>> it's hard to get in the mind of somebody like patrick byrne? it seems patrick believes there's a deep state conspiracy or at least have the deep state way of the government. i don't know what would have come next in his mind but i can tell you his -- he seems a little unmorphed in reality and public policy. >> mother jones published text from steve bannon about the former president's plan to declare victory. let's listen to what he said? >> what trump's going to do is declare victory. that doesn't mean he's the winner. he's going to say he's the winner. he's going to declare himself the winner. when you wake up wednesday morning, it is going to be a firestorm. >> what does that indicate to you? steve back nonspeaks sometimes in hyperbolic terms. does that indicate to you there was a level of planning going back that far? >> oh, yeah. look. if you look at the president's statements even months prior to the election he started saying, if we lose, it's because it's going to be stole. there was -- i think it was chris stirewalt came in and talked a

now, on friday, the committee actually interviewed the overstock guy, and that would be patrick byrnet that meeting for almost eight hours. tomorrow, they'll be talking to a guy named garrett ziegler. he is a former aide to peter navarro who is reporting to be the junior staffer who led those people into the oval office for that meeting. also late on friday, the committee issued a subpoena to the secret service, actually warned they reportedly erased text messages from january 5th and sixth, 2021, as part of the device replacement program after being directed to save those communications. here is how committee member adam kinzinger, republican in illinois, described that decision this week. >> we made the decision, as the committee, that we need to subpoena these records, the ig came in front of us and said look we've been working hard to get this. they claim it was this technological change, they removed everything. we lost these texts. and they also put up a statement that said we only lost some of the tax and everything relevant to this investigation has been turned over. so those

and the night before donald trump's mob would interrupt the peaceful transfer of power, patrick byrne took to the stage at the stop to the steal pre rattling, along with pro coup characters like michael flynn and roger stone. and the overstock guy seemed to have a pretty good sense for what might be coming. >> we have a lot of hope for -- there's a lot of ways this could go. i want to tell you, you may have heard about a fairly raucous meeting in an office over there a couple weeks ago. the president has far more power than people understand. there are laws on the books in executive orders that go back and let the president just say, that there was clear foreign interference in this election. and we have all kinds of remedies. >> you can see why patrick byrne's account of that crazy meeting on december 18th with michael flynn and sidney powell and white house counsel pat cipollone would be of interest to the january 6th committee in its investigation. and when he arrived for his interview with the committee today, reporters were interested to know if the overstock guy has also spoken

we know for sure, jake, they have a big witness coming in this week, and that's patrick byrne, who is the overstock ceo, who was a part of that explosive meeting that was detailed in great specificity in today's hearing. more than anything, the investigation continues. >> ryan, thank you so much. >> today's testimony concluded with akaitlan collins has been working her sources, and a lot of people in the media, a lot of people in trump world trying to figure out who liz cheney was talking about when she noted alleged attempted witness tampering, donald trump reaching out to a witness who did not take the call. >> yeah, jake, it raises a lot of questions, a lot of them that we still don't have answered, but it has sent a lot of people in trump's orbit asking who this could potentially be. obviously, that's a huge question for them about which witness this could be. she did try to narrow it down by saying it's not someone we have seen from publicly. we knee it's not someone, for example, like pat sip alony who we saw his testimony today, we know he's a witness. it's not likely someone l

in that bizarre white house meeting with sidney powell, michael flynn and the overstock.com guy patrick byrne were trying to thwart biden's victory. they met with the overstock guy for six hours, which i want to hear more about. joining us is someone who was in all the meetings, congresswoman lovgren. appreciate you being with us. after meeting with the inspector general today, does the explanation of the missing text messages make any more sense to you? >> not really. but i think it's worth noting that a spokesperson for the secret service issued a statement last night, and they said that although some data had been lost, that all of the texts that the inspector general was seeking were still available. so we need to get all the texts from the 5th and the 6th over to our committee asap if what they said is correct, that those texts have not in fact, been deleted. i will say that the explanation that you have to factory set and eliminate your data without backing up your data just seems -- i'm skeptical. i wouldn't do that on my personal iphone. and, you know, the argument about when the requ

on friday, the committee interviewed former overstocks c e o patrick byrne, who was inside that unhinged meeting. he told reporters that he was there to, quote, clear up a bunch of confusions. >> i'm hoping that i can defuse this for the entire country. i know everything that happened, i was inside, i've actually been trying to get in for nine months. i can tell them everything. i was at the most important, the two most important meetings. and i really think i can defuse this for the whole country. >> first of all, the overstock person, i've never met, i never knew this guy was. actually the first thing i did, i walked, and i looked at him, and i said, who are you? >> another thing to note about this insane white house meeting, it seems to be trumps launching pad to organized the rally in washington on january 6th. after that meeting ended, trump urged his supporters to protest, tweeting, quote, be there, we will be wild. team aga did show up. amongst the wild crowd, violent extremists from the proud boys and oath keepers. joining me now to discuss trump's call for action, malcolm nance,

we are mentioning that patrick byrne, the former ceo of overstocked of tom, he testified for more thans, isaac. i had asked you before we cutaway that most of the country did not know who burned was until this week. what is special about burn and what is going to set him apart from some of the other trump allies and cronies that we have heard from already? >> well, the reality is that patrick byrne would talk to a wall if it was listened to his theories about how the 2020 election was a stolen. he is kind of begging for people to listen to his side of the story. that is what happened. this meeting at the white house was so contentious. we heard about it at the last hearing. he was there with sydney powell and michael flynn. he is a relevant witness. he can add another perspective to what happened at that meeting. he can have the kind of advice that then president trump was getting an interested in. -- we can discuss what he was trying to do in terms of staying in office despite losing the election. >> we know that the justice had a chance to ask him if he looked at himself as a possibl

patrick byrne we. was in a december 2020 meeting on december 18th when -- that wild night at the white house. we are also following other major stories tonight, today, the house passed two separate bills to restore protections for abortion rights. but here's a thing, neither bill has the chance to advance in the senate. and biden is on his first presidential visit to saudi arabia. the president was criticized for a fist bump with crown prince mohammed bin salman, at ahead of their meeting today. during the meeting, biden said that he brought up the murder of washington post journalist, jamal khashoggi. >> with respect to the murder khashoggi, i raised it at the top of the meeting making it clear what i thought of it at the time, and what i think of it now. >> what was the crown prince's response to your comments about khashoggi? >> he basically said that he was not personally responsible for it. i indicated i thought he was. >> president biden comes home this weekend. with that, we have a lot to dig in

patrick byrne. there was no testimony about what patrick byrne contributed to the meeting today. four days before that meeting, the electoral college officially voted with joe biden, winning the clear majority of the votes of the electoral college. at that point, the top republican in the senate, mitch mcconnell, gave a speech, finally congratulating joe biden, on his victory in the presidential election, a victory joe biden earned weeks before that. attorney general william barr, testify to the january 6th committee, that as far as he was concerned, the electoral college vote on december 14th was quote, the end of the matter. today, white house counsel, that cipollone, testified on video, recorded on friday, that he believed donald trump should then have conceded to joe biden, after the electoral college voted. cipollone testified under oath that mark meadows, the white house chief of staff, agreed that trump should concede to joe biden. two days after the electoral college vote, there was a drafted executive order rich, or doing the seizing of voting machines by the department

. >> last night they had the meeting and also today they are meeting with patrick byrne as we have heard from pat cipollone earlier this week, he was in that infamous, chaotic, six hour-long meeting with then president trump on december 18th. a reminder. >> the first thing i did, i walked in and i said who are you? he told me. i don't think any of these people are providing the president with good advice. >> i would imagine that this isn't just about hearing about that meeting, per se, but why he was in that meeting in the first place. i mean, obviously, it speaks among other things for the kind of people that the former president was listening to at that point. >> yeah, i mean, that is actually exactly what i was talking about. it shows, the fact that he was ignoring the counsel of the white house, he was ignoring the attorney general from the united states. he was ignoring three or four other counsel that they were experiencing. he was going to ignore them and their advice but i will go to the overstock guy and the reason he was going to the overstock i and the other nut jobs that he h

collins is reporting that patrick byrne is to meet with the january 6th investigators. what can you tell the committee? >> he was somebody who was about these people that was talking to tom and seeking out weeks after the election. trump basically cast out anybody who was not willing to reinforce his view that the election was stolen. he surrounded himself increasingly with people who reinforced his dilution, frankly, that it was stolen. people like, mike lindell. the my pillow guy. the overstock ceo. this tells me that the cassidy hutchinson testimony and the subpoenas, perhaps the prosecution, don, is encouraging more people to cooperate or consider cooperating with this committee. >> i said katelyn collins, it is katelyn palance. what could the legal significance be of them focusing in on the conversation? focusing on the overstock ceo? >> december 18th will be the starting point. there was a desperate meeting at the white house where he was getting dangerous advice from sidney powell and michael flynn and others. eric hirschman was saying, you can't seize voting mac

including sidney powell, retired lieutenant general michael flynn, and former overstock.com ceo patrick byrneter gaining access to the building from a junior white house staffer, the gro made their way to the oval office. they were able to speak with the president by himself for some time until white house officials learned of the meeting. what ensued was a heated and profane clash between this group and president trump's white house advisors who traded personal insults, accusations of disloyalty to the president, and even challenges to physically fight. the meeting would last over six hours, beginning here in the oval office, moving around the west wing, and many hours later ending up in the president's private residence. the select committee has spoken with six of e participants as well as staffers who could hear the screaming from outside the oval office. what took place next is best told in their own words as you will see from this video. >> did you believe that it was going to work, that you were going be able to get to see the president wiout an appointment? >> i had no idea. >> in fact

her client, michael flynn, rudy giuliani, not to mention over stocks eo, patrick byrne. they were there, tossing that outrageous ideas to overturn the election. sources telling cnn, including invoking martial law. an executive order to seize voting machines. for the first time, we heard pat cipollone's testimony about that, telling the committee that what happened when he walked into the oval office that, night right before the screaming started. here he is. >> i opened the door. i walked in. i saw general flynn. i saw sydney powell sitting there. i was not happy to see the people in the oval office. again, i don't think they are providing over fall, overstock person for who it was. the first thing, i walked in and looked at him. i said, who are you? he told me. i don't think any of these people were providing the president with good advice. and so, i didn't know how they gotten in. >> i think it got to the point where the screaming was completely, completely out there. you have people walking and, late at night, it's been a long day. what they were proposing, i thought,

sydney paul, michael flynn, rudy giuliani, overstock ceo, patrick byrne. >> it was a heated and profane clash between this group and president trump's white house advisors who traded personal insults. accusations of disloyalty to the president. even challenges to physically fight. >> what they were proposing, i thought it was nostra >> i can't categorically describe it as, you guys are not tough enough. or, i will put it another way, you are a bunch of -- >> he kept standing up and turning around and screaming at me. at a certain point i had it with him. i yelled back. sit your effing -- back down. >> he even named sydney paul as special counsel. even though he was told there was no widespread fraud to investigate. >> he was giving me security clearance. >> i didn't think he should be appointed anything. >> commanding the secretary of defense to seize voting machines for >> telling the federal government to seize voting machines. that's a terrible idea. that's not how we do things in the united states for >> within hours of the meeting ending, 1:42 a.m., trump tweeted, big protest in d.

so, most recently, the committee met with former overstocks eo, patrick byrne, that's the overstock guy, about the now infamous december 2020 white house meeting. he attended a, or a group of outside trump advisers tried to sell the president on the coup. that's just today, getting testimony from him. today, they got testimony from a former white house aide, named garrett ziegler. never heard of him before. who, reportedly, let the ragtag group of coup plotters, into the white house, for that crazy coup plotting december meeting. still, a year and a half after this happened, the committee, the new testimony, learning new things. additionally, the committee is also pulling on, another, i think, important threat. you may have seen things about this, we've covered it a bit in the news today, the secret service, particularly in its relationship for trump, and its attempt to steal the election. this is a strange, certainly unique entity, obviously, tasked with protecting the president, the vice president, their families, it has other things that does, and the treasury department and counterf

. >> former overstock ceo patrick byrne who was with sidney powell and michael flynn in that decemberh oval office meeting, spoke to reporters at the capitol today before meeting with your committee. probably a lot you can't say about what he said to you, but i want to play what he said before meeting with your committee for our viewers. >> with a little luck, i think -- i'm hoping that i can diffuse this for the entire country. i know everything that happened. i was inside. i've been trying to get here for nine months. i can tell them everything. i was in the two most important meetings and i really think i can di can diffuse this for the whole country. >> why do you think there's so much interest in this december 18th meeting? >> because the crux of history comes down to it and i'm the guy that can present it after it's all over. >> he's the guy at the crux of history? did he, in his words, diffuse the situation? >> as you know, our rules don't allow us to reveal the testimony, so i'm going to live by the rules. >> you've got to give us a little something about the overstock guy. >>

joyce vance, i want to ask you about patrick byrnes from overstock, who was in that incredible, crazy, hysterical meeting really in the oval office. he's apparently arriving for a deposition today. so what do we think he might add? what value? we heard what pat cipollone said. he found him in the oval office with rudy giuliani, mike flynn and sidney powell that day on december 18th and said who are you and why are you here? they were let in by a junior staff. >> i'm going to try to avoid making bad metaphors about being overstocked, right? it seems like, though, this is literally the guy who could fill in all of the blanks, who could give the committee a firsthand report on this meeting, this unscheduled meeting that suddenly takes place inside of the white house at a pivotal point in time. you know, you can speculate about all sorts of information that he could provide. this could be the formation of a conspiracy. he might know details about the former president's state of mind. if he is forth coming and truthful with the committee today, this could really be bombshell testimony. but

patrick byrne, now brad met with the select committee privately for more than seven and a half hours yesterday. and after that, he spoke with reporters about some of his testimony. including the idea of season voting machines. >> i proposed that adjoined teams of like one u.s. marshall and three national guard people, to go into each of the six counties that have taken image and the hard drive. everybody in the room -- quickly said nope, no uniforms whatsoever. trump turned to mooney and rudy and mark meadows on the speaker fox. i, sunday card with his lawyer. they turn to michael flynn. michael flynn at the hms has adequate resources for that. he said okay, we will go with that one. >> should be noted that michael flynn, who pleaded guilty twice to lying to federal investigators about his contacts with russia, he was pardoned by the president only a few weeks before the meeting. while the reported the time in fact, the next day -- the former president asked flint about his idea to impose the quote. we run the election. the january 6th elect committee also met with the homeland secur

committee also heard testimony today from overstocked outcome founder and election conspiracy theorist patrick byrne. byrne was inexplicably present in an office for this meeting, describe that the last public hearing, the one with lots of shouting, where trump entertained the idea of seizing all the countries voting machines. so, who knows what we might hear about this next public hearing? the committee today officially announced that this will be next thursday. it will also be in primetime starting at 8 pm eastern. joining us now is andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel, former senior member of general counsel robert mueller's legal team and currently investigative msnbc analyst. i -- want to circle back to something you were just talking about a moment ago, the news out of georgia. what do you think of fulton county da fani willis to sending these target letters to several prominent georgia republicans, telling them that they may be indicted in trump's fake electors scheme? >> so, one thing i was very interested to hear was that the federal level is quite similar, historically, target lett

the former overstocked outcome guy, patrick byrne, the i'm sure the four seasons landscaping, is related to the hotel guy. rudy giuliani, but maybe venezuela interfered in our election, sydney powell. all reportedly pushing the former president, to overturn the election, seize voting machines, and even invoke martial law. in the case of michael flynn, the former lieutenant general, who got up -- he was pushing simply to re-run the election, in specific places where trump lost. the former president's quest to control the election results, did not end there. you can now add another mysterious -- william j. olson, and attorney who now actually represents, the pillow guy, mike lindell, who also try to influence the former president to overturn the election and declare martial law. this is according to a new report in the new york times, which has not yet been independently verified by nbc news. the times reveals a christmas day 2020 phone call, between olson and trump, who is at his florida gulf resort at the time. according to the times, olson was quote, promoting several extreme ideas. whi

he walked into an oval office meeting to find among others the one-time ceo of overstock.com, patrick byrne>> i walked in, i saw general flynn. i saw sidney powell sitting there. i was not happy to see the people in the oval office. >> explain why. >> well, again, i don't think that you have to -- well, first of all, the overstock person, never knew who this guy was. >> a senior islamic state leader was killed in a u.s. air strike in northwest syria the strike also wounded a senior isis official closely associated with the leader. >>> and spotify announcing that it's acquiring hurdle, a music recognition trivia game for an undisclosed amount the deal will push spotify further into its mission to make its app more interactive as it invests in video, live streaming and podcasts in an effort to diversify its revenue streams. and tyler, it sounds like hurdle is like a cross between wordle and name that tune. >> it sounds like wordle, wordle with music >> exactly exactly what it is >> thanks. >>> ahead on "power lunch," folks, we've got dressing -- not distressing, not distressing -- and flying

sydney powell, mike flynn, the overstocked.com guy, patrick byrne, pat cipollone, eric herschmann, dereklines, and some others. was that most of those people they did testify behind closed doors who investigators did not specifically and explicitly referenced the former president? instead, they were throwing food at each other, describing their actions with each other. rudy giuliani, pretty profanely describing how the white house aides to president trump were acting. but noticeably none of them actually described the former president's actions what he was saying, what he was feeling, how he was going to weigh in until the end, when pat cipollone addressed the elephant in the room and said the former president still wanted to go ahead and appoint sydney powell as special counsel. that being said, there were still -- despite tons of color provided, there was still some evidentiary gaps, if you are looking at it from a department of justice purview. that is how president trump ultimately made that pivot and leap to realizing that some of the avenues that he had been previously considering

he's the low level aide who got sydney powell, michael flynn, and patrick byrne into the white house for a raucous meeting in december where the election deniers encouraged trump to fight on. the former white house aide took to social media after his deposition in a white nationalist rant calling the committee -- >> an anti-white campaign. they see me as a young christian who they can try to basically scare. >> and part of what has the committee so concerned is that they can't seem to get a straight answer from the secret service as to what exactly happened to this information from their agents on january 5th and 6th. and the letter that the secret service sent to the committee really didn't clarify it all that much. in the letter it said in part, the secret service continues to engage in extensive efforts to further assess whether any relevant text messages sent or received by 24 individuals identified by the dhs oig were loss due to the migration and if so, whether such texts are recoverable. so to put that in plain language, wolf, they don't know whether or not they can ever get t

sidney powell included and patrick byrne on the end who is the ceo of overstock.com. the testimony today was that it was not clear they had been invited to the white house. they somehow at the last minute were able to get into the oval office. they all presented the testimony today saying conspiracy theories that ran the gamut pushing the president to do things like declare martial law, to seize election machines, those kinds of things. also coming into the oval office during that meeting were actual white house staffers. there you see some of them who were involved. the attorney, the staff secretary, mark meadows, chief of staff in and out. and the president's house counsel pat cipollone. they were pushing back at the others in what was described in an extensive montage as a very hostile confrontation. let us listen to how they explained that in the hearing today. >> i opened the door and i walked in. i saw general flynn, i saw sydney powell sitting there. i was not happy to see the people who were in the oval office. >> was the meeting tense? >> oh yeah, it was not

it's interesting turn of the warm, this past friday, the ceo of overstock, patrick byrne, testified before the committee. he was one of the outside advisers who participated in that december 18th meeting at the white house,, urging trump to seize voting machines. let's take a listen to what he told nbc about his testimony. >> they treated me much more fairly. it was generally a bit of first elbows, but they were fair. the questions were fair, they really wanted to know. it surprised me. i didn't think they wanted me to know what happened. i thought they would come in here, they would try to construct another narrative. they reassured, me they let me answer the questions fully and they seemed quite interested. >> mike, what does that tell you, a, about the kind of witness that burn likely was about that committee? and b, the fact that, you know, he was surprised that they actually wanted to be honest about asking him questions? >> it's a lot friendlier than the committee -- burn was in there for eight hours. he was given up the good. he was corroborating this by all records, by all estimati

one of those witnesses is patrick byrne, the former ceo of overstocked. com. he testified before the committee earlier today after his name come up at tuesday's hearing. witnesses for the committee testified that he was at an unhinged oval office meeting in december 2020, along with rudy giuliani, sydney powell and michael flynn. what is a former furniture ceo have to do with january 6th. here's what former white house counsel pat cipollone told the committee on tuesday. >> i opened the door and i walked in -- and i saw general flynn and i saw sydney powell sitting there. i was not happy to see the people in the oval office. >> can you say why? >> i don't think they were providing -- first of all, an overstock person, i never knew who this guy was. actually, the first -- the thing i did, it i walked and i looked at him and said, who are you? and he told me. i don't think any of these people were providing the president with good advice. the overstock person. >> it was immediately after that meeting that donald trump sent his infamous will be wild tweet that le

patrick byrne, the former ceo of overstock, well, he dated maria putina., it is because maria butina was the accused russian spy, who pleaded guilty to conspiring to infiltrate conservative u.s. political groups like the nra and the republican party, await, maria butina received a heroes welcome when she was deported back to russia. now, as peter strzok writes, quote, at a moment of grave national peril for the united states, this was an astonishing intelligence achievement for russia. joining me now is peter strzok, a trunk professor at georgetown university school of foreign service, and a former deputy of the fbi's counter intelligence division. he's the author of compromised: counterintelligence and the threat of donald j trump. peter, great to have you with us. thanks for making time for us tonight. i wanna pick up more on your op-ed. in it, you clearly state, do i think any of the three men who graced the december 18th meeting or recruited russian agents? no, but at a certain level, it doesn't matter. explain what you mean by that? >> yeah, absolutel

former overstock ceo patrick byrne was in d.c. for his closed door meeting with the committee. he was in the room during the quote unhinged oval office meeting of 2020 where several outside advisers urged him to consider his plan to seize voting machines. his interactions with reporters on the hill indicate anything today, he wants to talk. >> i'm hoping that i can diffuse this for the entire country. i know everything that happened. i was inside. i have been trying to get here for nine months. i can tell them everything. i was in the two most important meetings and i really think i can diffuse this for the whole country. >> joining me now is capitol hill correspondent ali vitali and leann caldwell and co- author of early 202 and kyle cheney, senior legal affairs reporter at politico. so, benny thompson, you spoke to him, the chairman of the committee about the deleted text messages. they believe maybe they can get a hold of them? >> maybe. what raskin said to me, these text messages may be missing or they may be missing for now. that's what the committee is trying to get to th

is there from the 18th of december meeting, when sydney powell and michael flynn and patrick byrne wereing to seize voting machines. that cipollone was there, obviously, at the white house on the sixth. this guy can speak to a lot of what was going on in the west wing and can do so with a lot of credibility because he was, in fact, white house counsel. >> and hugo, for reporters like you coverage anyway, six you cover two parts of, it right? you cover the very large, 50,000 foot effort to overturn the election through the courts and through the electoral count act and all that kind of stuff. and then you cover the people who are charged with storming the capitol, the proud boys, the seditious conspiracy, all that. there's something that comes together in your reporting from june 29th, in which you say former president trump and senior aides face exposure over knowledge that supporters were armed and intended to march to the capital. the response from the former president is significant for two main reasons. it makes clear that he had been informed that his supporters were carrying weapo

other white house members with trump super fans, michael flynn, rudy giuliani, sydney powell, patrick byrnestock dot com, who were allegedly in a meeting or discussing plans to undermine, our, democracy. and scheme to declare martial law to seize voting machines. >> can the federal government seize voting machines? it's a terrible idea. that is not how we do things in the united states. >> now, we know this, not because cipollone voluntarily, immediately told the american people. we only know it because of journalists and because, in this case of the testimony, democrats now controlled the house. democrats formed a bipartisan committee. one republicans fought tooth and nail. that is oversight. we would not have had. that is knowledge of facts we would not have had and been denied had trump's party been in charge. today, we are finally getting some answers about what went so wrong seven weeks ago at the uvalde school shooting were 19 children and two teachers were killed. austin says [inaudible] it is disturbing. video showing police standing in the hall for more than an hour and 15 minutes

. >> reporter: today former overstock ceo patrick byrne met with investigators he was at a heated white house meeting about trying to overturn the election for the news, i'm pete williams. >>> according to "forbes" the first set of january 6 hearings averaged more than 12 million viewers. that's the same audience as the 2022 nba finals. the hearings are meant for the public to lay out the facts of what happened. but inside the caucus room where these hearings take place, there's one group of onlookers who watch with a particularly close eye. nbc's ali vitali spoke to them >> the haunting pounding that just made my own heart race. >> reporter: at the back of every january 6th hearing sit a group of people who uniquely know the searing sounds and scenes of the insurrection because they barely survived it. >> i thought that we all could have died that day. >> reporter: the dozens of lawmakers trapped in the gallery of the house chamber now refer to themselves as the gallery group. their colleagues on the house floor already escaping when rioters breached the building. but these lawmakers a

this photo, from december 12th, shows flynn and patrick byrne, another trump ally who was president that december 18th meeting, guarded by indicted oath keeper roberto manu to. another review of the scene shows of keepers leader stewart rhodes in the picture as well. another central figure with ties to extremist groups with roger stone, a political consultant and longtime consultant of trump. he pardoned both flynn and stone in the weeks between the election on november 3rd and january 6th. in the same timeframe, stone communicated with both the proud boys and the oath keepers regularly. the committee obtained encrypted content from a group chat called friends of stone, f o s, which included stone, roads, tarrio and ali alexander. focused on several pro trump events in november in december of 2020, as well as january 6th. as you can see here, stewart rhodes himself urged the friends of stone to have people go to their state capitals if they cannot make it to washington, for the first million maga march on november 14th. these friends of roger stone had a significant presence that multipl

his name is patrick byrne. >> i opened the door and i walked in. i saw general flynn.ee the people who were in the oval office. >> explain why. >> well, again, i don't think they were providing -- well, first of all, the overstock person, i've never met -- never knew who this guy was. actually, the first thing i did, i walked in, and i looked at him, and i said, who are you? and he told me. i don't think any of these people were providing the president with good advice. and so i didn't understand how they had gotten in. >> this, pete, i'll never get over. i didn't understand how he got in. there's a wave system. that's how anyone gets on to the 18-acre complex. the fact that the white house counsel didn't know how the overstock person got in is still one of these, like, mysteries that i could watch hours of television on trying to understand. but this person that the white house counsel didn't know how he got in, the overstock person, mr. byrne, is before investigators today. what would you want to know? >> well, i think a couple of things, nicole. one, byrne not only

pat cipollone says to some of these people, i guess it was patrick byrne, who are you?e you doing in here? then the president says they are giving him solutions, and you are not. the cursing, the shouting, rudy giuliani sitting in a cabin room, saying it was cool. mark meadows is designated to walk about, making sure he did not bask in, this is in the oval office of the white house. then he turns to sidney powell, and they pointed out the 16 judges, many appointed by donald trump, had ruled against her, and them, and she was being appointed to special counsel was security clearances? spanky said, you think all 60 judges that ruled against you were all corrupt? every single one? even the ones that the donald trump administration appointed? you have there, this is the trump world, yet the professionals, versus the, i don't know what you would call them. conspiracy theorists. you have the doj lawyers, yet the white house counsel saying, show us the evidence of the fraud you are claiming. give us the evidence for these allegations, that venezuela is involved in turn is invo

sydney powell, retired lieutenant general, michael flynn, and former overstocked outcomes ceo, patrick byrneilding from the junior white house staffer, the group made their way to the oval office. they were able to speak with the president by himself, for sometime, until white house officials learned of the meeting. what ensued was a heated and profane clash between this group and president trump's white house advisers, who traded personal insults, accusations of disloyalty to the president, and even, challenges to physically fight. the meeting would last over six hours, beginning here in the oval office. moving around the west wing, in many hours later, ending up in the president's private residence. the select committee has spoken with six of the participants, as well as staffers who could hear the screaming from outside the oval office. what took place next is the best told in their own words, as you will see from this video. >> do you believe that it was gonna wear? that you're gonna be able to see the precedent, without an appointment? >> i have no idea. in fact, they didn't get the pre

we had the december 18th meeting where he had the crazy sydney powell, rudy giuliani, patrick byrne fromck and pat cipollone had to run into the office to sort of save it and now we're left in this last hearing with donald trump all alone. he's all alone in the dining room and he is all alone as the only person left who wants to see what is going on at the capitol go on. his children are urging him to stop it. sean hannity, his allies are urging him to stop it, every single staff member and senior adviser is desperately trying to get him to stop the rioters, to say something, bub he is sitting there alone, the last man standing, the last man trying to hold on to his ultimate objective and that's what this was. he was just trying to delay. delay, delay, delay, because it wasn't working with pence now and the only thing he had was to delay the certification, and i would just add one more thing, nicole. i think we're at a point right now and as a former prosecutor it's unusual for me to even say this because there is a presumption of innocence in this country. i think for doj right now ther