let's break down what we learned with ashley parker, phil rucker and brandon buck. art were on the team that won the pulitzer for your coverage during and after january 6. starting with the democrats, they know no matter what happens, there's those domestic problems, inflation, gas prices, the pandemic. what is the impact here? what is the chance that this will really get people focused across the country? the country? >> you know, there has been at least during the campaigns, there was a sense that now former president trump was his own worst enemy, the more voters were focused on him, the more likely they would prefer president biden and the democrats. in that way, in theory. this could be a positive, but talking to people in the white house, at the end of the day, to the hearings matter eh, maybe, we'll see. but obviously the most important are gas prices not only do people feel this every day, but when you're driving by every gas station with $5, $6, it's a billboard that reminds them of their frustration. >>> and we heard there would be a big effort from the oth

. >>> joining our coverage, phil rucker, matt dowd, political strategist, the founder of country overtart with you. white house -- in all white houses juggling myriad crises that dominate the news, trying to get out a story of progress they've been making is a complicated message. when you were here last time, we talked about how you breakthrough. how do you think they're breaking through and what advice do you have for them right now? >> well, it is, it's awfully tough for them to breakthrough. my advice to them would be communications 101. that is not try to communicate a dozen different things. they need to communicate one or two things and do that effectively. you know, i listened to that interview you just did with the white house, and look, i'm not going to be a cynical political person here, but this is deja vu all over again and yes, the white house and senate democrats have to go through the process and try to bring republicans to the table, but to your point, nicolle, i watched obama try to do this after new town. i've watched democrats try to do this time and time again, ev

so when phil rucker my co-author and i at the "washington post," we went down to see him in mar-a-lago in march. and it was like he was living is elba or his own little brigadoon. he was living an alternative reality where he won the election. john mccain was evil. everybody was stupid. it was in the republican party who didn't support him. and he was still being celebrated with hail to the chief on the mar-a-lago patio when he went out to dinner after we interviewed him. people stood at attention. this is where he was living in his mind. as for the people that are still around him, it's a much smaller group of secret service agents. smaller detail. and just a few loyal folks who have stayed on. i did not see either ivanka or jared. however, at dinner, i did see donald trump jr. and kimberly guilfoyle and eric trump and his wife, laura. so there is still a hard core group. there were also people who were coming to sort of kiss the ring. lawmakers who want to get re-elected in the midterms and they're seeking his endorsement. that is not any joke. i will say, however, it seems that his

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>> very valid point there, betry woodruff-swan, phil rucker, chuck rosenberg, claire mccaskill, stickwas a big part of the january 6th hearings and he wasn't actually there. he's been traveling the country gearing up for a presidential run, believe it or not and how january 6th is factoring into that next. factoring into that next. we're hittin' the trails between meetings. and putting the brakes on fried foods. jardiance is a once-daily pill that...not only lowers a1c, it goes beyond to reduce the risk of cardiovascular death for adults with type 2 diabetes and known heart disease. and jardiance may help you lose some weight. jardiance may cause serious side effects including ketoacidosis that may be fatal, dehydration that can lead to sudden worsening of kidney function and genital yeast or urinary tract infections. a rare, life-threatening bacterial infection in the skin of the perineum could occur. stop taking jardiance and call your doctor right away if you have symptoms of this infection, ketoacidosis or an allergic reaction, and don't take it if you're on dialysis. taking jardi

country, barbara mcquade from the university of michigan law school, also a msnbc legal analyst and phil ruckerational editor of "the washington post" and msnbc political analyst. ryan, what all do we know about this documentary filmmaker and what he could potentially refeel at this hearing? >> so nick is a former video producer, directed the video for "take it to the house." he's going to be doing that on thursday, going to the house and talking about exactly what he saw in the lead-up to january 6th and as well as on january 6th itself when he was following around this group of proud boys. on january 5th he was actually president and filming during this meeting between the head of the proud boys and the head of the oath keepers inside -- actually the nbc news bureau in d.c. the garage of that building is where the meeting took place. the cameras shoot away for a moment as they discuss more about what was going to be happening. so that's a really key moment and what exactly was the plan and the coordination between the oath keepers and the proud boys in the lead-up to january 6th. >> very inte

attorney barbara mcqauid, phil rucker and peter baker. welcome all. ali, this new video released from the committee, telling us about this video. this shows a group, including this man, who was at the rally the next day, taking pictures of hallways and security checkpoints that get into the house office buildings which go directly into the capitol itself. >> reporter: right. if you look on that video feed, these are places many of us walk every day. we know they are not the typical places that we see tourists who are only now just recently allowed back in the building. those are not the places they are typically taking pictures. certainly, that's raising eyebrows for people who are watching this video. this is really something that's been long talked about here. the idea that there was a tour given on january 5th with people who were then using it to kind of look around the capitol and get a little bit of a sketch of the blueprint of how things flow around here. again, you are seeing the places that this tour was given by the georgia congressman, incl

it's in the public sphere, what we've reported, phil rucker and myself, about vice president pence'sdn't seem to do anything about his security as his own supporters were calling for pence to be hung. so the extra material this january 6th committee is going to bring forward which i think is going to come out like a bang next week in primetime on thursday, will be filling in the gaps and showing you as close as -- as possible what donald trump was doing. i think ali's right about the photographs. also what he was saying. and remember, there are 1,000 witnesses this committee has interviewed. some of them are very close to donald trump and were literally at his shoulder. his daughter, his -- his chief of staff through his texts. they have given information about what donald trump was saying at the time. people who were aides to mark meadows have the president's only words as relayed by him. what was the president saying? and one of them appears to be that he was sort of happy that people were threatening to hang mike pence, if you can believe it. i also think it's going to be really i

it almost doesn't matter who the audience is or a member his conversations with phil rucker and carroll what he will say. so, it's not specifically done as a kind of got to film. he is really just sort of rolling the camera and letting him roll, but we've got trump, we've got trump's inner circle, we've got pence, and it starts from october and before the election, and goes on. so, they are just figures to be a lot of real little treasures coming out. and it's one reason the committee has decided to stop the music, take a few weeks break, and see what holder and others have to say. and as you mentioned, he testified a couple days ago behind closed doors. his impressions matter, but it's the footage, especially of trump uncensored, talking for hours. >> tom, one of the things that i took away from that tape was the former president over and over again referring to these election officials as stupid. and that is not just a throwaway, especially when you have secretary of state, brad raffensperger, saying trump followers threatened his family, broke into his daughter in law's house. how da

phil rucker, glenn kershner, and jeremy peters, all eyes will be on that hearing tomorrow, thank you for getting us ready. coming up, emotional testimony from an 11 year old child, who survived the uvalde school shooting. her message to lawmakers as they try to find some sort of agreement on the gun laws. and later, what we can learn from last night's primaries, with michael steele and maria teresa kumar, this signals we are getting from voters in both parties and the impact it could have on the midterms. the 11th under hour is just getting underway on a very busy winds a night. a night. hey businesses! you all deserve something epic! so we're giving every business, our best deals on every iphone - including the iphone 13 pro with 5g. that's the one with the amazing camera? yep! every business deserves it... like one's that re-opened! hi, we have an appointment. and every new business that just opened! like aromatherapy rugs! i'll take one in blue please! it's not complicated. at&t is giving new and existing business customers our best deals on every iphone. ♪ ♪ your mission: stand u

the giddiness initially has phil rucker and i reported in our book that trump showed when he saw that his supporters were engaging in multiple felonies and trumping up the side of the hill with weaponry, flag poles and fire extinguishers and bear spray and two-way radios as if they were in a paramilitary event. so you will see this split screen of what was donald trump doing, what was he saying? and then what was actually happening on the capitol. the violence and the mayhem and the terror that he could have stopped and chose not to. this goes to the heart of what liz cheney warned early on, the dereliction of duty. she has brought that up over and over again and i think that will be a big subtheme of that hearing. >> yeah. that's where i was going, too. liz cheney has already sort of telegraphed where the dereliction of duty came in and where, perhaps, some of the investigation was heading and it was months ago that she did that, perhaps as early as january and they have the goods and you do, too, in your reporting, carol that you celebrated. the other thing, having worked in a white

and the first place that i write about this was the phil rucker and carroll leonnig it has some of theudible] >> to your point -- >> is there an inference that they are just want to take him away so that he cannot complete the certification, such that it becomes january 7th and there has been no certification? it doesn't matter where you would go. he thinks he won't certify and then what does that mean? >> but he may be taking away for his own safety. and maybe he doesn't want that, in which case that's physical courage on his part. or he may be worried that they are going to take him away, not necessarily to keep him safe or under the thick leaf of keeping him safe, when really they are part of the coup. they are part and i want him out of the capitol so they can't [inaudible] >> that part, i mean, the keith kellogg quote in the rocker leonnig book, when he's talking to a secret service person who is close to trump, a trump loyalist -- not to tim, i think ontario is his name, i hope i'm calling him correctly. i know you guys will take him to alaska. like, let him stay and do his job.

stay with you for a second before i get back to harry, which is, you know, you and your colleague phil ruckerby mumbo jumbo than anybody would ever want to. we kind of assume, we see trump telling pence you have the power to do this. you clearly have the ability. there's a legal theory here that you should adhere to. the question i've had all along is a question about whether trump believed any of that or whether what he was really just about was fomenting chaos. he understood some of these legal theories were bogus, but by trying to get people to do things that would be disruptive, he thought that he could as he so often has in his political career just benefit, somehow win because everybody else was so confused, because things were so chaotic, that that would somehow allow him to cling to power, even if all these theories that he was propoing were bs. >> it's true that phil and i spent a lot of time inside the minds of team trump and inside the mind of the former president, and i can't tell you that i know whether or not he believed that his best chance was chaos. i can only tell you what h