happens one of his colleagues is marking today's anniversary -- asking the question who killed ashley babbitt in a press release. a member of congress who should be more famous writes it isn't to sweep ashley's death by saying that she was in the wrong place at the wrong time as so many have. her life mattered. >> babbitt is the 35-year-old woman who attempted to charge into the speakers lobbies were members of congress were present at that moment on january six, with a violent mob breaking down windows, playing for blood at her back. they broke the windows of these dollars right there which is right outside the house chamber, ashley babbitt and her alone faulted, the first one to go through though there was a gun drawn in the warning and she was shot and killed by a and officer that you see on the other side. her death is obviously a horrible tragedy. it never should've happened. she never should've been there. she never should've been in the position. the key question is not who killed her, but who is truly culpable for her death and the deaths of three under trump supported that day. and t

>> i will tell, you they know who shot ashley babbitt. person. >> now, babbitt was shot in the shoulder, not the head as trump lied and she was climbing in through a broken window, not out of a broken window as maria border amount claimed. it's sort of a major distinction, but it is lies like those which attempt to frame ashli babbitt as a martyr and they are officer that sharper as a villain. even though the investigation of the u.s. department has cleared the officer of any criminal charges. two things are happening here. first, trump and the right-wing want this officers name released. not in the interest of transparency, which i think is a fair justified request for the information to be made public. but the reason they want to public is obviously so they can make this individuals life hell, which they certainly would. second of all, this is one of those very rare cases where there's really not a lot of mystery about what happened to ashley babbitt because we have the entire thing on video so just to reset here, and remember, the close

let me ask you about donald trump, who has taking up the cause of ashley babbitt.he was the air force veteran that was shot and killed through a barricaded door in congress. rioters were smashing glass, trying to get through and gain entry to the house floor. he says the officer who shot ashley babbitt should be identified. is that a fair request? >> it is typical practice, particularly when you're talking about state, county, local police officers because there's transparency in government that essentially an officer's name gets out in terms of a deadly force situation. i get that. here's the problem. with the current tenor of the threat, the risk picture that's in washington and throughout the country, when you have a former president and members of congress demanding that this agent or officer's name get released, you know what this is about. this is about putting that target on that officer's back and his family's for the rest of his life. so i believe there's a legitimate exception to any policy or protocol that says, hey, we generally release the name of the

>> first, ashley babbitt was not shot in the head.e medical examiner, the bullet struck her left shoulder. he's wrong about that and lying. second, there certainly was a reason. the mob was trying to batter the speaker's lobby. on the other side of the door were members of congress being evacuated. in other words, the mob could be perceived as a direct and immediate threat to their lives and that of the officers who were protecting them. the third, the matter was studied, to use the former president's word, and the officer who shot ashley babbitt was cleared of any criminal wrongdoing. fourth, his name is being withheld because according to his attorneys, he's being threatened with death threats. the former president doesn't care about that. after all, that is what got him banned from social media in the first place. joining us is supreme court lit at this gator, laurence tribe, co-author of "to end a presidency, the power of impeachment." putting aside the former president is announcing this lawsuit basically just for publicity and j

who killed ashley babbitt?is complete from putin to carlson to trump. >> tucker: let's put dumb middle-aged side people on tv. not a good idea. but none of these people could the irony of the core of all this which is a vladimir putin head of security forces execute unarmed women who were protesting his regime, we would correctly call that a terrible abuse of human rights.it who did it? we would say it's a fair question to ask. but ask the biden administration and you are a prudent lackey. so why don't we know basic facts about january 6th? julie kelly who told you repeatedly is one of the very few reporters who has prepped the government to ask those questions. you've done it before but i can't get enough of it. what don't we know about januart knows? what are they hiding from us in this moment that tells us we need to know more? >> the identity of the federal officer, let's keep in mind that the police department is a federal agency and we don't know the name of someone who shot and killed an american. we are

useful then lego policeman as tucker mentioned the other night, the police officer who shot dead ashley babbitta fellow who previously left his own firearm in a public bathroom. instead of being disbanded for failing at their core responsibility, they are being rewarded for giving the swamp the all-time greatest political narrative to mark the semi anniversary the capitol hill police are opening offices in florida and california so that today can "track threats." so a police force existing jurisdiction of two fifths of a mile is now being given the run of the continent, even in a culture that rewards failure as spectacularly as we do. that is remarkable. with me now is mollie hemingway from "the federalist." molly, one has to be impressed at the industrious scale homogeny which the american media are continuing to peddle this absurd narrative. >> it's crazy how they are doing this, i think that both the media and democrats understand that they have only a chance in the power of representatives is to betray the events as being as bad as 9/11, so that's what they're narrative is going to be, but

i mean, the simplest, easiest one to ask is who killed ashley babbitt and it's 6 months on. i mean, why don't we know the person that did this? i mean, the only person that was shot during this entire thing and one side call it in inter insurrection, but it was a trump supporter that was murdered inside the capitol. i mean, these are very basic questions that don't seem to be being addressed. ok, cuz i want to know what happened and people that broke the law should be punished. go ahead, ari. so i don't think you do, and we can say here in air as much conspiracy theory as we can. but bottom line is that those who attacked our capital on january 6th, or thugs and domestic terrorist. there ladies in georgia and one in colorado, wisconsin, the democratic party, president biden, one, both states fair and square. i'd like those ladies to actually say that that the president of the united states is actually the elected and legitimate president they want. and they won't. i'd like them to say the president, by the one day let me finish. you didn't talk about what we want to be fair

a broken window leading to the speaker's lobby. >> i will tell you, they know who shot ashley babbitt. they're protecting that person. i've heard also that it was the head of security for a certain high official, a democrat. and we'll see. because it will come out. it will come out. >> the usual we'll see. trying to accuse them of purposely assassinating one of his supporters? just to be clear, this is a lie. it is untrue. the law enforcement source claims it was a capitol hill police officer and that person was not part of a security detail for any specific member of congress. but the facts have not, never, frankly, stopped the president from trying to out in this case, the officer whose name has not been released. >> there were no guns in the capitol. they burned -- except for the gun that shot ashley babbitt, and nobody who knows that man -- why isn't that person being opened up? why isn't that being studied? they've already written it off. they said that case is closed. >> and facts, there were other guns. that case is closed. well, the officer was cleared of any wrongdoing by fed

is democrats push forward with their january 6th committee, who might have shot ashley babbitt, will into the investigation, is it worth it to the republicans to be part of it. kevin mccarthy is your next on where things stand, stay there. ♪ ♪ >> they are trying to strike a very delicate balance to ensure that anyone they have come before >> they are trying to strike a delicate balance to ensure that anyone they have come before their committee doesn't devolve into a political fireworks game. this will depend on who mccarthy appoints to the committee with nancy pelosi making it clear she's trying to make it as bipartisan as possible. that is why she appointed cheney to this committee. laura: is jamie make this bipartisan? minority leader kevin mccarthy said he will that republicans to the committee that nancy pelosi can still have veto power over any additions including any of the gop congressman who voted against president biden's certification. this puts democrats in a tricky spot, two members that nancy appointed to the committee previously voted against certifying republican pres

they lied about how police died, they covered up who shot ashley babbitt and still refusing to releasesands of hours of video from inside and outside the capitol. we don't know why, perhaps because some of it may frustrate their preferred narrative, we don't know. democrats's credibility is shot for many reasons. there four your witchhunt against the trump presidency as they showcase their own slimeballs like eric swallwell, please come ongoing efforts to undermine us border security by allowing 1 million migrants into the country during the pandemic, they are supposed to be all for law and order and in the grand conspiracy -- my personal favorite was this alleged republican plot to kidnap governor gretchen witmer, more on that in a moment. tonight biden, bragged about his determination to reach out to both sides and get back to normal. but that rhetoric has no connection to the reality on the ground in washington. here in the nation's capital, the democratic party has no interest in bipartisanship, they are following nancy pelosi and her efforts to poison the well, to accuse republica

why do you think trump is focusing so much on the death of ashley babbitt? e is a tv superstar and he knows what sells and who shot ashli babbitt is catchy just like who shot jr. and it's going to be something that people unfortunately glom onto. i feel like we are watching a george orwell novel that we are willing to rewrite history that we saw with our own eyes. >> one of the things that we see in this town, and it's regrettable, but when people do violent things and go places where they're not supposed to be, such as bursting into the capitol or jumping onto the white house grounds, they get shot, they get killed. maybe there should be some sort of national conversation about use of force. i mean, i think there are a lot of people in the african-american community who have been trying to do that for centuries. but that's not really what's going on here, is it? >> well, i think former president trump understands that the incident on january 6th for a moment really shook his standing in the republican party but that over time a lot of republicans have tried

s. capital ashley babbitt was shot and killed. and though some of the protesters did have guns themselves, there was not any instance of the protesters firing on police officers. now some are looking at this panel and saying it's simply impartial. we're not hearing both sides of the story. questions about about what kind of went wrong and whether or not the capital police allowed the protesters to enter. if they made a mistake or, or if somehow the doors were left on guarded, what exactly happened? people are looking at. this is saying it's not an impartial hearing. it's speaker the house, nancy pelosi was being widely blamed for the fact that you can gresham committee investigating the january 6 events which is convening today's hearing. contains only anti trump republicans. it is a bipartisan panel, but there are no trump supporters represented on it. there are simply anti trump democrats, as well as anti trump. republicans, let's take a listen to what's going on. and the hearings, no member of congress, should now attempt to de

ashley babbitt was shot. but even though some of the protesters did come to the demonstration with arms, the protesters did not fire at the police officers from what we understand. now it's important to note that there was quite a bit of controversy in the lead up to these hearings. nancy pelosi emphasized that this would be a focus on patriotism and that the congressional hearings investigating january 6 would not, would not be about getting political advantage for one side. however, there was heavy criticism of the fact that the congressional panel, which includes democrats and republicans among the republicans that are included, it is primarily and basically only anti trump. republicans, it is those republicans that are critical of donald trump that make up this congressional committee that is investigating the events of january 6. then many of argue that the panel is simply turning into a trump hate fast. it is simply being utilized to, to merge the image of the previous president. here's some of what we'

s. capital ashley babbitt was shot and killed. and though some of the protesters did have guns themselves, there was not any instance of the protesters firing on police officer. now, some are looking at this panel and saying it's simply impartial. we're not hearing both sides of the story. questions about about what kind of went wrong and whether or not the capital police allowed the protesters to enter. if they made a mistake or, or somehow the doors were left on guarded. what exactly happened? people are looking at. this is saying it's not an impartial hearing, and many are blaming nancy pelosi for that. nancy pelosi, however, has made clear that she wants these hearings to be about patriotism and not to serve a political advantage for the democrats. but these claims by nancy pelosi are now being questioned, as it seems that to pro trump, republicans were removed from this congressional investigation in the congressional committee and replaced with anti trump voices from the republican party. and now it seems that as these heari

who shot asked mike ashley babbitt, why is that thousands of hours of surveillance footage that day? many cops were in the cd as they broke into the capital?e let's find out, shall we? we got some questions and we will give it to you next. >> tucker: working overtime to make a make a better, nancy pelosi has announced a new select committee to celebrate the great january 6 insurrection, not the actual one where they burned our city but the fake one when people showed up with signs on the capital. that republican's liz cheney of wyoming. nancy pelosi is thrilled to have her. >> i'm saying this in seniority order. congresswoman liz cheney, of the armed services committee has periodically agreed to serve on the committee. we are very honored and proud that she has agreed to serve on the committee. >> tucker: it's is excited because liz cheney sounds a lot like nancy pelosi. the insurrection was far worse than pearl harbor or 9/11. >> if you look at our history andat you look at what we did after pearl harbor and what we did after the kennedy assassination, we have to have this kind of f

ashley babbitt, and why she was killed. we still don't know how many fbi informants were in the crowd inside the capital and generally sixth or to what extent others were breaking the law. someday we will get the answers, but the hearing today seemed designed to keep those answers from us, so much transparency. the one thing to be did learn and have long suspected but never seemed confirmed is that an awful lot of members of congress are emotionally fragile. some seem unstable really. some to the point where they might qualify for federal disability on those grounds and they certainly cry a lot. as members of congress fired into the house chamber, a servant handed out tissues for the waiting that was certain to ensue and it didn't take long for republican adam kinzinger of illinois to make good use of the kleenex. watch. >> i never expected today to be as quite as emotional for me as it has been. we talk about the impact of that day that you guys won, you guys held. democracies are not defined by our bad days. we are define

they covered up who shot ashley babbitt. they are still refusing to release thousands of hours of video from inside and outside the capitol. now, we don't know why. perhaps because some of it may frustrate the preferred narrative. we don't know. democrats' credibility is shot from many reasons. the 4-year witch hunt they showcase their own slimeballs like eric swalwell, please. the efforts to undermine border security by allowing 1 million migrants into the country during a pandemic? they are supposed to be all for "law & order"? in the grand conspiracy claims. my personal favorite was this alleged plot to kidnap gretchen whitmer? more on that in a moment. he bragged about the determination to reach out to both sides to get back to normal. but that rhetoric has no connection to the reality on the ground in washington. here in the nation's capital, the democratic party has no interest in bipartisanship. they are following nancy pelosi in her efforts to poison the well. she is accused republicans of fascism. by standing up to

the ashley babbitt family. he still in solitary confinement tonight. whitaker began working for the federal government way back when equal justice was the goal, not just about choked. we are happy to have him join us tonight. thanks so much for coming on. so it seems particularly brazen for them to just submit, we haven't done anything with a hundred-biden administration because we didn't want to help donald trump. >> that's exactly what appears happens. what it looks like right now based on everything we know is that this u.s. attorney in delaware put his thumb on the scales of justice. they knew that the next overstep atwas the issue of some subpoens and get documents that were to make the investigation go over it. what happened if they determined to affect the election and help joe biden and hurt donald trumpt they decided to not issue those overt subpoenas and i think that's so inconsistent with thed way that they should be constructive in the way that we expect. it creates an impression, like you talked about, a two-tier system of justice where th

by the way, while you're at it, who shot ashley babbitt? who is are they keeping that secret?re were folks that were armed on january 6th. there's evidence of folks that brought guns to the capitol lawn and they charged that building. >> right. well, i mean, you know, donald trump marches to the beat of his own drum. that's something that americans know, voters know, you know, a lot of the people that follow donald trump, whatever he says, whatever facts that he used to be facts, they will go along and defend. so, you know, this is not unusual behavior for donald trump. he sees the world through his own lens. >> all right, juanita nno noell, thank you both. we'll be right back. s thank you bo th we'll be right back. of size te a delicious, salty, crunchy ratio. planters. a nut above. there's an america we build and one we explore. one that's been paved and one that's forever wild. but freedom means you don't have to choose just one adventure. you get both. introducing the wildly civilized all-new 3-row jeep grand cherokee l if you have postmenopausal osteoporosis and a high ri

characterization of the united states capitol police officer who was involved in the shooting death of ashley babbitte had conducted and concluded their investigation into the shooting and deemed that that officer was justified. i found it interesting that, you know, while the fraternal order of police regularly releases statements protecting and defending officers who have been involved in line of duty shootings, that there was no statement denouncing a elected representative who described this officer as an executioner laying in wait. to me that was insane. and finally, i asked that the fraternal order of police denounce any active duty or retired law enforcement officers who participated in the insurrection at the capitol on january 6th. i could not get a commitment from patrick yose to do any of those things. what he offered me several hundred days after the insurrection was access to the fraternal order of police's wellness program. i told him that if i had waited six months to get help for the psychological trauma that i experienced that day, i'd be dead. >> i'm so proud of you. i'm glad to kno

they also never named that officer who shot and killed ashley babbitt during that january riot. >> that'sfox, the capitol police says it won't, quote, comment in regards to the suspected shooter but the name of the officer came out at a public house hearing in late february. the deputy house sergeant at arms tim blojt was asked about the shooting. >> the situation where we discussed where officer was at the door when ms. babbitt was shot. it was our sergeant at arms employee who rendered the aid to her at that site. >> fox has confirmed through multiple sources the officer was assigned to the speaker's lobby. that's a long ornate haulway behind the house chamber it has nothing to do with house speaker nancy pelosi. taps highly trafficked area to reach the floor. cap the officer was not assigned to protective detail of any lauren. those are officers from the dignitary protection division. they guard the speaker along with the house and senate leaders but that's different from an assignment to guard the speaker's lobby off the floor. bret? >> bret: chad to be clear how this person may have

if they really wanted the truth, they would ask questions like who killed ashley babbitt?t was the fbi's role in the riot? and what did nancy pelosi know and when did she know it? but instead we get scenes like this. >> will you guys held. [crying] democracies are not defined by our bad days. we're defined by how we come back from bad days. how we take accountability for that. >> god help us. but i have faith because of folks like you. and adam i didn't think this would be quite so emotional it must be an adam thing today. >> tammy: wow, so this is not an investigation. this is a struggle session. straight out of move's playbook. this is propaganda. look at what katie benner, the "new york times" justice reporter, justice department reporter i think tweeted in part about what she calls a national security crisis. laying bear the narrative and agenda of the kangaroo court unfolding in the house. this dilemma was unresolved by the russia probe and two people impeachments in other words one last chance for democrats to take a swing at donald trump hoping against hope that the

we still don't know who shot an unarmed air force veteran called ashley babbitt or why she was killed still don't know what's on those thousands of hours of surveillance footage that the government persists in hiding from us, why can't we see it? we don't know how many fbi informants were in the crowd inside the capital or to what extent they encouraged to do make others break the law, why can't we know? someday we will get the answers, we always do, but the hearings today seem designed to keep those answers from us -- so much for transparency. the one thing we did learn and something we long suspected but never seemed confirmed is an awful lot of members of congress are emotionally fragile. at some seem unable -- unstable really. some to the point where they might qualify for federal disability of those grounds, they cry a lot. as members of congress filed into the house chamber, they handed out tissues for the weeping that was certain to ensue. it didn't take long for adam kinzinger to make use of the kleenex, watch. >> i never expected today to be quite as emotional as it has been,

name of the police officer being mentioned on the shooting, the capitol police officer who shot ashley babbitt. is there anyn't come up in the hearing today. that officer was assigned to an area we called the speaker's lobby just off the house floor. he is not assigned there now. the department of justice cleared the officer in april. the doj says the officer shot, quote, reasonably in order to protect the house chamber. bret? >> bret: chad pergram live on capitol hill. thanks. let's bring in ohio republican congressman jim jordan whose appointment to the committee was rejected by house speaker nancy pelosi. speaker jordan, thank you for being here. >> good to be here. >> bret: did you catch. >> i got to see part of it. i was on another select committee one pelosi has allowed me to be on the coronavirus select committee. i got to watch bits and pieces but i was actually in a committee hearing asking questions and making statements. >> bret: you saw the review there by chad. obviously emotional powerful testimony. your thoughts about that. >> no. it was a terrible day. the people who did wrong

while falsely aleleging the capitol rioter ashley babbitt was killed by a security detail.at time just the beginning. >> it's not called an insurrection to me. what about it was an insurrection? >> they stormed the capitol. >> who? who is they? >> the trump supporters. >> bullshit. you don't know who those people were. >> some trump supporters were invited in and there is video and audio. >> reporter: trump and his supporters are either in denial or lying what happened on january 6th. >> there was such love at the rally. they were peaceful people. these were great people. the crowd was unbelievable. >> reporter: members of the three% percenters and proud boy groups gathered. they were both allegedly involved in the insurrection. >> i think the election was probably stolen from him. >> reporter: do you accept he lost the election? >> i accept on paper things happened to make it appear that way. i don't know who would have happened. i find it very questionable that he lost given the support that he had. >> reporter: almost everyone we spoke to at cpac believe the election was

you may have remembered you heard about folks that had died in the crowd, ashley babbitt who was shote evan hill back. evan, are you there? >> yes. sorry about that, chris. >> no sweat. i will go back to the story of roseanne boyle in a second. if you could continue telling us, how did you get all this footage together? >> right. we called that basically the most well documented insurrection history. we took advantage of the fact that never before had you really seen rioters, insurrectionists, filming themself in realtime from hundreds of different perspectives. that amount of information, actually was almost too much for us. one of the big heaves of this project was, how do we organize and put all these pieces of footage together and documenting that, spread shooting, that logging it according to its time and where it was filmed was half of this project, if not more. then of course, we had to start putting together a narrative that actually occurred. >> one thing that becomes clear in your documentary that wasn't clear to me before, is that there really is a relatively small organize

but he would be the most well-known person in this country, in the world, the person who shot ashley babbittng studied, they've written it off. that case would be going on for years and years and it would not be so i thought this was an important time go ahead. go ahead. >> if you are successful and twitter and instagram, uninhibited is that everyone is supposed to have access would you use your platform again? >> i don't know. i might not. extremely good pickup. everybody getting band can't put out a press release, who is that? no one will pick it up and even myself i could instantaneously get the word out. if somebody says a lie i can at least give the opposing side which i have been doing for six years. i used to get great publicity before iran for office. i have been doing this for 5 or 6 years where i can get a word out and opposing word. today you can't -- they took away the rights of in my opinion the majority. i really believe it is the majority because people aren't for all of these things. they have voter id, that is another one when you talk about all of a sudden -- they thought i

. >> ashley babbitt, the air force veteran in san diego, was making plans. >> i think my sister trulyg there, they were going to change america for the greater. >> both the oath keepers and proud boys would put out an all call for members to go to washington, d.c. on january 6th. all across social media, the date loomed with ominous posts. operation occupy the capitol. we will storm the government buildings, kill cops, kill security guards, kill federal employees and agents, and demand a recount. capitol hill police received numerous warnings of violence but failed to properly prepare. criminal complaints would describe trainings, planning, and preparations for an insurrection. joanne rowe says the real orders came from just one person -- donald trump. >> it's like they're a cult. he's got them brainwashed. why, i don't know. i also think they believe so much in what trump was saying that they truly were believing they were following his orders. >> the lies, the anger, the escalation of violent rhetoric, had been building for months. >> haven't i told you all this fight would escalate

it's out there but not being publicized who killed ashley babbitt.do not know so many things about an event that everyone is aware of. but very few are even asking questions about the details that we have been told. rachel: do you know where we can get answers from the vape videotape about refuse to release. tape from all over the capitol they are holding on though that tape and affecting transparency. by the way the fencing around, this you know, capitol because of the riot. i didn't see any fencing around many of the the federal buildings that were torched this past summer. maybe we should put a fence around the south side. a lot of things getting in there. pete: pelosi always about a characterization and narrative not about an actual threat. as a result they kept it up as long as they could that narrative is useful to them. oh by the way over 500 plus americans now have been arrested or and waiting to be charged. many of which has no outside access to the outlines world whole another story. up next. we could talk about this for a long time. let fr

ashley babot. trump suggested a conspiracy afoot with that as well. >> while you're at it, who shot ashli babbitt?ard also it was the head of security for a certain high official, a democrat. >> speaking to cnn, a law enforcement source knocked down trump's claim outright saying the unnamed capitol police officer who shot babbitt was not part of a security detail for a specific member of congress. also this spring the justice department said it would not pursue criminal charges against the officer involved in ashli babbitt's shooting saying the officer did not reasonably believe it was necessary to fire that shot in self-defense or in the defense of members of congress. despite all of his repeated, false conspiracy theories he talked about over the weekend, a straw pull taken at that conference revealed that donald trump easily won this poll taken among possible republican candidates for president in 2024. wolf? >> brian todd reporting for us from capitol hill. brian, thank you very much. let's discuss with david chalian and dana bash. the former president says love it was in the air during that r

our book is figuring out what was the president doing that day, and when shots rang out, when ashley babbitt was shot as she tried to get into speaker pelosi's lobby, when this horrible riot turned violent, what did the president resist, and what did the president say, very specifically? we have some of that in our book, but there's more to know. >> what did you report on in your book when it comes to those two questions? >> we report in the book that president trump during the siege in the first couple of hours was glued to the television. he was in the private dining room off the oval office in the white house watching it unfold on television. and he was excited to see his supporters in a show of force marching up the steps of the capitol, carrying make america great again flags and hats and, you know, resisting the certification of the election in his name. they were doing exactly what he had told them to do, and it wasn't until it became very violent that he started to change his mindset, and yet he didn't act. he was effectively awol as the president and commander-in-chief. our reportin