07/22/22 07/22/22 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, this is democracy now! >> here's what will be clear, president trump did not fail to act during the 187 minutes between leaving the ellipse, telling the mob to go home. he chose not to act. amy: the house juary 6 committee has accused donald trump violating his oath of office by refusing to call off

the capil insurrection. we will air excerpts of thursday's hearing, including dramatic footage revealing vice president mike pence's own security team feared for their lives as trump supporters attacked the capitol while threatening to kill pence. >> we are coming out now. make a way. amy: outtakes of donald trump speech to the nation on january 7, the day after the insurrection. pres. trump: this election is not over. congress has certified the results. i don't want to say the election is over. i just want to say congress has certified the results without saying the election is over, ok? amy: all that and more, coming up.

the white house has announced president biden has covid-19 and will work from isolation. biden confirmed the news in a short video posted on twitter ursday. pres. biden: this morning i tested positive for covid but i have been double that's an 80, double boosted, the symptoms are mild. i really appreciate your concerns. i'm doing well. getting a lot of work done. amy: biden said he began taking paxlovid that significantly cuts the risk of hospitalization and death in covid patients. the white house said it is carrying out contact tracing to warn biden's close contacts they are at risk but declined to say how many people might be impacted. over the last week, he has traded handshakes with seniors my fist bump mamba bin salman, and traveled to massachusetts to

promote clean energy with senator warren and john kerry. throughout those public appearances and others in recent months, is considered -- declined to wear a mask. on thursday, defending the safety protocols. >> we always said this was a possibility. i said it was a possibility. i think the protocols have kept him from getting infected and we knew ts was a possibility with his incredibly contagious variant. amy: biden will turn 80 years old shortly after november's midterm elections. even in young and fully vaccinated people, covid-19 can cause long-term effects, including neurological damage, fatigue. vice president kamala harris plans to maintain her schedule this week even though she is considered a close contact of biden. this comes amidst another wave of covid-19 cases driven by the

ba.5 variant. the house select committee to investigate the january 6 attack held primetime hearing thursday night focused on donald trump's refusal to take action as the supporters attacke the capitol. lawmakers focused on the three hour period on january 6 after trump urged supporters to march to the capitol and fight like hell. he knew many were armed. they also played previously unseen outtas of a speech he delivered on january 7 when he refused to read prepared lines declaring the 2020 election was over. but pres. trump: the demonstrators have defied -- defiled, right? i cannot see it very well. i am going to do this. let's do this. with this election is now over. congress has certified the results. i don't want to say the election is over. i just want to say congress has certified the results without

saying the election is over, ok? amy: after headlines, we will air excerpts from thursday evening's hearing of the january 6 committee. a government watchdog has opened a criminal investigation into the secret service's destruction of text messages sent around the time of the january 6, 2021 attack on the capitol. in announcing its probe, the office of the inspector general of the department of homeland security noted the messages were deleted after officials requested them in order to aid the house january 6 committee's investigation. after the officials requested they be preserved. the house of representatives has approved a bill that would safeguard the right to contraception under federal law. just eight republicans joined democrats thursday as lawmakers approved the right to contraception act on a vote of 228 to 195. ahead of the vote, california democrat doris matsui cited the supreme court's ruling in june overturning a half-century of reproductive rights. >> the supreme court's decision

was a direct attack on abortion and americans are not justifiably scared about the future of birth-control. republicans across this country will continue their extremist thought on basic freedoms most of justice thomas made it clear that the supreme court will do nothing to protect our fundamental rights in these corrugated attacks. i refuse to sit back and watch as republicans regress our nation to a place where my granddaughter has fewer rights than her mother or i did. amy: a new york state man has been diagnosed with polio, the first case of the virus in the united states in nearly a decade. the man was not vaccinated against polio. global efforts to combat the disease have failed to entirely stamp out reservoirs of the virus, which can cause paralysis. turkey's government says negotiators from moscow and kyiv

have agreed to a deal that would allow ukraine to safely export millions of tons of grain through besieged ports along the black sea. united nations secretary general antonio guterres traveled to istanbul thursday as news spread of an emerging deal that could help alleviate a global food crisis that's led to soaring costs of staples like flour and cooking oil. the rare victory for diplomacy in ukraine comes five months after russia's invasion. in europe, the death toll from an unprecedented heat wave has topped 2000, as forecasters warn dangerous levels of heat are spreading east. in greece, firefighters have responded to nearly 400 wildfires this week, while temperatures in parts of poland approached 100 degrees fahrenheit. here in the united states, forecasters are predicting this week's dangerously hot weather will continue into the weekend, with 85% of residents set to experience highs of 90 degrees or hotter. dramatic new satellite images from nasa show the largest reservoir in the u.s., lake mead, is at its lowest

level since the completion of the hoover dam in the 1930's. the reservoir serves about 25 million people. in sri lanka, sworn in as the new president filling the gap left by the previous president who is forced to resign after months of mass protests. overnight, the secretary was rated in the capitol or demonstrators have been staging a massive sit in protest. they also assaulted new jason and cama that left at least 10 people badly injured. italy's prime minister mario draghi resigned on thursday following the collapse of his unity government. draghi will remain prime minister in a caretaker role until new national elections, scheduled for septembe25. draghi's resignation was welcomed by italy's right wing. recent polls show a coalition led by the italian far right would win a parliamentary majority if the election were held today. the biden administration has

cleared another prisoner for release from the u.s. military prison at guantanamo bay, cuba. the united states has jailed khalid ahmed qassim of yemen at guantanamo since may of 2002, without charge or trial. the human rights group reprieve says he was severely tortured at guantanamo, forced to sleep standing up, subjected to freezing temperatures, and left shackled and unable to walk for long stretches. the united states continues to imprison 37 people guantanamo. 20 of those remaining have been recommended for transfer. in rio de janeiro, brazil, at least 18 people have been killed in a raid by hundreds of heavily armed police officers on the alemão favela. witnesses say masked officers backed by armored vehicles and helicopters sprayed bullets over a wide area for 12 hours on thursday, killing at least one innocent bystander and leaving injured people unattended in the streets. it's the latest in a series of deadly raids in rio's impoverished communities, which police say are meant to target organized crime groups. rio's public defender said there

were signs of major human rights violations. this is human rights worker gilberto santiago lopes. >> the police are not aiding injured people. they a not. they have to be wheeled in a handtruck and residents have to haul a cart the hospital. people are being dehumanized. amy: back in the u.s. federal , a judge has sentenced former minneapolis police officer thomas lane to 30 months in prison for violating george floyd's civil rights. in may of 2020, lane was filmed holding floyd's legs as former officer derek chauvin pinned his knees to floyd's neck for over 9 minutes, killing him. lane is said to be sentenced on separate manslaughter charges in a minnesota court in september. and senate democrats have introduced a bill that would end the federal prohibition of cannabis, also known as marijuana. on thursday, new jersey's cory booker and oregon's ron wyden introduced the cannabis

administration and opportunity act. they were joined by senate majority leader chuck schumer. >> i am proud to be the first majority leader ever to say it is time to end federal prohibition on cannabis stop and if this bill provides the best framework for updating our cannabis laws and reversing decades of harm inflicted by the war on drugs. amy: the legislation would de-list cannabis as a prohibited drug, impose a federal tax on its sale, and would see the criminal records of many nonviolent offenders expunged. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the house select committee to investigate the january 6 attack held a primetime hearing on thursday night focused on donald trump's refusal to take action asis supporters attacked the capitol on january 6. lawmakers focused on the three

hour period after trump urged his supporters to march to the capitol and "fight like hell." knowing many of them were armed. for the next 187 minutes, trump refused to take any action to stop the deadly insurrection at the capitol. we will spend the hour airing excerpts from thursday's hearing. committee chair bennie thompson, who recently tested positive for covid, opened the hearing by speaking from a remote location. >> for the weeks between the november elections and january 6, donald trump was a force to be reckoned with. he shrugged off legality, correct, sober advice of his advisers. instead, he recklessly blazed a path of lawlessness and corruption come at the cost of which democracy be damned. and then he stopped. for 187 minutes on january 6, this man of unbridled

destructive energy could not be moved. not by his aides, not by his allies, not by the violent chants of rioters are the desperate pleas of those facing down the rioters. amy: republican congressmember liz cheney, the vice chair of the january 6 committee, accused trump of refusing to defend the constitution. >> donald's own white house counsel, own white house staff, members of his own family, all implored him to immediately intervene to condemn the violence and instruct his supporters to stand down, leave the capitol, and disperse. for multiple hours, he would not. donald trump would not get on the phone and order the military or law enforcement agencies to help. for hours, donald trump chose not to answer the pleas from congress, from his own party, and from all across our nation to do what his oath required.

he refused to defend our nation and our constitution. he refused to do what every american president must. amy: thursday night's hearing was led by republican congressmember adam kinzinger and democrat elaine luria who outlined trump's actions once he returned to the white house on january 6 after the secret service refused to take him to the capitol, sparking what she described as an angry exchange in the presidential suv. this following clip includes prerecorded depositions of former white house counsel cut cipollone, mike pence's national security, and former trump assistant nicholas luna. this is congress member elaine luria. >> what you see on the screen is a photo of him inside the oval office and neatly after he returned from the rally, still wearing his overcoat. a white house employee informed the president as soon as he returned to the oval about the

riot at the capitol. let me repeat that. within 15 minutes of leaving the stage, predent trump knew the capitol wasesieged and under attack. at 1:25, president trump went to the private dining room off the oval office. until 4:00, the president stayed in the dining room. just to give your sense of where the dining room is situated in the west wing, let's take a look at the floor plan. the dining room is connected to the oval office by a short hallway. witnesses told us on january 6, president trump sat in the usual spot at the head of the table facing a television hanging on the wall. we know from the employee the tv was tuned fox news all afternoon. you can see fox news on the tv showing coverage of the joint session that was airing that day at 1:25. other witnesses confirmed president trump was in the

dining room with the tv on for more than 2.5 hours. there is no official record of what president trump did while in the dining room. on the screen is the presidential call log from january 6. as you can see, there is no official record of president trump receiving or placing a call between 11:06 and 6:54 p.m. as to what the president was doing that afternoon, the presidential daily diary is also silent. it contains no information from the period between 1 p.m. and 4:03 p.m. there are no photos of president trump during this critica period between 1:21 in the oval office and when he went outside to the rose garden after 4:00. the chief white house photographer wanted to take pictures because it was come in her words, very important for his archive and for history. but she was told "no photographs." despite the lack of photos or

official record, we have learned what president trump was doing while watching tin the dining room. but before we get into that, it is important to understand what he never did that day. let's watch. >> are you aware of any phone call by the president of the united states to the secretary of defense that day? >> not that i'm aware of, no. >> are you aware of any phone call of the president of united states to the attorney general that day? >> no. >> are you aware of any phone call by the president to homeland security that day? >> i am not aware of that, no. >> did you hear the president -- >> no. >> ask law enforcement response? >> no.

>> we have confirmed and numerous interviews with senior law enforcement and military leaders vice president pence staff and d.c. government officials, none of them, not one, heard from president trump that day. he did not call to issue orders come he did not call to offer assistance. this week we received additional testimony from yet another witness about why the president did not make any efforts to quell the attack. the former white house employee 's national security responsibility told us about a

conversation with senior adviser eric hirschmann and pat cipollone. the top white house lawyer. this conversation was about a pending call from the pentagon seeking to coordinate on the response to the attack. mr. herschmann turned to mr. cipollone and said, the president did not want to do anything. so mr. cipollone had to take the call himself. if president trump was not calling law enforcement or military leaders, what to president trump spend his time doing that afternoon he was calling senators to encourage them to delay or reject the certification. here is his press secretary to explain. >> he is calling them one by one. do you know which ones he call? >> to the best of my recollection, no. he wanted a list of the senators

and i left him at that point. amy: kayleigh mcenany in a prerecorded deposition. we will air more from the january 6 house committee after break, including the outtakes of trump's speech the day after january 6. stay with us. ♪♪ [muc break]

amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we will be posting our new interview with simone in both spanish and english. we're continuing our coverage of thursday's hearing at the u.s. select committee to investigate the january 6 attack on the united states capitol. the hearing feature two white house aides who quit january 6, former deputy national secured advisor a few pottinger as well as former white house press secretary sarah matthews. this is committee member elaine luria. >> althougpresident trump was aware of the ongoing riot come he did not take any immediate action to address the lawlessness. instead, at 2:03, he called rudy

giuliani again and that call lasted for over eight minutes. moments later at 2:13, rioters broke into the capitol itself. one of the proud boys charged with seditious conspiracy used in officers seld to smash a window and rioters flooded into the building. >> as rioters right-wing the building, and the secret service held vice president pence and his officef the senate chamber

for 13 minutes as they worked to clear a safe path to a secure location. now listen to some othat radio traffic and see what they were seeing as the protesters got just feet away from where the vice president was holding. >> if we're going to leave, we need to do it now. >> gained access to the second floor. >> copy. they are on the second floor moving in now. we may want to consider getting out and living now. copy.

>> the president's national security staff was listening to these developments and tracking them in real time. on the screen you can see excerpts from the chat logs among the national -- among the president's national council -- national security council staff. at 2:13, the staff learned the rioters were kicking in the

windows of the capitol. three minutes later, the staff says the vice president was being pulled, which meant agents evacuated him from the senate floor. at two the staff noted that the secret service agents at the capitol did not "sound good right now." rlr you heard from a security professional who have been working at the white house compleon january 6. with access to relevant information and responsibility to report to national security officials. we asked this person, what was meant by the comment the secret service agent did not "sound good right now"? the following clip, modified to protect the individual's identity, professional discusses what they heard from listening to the incoming radio traffic that day. >> that last entry -- >> correct. >> what does that mean?

>> members of the vp detail were starting to fear for their lives. there was a lot of yelling. a lot of personal calls over the radio.

>> as this next video shows, the rioters' anger was focused primarily on vice president mike pence. >> this woman came up to the side of us and she says, pence folded. so it was kind of like, ok, well

, in my mind, i was thinking, well, that's it. my son-in-law looks at mand he says, i want to go in. >> what percentage of the crowd is going to the capitol? >> 100%. >> it spread like wildfire that pence has betrayed and every one is marching on the capitol. all million of us. it is insane. >> what happened? >> pence has betrayed us. >> to people appear angry? >> a lot of people seemed like they were very upset. >> tell us things they were saying if you recall. >> people were screaming all

types of stu. they were mad. pence was going to accept the electorals. if you could think it up, were hearing it. >> i believed vice president pence was going to certif the electol votes and- work not certify them, but i guess that just changed. very big disappointment. i think there are several hundred thousand people that are very disappointed. >> president trump did not try to calm his thousands of disappointed supporters. instead, the same moment violence was getting completely out of hand, donald trump sent a two to 14 time tweet. -- 2:24 tweet. pence did not have the courage to do what should have a dad to protect our country and our

constitution. despite knowing the capitol have been breached in the mob was in the building, president trump mike pence a coward and placed all the blame on him for not stopping the certification. he put a target on his own vice president's back. stir pottinger and ms. matthews, when we ask about your reaction to sing the 2:24 tweet in real time, you both use the same imagery to describe it, president adding fuel to the fire. mr. pottinger, you made the decision to resign after sing the tweet. can you tell us why? >> so that was pretty soon after were shortly before i had gotten back to the white house, had come from off-site. i began to see for the first time those images on tv, the chaos that was unfolding at the capitol. one of my aides handed me a sheet of paper that contained the tweet you just read.

i read it and was quite disturbed by it. i was disturbed and worried to see the president was attacking vice president pence for doing s constitutional duty. so the tweet looked to me like the opposite of what we really needed at that moment, which was a de-escalation. that is why i had said earlier looked like fuel being pred on the fire. that was the moment i decided that i was going to resign, that that would be my last day at the white house. i simply d not want to be associated with the events that were unfolding on the capitol. >> ms. matthews, what was your reaction to the president's tweet about vice president pence ? >> it was obvious the situation at the capitol was violent and escalating quickly, and so i thought the tweet about the vice president was the last thing that was needed in that moment.

i remembered thinking that this was going to be bad for him to tweet this because it was essentially him giving the green light to these people, telling them that what they were doing at the steps of the capitol and entering the capitol was ok, that there were justified in their anger. he should not have been doing that. he should have been telling these people to go home and leave and condemn the violence we were saying. i am someone who has worked with him -- i worked on the campaign, traveled all around the country gog to countless rallies with him. i have seen the impacts his words have on his supporters. they truly latch onto every word and every tweet he says, and so i think in that moment for him to tweet out the message about mike pence, it was him pouring gasoline on the fire and making it much worse. >> as you will see at 2:26, the vice president had to be

evacuated to safety a second time and came within 40 feet of the rioters. the attack escalated quickly right after the tweet. >> during this chaos, what do president trump do with that point? he went back to calling senators to try to further delay the electoral count. while the vice president was being evacuated from the senate, president trump called senator tummy tuck revealed, one of his strongest supporters in the senate. as a senator then recalled, he had to evacuate himself. let's listen.

>> he did not call my phone come he called somebody else and they handed it to me. i said, mr. president, we're not doing much work here now because they just took the vice president out and i'm going to have to hang up on you. i have to leave. >> senator josh hawley also had to flee. earlier that afternoon before the joint session started, he walked across the east front of the capitol. as you can see in this photo, he raised his fist and a solidarity with the protesters already amassing at the security gate. we spoke with the capitol police officer who is out there at the time. she told us senator jeff -- route of the crowd and it bothered her greatly because he was doing it in a safe space, protected by the officers in the barrier. later that day, senator holly

fled after those protesters he helped to rile up stormed the capitol. see for yourself. amy: there showing the image of josh hawley racing through the hallways of the capitol. >> think about what we have seen. undeniable violence at the capitol. the vice president being evacuated to safety but the secret service. senators running through the hallways of the senate to get away from the mob. as the commander-in-chief, president trump, was oath and duty-bound to protect the capitol. his senior staff understood that. >> do you belie that the president has an obligation to ensure a peaceful transfer of power? >> yes. >> do you think the president

has any obligation to defend all three branches of our government? >> i believe so. >> i assume you also would agree the president has a particular obligation to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. >> that is one of the president's obligations, correct. >> i asked what his duty is. >> there's a constitutional duty . he is the commander-in-chief. that was my biggest issue with him as national security advisor. >> rather than uphold his duty to the constitution, president trump allowed the mob to achieve the delay that he hoped would keep him in power. amy: elaine luria before her, mike pence's national security advisor, and white house counsel pat cipollone after jared

kushner. during thursday's hearing, republican committee member adam kinzinger detail how president's chief of staff mark meadows received numerous text messages on the afternoon of january 6 from people urging trump to stop the attack on the capitol. >> throughout the attack, mr. meadows received texts from republican members of congress, current and former trump administration officials, from dia personalities, and from friends. i president trump's staff, they knew president trump had to speak publicly to get the mob to stop. let's look at just a few of these text messages. fox news personality laura ingraham said, the president needs to tell the people in the capitol to go home. former chief of staff mick mulvaney urged, mark, he needs to stop this now. fox news personality brian kilby said, please get him on tv

destroying everything that you guys have accomplished. when we interviewed white house counsel pat cipollone, he told us he knew the president's two tweets were not enough. let's listen to what he said. >> did you believe the tweets --

>> who on the staff did not want people to leave the capitol? >> on the stf? >> in the white house. >> i can't think of anybody, you know, on that day who didn't want people to get out of the capitol, particularly once the violence started. i mean, --

>> what about the president? >> she said "the staff." >> no, i said, "in the white house." >> i apologize. i thought you said who else on the staff. i can't reveal communications. obviously, i think -- yeah. >> let's pause on that last statement was although pat cipollone is being careful about executive privilege, there really is no ambiguity about what he said. almost everybody wanted president trump to instruct the mob to disperse. president trump refused.

amy: january 6 committee member publican adam kinzinger. stay tuned for outtakes of donald trump's generally seventh speech. -- january 7 speech. ♪♪ [music break]

amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. as we continue our coverage of thursday nights hearing at the u.s. house select committee to investigate the january 6 attack on the united states capitol. this is committee member virginia democrat elaine luria. >> president trump finally relented to the pleas from his staff, family, and from capitol hill him to do something more at 4:17. 180 seven minutes, more than three hours after he stopped speaking at the ellipse. after he stopped speaking to a mob that he had sent armed to the capitol. that is when he tweeted a video telling the rioters to go home while also telling them that they were special and that he

loved them. by that time, although the violence was far from over. law-enforcement had started to turn the tide, reinforcements were on the way, and elected officials in location. the writing was on the wall. the rioters would not succeed. here is what was shown on fox news come the general the president was watching all afternoon. >> more information. what do you have? >> confirming the defense department has now mobilized the entire d.c. national guard come 1800 troops. take several hours to get them up and running. the army secretary ron mccarthy setting up headquarters at the fbi. you just heard the fbi is also sending troops to the capitol. >> it is no coincidence president trump finally gave in and went out to the rose garden

at 4:03. his staff prepared a script for him to read, but he refused to use it. as you can see on the screen, can see the script said "i'm asking you to leave the capitol region now and go home in a peaceful way." the president was urged to stick to the script but he spoke off the cuff most of eric hirschmann and nick luna what with the president to film the message in the rose garden. let's hear what they had to say and see the never before seen raw footage the president recording this video message. >> ultimately, these remarks and exhibit 25 were not the remarks the president delivered in the rose garden. do you know why the president decided not to use these? >> i don't know, sir. i don't know why. >> did the president use any

written remarks or did he just go off-the-cuff? >> to my knowledge, it was off-the-cuff, sir. >> when you are ready, sir. pres. biden: who is behind pres. trump: who is behind me? >> we're all clear. pres. biden: in your pain. i know you're hurt. we had an election. -- pres. trump: i know your pain. i know you're hurt. we had an election that was stolen from us. it was a landslide election and everyone knows it, especially the other side. but you have to go home now.

we have to have peace. we have to have law and order. we have to respect our great people in law and order. we don'want anyone heard. it is a very tough period of time. there's never been a time like this were such a thing happened, where they could take it away from a of us. from me, you, from our country. this was a fraudulent election but we can't play into the hands of these people. we have toave peace. so go home. we love you. you are very special. you have seen what happens. you see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. i know how you feel, but go home and go home in peace. >> when i got there, the president had just finished filming the video. i think he was basically retiring for the day. >> was there any discussion about the president releasing a second video that day? >> not that i recall. >> when he finished his video,

everyone was like, the day is over. people were pretty drained. >> were pretty wet? >> drained. >> whewe say day over, there were still people and at the capitol, were there? >> there were but i bieve by this stage, law enforcent -- i would have to go back and look but i believe law enforcement was either there or moving in are going to take charge. people were emotionally drained. by the time that videotape was done. >> emotionally drained? at the white house? here's what was happening at the same time at the capitol. this clip also contains strong language and violence.

>> the president's words matter. we know many of the rioters were listening to president trump. we heard from one last week, stephen ayres. let's listen to what he had to say about the 4:17 is it from the president and how rioters reacted to the president's message in real time. >> when we were there, soon as

that come out, everybody started talking about it. it seemed like it started to disperse, you know, some of the crowd. >> i am here delivering the president's message. he is telling people to go home. >> but just as mr. ayres said, please were still fending off the last throes of the brutal assault. amy: that was democratic commerce member elaine luria of the january 6 house committee, leading thursday's hearing with republican congas member adam kinzinger. >> while everyone else was working to get commerce back in session, what to president trump do? one minute after the citywide curfew went into effect, he

posted his last tweet of the day. after officers engaged a multiple hours of hand-to-hand combat whose over 100 of them sustaining injuries, president trump tweeted at 6:01 and justified the violence as a natural response to the election. he said "these are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide victory is so unceremoniously viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly, unfairly treated for so long. go home with love and peace. remember this day forever." he called the mob great patriots. he told people to remember the day forever. he showed absolutely no remorse. a few minutes later at 6:27, the president left the dining room and went up to the white house residence for the night.

on the screen is the last photograph of the president that night as he went into the residence. as he was gathering his things in the dining room to leave, president trump reflected on the days events with a white house employee. this was the same employee who had met president trump in the oval office after he returned from the ellipse. president trump said nothing to the employee about the attack. he said only "mike pence let me down." amy: adam kinzinger. this is democrat committee member elaine luria. >> the staff who remained at the white house on the morning of january 7 do the president needed to address the nation again, and they had a speech prepared for him that morning but he refused for hours to give it. as you heard cassidy hutchinson testify previously, president trump finally agreed to record

an address to the nation later that evening. the evening of january 7. because of concerns he might be removed from power under the 25th amendment or by impeachment . we know these threats were real. sean headed he said so himself in a text message that day to press secretary kayleigh mcenany. he wrote, "no more stolen election talk. yes, impeachment and 20 for them, are real." we obtained the never before seen raw footage of the recording that day on january 7 more than 24 hours after the last time he had addressed the nation from the rose garden. let's take a look. >> whenever you're ready, sir. pres. trump: i would like to begin by addressing the heinous attack yesterday and to those

who broke the law, you will pay. you do not represent our movement. you do not represent our country. and if you broke the law -- i can't say that. i already said you will pay. the demonstrators who infiltrated the capitol have defied the -- defiled, right? i can't see it very well. i will do this. i'm going to do this. let's go. but this election is now over. congress has certified the results. i don't want to say the election is over. i just want to say congress has certified the results without saying the election is overcome ok? let me see. go to the paragraph before. ok? i would like to begin by

addressing the heinous attack yesterday -- yesterday is a hard word for me. >> doeit say that? pres. trump: take the word yesterday -- it doesn't work. heinous attack. say on our country. my only goal was to ensure the integrity of the vote. my only goal was to ensure the integrity of the vote. >> on january 7, one day after he incited and insurrection based on a lie, president trump still could not say the election was over. amy: that was democratic congressmember elaine luria of the january 6 house committee. vice chair of the committee liz cheney gave closing remarks. >> at one point in 2016 when he was first running for office, donald trump said this, "i could

stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot somebody and i would not lose any voters." that came to mind last week when audio from trump advisor steve bannon surfaced from october 31, 2020, just a few days before the presidential election. let's listen.

>> four days lat, president trump declared victory when his own campaign advisors told him he had absolutely no basis to do so. what the new steve bannon audio demonstrates is donald trump's plan to falsely claim victory in 2020 no matter what the facts actually were was premeditated. perhaps worse. donald trump believed he could convince his voters to buy it whether he had any actual evidence of fraud or not. in the same thing continued to occur from election day onward until january 6. donald trump was competent he could convinceis supporters the election was stolen no matter how many lawsuits he lost -- and he lost scores of them. he was told over and over again in immense detail that the election was not stolen. there was no evidence of widespread fraud. it did not matter. donald trump was competent you

could persuade his supporters to believe whatever he said no matter how outlandish, and ultimately, that they could be summoned to washington to help him remain president for another term. amy: bennie thompson, chair of the january 6 house committee. >> there can be no doubt there was a multistep effort to overturn an election overseen and directed by donald trump. there can be no doubt that he commanded a mob, a mob he knew was heavily armed, violent, and angry, to march on the capitol to try to stop the peaceful transfer of power. and he may targets out of his own vice president and the lawmakers gathered to do the people's work. these facts have gone undisputed. and so there needs to be

accountability, accountability under the law, accountability to the american people, kind ability at every level from the local precincts in many states were donald trump and his allies attacked election workers for just doing their jobs, all the way up to the oval office were donald trump raised legal advice of insurrection a federal judge has already said was a coup in search of a legal theory. our democracy withstood the attack on january 6. if there is no accountability for january 6 for every part of this scheme, i fear we will not overcome the ongoing threat to our democracy. there must be stiff consequences for those responsible. amy: that is house january 6 committee chair bennie thompson

speaking from isolation as he has tested positive for covid-19. to see all eight of the committee's hearings in full, go to democracynow.org. that does it for our show. democracy now!ñññ??