. >> joe biggs here with infowars.com.tanding in front of the islamic center of america. >> he would stir up fears of muslim taking over the united states for years and sent joe biggs works would later become a leader of the proud boys, on so-called reporting trips across the country. former info wars employee josh owens was part of the production team. >> they wanted us to go to these majority muslim communities and report on why these people in these communities, what's going on, it seemed suspicious. there was nothing to it. >> no sharia law overruling the united states government. >> no, no, but that's what jones wanted. >> we made up the stories because there was nothing to report on. >> in essence we lied. >> and with the growing popularity of social media, jones finally had the outlet that would be a perfect amplifier for his outrage. >> a lot of his clips would go viral. alex jones used platforms like facebook, like twitter and youtube to draw people in. >> they would promote and amplifier the kind of content that

we have an exchange here between me and joe biggs. we went to his home to see if he would -- to speak to us. we tried calling him. he did not respond. we went directly to his home. in this exchange you will hear him deny some of the things. let's listen to that. >> it's right there. yeah. >> this guy is one of the most well-known, a far right personality known for spouting extremist views, long before january 6th. >> what's going on. this is joe biggs. >> reporter: 37-year-old joseph biggs is an arm y veteran, and also a leader in the far right, violence prone proud boys. his violent rhetoric got him banned on social media sites. on january 6th in washington, d.c., it wasn't just rhetoric. prosecutors say he did aid, abet, counsel, command, induce or procure others to unlawfully enter the u.s. capitol by means of destruction of federal property. this is biggs as he helps lead the proud boys to the capitol steps. once there, one of his proud boys, this guy, broke into the capitol. according to court documents, 20 seconds later, biggs i

amy: joe biggs, now in jail awaiting trial. pres.p: i hope you're going to stand up for the good of our constitution and for the good of our country. if not, i'm going to be very disappointed in you. >> usa! amy: 1254 time, first breach of the capitol grounds. >> we need backup! >> madame speaker, the vice president, and the united states senate, joint session of congress begins. >> this is now a riot. >> declaring a riot. >> be advised, trying to breach the capitol. >> hold the line! hold the line! hold the line! >> we are trying to make our way through all of this. amy: breaches window on upper west terrace of the capitol building. >> we have a breach of the capital. breach of the capitol! >> be advised they are requesting additional resources as they broke in the window and trying to kick it in. amy: joe biggs enters the capitol. >> without objection, recessed pursuant to clause 12 the of roll 1. amy: outside. amy: there is a hangman's noose outside. >> house members -- amy: leader mccarthy. amy: police are being attacked outside.

that breach. >> in what's widely viewed as a tipping point, a protester named ryan samsel talks to joe biggs and immediately confronts the police. biggs and other leaders look on. samsel told the fbi that biggs encouraged him to confront the police, something biggs denies. as the crowd pushes forward, many of the proud boys join in. they start removing barricades and urge others on. >> [inaudible] let's go. >> the chain reaction has been set off. the attack on the capitol has begun. >> that's how the attack actually began. it's been hard to sift through all this, because while some people showed up ready for battle -- with and here, with certain weapons, other proud boys, it turns, out were trained in coordinated for battle but took an extra step, and what you might call a kind of reversed camouflage or just plain clothes clam flush. they dress like they might have been -- and or even what might have looked to some like peaceful protesters. but that was, again, part of their tactical strategy. it's what they call as, quote, dressing as normies. >> this time -- and you know who it is when we

. >> reporter: and former info war reporter and proud boys leader joe biggs who pushed his way throughhas learned the january 6th select committee investigators want to know about jones' involvement in the funding for trump's rally, the planning for his march to the capitol and jones' ties tower, extremists now charged with conspiring against the government. >> i said this, my lawyer told me almost 100 times today during the interrogation, on advice of counsel, i am asserting my fifth amendment right to remain silent. >> reporter: jones says he refused to answer the committee's questions about january 6th but told his info wars audience he knew nothing about a plot. >> they already know didn't do anything. i wasn't planning any violence. i was even talking things should be peaceful. >> he said he was talking about a peaceful type of fight but that's not how it's translated to people who follow alex jones. >> alex! alex! alex. >> >> reporter: pamela, once we started digging into this story we were stunned by something else, the staggering amount of money that alex jones makes, how easy

and former infowars reporter and proud boys leader joe biggs, who pushed his way through the police lines he also pleaded not guilty. >> biggs, what you got to say? >> jones has not been charged. but cnn has learned the january 6th select committee investigators want to know about jones' involvement in the funding for trump's rally. the planning for his march to the capitol, and jones ties to extremists now charged with conspireing against the government. >> i said this, my lawyer told me almost 100 times today during the interrogation, on advice of counsel, i am asserting my fifth amendment right to remain silent. >> jones says he refused to answer the committee's questions about january 6th, but told his infowars audience he knew nothing about a plot. >> and they already know i didn't do anything, i wasn't planning any violence. i was even talking about everybody should be peaceful. >> he would say he was talking about a peaceful type of fight, but that's not how it's actually translated to the people that follow alex jones. >> alex! alex! alex! >> his former employees are now convinced

and former info wars reporter and proud boys leader joe biggs who pushed his way through the police lineser: jones has not been charged. but cnn has learned that january 6th select committee investigators want to know about jones' involvement in the funding for trump's rally. the planning for his march to the capitol and jones' tie togs extremists now charged with conspiring against the government. >> i said this, my lawyer told me almost 100 times today during the interrogation, on advice of counsel, i am asserting my fifth amendment right to remain silent. >> reporter: jones says he refused to answer the questions about january 6th but told his info wars audience he knew nothing about a plot. >> they already now i didn't know anything. i was talking about everybody should be peaceful. >> he would say he was talking about a peaceful type of fight. that's not how it's translated to the people that follow alex jones. >> reporter: jim, i think what is going to be surprising about our story, our special on alex jones is for many of us who have written him off as an internet clown to see how

here they are targeting a lightly guarded scaffolding pavingb the way with proud boys leader joe biggsright there. >> when the rioters won, they followed up the stairs. >> this is exactly what was feared. proud boys dominic pezzola was one of the first rioters to breach the building. >> just to see this throughout the day, he follows just a minute behind. at this, point the proud boys have been a critical player in five major advances. they aren't done. >> it is becoming clearer by the day that there was a plan. it was deliberately encouraged by the proud boys in the proud boys had violent intensions. >> a recent court filing that justice explains that a confidential informant from the past boys told the proud boys would've killed mike pence if given the chance. >> the fbi says that they wanted to kill mike pence. the part of the capital was chanting hang mike pence. donald trump knew mike pence is a danger and he sent a tweet condemning him anyway as one member said, the only conclusion that you can reach is that trump intended to accelerate the violence against the former vice presid

see today is, particularly one moment, and that is the documentary film maker caught a moment when joe biggs the leaders of the proud boys who is facing seditious conversing charges now, he was speaking with an individual on january 6 and a front of the barricades on the capitol. after that moment, that individual went and confronted a police and knocked over a barricade. so that moment is seen as the turning point for the events that happened on january 6. nermeen: kristin, could you elaborate on what you think the public, what the committee hopes that americans will learn about the events of january 6 and whether those -- the opinions will be swayed by the information, new information, as reportedly will be disclosed in the course of these hearings? >> right. so i think what the committee is helping americans realize is that this was not a spur of the moment event. and as much as some trump republicans will claim that this was just a minor riot, this was a very violent attack. five police officers died as a result of that day. about 150 were injured. this was a very violentttack in which p

and former info wars reporter and proud boys leader joe biggs who pushed his way through the police lines has not been charged. but cnn has learned that the january 6 select committee investigators want to know about jones' involvement in the funding for trump's rally, the planning for the march to the capitol and jones' ties to extremists now charged with conspireing against the government. >> i said this, my lawyer told me almost 100 times today during the interrogation. on the advice of council i'm asserting my fifth amendment right to remain silent. >> reporter: jones said he refused to answer the committee's questions about january 6th but told his audience he knew nothing about a plot. >> they knew i didn't know anything, i wasn't planning any violence. >> he would say he was talking about a peaceful type of fight but that's not how it's translated to the people that follow alex jones. >> joining me now is senior investigative reporter drew griffin. pleasure to have you here. thanks for being here. what's frightening listening to that excerpt is the influence and power that alex jon

pardons including congressman matt gaetz, mo brooks, louie gohmert, andy biggs and scott perry, all spread false claims about joe biden's victory. perry's office calls the claim a soulless lie. mo brooks didn't deny the pardon request but said it was unnecessary after all. and while gaetz hasn't denied the pardon request, he dismissed the committee as a political sideshow. republican congressman adam kinzinger ending yesterday's hearing with this statement. >> the only reason i know to ask for a pardon is because you think you've committed a crime. >> reporter: and last night the chair of the january 6th committee saying he can prove those pardon requests were made. andrew, mona. >> all right, jay, thank you. >>> investigators are looking into a collision on the tarmac at new york's jfk airport. the pilot of an air france flight reported that his plane was hit by a jet from italy's ita airways, but the air traffic controller had trouble understanding his accent and by the time the controller contacted the pilot of the italian jet, he had already taken off for rome. he said he wasn't aware of the collision and la

campaign, saying he would try to overturn the will of the electorate that voted for joe biden in his state and reach andy biggs about this yesterday and he would not comment. ron johnson, wisconsin republican senator, a different situation involving him. his top aide on the morning of january 6th, 2021, urged, how johnson could deliver a package to pence that would have essentially electors from the states of michigan and wisconsin, two states that joe biden won, essentially overturn the electoral results when this scheme went into effect. when i caught up with johnson yesterday, downplayed this and said it was a non-story and saying he didn't know who actually pushed them and asked them to deliver this information to mike pence. listen. >> offer without even vetting it. >> we got handed, the vice president, so we called out to vice president. he didn't want it. we didn't deliver it. this is such a non-story. >> are you going to add your name of who this person was? >> the staff, somebody from the house, some staff intern said we've got to, the vice president needs this or whatever. i wasn't involved. i don't

objected to the certification of joe biden's victory who reached out in various places to the white house to ask for pardons. those include matt gates, mo brooks, andy biggs, marjory taylor green. some have denied this ever happened. matt gates is under investigation in an alleged sex trafficking investigation. he has denied all wrong doing, he has not been charged. but according to the testimony we heard in the hearing today, matt gates was asking for one of those from the beginning of time for everything he has ever done kind of pardons. and, you know, that could be an interesting thing for prosecutors who are still looking at him and are still going to have to decide whether or not he faces these charges. it depends on what he told the white house his pardons were about. this could add complications to matt gates. at this point, these members of congress are saying that there's nothing to see here but, as you can tell from the testimony from people inside the white house, this actually happened. >> you mentioned mr. biggs -- >> mr. biggs did. mr. dornan talked about congressional pardons but he never asked me for one. mr. gomer asked for one as well an

one came out was andy biggs, the congressman from arizona who did urge the speaker of the state house, rusty bowers, to overturn joe biden's victory in the state. bowers testified he resisted that request. >> a lot coming out there and we're not done. the next hearing scheduled for thursday. what's the focus tomorrow, ma simanu? >> justice department officials and the pressure campaign that trump era department officials faced from donald trump. his allies to use the power of the federal government, and that department to try to lean on states to overturn the electoral results. we're going to hear testimony from some key witnesses, including jeffrey rosen, who's the former acting attorney general at the time. we've seen some testimony from him come out already, pushing back on donald trump. richard donoghue and then steven engel from the office of legal counsel. he pushed what he knew was illegal and leaning on the government to overturn the election and then the real life consequences of threats faced to these individuals, so we'll hear from them in person and the committee promising even more information as they

joe biden and make way for trump. in arizona statehouse speaker rusty bowers testified that he got calls from trump, attorney john eastman and congressman andy biggs what did mr. biggs ask you to do? >> he asked if i would sign on both to a letter that had been sent from my state and/or that i would support the decertification of the electors. and i said that i would not. >> reporter: in pennsylvania, a barrage of calls from trump's attorneys to statehouse speaker brian cutler. >> this is rudy giuliani and janet ellis. we'd like you to discuss obviously the election. >> hello, mr. speaker, this is jenna ellis and i'm here with mayor giuliani -- >> reporter: in michigan a plan allegedly floated by a trump campaign official for fake electors to hide overnight in the state capitol. >> michigan republican electors were planning to meet in the capitol and hide overnight so that they could fullfill the roe of casting their vote. i told them that it was insane and even appropriate. >> reporter: officials like bowers cutler and cox refused to go along with team trump's plans. but across the country some 100 others complied, signing bogus elector slates th

biggs' attorney argues that his client can't get a fair trial, thanks to this week's televised hearings of the house select committee on january 6, and all the media coverage from "morning joetephen colbert's "late show." ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪ ♪ >> audience: stephen! stephen! stephen! >> stephen: you know, ladies and gentlemen, i do a lot of jokes about these violent fascists, but to hear that even one of them noticed? ( cheers and applause ) i feel so seen. you hate me, you really hate me. ( laughter ) biggs' attorney argues that they need to move his trial because shows like mine continue to saturate the jury pool of media- obsessive washington d.c. they want to move the trial to someplace where the proud boys have a better reputation, like 1930's berlin. ( laughter ) of course, after we got the shout-out, the article says "newsweek" contacted colbert's representatives for comment. "well, mr. colbert, do you have a comment?" "why, thank you, steve, i do." "want to share it with the people?" "certainly. while this is a very high-profile case, in our system of justice, the accused is innocent until proven guilty. so i want everyone in the potential jury pool to hear m