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-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com by this time tomorrow night, we expect to have seen the video of alleged police misconduct that preceded the death of tyre nichols in memphis earlier this month, leading to murder charges today to five of the expolice officers involved. earlier today, tennessee's top law enforcement official gave more than a hint of what to see tomorrow night. >> i've seen the video. and as stated, you will too. in a word, it's absolutely appalling. let me be clear. what happened here does not at all reflect proper policing.

this was wrong. this was criminal. >> more in a moment on what we know about how this unfolded minute by minute. first, though, senior justice and crime correspondent shimon prokupecz on the video showing the worst of it. what are you hearing about what we can expect to see and when? >> reporter: we expect the video to come out sometime tomorrow evening around 7:00 eastern time. how it's going to be distributed, how we're going to receive it is still very much unclear. i think tomorrow, on friday, we expect to hear something more from the city. it's the city of memphis that is actually releasing this video, not the d.a. he's been restricting its release, saying he didn't want it released until he was done with this investigation. and you can understand why because of the indictments and so forth. fine. so, we think tomorrow at some point we will see this video. there will be some redactions on it, but that's to protect

people's personal, even their faces and other identifying characteristics like phone numbers and something like that. so, that's the other thing. it's going to be significant. you're hearing law enforcement officials prepare all of us for this video. i think it was significant to hear, the sound you played from a 30-year veteran law enforcement official describe the video the way he described it, and how disturbed he is by what he saw. >> there is new information about what happened that night. what have you been hearing from officials, shimon? >> reporter: yeah, i think today we got some new key pieces of information from the district attorney. really no one here has been talking about this. officials have refused to take basic questions on the timeline, how things unfolded. today we learned from the d.a. that in the initial encounter that the victim here was pepper sprayed, that they used pepper spray on him and that it was a very excited moment, is how the d.a. referred to it, that the officers were very charged in

the almost the beginning moments of this. and then there was this chase. and then there was a second encounter. and that's where the district attorney says was the beating essentially, where this occurred. and then what we also learned -- and i thought this was significant as well, john -- is that it took some time to get him the medical assistance. we don't know exactly what that means or how much time, but i think it explains why those two emts perhaps were relieved, were taken off duty. but that also is significant because it tells us there for the first time that medical care, as we have known, but more importantly, more significant information, more detailed that it took some time for them to get emts and medical care that clearly he would have needed. >> officials hinted that we may actually see evidence of that on the video when it's released tomorrow night. so, the five officers are charged with murder among other things. what is their status tonight? and could others still -- could other people still involved here face charges?

>> reporter: right. yes. others could. the district attorney says that their investigation is continuing and that others could still face criminal charges. the police chief here in memphis said that she's actually investigating other officers for departmental charges, administrative charges. so, there's more to come on that. as to the status of these officers, two of them have bonded out. they've made bond. so, they were in jail for most of the day. they're now out of jail. those two officers. as far as we know, three still remain. they're expected to bond out. but that's going to probably take a little more time. and then we're waiting to hear when they're going to be in court to face their arraignment on the indictment, john. >> shimon prokupecz, great to have you there. keep us posted. as shimon reported, we got new details on the timeline, at least according to authorities. more on that from cnn's nick valencia. >> if it was illegal detention to begin with, it certainly

became illegal. >> reporter: tonight nearly three weeks following the death of tyre nichols, we're learning more details about how this unfolded. >> pull over, one running on foot. >> -- >> feast fighting at this time. >> reporter: this afternoon, the shelby county district attorney detailed more of what happened, saying there was an initial traffic stop, followed by an altercation involving several officers and nichols, where pepper spray was deployed and nichols fled. >> there was another altercation at a nearby location, at which the serious injuries were experienced by mr. nichols. after some period of time of waiting around afterwards, he was taken away by an ambulance. >> reporter: after the incident earlier this month, memphis police released a statement saying nichols was pulled over for reckless driving and that his officers approached the

driver of the vehicle, a confrontation occurred and the suspect fled the scene on foot. after another confrontation, nichols was taken into custody but complained of having shortness of breath. nichols died three days after that traffic stop from his injuries, according to the tennessee bureau of investigation. memphis p.d. fired five officers after an administrative administration found officers violated policies including excessive use of force, duty to intervene, and duty to render aid. the police officers fired days before the nichols family and attorneys were showed video of the encounter. >> no father, mother, should have to witness what i saw today. >> it was an unadulterated, unabashed, non-stop beating of this young boy for three minutes. >> reporter: retired shelby county sheriff's captain, benny

cobb, visited with former officer emmitt martin iii and said martin was remorseful but defended his use of force. >> i saw the pain on his face. he said he hadn't slept, you know n probably five or six days. when he was expressing to me the things that went on, he was teary eyed. >> reporter: memphis police chief sarah lynn davis was absent from the news conference this afternoon. wednesday, she made her first on-camera comments about this case. >> this incident was heinous, reckless, and inhumane. and in the vein of the transparency, when the video is released in the coming days, you will see this for yourselves. >> reporter: nick valencia, cnn, less than or equal to. >> thanks to nick for that. potential charges and federal charges as well as what this says about policing injustice in this country. tom perez, former dnc chair,

former labor secretary, and especially to the point tonight, former head of the civil rights division at the justice department. also ron johnson. captain johnson, first to you. based on what you've heard about what is on the video, what happened, do you believe these are the correct charges? and based on the charges, what does that tell you about what we're going to see on the video? >> i'll tell you what i'll see in the video, it's hard to say if they're the correct charges. but i will say from everything i've heard, they seem -- based on critique, seem to be appropriate. i think we're going to see something that cuts at the core of who we are as americans. i think it's something we can't tolerate. i think it's something that we have to make sure it changes. and it can't continue to happen in our country. and we have to really do something to change the culture and stop this from happening. but i do memphis has done a great job. the police department, the tennessee bureau of

investigation. i think they've done a good job of being transparent and taking this head on. >> so, tom, all five of the officers were charged with identical offenses, the top charge being second degree murder. what's the significance of that? >> well, conduct that demonstrates a reckless disregard for human life is conduct that can constitute second degree murder under tennessee law. and that's what they're charged with. and they were all there. and as a result of that, assuming the video is consistent with that, i mean, it would be a consistent practice to charge all five involved. now, you'll have a trial, and it's conceivable that one person was more involved than the other, but that doesn't mean that person isn't responsible. that would be an issue that would be taken up in sentencing if and when we were to get that far. i know steve -- i worked at the justice department with him.

he may be new to the d.a.'s job, but he's a seasoned prosecutor. and he's a respected leader. and so it's impressive that they got through this in less than three -- and i have a lot of faith in what they have done together with the tbi, who is also, you know, working very, very hard. and i'll tell you, it's really important to make sure that you're thorough in these investigations. here in maryland, where i live, the freddie gray investigation, the local prosecutors were very, very hasty. and as a result, you know, the criminal case fizzled. and it was a real black eye on the prosecution. and as a result i think they have been very deliberate in what they're doing and very transparent, as we will see tomorrow. >> so, captain jonathan, you know, you were in ferguson, missouri, in the wake of the shooting of michael brown. and i'm not comparing one

tragedy to another here. but what steps do you believe officials in memphis and other cities around the country should be taking in the advance of the release of this video tomorrow night? >> well, i think they should be engaging with the community leaders, partnering with community leaders and having a conversation, i think, and talking about the things that have been done right here. we have seen some things done different in our country in these incidents. i think a lot of things have been done right. and a year ago, two years ago, we wouldn't have seen some of the things we're seeing here. i think getting out in front of it, having those conversations, but also assuring we're all in this together. i think we heard from the record tbi. he is just -- and other officials are just -- as hurt and bothered by this. as a community, we can pull together and be stronger. >> so, tom, how does the federal investigation align or work with the state investigation? are they completely separate, in

tenn tandem? is one case tougher to prove than another? >> in this particular case, what would happen as an ordinary matter, especially since the local authorities have taken swift action, is the department of justice would defer and await the results of those investigations. the last thing you want to do in a case like this is have federal authorities and local authorities talking to the same witnesses at the same time. it creates confusion. it could undermine the local investigation. and so i'm confident that the department of justice civil rights division, along with the united states attorney's office for the western district of tennessee, will very, very closely monitor the investigation. and they will be prepared, if necessary, to take criminal action at the conclusion of this trial. at the same time, john, there's another thing that they can and should do in my judgment. and that is to take a very careful look at whether or not they should initiate a civil

investigation under the so-called practice authority. that's an authority that frankly needs to be reformed to give more tools to the federal government. and there's legislation pending in that area. but i worked on many, many of those cases, whether it was the new orleans police department, los angeles police department. that is a tool that allows the federal government to take a very careful look. is this an isolated incident? are there other issues involving either use of force, training, et cetera? and those matters need to await the criminal prosecution. but those are two different pathways that i suspect the federal government will take. >> tom perez, ron johnson, thank you both for helping us out tonight. next we're going to have a live report from ukraine. as the west gets ready to continue tanks, russia continues to send missiles at civilian

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cnn's sam kiley is in kyiv for us tonight, where civilians are being targeted. sam, what more do we know about the missile attacks across ukraine today? i understand you were able to make it to the scene where missile debris struck and killed a civilian near kyiv. >> reporter: yes, that's right, john. tragically, onse civilian was killed in kyiv, not withstanding the fact the local authorities say the air defenses is here shooting down the cruise missiles attacking the city. the gentleman who was killed, a man in his 50s, was hit by falling debris close to a power generating plant on the outskirts of the city. a tragic accident effectively. there were ten other people around the country also killed in similar strikes. the authorities say that more than 50 cruise missiles were fired at ukraine. the vast majority, some 47, were

shot down. that's on top of the number of drones. these are the much more unsophisticated drones manufactured in iran, john, that are used to soak up the air defenses that the ukrainians say they so desperately need to protect themselves against just these sorts of attacks. this is now at least three or four months into a concerted campaign by russia using the drones and cruise missiles to try to break the back of ukraine's capacity to generate power. and of course that is all being conducted during the winter, when power is in most desperate need. now, it's an effectively tried to undermine the capacity of the civilian administration to reinforce their military options as the blood letting continues, particularly in the east, particularly around the city of bakhmut, where the russians are throwing huge amounts of men and material into that fight. the ukrainians can't really understand why because that town is, john, not particularly streejly important. but they believe that the

russians are desperately looking for some kind of victory after about four months or at least, indeed -- no, six months of significant losses in which they've lost ground that they had captured early on in this campaign, 11 months ago in kharkiv and more laterally in kherson, john. >> we've heard from the russians multiple times over the last 24 hours, calling the shipment, the scheduled shipment of nato tanks a provocation and promising to escalate their attacks on ukraine. what's the response been from the ukrainian authorities? >> reporter: well, the ukrainians are delighted, absolutely delighted, with the offer of tanks, numbering about 100 that have been pledged so far, including 31 abrams tanks from the united states. the quickest bunch is likely to be delivered from the united kingdom, challenger ii tanks. these are battlefield replacements of what they already lost. they're much more sophisticated weapons, so much more

problematic for the russians to take on. it's also being seen i think in russia and in ukraine as a sign much to the disappointment of the kremlin that the west is now once again very much united behind the idea that ukraine really needs sophisticated war materiale. they're asking for fighter jets and fighter bombers. >> sam kiley, thanks so much for being with us. stay safe. with us now is william cohen, who served as defense secretary in the clinton administration. approximate mr. secretary, always a pleasure to see you. you see these missile strikes by russia in the last 24 hours. do you believe those are response to the u.s. and nato decision to send tanks to ukraine? or do you think russia would have done this anyway? >> i think they would have done it anyway. but clearly there is an action and a response here. i think they were looking for excuse what they're going to do in any event. that is try and annihilate the

ukrainian people and ukraine as a sovereign country. whether there's a direct connection or not, i suspect and believe there is, but i don't think it makes much of a difference because when they talk about escalating, we may provoke them in escalation. what's been going on for the past year? they have been escalating and escalating and savaging the ukrainian people and saying, don't try to defend them. don't contribute to their defense because it might make us mad, we'll do worse things. i think we have to take that into account and do what we can to defend ukraine. >> remember there's only one country that invaded another, and it's russia that invaded ukraine here. you heard sam kiley the ukrainians obviously delighted that the u.s. and nato countries are sending in tanks that could number 100 by the end of march. but, man, germany seemed awfully reluctant to do this. why so reluctant? >> well, i think because of their history. going back to world war ii obviously. the fact that they've had a

very -- military over the years. and we've been pressing them and pressing them, and frankly they've come a very long way. i can recall when i was in the senate and the russians or the soviets at that point, put sa-20s in europe, and we responded saying, we need to put -- to offset. the germans were very reluctant. and finally they did. i think they've been coming slowly to that conclusion that they have to build a capable defense that is equally capable of cooperating and fulfilling their duty as a nato member. they've come a long way. >> you heard sam kiley there mention this. and we also heard from ukraine's foreign minister and others, who have said the next piece of military just a minute they want, western fighter jets, maybe even the f-16. is that a different type of request? does that go into a new area in your mind? >> not in my mind. i think they made the request a

year ago. at the time poland was willing to offer mig 29s. everybody said let's be careful not to step too far ahead of this. we've seen what's taken place since that time, just a savage assault, criminal assault upon the ukrainian people. i think what they need is more air defense, more missiles, more sands, all that defense capability. but i think aircraft falls into the category that they're going to need. whether it's an f-16 or some other aircraft, the real question is what is the capability they need? and can we provide that through other means? are other aircraft that might be available? f-16 is one of the finest in the world. that may be the one ultimately we decide and others decide upon. but there are others in the meantime that could fulfill the need on a quicker basis, less training, less maintenance, and less sustained problems with the f-16. >> to be clear, you would advise united states, nato, anyone to get those jets to ukraine now if

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after months of racist attacks by the former president, elaine chao, his former secretary of transportation, is speaking out. she told "politico" in a statement, quote, when i was young, some people deliberately misspelled or mispronounced my name. asian americans have worked hard to change that experience for the next generation. he doesn't seem to understand that, which says a whole lot more about him than it will ever say about asian americans. this response comes after high profile shootings targeting the asian american community and after the former president repeatedly used a demeaning term to describe her. as the editorial board of the "wall street journal," her real offense was resigning as

secretary. i'm joined by alyssa farah griffin, who served as communications for president and has spoken out against his remarks. also scott jennings, long-time adviser to senator mitch mcconnell, who is husband to elaine chao. i want to start with you. you covered donald trump a long time. quote, people should stop feigning outrage and engaging in controversies that exist only in their heads. what do you make of that as both a reporter and as an asian american? >> yeah, john, you know, i think i would have thought that especially during a week like this one, when there has been so much pain in the asian american community, that someone like mr. trump might have been thinking a lot about the experience of being asian american. you know, there is no fake outrage here. i think there is just the reality. that is that, yeah, asian americans and asian people

across this country confront all kinds of racism all the time. and i think what is particularly disturbing to think about this week is thinking about when you see an ex-president mocking and making overtly racist comments about his former cabinet member, what method that might send to the average person about what might be okay to say to the average asian american and asian person in this country. and i'm talking about, you know, your neighbor, your colleague, just somebody who looks like me walking down the street. and you know, trump, has been stoking these racial divisions ever since he was a candidate and going way far back past that. he did it when he was president. and i think we have no reason to think that he wouldn't keep doing that if he were to get another four years in the white house. >> and there's no reason to think he doesn't know exactly what he is doing. e m.j., just to hit this one more

time, when elaine chao speaks about her life experience, growing up, people mispronouncing her name growing up, does that strike a chord with you? >> it does, and i think it strikes a chord with many, many asian americans in this country. she said asians have been trying to change that experience for future generations. and she said she believes trump clearly doesn't understand that. i think she is clearly right, that president trump has no idea how embedded that experience is in being asian american. and i just want to make the point that we are not always talking about overt racism or comments that are just so heinous or even bordering on violence. we are talking about sort of the everyday experience, too, of just being made to feel like an other, that you don't belong, that if you look like me, then you must be foreign and that you have to sort of prove your worth. it is being, you know, asked the que question, do you speak english.

it is being asked, where are you really from? it is being a reporter at a trump rally in iowa and being told my somebody, no offense to you, but there are these people coming from asia all the time and having families here and taking away our jobs. you know, i know you know this, john, that i became an american citizen back in 2016. it was one of the happiest days of my life. but i still -- even though i'm now an american citizen, grapple with, i think, that question of belonging as an asian american, that i believe is what elaine chao is talking about. >> i count that as a win for the united states that we got you in 2017. alyssa, one of the things you have heard almost verbatim from some republicans is, oh, trump just likes to call people names. this is just him doing what he does. >> well, and listen, i'm not going to feign outrage and pretend i'm shocked that president trump, once again, used racist comments to attack somebody. this is a pattern for him.

he's done it countless times since he was first a declared candidate. i think two things stand out to me, the timing and the target. as m.j. mentioned, this tragic mass shooting targeting the asian american community. and violence and harassment have been on the rise, dating back to covid and conspiracy theories about that. but also the target. this is elaine chao, served with the reagan administration, the bush administration, naturalized citizen since they was 19 years old. she's been in public service, an american who served in his administration. her only offense, of course, was that she opposed the insurrection. the question for republicans is do we want four more years of this? do we want four more years of explaining the our kids why the president or the former president is saying racist, offensive things that we would yell at them for saying on the playground? the turning the blind eye and rick scott likes to call names. i'm just calling him out there. no, this is blatantly racist.

it's the worst timing, and it's such a reminder we don't need to do this again. >> the do we want four more years is a political question. but there's also a moral question is, do we want four more minutes of a public figure saying racist things? and how do you stop that from happening? and what would you advise republican officials to say about this? i ask because mitch mcconnell has been reticent at times to even mention trump's name. he's doing that on purpose. i think he doesn't want to necessarily elevate him. but in a case like this, do you think it makes sense to speak out? >> i think it made sense for elaine chao to speak out because, you know, she's classier than donald trump will ever think about being. and she's let this go for some time. but at some point it becomes not just an issue for her personally but an issue for the entire asian american community. elaine chao, her parents, her family, they are 1,000 times the american patriots donald trump will ever be.

and for him to question their patriotism and question their love of this country and say they have something to do with communist china, it's rou outrageous. so, i'm glad she stood up for the entirety of the asian american community. as prt rest of the republican party, i think if you hear donald trump say something blatantly racist, and you cannot summons the courage to say something, you need to look inside yourself and say what am i doing here and what do we want our country to be? are we moral enough to lead this country? the chao's are an american success story, the longest serving cabinet member since world war ii. this person is an inspiration to an entire group of people. regardless of politics, asian americans look up to elaine chao. we have this ego maniac, this infant, this racist who continues to make these

statements about her. it's outrageous. and every single day, even if senator mcconnell and elaine chao choose not to wrestle with the pig in the mud. that's where the republican party ought to stand. >> thank you so very much. to scott's point about party building, more republican infighting, this time to see who will lead the republican national committee. this is a fight between loyalists to the former president. that's next. somemething that sad you could do it in a year for, like, $11k. hmm. barista: order eleveven! yeah, see you at 11. 1111 masters boulevard, please. gonna be eleven even, buddy. really? the clues are all around us! some things are too obvious to be a coincidence.

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so, the question of who will lead the huge republican party apparatus known as the republican national committee is just the latest squirmish in this gop battle that we have seen in midterm primary races and the chaotic house speaker race. jeff zeleny has details in the fight that pits the trump faithful against one another. >> reporter: they're all loyal supporters of donald trump. but for six years, ronna mcdaniel has been the former president's hand picked leader of the republican national committee. >> done such an incredible job at the rnc. ronna. >> reporter: yet tonight a fresh family feud is boiling inside the republican party, as mcdaniel seeks re-election to a rare fourth term, she is locked in an unusually tough fight and yet another identity test for the gop. >> let's stop bashing each other and remember we are only going to win as a united party in

2024. >> reporter: she's not facing an anti-trump challenger but rather two true believers, who believes it's time for new blood in the top republican ranks. >> reporter: har meet dylan is a lawyer and committee member in california. she represents trump before the congressional investigation of the january 6th attack on the capitol and placed blame on gop losses in the last three election cycles not on trump but on mcdaniel and the rnc. >> they're really, really eager for some change. and i provide that change and a vision of how we're going to win in 2024. >> reporter: it's far from the classic establish/antiestablishment divide that roiled the party in the early days of the trump era. now trump loyalists are fighting one another. while trump is at the center of it all, he has taken a backseat to the fight. >> i get along with both of them. i haven't taken a stance. you know, let them fight it out.

>> reporter: not florida governor ron desantis, a potential 2024 rival, who said the rnc is overdue for change. >> i think we need to get some new blood in the rnc. i like what har meet dylan has said about getting the rnc out of d.c. >> reporter: my pillow ceo mike lindell is a long shot candidate. >> with all my due diligence and in prayer, i am 100% running for the rnc chairman. >> reporter: in a battle that is creating strange bedfellows nfo the faithful. bill pal tucci believes it is time to remove beyond trump and is moving beyond trump. >> she and i don't agreen oeverything, but that's what building a coalition is about. and that's how you move forward by embracing people like me, who have been skeptics and critics to build a party that's broader than the trump base. >> but the rnc leader of

connecticut believes mcdaniel stands the best chance of uniting the fractured party. >> in elections there are disagreements, but that doesn't mean that at the core we don't know that we are a family and that we are united by our principles and our policies. >> reporter: if this is a family, john -- and certainly that's what republicans feel like -- there is a big feud going on. that is going to be settled on tomorrow in a vote. but it is a secret ballot that adds to the dynamic hanging over this race entirely. the reason this is important is because this committee helps decide the rules of the presidential race, which starts one year from now. john? >> crucially important. jeff zeleny, thank you very much. we have an exclusive ahead, someone who testified before the january 6th committee, who was anonymous to us, now going public for the first time on television right here on cnn. what he thinks the committee's final report on the attack missed and what she now hopes to bring to lugt next.

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♪ over the last 100 years, lincoln's witnessed a good bit of history. even made some themselves. makes you wonder... what will they do for an encore? ♪ the january 6th committee's final report came out more than a month ago. it was extensive, 845 pages.

but now the now disbanded house panel missed something very important according to two twitter whistle-blowers and committee staff. they say the committee failed to hold major social media companies accountable for their role in the attack. cnn's donie o'sullivan spoke to one of the former employees exclusively about what she fears could happen as a result. >> i do fear for the future and what it may hold. >> reporter: you think there could be another january 6 in this country? >> yes. >> reporter: this is a former twitter employee turned whistle-blower who testified before the january 6 committee initially anonymously. >> a lot of tweets were in response to donald trump. >> reporter: now she is speaking exclusively to cnn in her first television interview. >> i think it is really important for these findings from the committee about the roles social media played within january 6 come to light. >> reporter: she says she can't

talk specifics about her time at twitter publicly but shared eye opening details in depositions with the january 6 committee. one example as trump supporters gathered in washington, d.c. on the eve of the capitol attack she and her colleagues warned management at twitter there might be someone getting shot tomorrow. according to transcripts from her deposition. >> but twitter leadership refused to take action. >> reporter: this attorney spoke to cnn on behalf of a second twitter whistle-blower who is remaining anonymous. >> it wasn't actually until the doors of the capitol were being breached that twitter leadership started taking action. at that point it was too little too late. the real harm and violence had happened. >> reporter: how did uyou feel s an american seeing this happen? >> terrified. it was horrifying. to experience political violence happen within our country at such a grand scale.

>> reporter: jacob glick was a lawyer for the january 6 committee who deposed her. >> she described employees including herself coming forward to warn their supervisors. in her telling they were denied over and over and over. who knows what could have been avoided if they had listened to her and her colleagues sooner. >> reporter: but not happy with the january 6 committee's final report. >> social media companies are mentioned hundreds of times within the final report. however, their role or responsibility within that day and the events of that day and the violence that occurred has not been fully laid out. >> reporter: the committee had a so-called purple team dedicated to looking into social media and extremism. cnn contained a copy of an unpublished document the team prepared much of which focused on the role of social media in the run up to january 6 and did not make it into the final report. this is what did not make it into the final cut.

social media companies fail to anticipate post election violence. social media platforms had a delayed response that arise from far right extremism. twitter was paralyzed by fear of political reprisals. key decisions at twitter bungled by incompetence and poor judgment >> i risked a lot to come forward and speak to the committee and to share the truth about these momentous occasions in history and i think it is really a missed opportunity that the committee did not include that information forefront and center within their report. >> reporter: she and others say the january 6 committee missed a real opportunity here. you worked on the committee. do you agree? >> the report did its job exceedingly well which was to show the american public the dangers posed by president trump's multi layered attack on our democracy. >> reporter: as for the draft document jacob glick says it

includes errors and shouldn't have been released. do you think social media companies fully appreciate the role they played in january 6th? >> i don't think so. that lack of awareness of responsibility is stark. >> by seeing this information we will be able to understand better what happened on january 6th in order to ensure it doesn't continue to repeat itself. >> reporter: and of course the social media companies like twitter have gone to great lengths to explain what they say they are doing to crack down on violent rhetoric on their platforms including in the runnup to january 6. some sources we spoke to on the committee said not everything the committee learned could fit into the final report. but clearly for some of these whistle-blowers they didn't go far enough. >> no. they were in the middle of it all and want the story told. terrific report. great to see you in person. >> thank you. the news continues.

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