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the following is a cnn special report. >> you want to die, you better leave! >> tonight, what's the bottom line you want the american people to know? >> there was a very sophisticated multi-part plan overseen by donald trump. >> you can't ever accept when they steal and reagan rob. >> attempt to stay in power.
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>> as the longest, largest investigation into donald tr trump's attempts to stay presen barreled towards inclusion, t that. the explosive testimony. >> i heard some the president said something to the effect of i don't think they have weapons let my people in. new insight from witnesses. i said, you want me to take my statement 32 million voters and just let them -- filled out the window? >> get back to criminal intent issue. >> i don't know what he bel believed. the answer questions. >> i feel like we don't know th full story on the proud boys an oathkeepers. >> and what might lie ahead. the former president and his allies was an clear and present danger to american democracy. not because of what they did on january 6, it's because of what they pledge to do in 2024.
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a cnn special report:american coup, the january 6 investigation. >> i'm a very textural artist. i love a lot of texture. in arizona republican figure of the house rusty bowers is an artist by trade paperback last february bowers was thrown into a real life. >> the bill number was 2496. >> 2596 oh one of more than 100 bills submitted in arizona the titan access to the ballot box. the measure would have scrapped early voting. all voting will be on election day only. >> 90 percent by district both early. >> and it would have mandated paper ballots. but most egregious to rusty bowers was this: >> with no guidance criteria, the legislature after the election could dismiss the election.
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and i sent, "welcome to fas fascism." >> and so i said, i will give this the respect it deserves. >> education. >> so assented to 12 committees so it would have a long bidding process. >> military affairs. >> typical is one or two. if it was a good terrestrial bill by 73. if it goes in a four committees then you are getting a message. >> judiciary. >> i ascended the 12 committees. >> interpretation. >> it was theatrical. and i admit it. >> it is not an overstatement t say that because our scope of democracy, he will not be in hi state legislature next year. >> armus tabar. >> term limit set house he rented the reid hogan primary for a state senate seat. >> accepted radicals and kept m conservative campaign promises. my opponent is david farnsworth. >> david farnsworth is going to do the job. their positions on the major issues nearly identical, except for 1:
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>> i believe the election was stolen. farnsworth but into trump election lies. bowers did not. >> arizona voters have picked david farnsworth over the house speaker pci lost big. it is very possible that the bill that i assigned liberally to my committees will be back. possibility that getting a governor's signature would just be a disaster. i mission college the possibility of going back into the dark ages in arizona. >> the united states is headed into the 2022 midterm elections with more at stake regarding american democracy perhaps than ever before. from arizona the pennsylvania t georgia and all the so-called swing states, the former president, donald trump is backing loyalists like david farnsworth who not only support trump's lies about election fraud in 2020, but often have expressed a willingness to undo
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any future results they don't like under the pretense of trumped up fraud. the house led committee on january 6 had been holding hearings i give the was extende what the committee shows a plot the data -- designed to keep trump as president in 2020. what's the bottom line you want the american people to know fro these hearings? there are several things, but one is that there was a ver sophisticated multi part plan overseen by donald trump to attempt overturning the ele election. no president in our history has ever done anything even close t that before. >> vice chair liz cheney kohuan jeff demps republicans on the committee, has spent last year walking her party and helping investigate donald trump's sophisticated multi part plan. the first piece the committee focused on where the lies. >> mail ballots are very dangerous to discuss because they are cheaters. >> in the lead up to the election in trump have been
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talking about the possibility o widespread voter fraud for months. >> voting by mail is wrought with fraud. people steal them out of mailboxes. looking back it's clear he was laying the groundwork for this: >> this is a fraud on the american public. this is an embarrassment to our country. we were getting ready to win this election. frankly, we did win this election. [applause] >> trump may have been trying widespread fraud but he had no proof. what the former president that have proof of coverage that is owned. >> assessment of outcome is tha he lost. a fact made clear by the januar exposed to the world that so many trump aides, despite doing the trump line in public: >> expecting the president to concede? easy maria, that word is not even interlocular right now. >> new trump was going to lose legitimately, and that he did lose legitimately.
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admission they were forced to make under oath. >> i was in the oval office and some point the conversation may gostkowski, who was the lead that a person who was brought on. and i remember he delivered to the president a blunt terms tha he was going to lose. >> jon kempin attorney followed up on all of the fraud can then they quickly completed that brought did not take the election from donald trump, voters did. the news was told that trump's desk to trump's chief of staff at the white house meadows in mid-to-late november. >> i delivered it -- i remember a call with ms. miller that i remember sharing with him that we weren't finding anything tha sufficient to change any of the results in the key states he di during a meeting several weeks later the president of the same message from his white house counsel, pat cipollone people and another white house lawyer eric hirschman. >> eric kane pat both -- told
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the group and present included in that none of those allegations have been substantiated to where they can be the basis for any allegation challenge to the election. >> it is statistically impossible that the person, me, that led the charge, lost. >> part donald trump continued to refuse to publicly accept defeat. >> the evidence of the fraud is monumental, and more is coming out. >> addition claims of widesprea fraud became a daily occurrence. numerous times
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before sunrise on december 19, 2020, after a long, long, disturbing white house meeting about seizing him. >> reporter: history. okobo will be wild." what he wanted was to show thes lawmakers not just in one lucky let them back to life in your life donald trump was summoning true believers in washington, d.c. that apply for red-pilling
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for january 22nd 2013 and in washington, d.c.. afters that within hours after the tweet they moved their permit for january 6th ali alexander stop the steal create a website to share and promote logistics about the rally. it included events times, pl places, speakers, and details o sufficient washington, d.c. >> far right personalities such as conspiracy theorist alex jones almost immediate began spreading the word on their platforms he's one of the most historic events in american history has just taken place. president trump wants the american people to march on washington, d.c. on janua january 6th, 2021. the time for games is over. the time for action is now pees as word spread it became clear that the trump faithful who pla to attend were also fun for the
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possibility of violence. >> clear river willie gay 5050 if you have any kind of effect for. >> but understand something, s son, he better understand something is red wave, which. is going to be a red wedding going down january 6th that there are 20 million americans. >> speaker 12: twitter follower the president's tweets to be ordered previous quinque former employee, whose identity was hidden while testifying to the committee. >> it was as if one was being organized, and to me were getting together their weaponry and their logic, and their
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reasoning behind why they were prepared to fight. >> members of the committee sai they were finding similar types of chatter across social media platforms. >> we are calling all patriot will be in washington, d.c. january the sixth. this was an organized by any proof you dat has provided us differently while on nationalis such as what we just killed the justin mccray, go to the last man, woman, and child the and plan for the day of the world white solution is the only solution." >> the final.wind mistake exchange ideas on the site many shared events bring hank within
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regular tunnels will one user type -- it was because of the size posting for yougusuk yuma kagiyama, north hills broad fields maslar pepper spray, whatever it takes people all of those were used on the sixth. florosa concluded, "when you're looking rhombois chapter as w well." join your local rhombois chapte as well. according to the committee, the proud was a far right militia was active during this time, prepare for january 6. fred was lost and encrypted jet called the ministry of self-defense. the committee obtained hundreds of these messages which show strategic and tactical planning about january the sixth, including maps of washington, d.c. that can point the locatio of police -- >> even more alarming for some people making plans, in the proud boys and the oathkeepers, another right-wing militia, had direct ties to people close to donald trump. one such ally was lieutenant
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general michael flynn, trump's security advisor. this photo from december 12 charles flynn and patrick brickman, another trump ally, guarded by indicted oath keeper roto-rooter. this roberto wondered if no one shows oath keeper stuart rose i the picture as well. >> both maruna and grohs have been charged with seditious conspiracy, conspiring to use force against the federal government because they pleaded not guilty. >> rouse prog andre lewis month for his being tried with four associates 54 than a dozen oathkeepers and provost of the chart conspiracy with the committee on central valley roger stone- >> in the same timeframe will communicate with both the proud boys and the oathkeepers regularly committee obtained encrypted content from a group chat called roger stone," os
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chicklis don't, roads, kario an ali alexander. mario is henrique telurio leade of the proud boys. >> that focus on various trip events in november or december of 2020 as well as temporary sixth. >> once every six the was guarded by two oathkeepers who hasn't been criminally indicted for seditious conspiracy weathermaker pleaded guilty and according to the department of justice admitted that the oathkeepers were ready to use okobo lethal force if necessary against anyone who tried to remove president trump from the white house, including the national guard. >> members of the community roger stone's connection to the proud boys goes back years, and showed him taking the oath required for the first level of initiation into the group. >> there are some missing piece in the public record, such as
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what, if anything, did donald trump or anyone inside the whit house no about the organizing b the far right militias? pees the night before jen si sixth -- january 6 president trump instructed his chief of staff mark meadows to contact both roger stone and michael flynn regarding what would play out the next day. ms. hutchinson, is it your understanding mr. meadows calle mr. stone on the fifth? i'm under the impression that mr. meadows did complete both a call to mr. stone and general flynn the evening of th fifth pees and you know what they talked about that evening, misses hutchinson? not sure. i feel like we don't know the full story on the proud boys an oathkeepers. i think that the committee is trying to get to the bottom of what was officials might have enough coordinate with unspoken the proud boys. so what did those relationships look like what were the lines o communication and why were they
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talking? pees if there is stuff we know we put some of it out. there's more depth that we will be putting up probably within the report in maybe within the next hearings. i think what is important is that he was going through the process of selling that the election was stolen, and then convincing folks that, overlooking if you believe that an election was stolen from you violence is the only answer, quite honestly. i mean, it's kind of the american tradition. if you truly believe that the constitution is being disobeyed every american would actually b on the capitol. >> up next, donald trump puts the squeeze on justice. >> him telling us that we shoul say publicly that it was cor .
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>> you are obviously well aware of what donald trump was doing in terms of election fraud claims. did you have any aboriginal become deputy attorney general, james norton have concerns abou that be i had a great deal of confidence in the team. i wanted to be part of the team wants to be there when it matters. >> you can't ever accept when they steal and rape and rob. can't accept it. >> at attorney general bill bar resigned, richard donahue was appointed to the number two
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position in the department of justice, the deputy, jeffrey rosen, the new acting attorney general. the two men inherited the part of the concert and public attac by the sitting president of the united states, fighting to hold onto an election he falsely claimed had been stolen. trump that the justice department was an arm of his presidency in a way for him to tell them what to do, and they should do his bidding and what he wanted pees as the new targets of trump's ira roche -- rosen and donahue felt that nearly daily complaints from donald trump. >> between december 23rd and january 3rd, the president either call me or met with me virtually every day. the common element of all of this was the president expressing his the satisfaction that the justice department in his you have not done enough to investigate election fraud. >> but they were investigating. the department of justice had
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been debunking trump's while election fraud lies one by one. president -- but per the trip t the solicitor on the dece december 20th from cultural center donahue printer said the had had a obligation to tell people this is a corrupt election despite no evidence of widespread fraud. trump also pressed them to publicly quote oprah just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressman." >> was an exact quote from the president. indicated that he had some political avenue he wanted to pursue with congress. but by him telling us we should say publicly that it was corrup that concerned me. >> what he intended was for the department of justice to say, "we have indications that there was corruption because from there you can take that seed of doubt and contraband remote commercial congress can water it, they can grow that doubt, and then through their you coul
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do things like get people to vote against certification on january 6th. as long as rosen and donahue were in charge, they told the president they would not publicly back his false electio fraud claims. so trump had to find someone wh would help him do what he wante to steal the election is jeff clarke's name and, by the cemetery seventh in a phone cal with the president. he brought up his a local look, people keep telling me i should change the leisure, people keep telling me you two are not doin her job. i heard jeff clarke is great. people, he could get in there and do something,," and it was surprising to me. >> surprise because the president would have no reason to even know who jeffrey clark was. >> even with the within the department, what had really heard of jeffrey clark. >> but donald trump had unbeknownst to roseann donahue, pennsylvania republican congressman scott perry had brought clark to the oval of office, to meet with president trump december 22nd.
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>> the day after perry had been amongst republicans in congress would join trump at the white house to discuss overturning th 2020 election. trump also mentioned jeff clark on a separate call with rosen. >> he made what i regarded as a peculiar reference. i don't remember the exact qu quote, but but it was something about that i know jeff clarke, or did i know who he was, or something like that. i was critical as to how does the present even know mr. clark. >> rosen confronted clark, who admitted he had broken the long-standing policy governing communication between the justice department and the whit house. white house lawyers pass for me and patrick philbin also intervened and warned clark not to communicate with the white house. clark agreed. but just two days later escalated the situation with an e-mail that set off a series of events that would rock the justice department.
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>> we came in on monday decembe all were. and then in the afternoon we go that e-mail which i had to sit down and read more than once to make sure i understood what he was proposing. what was he proposing? he was proposing sending ou a letter signed by the three of us, the acting attorney general lysell jeff clarke, mercer-georgia, but also the other states on the other swing states as well, suggesting essentially that day set aside the electors assigned to suppor president-elect biden and hold hearings, and basically have th state legislature take a new slate of electors. the letter claimed the us department of justice's investigations have local unified significant concern tha have this may impact the outcom of elections multiple states including state of georgia." is that true? no.
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why the letter was sent solely by jeff clarke, it was written with the help of a n.j. burkett employee named ken kulikowski, who according to the committee was also working with john eastman, the architect of the multistep plan to overturn the election. the letter mirrored some of eastman's unconstitutional theories. >> could have created chaos in the states. i think that would have been disastrous for our country and our constitution. but wasn't that the appointment with atlantic want to create that cascading i think so, yes. disturbed by the letter that he immediately spotted the clark riding okobo this would be a great start for the department to take, and it could have tremendous social, political an social ramifications for the country. i had to make it clear to him that there was no world in whic i and certainly the ag were going to sign a letter like t that. >> roseann donahue met with clark later that evening please add remember at the very end saying to him, what you are proposing is nothing less and having the united states
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departmental in the outcome of an american president election piece but again jeffrey clark ignored the direction of justin bourke leadership. continued to claim falsely, tha there was widespread election fraud. reports to send out the letter again, and on january 3rd, he told rosen, resident trump and offered him the role of -- [indiscernible] >> at this point it had gone so far that we had to bring the leaders in the spring to them, so they were prepared in case i happened. but also to get their take on what they would do if that did happen. >> and what did they say they would do to change the uniforml said they would resign. >> morehouse college obtained b the committee so that by 4: 4:19 p.m. that day the white house already begun referring t clark as the acting attorney general. that evening roseann donahue went to the white house to argu
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against trump installing clark as attorney general. the three-hour meeting took place in the oval office, and b all accounts joined the long list of wild white house meetings. he's the president turned to me and he said,," well, one thing we know is you, rosen, you aren't going to do anything. you don't even agree with the claims of election fraud. and this other guy at least might be something. >> it was basically jeff clarke advocating for leadership chain and everyone else advocating against it. it was a very blunt contentious conversation. kurzman and i were on the same level of being served the sweet of the meeting. when he finishes plan we planne on doing, i said good.-- excuse me -- ( bleep ) of congratulations, he just turned your first act with regional would be a federal felony for violating rule 6c.
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you are clearly a candidate for this job. >> altcounsel pat cipollone was made against the plan as well. >> he referred to the letter that jeff clarke had submitted as a murder suicide pact that n one should have anything to do with it. >> i had basically made the all point to the present jeff clark was not even qualified to be th attorney general. is promising you is going to conduct his very complex nationwide investigations in record time and the second from a guy who has ever conducted a real investigation. sir clark responded by saying that he had been involved in very significant in my mental lawbreaking before various courts. and their mother to me that, y yes, primarily you and environment a lawyer. how about you go back to your office and will call you when there is an oil spill. he also informed president trum that "appointment just prominen leaders would resign en masse please the person turned to me and said," sql yubin lee, would you?"
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i said, "mr. president i been three four attorney general, including the acting attorney general, but i could be part of this." >> finally persuaded trump decided against the idea. when clark was subpoenaed by th generous is commuter earlier this year he refused to answer questions meeting the fifth mor than 125 times. to discuss this draft letter to the fish with the president of the united states? fifth. >> coming up the inside the plo the pressure the vice president. >> it would have immediately plunged the country into paralyzing constitutional cr crisis.
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>> unanimously cast steamboats for joseph r biden. [applause]. when the electors in each state gathered: >> all 15 letters can't numbers for joseph r biden. >> so did fraudulent electors, in seven swing states that bide had win, chas arizona. donald j trump, number of olympic and we are going to sen those results up to congress. >> this desperate scheme to overthrow the election results had been conceived weeks ear earlier. who do you remember being involved in those earlier discussions around thanksgiving time? regarding having alternate electors meet? rudy giuliani conservative mr. giuliani's associates, mr mr. meadows.
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>> one of the big supporter servicer is outraged attempt to subvert american the makos low pressure and trump attorney joh eastman. >> the entire executive branch is headed by one guy. >> speaker 6: trump saw him on fox news and shortly after that he was in the oval office. fraudulent electors would just step one in eastman's plan whic he outlined in these memos and justified with false claims of, illegal actions by state and local election officials." step two in his plan would have to be executed by. mike pence on january 6, while presenting over the opening and counting of electoral balance. what you can do is you can say due to these disputes in the seven states we are going to send this back to the states an states would then be able to help donald trump when the election. >> it was a lie. in fact, on the covid-19, 2020,
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just four days before doctor eastman sent this memo, doctor eastman himself said this himself in an e-mail that they electors had no legal weight, convert to the particular tours is," dead on arrival in congres" p trump campaign aides and outside lawyers share their concern about the scheme in e-mails reported on by the new york times' maggie haberman and luke broadwater p and they thin what they were doing was legal? in an e-mail alert working in arizona described them as "make electors, said what we do a -- what we be doing sonny's make electors to go cash balanc in another e-mail there is a discussion about fear from some officials. this would be seen as "oprah treasonous." >> what might have happened had pence tried to go through with this idea that he could reject electoral votes and send them
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back to the states, such as arizona, has been to wisconsin, georgia? it wears this it would have immediately plunged the country into what i would characterize would be tantamount to a revolution within a paralyzing constitutional crisis. there is just no way that the framers of the constitution, wh divided power and authority, wh separated it out, who had broke away from george iii and declared him to be a tyrant, there is know a that they would put into the hands of one perso the authority to determine who is going to be president of the united states. but president trump knows vice president pence as the man who can keep him in the white house for four more years. on december 23rd president trump retweeted a memo for men individual named ivan franklin
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entitled "operation pension c card." to date was present refute the electoral college votes from certain states that certified joe biden is the winner. >> he had been pressuring him behind the scenes, so now he's going public. he's trying to get public pressure on michael pence. the jerry six committees interviews with white attorneys made it clear that pat cipo cipollone, eric hirschman and many others were appalled. >> what was communicated to me was that pat cipollone got the idea was this thought the idea was 90 and at one oh confronte eastman basically with the same sentiment. >> what were your prior interaction with eastman? describe for me what he thought the regret he was in th statute, and he was walking through it at that time. and i said," hold on a second,
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want to understand what you're saying. you will see that you believe the vice president at the us president of the senate can be the sole decision-maker as to under your theory becomes the next president of the united states? and he said yes. i said, are you out of your acting mind. the vice president decided he could not buy into eastman's theories. >> with the impression that the vice president had directly conveyed his position on these issues to the president? many times. >> and had been consistent in conveying it position to the president? very consistent. >> you can basically not overstate the pressure trouble putting up prince leading up to january 6. >> i hope that our great vice president, are great by president, come through for us. he's a great guy. of course, if he doesn't come through, i will like him quite as much.
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>> that night pension's lawyer christian colon paul george le guludec, an esteemed conservative republican, for help and advice. he said," just godinho james spann, and i said yes, john was a click of mine about 20 or 25 years ago. he said, well, john is advising the president and the vice president that the vice president does not have to accept the electoral college votes as they have been cast. i said, michael richard you can tell the vice president that i said he has no such authority whatsoever. why did you take to twitter creatures, well, the next morning richard calls he said look, we have to get your voice out to the country immediately, within the next hour or two. >> judge leutge with the help o his son, sent his first ever twitter thread. >> my son sent me to the instructions on how to treat a thread of individual tweets tha
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were under 140 -- i had no earthly idea what any of this was about. i just told my son, send it to me right now or i'll cut you ou of the will. >> he read me some of that threat. >> the only response ability an part of the vice president unde the constitution is to faithfully count the electoral college votes as they had been cast. the confusion does not empower the vice president to alter in any way the votes that had been cast, either by rejecting certain of them or otherwise. >> that twitter thread spread, and garnered attention around the world. >> but with just one day before congress was set to certified b the electoral college victory, shall continue to apply maximum pressure. industry," the vice president has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors."
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and when they met at the white house on january 5th. in the book journalist bob casa writes that the president said," if these people say you have the power, wouldn't you want to post you vice president says local i wouldn't want anyone person to have that authority. the president says "no, no, no, you don't understand, mike, you can do this. i don't want to be your friend anymore if you don't do this. >> trip would not relent. at 1:00 a.m. on january 6 he tweeted," if reedie michael pence come through for us we will win the presidency. mike, mike can send it back. and then there was the morning phone call in which the president bullied and belittled vice president for refusing to go along with this potential coup. and i remember he said tomoko you are a whip, you'll b a wimp." web is what i remember.
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it has all been reported the president said to the vice president that some to the effect that you don't have the courage to make a hard decision. resist i remember it was exactl something like that yep you soo after the call ended:/no crowds chanting usa closed up piece of repeat his dangerous lies and put a target on vpmack principe i hope mike is going to do the right thing, i hope so. and mike pence is going to have to come through for us. and that speech neared its end:inside the capitol. the senate and house of representatives are meeting in joint session to verify the certificates and count the vote of the electors. >> but outside, headed their w way. i've got three men walking on the street, one seen carryin .com,ar-15. >> at space bar spokan.com web tois rocket science. booking.com, booking.yeah.
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"irish hill for the six? we're going to the capitol. going to be great. president is going to be there. he's going to look powerful. and january 3rd the capitol police issued a special event assessment. congress itself is the target o the sixth. >> now we are on and they say the point of attack. >> listen to what mr. ban said that first day after he had the first call with the president. all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. all i can say is strapped in. and then he and donald trum talk again. and we don't know what the contents of those calls were because, of course, donald trum has not provided that information and steve barron is not provided information. [ chanting , "fight for ame america." ]. the night of january 5th you were summoned to the oval of office? yes, so i was brought to th oval office that evening and th
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entire press team assembled in their. >> the gates opened just a few minutes ago. the present had the door to the rose garden open and you could hear the crowd on the ellipse already assembled and he could tell he was feeding off that energy and that he was really excited for the next day. >> the president was making thi and talking to them about we should go up to the capitol was the best route to go to the capitol. the january 6 committee's presentation of testimony and segmentation left no doubt that trump had every intention of joining his supporters' march the capitol. [ chanting pfifer trump] visite the president tell you this, that he wanted to speak at the capitol? correctly yes. >> .net chanting stop the st steal." >> we have the power in numbers. we came here to protect our republic. >> the morning of january 6. [ chanting usa]
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>> you will listen to a single. >> supporters are gathering for the rally. >> present biden did not win this election. >> fraud. is not made up. >> meanwhile the president's insistence on joining their march to the capitol. where taking this country back. >> and white house lawyers such as pat cipollone were very worried. >> mr. cipollone said something to the effect of, please make sure when you go up to the capitol, cassidy, keep in touch with me. we're going to get charged with every color imaginable if we make that movement happen -- every crime imaginable if you make that movement happen. >> but nobody could change tr trump's mind. and as he, family and aides arrive at the rally, his chief of staff, mark meadows, was keeping the president's hopes alive.
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>> prior to mr. trump taking th stage that morning, he was unde the impression by mr. meadows that it was still possible. at the rally the present ha a more immediate earlier con concern:crowd size. when we were in the off offstage, an area in a tent behind the stage, he was very concerned about the shots. or the pictures that were shared, he wanted to make sure that the rally space was full. and so he being told, it is not that people are waiting to get through these mags, he's metal detectors that people don't wan to go through them because they have weapons with them. during the hearings you select commissioner secret service report that "some members of th crowd are wearing blister, to body armor, and carrying radio equipment and military grade backpacks." let's listen.
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the committee also played polic radio transmissions from that day. >> individual with entry, he go blue jeans and a blue jean jacket, and underneath the blue jean jacket he had this documen ar-15. a group of individuals about five to eight other individuals not individuals in that group, they had glock pygostyle pistol in their would expand. i've got three men walking down the street of the street carrying ar-15s on this respons and independence. yet trump with the mola tecta, meaghan thomas, or mags, rem removed. >> with our offstage and out that i was in the vicinity of a conversation where over the present sayings into the effect of i don't think here they have weapons, they are not here to hurt me, take the beanbags away the right people in committee, march the capitol from here. let the people in. take the acting blocks away --
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take the acting effing mags oap it's reflect on that for a moment. president trump was aware that number of the individuals in th crowd had weapons and were wearing body armor. here's what president trump instructed the crowd to do. we are going to walk down and i'll be with you, we are going to walk down anyone you want but i think right here, we are going to walk down to the capitol. [applause] >> to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. >> how would you characterize donald trump's speech at the ellipse on january 6? inciting. he said peacefully and patriotically he is saying people go up there. and it's hard not to see that that was fomenting and telling
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people that he had been harmed, and they should be angry on his behalf. >> you never take back our country with weakness. you have to show strength, and have to be strong. [applause] peter trumps nationa security advisers believe the al mogul close, was going to join the procession. >> mogul, the president, was , "going to the capitol and, "the are finding the best route now." >> the chat log continues. military aid has confirmed that he wants to walk. they are begging him to reconsider. current route will be 15 to foxcap and foxcap to siksika si to penn, penn to the capitol. so this is happening. there's millions of us here in don't let them lie to you. what did you think you're going to do their? just means people, be with his base. i don't think it's something he had thought about too well othe than he was acting like someone
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who thought he didn't have anything to lose. >> after more than an hour and stage the present wrapped up hi speech this way. >> by mike elko and if you don' like him you're not going to have a country anymore. so that's walk down pennsylvani avenue. i want to thank you all be god bless you, and god bless ame america. [applause] >> when he got off his age -- off the stage and everybody was making moves against him motorcade, i heard mr. meadows say to him that he was still working on getting of record movement to the capitol. >> what happened next is japan secret service agent robert bobby engram into the presidential missing known as "the beast," was related to hutchinson by trumps deputy chief of staff tony tornado. >> when i returned to household next to the white house, 20 received to me that the
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president had gotten into the vehicle with bobby. he felt they were going up to the capitol, and when bobby had related to him where not, you don't have the access to do it, is not secure we are going back to the west wing, the president had very strong, very angry response to that. 20 described him as being a r rate. the president said something to the effect of, i'm the effing president, take me up to the capitol now. to which bobby responded, "sir, we have to go back to the west wing tropical the president we step toward the front of the vehicle to grandma the steering wheel. mr. engel grabbed his arm and said no closer, you need to tak your hand off the steering wh wheel. we are going back to the west wing. we are not going to the cap capitol." >> it's a shocking story, and we've now heard them at least the washington d.c. detective
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the morning of jerry six, what were your expectations for the day. i think i woke up thinking that it was going to be a normal day. i just thought he was going to go out there and give a speech, and thought that would be it. >> st. matthews is donald tr trump's former deputy white house press secretary, and was in the white house on janu january 6th. >> it was kind of quiet, to be honest, in the west wing, that morning at least pieces that client would not last long. after the speeches at the ellipse for the president returned to the white house and the rioters made their way to the capitol. they broke to it on! he's already aware of the
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increasing violence, trump went to the private dining room just off the oval office at 1:25 1:25:00 p.m. and remained there until 4:00 p.m. pees when donal trump is upset what is seen, he reacts. he was not reacting here. for more than three hours the president of the united states refused to call off the violent riders who stormed the us capitol. >> he was watching television and admiring what he saw. >> you want to fight? you better believe that's what we're here for! >> he was happy the certification was delayed, ther were near effort to get him to issue some kind of statement. those did not work. he did not make a single phone call to any member of his government. >> at 1:49:00 p.m. >> declaring it a riot possess when bc place officially declared as a regular trump tweeted up to his speech on
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election of the very one that helps incite that right. realize the severity of the situation, white house counsel pat cipollone rushed to mark meadows, the president chief of staff pees and i remember passing to him some to be effective the riders of gotten into the capitol, mark, we need to go down into the president now. and mark looked up at him and said, "he doesn't want to do anything, pat. " it's all over. ben rowen, kobza! >> as a violent search, trump tweeted mike pence didn't have the courage to do what should b done to protect our country and the constitution. that was the last thing that wa really needed in that moment. it pretty much painted a target on the vice presidents back by tweeting that out there is no changing paying mike pence stepped up. i remember passing to the effec of local market for you need to
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do something more, they are literally calling for the vice president to be having hung kokuka and mark andrews parted something to the effect of, you heard him, apparently he thinks mike deserves it. >> working in communications fo president trump, i was very aware of just the impact that his words have on his supp supporters. that we suggested to them that what they were doing at the capitol was okay, and that they were justified in their vio violence, and that it was vice president pence who was allowin an election to be stolen. >> mike pence had betrayed his president and he has betrayed the people of the united states pees inside the capitol the vic president was rushed from the senate floor. secret service tim spence along with his family and is in his third office, and a clear path to safety. >> if we lose any more time, we may have -- you may lose the ability to leave.
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>> a white house security official who chose to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation explain exactly how dire the situation for pence an his secret service detail. >> one of the. vp detail at this time were sent to fear for their lives. they were running out of option and they're getting nervous. it sounds like they came very close to either service having this. >> when secret service made the call to move this rider's came within 40 feet of him. as he was held in an undisclose location it was the person who responded to a crowd. it was pence who was on the phone with these lawmakers lipa who was on the phone with peopl in the pentagon about what was happening with the national guard. >> at 2:38 p.m. trump tweeted,
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"please support our capitol police and law enforcement. they are truly on the side of our country. stay peaceful." by this point rioters were in both chambers. and the capitol rotunda was filled with tear gas. >> at the end of the tweet use the phrase, "stay peaceful." kayleigh mcenany shared with me that he did not want to include that, and it took a lot of convincing on their part. that was extremely alarming to me. the rider getting terms message in real time. as herdon walkie-talkie communications between rioters. trump just tweeted, "please support our capitol police, the are on our side, do not harm them. >> he did not say not to do anything to the congressman. i think what the committee showed about trump's tweets is that they do take them lite
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literally. his messages were received by the people who were there at th capitol, very loudly pees at an moment during the season the capitol, the president could have addressed the country live from the white house. there's a camera on in the whit house living room at all times. he could have walked over there could have been on camera almos continuously, and blessed up a message to the american people. he had every opportunity and he chose to not do that. >> when the president finally relented and released a video telling the rioters to go home, it was 4:17 p.m. three hours and seven minutes since the riot began pees it became very clear that the feds actually had taken the capitol back over, that they were not going to succeed in stopping th counting, and only then did the come up with a statement. >> we had an election that was stolen from us.
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it was a landslide election and everyone knows it. >> seeing him on camera set the video talking about a stone election, i just immediately knew that he wasn't going to meet the moment and say what wa needed in that time. >> so go home, we love you, you're very special. >> here again many rioters took the president's words as instructions. >> working in communications fo him i knew that i would be tasked with defending that, and we had just witnessed all this violence at the capitol, and these folks attacking police officers were changing horrible things that -- changing horribl things, and i knew i could not defend that because it was indefensible. i resigned that evening pees in the immediate aftermath as broken glass and blood littered
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the halls of congress, accordin to the january 6 committee ther are those who are still trying to overturn the election. that evening rudy giuliani called the number of republican senators and urge them to continue to try and delay the certification pees i'm calling you because i want to discuss with you how they are trying to rush this hearing. >> the next day that is been called white house counsel eric hirschman to discuss an appeal in georgia. >> i said to him, are you out o your mind? now i'm with you the best free legal advice you ever getting i your life:get a great effing criminal defense lawyer, you're going to need it," and a hung u on him pees and the politically second video condemning the violence more forcefully and generate seventh. >> like all americans i am outraged by the violence, lawlessness and mayhem. >> but according to white house
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aide kassidy hutchinson, it was only a third of his cabinet invoking the 25th amendment tha convinced him to make this vi video. advisors more trump let's talk of removing him from office was gaining traction. >> think about what might happe in the final fitting his presidency if we don't do this. there is already talk about removing the 25th amendment to you need this is covered pees and yet is to refuse to admit the election was over pees this election is now over. congress has certified the results. i don't want to say the electio is over, i just want to say congress has certified the results without saying the election is over, okay? pees that video just showed you that even after every single constitutional process had been completed, and after over safet court had heard his challenges and rejected them, he still refused. he was -- it was fundamentally
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what we showed in every one of those hearings and every one of his pieces he knew what he is doing. donald trump knew he was pressuring the vice president. donald trump knew that he was pressuring state officials. he knew he was lying. he was trying to basically change out the doj to be people sympathetic to him to give at least the airfare complicity an changing election results. and he knew when he was sitting in the office during the attack on january 6 that there is a chance for richard succeed. what do you want americans to take away from the hearings tha you've held so far. i want the american people to look at these hearings and understand how close we came
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that day to losing that self-governance. freedom isn't free. you have to defend this, and no just overseas, sometimes here a home there's no changing usa] >> do you miss me yet? pees in the aftermath jerry sister and his election loss: anthony zarski that another beauty. donald trump made it his missio to root out everyone in the republican party who has oppose him. jordan cavaco, devon bell dale pees of the ten republicans in the house of representatives voted to impeach him, only two remain. >> get rid of them all. >> the others have declined to run for election such as adam kinzinger, or lost their election battle such as liz cheney pees and i will do whatever it takes pees this mission that you taken on has cost you your job. do you have any regrets? obligation, my obligation t
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pay much about politics. i can't imagine having done anything differently at any stage of this process. since january 6 says ms. semeny mark volk and colleagues have not met the moment. >> kinzinger and cheney are the only two republicans in the house select committee to investigate the attack on january 6. they become pariahs and a party where they were once seen as it future. >> we cannot survive as a party existing on the personality of one man. the select committee to oversee the generation, tax and herculean task set before it appears from the staff have conducted more than 1,000 interviews, from hundreds of taped the positions, and collected more than 140,000 documents. while congress cannot bring charges against the president, the committee can issue a criminal referral to the department of justice. >> this the baton is passed on
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to the department of justice to say are you going to defend the contusion and if there is loss that had been broken, and i certainly think there have been pees i think clearly what we've later indicated that the former president of the united states was involved in efforts that were not only unconstitutional, but also violated the law the committee indicated it believes donald trump commute obstruction of an official proceeding of congress and conspiracy to defraud the united states, amongst other potential crimes. the conspiracy charge may be physically difficult to prove. >> you have to have criminal intent. here you're the problem proving what was in the presidents mind. i was a, well, he was willfully blind. should have known? yes. but if he did not i don't know that that's a crime. not everyone shared that group. >> will prove aggressive federa law by the president of the united states would not be
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either a legal defense or political defense to the president. that's about as clear as a former judge could say it. ultimately the department of justice will decide whether to bring any charges, and whom wil be charged. in september the justice department issued another super sinister pinnacle to more than 30 people and therefore president orbit people and thei multiple federal grand jury is handling the investigation pees we know that justin farmer has been investigating jeffrey clar and we also know that john eastman is someone who had been touched by this investigation pees and like to see the walk before you take my property. >> but jeffrey clark and datesman had the phone seized b federal investigators. clark dismissed the investigation as politically motivated and eastman fought th department of justice search warrant in court, but their state-level investigations as well. rudy giuliani had been informed is a target in a georgia investigation pees will not tal
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about this until it's over pees and appeared before a grand jur in august. >> at the moment perhaps the most peerless litigation for donald trump has nothing to do with the attack on the capitol. former president donald trump trumps mar-a-lago home in florida has been served by the fbi. the investigation that at the moment seems most directly threatening to donald trump's the one in which his handling o customer documents and taking doctors to mar-a-lago with him when he left office pees the government recover more than 32 )-right-parenthesis doctors fro trump's home in florida. the redacted search warrant identified three final crimes a justice the center position of its investigation:in this section of jessica krug handlin of government records, and violations of the espionage act. >> good afternoon the comm committee's for your phone -- laser focused as an investigation. after the hearing this summer they continued digging, even securing an interview with jenn times, a conservative activist
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and wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, where according to committee chair bennie thompson, she doubled down under false belief that th election was stolen. text message between thomas and mark meadows showed she pushed the former chief of staff to fight to overturn the results o the election before january 6th. >> the committee will hold at least one more public hearing. >> will be focusing on presenting additional evidence, so you will see additional witnesses because you will see additional focus on -- the former president's intent at each step of the way. >> how much these hearings have impacted the country's view of trump remains unclear. i think that is very six hearings actually presented a pretty concise case, and i do think they got through to the i in part because it was trump ow appointees, republican appointees, who were the with the use testify against him. whether that lingers in voters minds i think is a real open question. >> i don't think that that -- they voted and since they
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changed a lot of minds. his supporters either don't car or still believe what he says, which is that the election was stolen, and that biden is not a legitimate elected president piece of the ten republicans wh voted to impeach donald trump based on the jim riches attack on the capitol, eight of them are either retiring or have bee defeated in primaries. what does that say to you? that donald trump and his words are clear and present danger to american democracy. >> is already moving mountains and putting things in motion to able to oppose a future electio results that doesn't go his way whether it's promoting conspiracy theorists and advocate for them and campaigning for them as secretary of state, or backing governors of key swing states for joints before his election lies. he's putting all these things i motion that we should be watching, and it is for future plans he has. >> a lot of people interviewed had expressed concerns not just about what happened but what
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will happen. in fact, we see a whole bunch o election lawyers running for office. are you worried? >> i'm very worried. the possibility that we all hav to make sure that we defend our republic and that we defend our institutions has to be above politics. there are people running so tha they are in a position that the will be able to certify the results only for donald trump. that's obviously unlikely a threat to the survival of the republic, and i think the ball got to be defeated. >> you've been shouting from th rooftops is not just about 2020. you're worried about 2024. you're worried about future elections. >> i am a bit and like now, former president and his allies and supporters, including in congress, and including in the states, represent a clear and present danger to american democracy. that's not because of what they did on january 6, is because of what they pledged to do in 2024.
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>> you think that republicans are hearing what you're saying? i hope they are. there is no evidence that they for anything today. >> our democracy in the united states relies upon good people in prison power to do the lawfu in riding, the president always on to local officials. we are having these discussions because there were enough pe people, if republicans, we did the right thing in 2020. perhaps next time there won't be. many republicans in the belts for the 2022 midterm elections are supporters of trump's election lies, who have set up right they reject the results o the last potential election. and immediately following the violence here on january 6 at the capitol, two thirds of the house republican conference, tw thirds who voted to not count electoral votes from pennsylvania based on those sam lines.
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