including micki babbitt, ashli's mother. also present is a group of violent left wing protesters celebrating ashli babbitt's death. ashli babbitt, all those who attacked the capitol, are terrorist because the fbi director said it was an act of terrorism. the mother of ashli babbitt. the mother of a domestic terrorist. i can't believe the way this country has demonized her. i want to know how she has been being labeled an insurrectionist, when nobody's been charged with insurrection. babbitt, and her fellow insurrectionists. ashli babbitt, an insurrectionist. the only insurrectionist to be killed at the insurrection. insurrection. insurrection. actually, babbitt was part of a group whose mission statement was to hang mike pence. my daughter was a true patriot. and to have her down as an insurrectionist is just not acceptable. she loved this country from, from the time she was a small child. she was kicking around the idea going in the military and then when 9/11 happened, that just strengthened her conviction. my wife's not a

ashli babbit presented no imminent threat to anyone. she was unarmed. she was surrounded by law enforcement officials in tactical gear with automatic weapons. yet the government automatically cleared michale byrd, without

i also think that they wanted to bury whato had happened to ashly babbitt, because what really infuriatedday, tucker, aside from being attacked by police as you show in thehe documentary, is word spread that police had shot and killed a female trump supporter, so i think this was also part of obscuring that. the next day, january 8th, "the new york times" published a report based on two anonymous sources that he was bludgeoned to death by a fire extinction. and then that's all that whole story line proceeded, you see the clip after clip of the media just accepting that without question. they didn't even want any kind of verification. where was he, wouldn't there be a police officer is being bludgeoned to death by trump people, there would be of some kind of footage showing that, nothing.tr they just took it, they went withd it, and so that was their story for five weeks. it actually ended up in the democrats house impeachment memo, that "new york times" article, it is still a footnote saying he was bludgeoned to death. >> tucker: was anyone ever arrested for bludgeoning him to death? >> n

the ashly family attorney telling cnn that an attorney for one of the defendants tried to reach a plealient and the prosecution declined. closing arguments are set to begin monday. cnn's martin savidge is live at the courthouse on this one. what are you learning about this plea deal request, martin? >> reporter: good morning, kate. this is another weird one here. lee merritt, the attorney that represents want d cooper-jones said he'd been in contact with the prosecution. the prosecution said last night, kevin goff, the attorney for bryan came to them and wanted to make some kind of a plea deal. we don't know what the deal was, don't know the details. we do know that the prosecution rejected it. wanda cooper-jones going into court today said yes, it's true. then we had kevin goff coming into court today and he was peppered with questions. take a listen. >> did you offer a plea deal? >> that's bull [ bleep ]. >> what are you referring to? >> i'm not getting into it with you. denied. thank you, sir. denied, denied, denied. i don't know what y'all are talking about. >> reporter: that is re

that is the flip side of the ashli wilcox image that we have. i would say it certainly happened, but more often than not, at least in the accounts that are left, those on the home front and by the soldiers themselves, many of them kept diaries on their way home. they were meticulous in reporting who they got food from, who provided them shelter, who did not provide them shelter. they like to point out people who refused them but, there were also numerous instances and where they do talk about taking, especially from african americans. in particular they are looking for quartermaster depots and they find them along the way outside of what is now rover junior, and danville virginia, daines vail, north carolina. a reason why they are heading to some of these places because they start food and other provisions. it did happen, i think it happened less than i expected on my time. >> okay, okay. thank you very much, doug. finally, dave bradley from the uk wants to know, would you agree that lee is a management against other terms greatly reduced the ex

many of them are turning people like ashli babbitt who was killed in the course of this attack, into heroes. this is just a very frightening scenario where you have one major party in america, don, being radicalized and flirting with violence. and of course paul gosar is exhibit a of that. just inconceivable that in any other workplace you can get away with depicting the murder of a colleague. >> i want you to respond to something. i'll put up a quote. this is from your -- to your colleagues at the "washington post." paul waldman and greg sargent. they said, "in today's gop voting for infrastructure is heresy. threatening violence is not." do you think that they're right? >> absolutely. i mean, we see the evidence that the 13 republicans who voted for this bipartisan, popular infrastructure bill are getting death threats. just a couple days ago you had liz cheney getting drummed out of the party in wyoming because she calls out the big lie and says it's not acceptable to lie about the election outcomes. that has become heresy. it's become a litmus test within the republican party to

when the police officer ends up dying, when another protester has a cardiac episode and dies, when ashli babbitt, the protester rake into the speaker's lobby and is shot and dies. when police officers are beaten with their own weapons, when lawmakers are fleeing and hiding and cowering and racing through the capitol while his own vice president, his own supporters are chanting to hang mike pence, and donald trump isi originally he is talking about the crowd size. he's boasting about the crowd size. he's talking about how the crowd could have been positioned ever. in that absence of action, he allowed so many devastating things to happenrucker, continu this vein, i want to play for you something we heard from a d.c. security official tonight named darnell harvin about the red flags. >> we started seeing a lot of concerning information surrounding the events that were planned. information from particular actors we hadn't seen before, specifically looking at ttps, tactics, techniques and procedures that included they would be intent on performing acts of violence, interpersonal violence and

ashly parker is here, also joining us, jackie alemany and former top state department official rick stengel is here. lets' stick a pin in the clash between biden and ted cruz and go to the biden agenda. jackie, what is the latest. >> we are currently in the house waiting on whether or not the house democrats are going to vote on the build back better resolution, whether it is going to push through and they will be able to go home for the holidays having accomplished something. as you noted there are two parallel realities, universes, going on here right now. while we are scrambling to ask democrats about whether or not especially those six moderate democrats who were potentially holding out as they were waiting for the cbo score, whether or not the estimates lined up with the biden white house had previously estimated with regard to the $1.7 trillion infrastructure package. we have also been scrambling to ask republicans dramatically different questions. it has been quite disorienting actually, asking about cbo scoring, to then rushing to ask republicans about whether or not they are going

he's tried to make a martyr out of ashli babbitt, but what you heard there was something truly extraordinary shouldn't sleep on it. >> we shouldn't cover it as they experience it either, because they don't care doesn't mean we don't care. that, frankly, is one of the more disorienting aspects of covering the republican party in the era of trumpism. trump off the stage, electoral loser in modern history stands by the mission of hanging mike pence. and they're all still with him, but for liz cheney and adam kinzinger, there are no clean departures with donald trump. >> you know, it's -- i'm kind of, i can't believe i'm going to say i'm speechless but it is sort of a striking place to be, and i wonder sometimes, when is this business model more than an ideology? when is this about power for power's sake, money for money's sake? where is the interest in the public service, the defense of country? so many things have been thrown out the window. i am a journalist. i'm not an analyst, but i hear charlie loud and clear about, we also at the "washington post" watch carefully. where is the needle, whe