally she knew he lost the
election because she said i trusted a.g
bar on this stephen miller oh sorry
jason miller one of his most trusted
aides also testified that he knew that
he lost the election and a campaign
lawyer
also knew that he lost the election and
testified to that so that's new
information donald trump was running
around doing it it is absolutely new you
never saw a video no oh a video as
opposed to their testimony but you did
you know you knew that ivanka trump
agreed with bill barr and not with her
father people who knew that about jason
miller you knew people okay did you know
that gop congressmen asked for pardons
because what they they knew that they
were going to be in trouble
do you know that who are they the guy
from pennsylvania scott perry that's the
one name they gave so far they said
there are more did you know that
president trump also said that he didn't
know if it was such a bad thing if mike
pence got hanged that's a pretty big
deal
um more so there's a seven point plan i
thought liz cheney did a really good job
i don't know if she's a lawyer or not
but it sounded very lawyerly to me
it was prime time
this is not meant to entertain you like
desperate housewives this is supposed to
tell you about something really
important
for them from abc news to give it zazz
okay i i'm really sorry that you find
many points okay tell me the subject
that donald trump spread lies we all
know that he did that we saw the footage
of him up there at the speech where he's
even saying let's hope mike pence comes
through for us spreading lies about the
election he had a corrupt plan to oust
the g that eg will be testifying uh next
week corrupt pressure on mike pence mike
pence has talked about that directly
corrupt pressure on state officials and
now we know that supreme court justice
clarence thomas's wife jenny thomas was
in on it she called 29 individual
arizona officials and asked them to uh
to support
fake electors to overturn the election
results there there was the false
electors plot which i talked about he
summoned the mob you saw him calling him
there and we know what role the oath
keepers played in this he said
yes he did he summoned them he said come
to the ellipse there's the stop the
steel rally i hope mike pence comes
through
and he
is the vice president of the united
states of america knew that the
president would not help him he was
communicating with nancy pelosi with
general military why didn't nancy pelosi
allow the national guard
that's a setup this is crazy to me that
you think that nancy pelosi was the one
who was responsible for what happened
that day why didn't she allow the
national guard out more testimony i'm
sure she testified i i i don't know she
has not
and she will by the way she won't tell
me
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