i worry most about people like cassidy hutchinson.ichael cohen, donald trump's lawyers looking forward to tell the truth about the crimes that were created by the hush money payoff game with stormy daniels, left parnas was rudy giuliani's right-hand man came forward he said it was nothing there, we were trying to concoct stories about joe biden. he simply just to threatened. so i think people in that category need our assistance and our solidarity, and i would hope that there are some things that could bring us together where we can work together in a bipartisan way. for example, i know that president-elect donald trump seems to be very proud of the fact that he won the popular vote this time. he didn't win the popular vote in 2016, but he won it by more than 3 million votes i know joe biden was proud that he won by more than 7 million votes in 2020. how about we get everybody together and say it's time for us to start electing the president of the united states the way we elect representatives, senators, governors, mayors, everybody

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cassidy hutchinson, a top aide to then chief of staff mark meadows testifying that trump, quote, thinks mike deserves it. he doesn't think they're doing anything wrong. in the violence that day, one rioter was killed by police defending the house chamber. three others in the crowd also died. one capitol police officer who was attacked died the next day. a number of other law enforcement officers would die by suicide in the months that followed. at the time, top republicans in congress blamed one man. >> all i can say is count me out. enough is enough. >> the president bears responsibility for wednesday's attack on congress by mob rioters. he should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding. >> there's no question, none. president trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day. no question about it. >> in the four years since that day, donald trump has repeatedly downplayed the violence and has said he'll pardon some of the rioters, including some who pleaded guilty. >> january 6th was the largest crowd i've ever spoken to, and th

committee determined turned out to be so inaccurate and specifically to their star witness, cassidy hutchinson, we know it didn't happen where the president came over the seat and tried to grab the steering wheel in the car, we know the note she said she wrote wasn't written by her, was written by eric herschmann. all kinds of things by this group that weren't accurate. they will continue to look into january 6th and what took place and one of the things we're going to look at is the 26 confidential human sources who were there that day, four went in the capitol, two directed to be here by the fbi, there's a lot of questions that need answers regarding those individuals. maria: what about dr. anthony fauci e did he commit an crimes? he was largely the face behind the made up social distancing rules, the extended masking, double mask, the whole nine yards. he was also behind some scone censcensorship as well wasn't i. >> all of that is true. what i do know is that everything dr. fauci told us turned out to be false. he told us it wasn't tax money in the lab in wuhan, china, yes it was. he told

cassidy hutchinson, the former aide in the white house who testified about the january 6th events, saidhat in private, ratcliffe said trump should not challenge the results of the 2020 election. so he was right there, but it was only in private where he said, this is bad for our democracy, this is bad for trump's legacy. >> we're going to go through all of the nominees. you'll be back in the next hour to talk about pete hegseth. how much of this idea that if the if republicans in the senate would like to take their responsibility, their constitutionally mandated responsibility to advise and consent on these nominations, they they may hold their fire because they can't do it for too many. and that ratcliffe is not where they're going to spend their their energy in opposing whom a person who might not be a perfect nominee. >> their political fear is that if they oppose too many trump nominees, they'll be primaried by a more pro-trump person and lose their seat in the senate. and again, you know, it's american lives potentially at stake. intelligence assessments can lead the u.s. to challe