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 protestor. she is not and activist. she is not anything. she is a proud patriot american. veteran. that has more than once signed the blank check for her life, to go overseas and fight at the behest of the same people that is sitting in congress. and, there was nobody on this planet, as far as i'm concerned, that had more of a right to be there and to make people listen to her about what was going on in this country, that day. and she has been in horrible places. horrible places for many, many months and there were days when i was surprised not to get a call that something had

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 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 possibl

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

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