former trump white house press secretary stephanie grisham arrived on capitol hill this evening to meeth lawmakers. their meeting follows an in-depth phone call she had with committee member jamie raskin, a source telling cnn grisham shared candid details about what was going on inside the white house during the insurrection including conversations involving trump. >> i was hearing from some people that he was in the dining room watching and enjoying that people were fighting for him, and i just couldn't -- i couldn't watch what was happening to our capitol. >> grisham became the first trump official to resign in the wake of the attack, stepping down on the afternoon of january 6th. she later recalled in her memoire she sent first lady melania trump a text that said, do you want to tweet that peaceful protests are the right of american but there is no place for lawlessness and violence, to which trump replied no. her cooperation comes as the committee also targets other trump allies like fox news host sean hannity, former vice president mike pence, and now we're learning radio host seba

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if stephanie grisham and former vice president pence do voluntarily appear before the committee, whatnal does that send to the country and the rest of the gop? >> well, jonathan, it would signal the committee is able to penetrate donald trump's inner circle with the investigation and what's happened so far. stephanie grisham did somewhat appear quietly with the committee last week for about an hour when she took questions from them, names and such. they continue with a roadblock. it came out last night jim jordan objected the request to voluntarily come in for an interview, so even as they're getting compliance from some folks, they're met with those who will not. >> is there a sense that former vice president pence would volunteer tearily come in? >> kellogg, for example, came before the committee. this could be a sign pence himself may be okay with doing so. there's still no guarantee that the former vice president would really do so and in doing so would be turning against president trump. >> certainly the relationship is strained after january 6th. we'll keep an eye on that. >>> i

congressman, what questions are you going to have for stephanie grisham?aving me, jake. happy new year. i think that it's important to note, i can't talk about any specifics of the interviews that we're going to be having in the coming days and weeks, but what i can tell you is this is someone who is clearly in the president's orbit and very close to him and the first lady and someone who has knowledge about what the president might have been thinking on january 5th and january 6th. those are important aspects of our investigation and things that we want to get to the bottom of. >> your committee chairman bennie thompson says that your committee wants to also hear directly from former vice president mike pence. he was in the capitol with you all that day, not at the white house. >> what we've said all along is understanding the pressure campaign that was being put by folks in the white house to other states and to potentially the vice president. those types of aspects are important to our work. we need to have more clarity, specifically on what was happeni

. >> we know former white house secretary stephanie grisham spoke to the committee last night and one member told cnn they learned a lot from her they didn't know before. >> correct. my understanding is stephanie grisham told the committee and cnn that trump was, quote, gleefully watching tv, and this part is new, that he was rewinding and watching again during the riot. this is, you know, a new piece of information. it's a description we've never heard before. just for context, grisham was working remotely that day. she was not at the white house. but our understanding is this is the account she heard from people that she is very close to who were at the white house that day with the president. just imagine, jake, while his staff, while republican members of congress, his own family were begging trump to say something to stop the riot, he according to grisham was gleefully watching and rewinding, exactly the kind of testimony, jake, that goes to the point the committee has been making that trump's inaction that day, that 187 minutes, speak to what the committee believes is derelictio

capitol with rioters just minutes away, and tonight the one time white house press secretary stephanie grisham speaking to the committee. we all saw what happened on january 6th, we saw it with our own eyes but the right is still trying to whitewash that history, so let me get this straight. this is not a tourist visit. those rioters were not peaceful patriots, they were not antifa, they were not black lives matter, they were trump supporters. and they were trying to overthrow our free and fair election. you don't have to look far to see the damage done in this country, the damage still being done, the capitol police chief says that the department filled a record number of threats against our elected officials last year. 9,600. 9,600 threats they fielded against our elected officials in washington. a year ago tonight, america had no idea what was being planned for the very next day, and look at what's happened since then. what's happened to us? that's a very good question. what has happened to us? look at how many people are under attack every day in a very angry america. i didn't expect to he

trump campaign. >> and you know, susan, that comes on the heels of the conversation i had with stephanie grishamanized that rally. what do you make of that? of both the comments, if you heard stephanie's interview as well. >> well, it seems like those were two people who got wrapped up into the organization and being surrounded by power and having influence, and i do understand how that happens. i've seen it happen among people i know. and it's disheartening. but they buy into it and at whatever point it takes, whether in stephanie's case on january 6th, or this guy's case looking backwards, you hit a point, you hit a wall where you say, i can't support this anymore. will more and more republicans start seeing that? perhaps. but these are people whose lives have been upended by the trump organization. and have, you know, also probably testified in front of the january 6th committee, which also is another issue, when you start seeing some of the questions and information that is being released. >> part of that information is the new reporting from politico which shows the january 6th committee ha

tonight, the committee heard from stephanie grisham, the white house press secretary who famously never held a press conference when she actually was in a position where her influence might have mattered. joining us now, committee member adam schiff. congressman, thanks for joining us. stephanie grisham said to reporters as she was leaving that she was fully cooperating with the committee. can you give us any insight into what was discussed? >> you know, i really can't go into the substance of it, and i was not part of what was described to me as an informal interview so i can't shed much light on it. um, obviously, we would prefer to have people cooperate at any level. um, than some of the others from the former administration who are fighting tooth and nail but i don't have the particulars on that. >> you heard your colleague from the select committee, representative kinzinger. he is obviously from a party with which few exceptions is still not telling the truth about who won the presidential election. is it possible to have a functional democracy when one side will not accept when it

. >> betsy, former trump press secretary stephanie grisham met with the committee this week. here is what she said in an interview after that meeting about how trump was reacting to the capitol riot. >> all i know about that day is that he was in the dining room glee watching on his tv like he did, look at the people fighting for me, hitting rewind, watching it again. that's what i know. >> gleefully watching the attack. how significant is that admission and how has the committee reacted to what she shared with them? >> it is certainly meaningful to have someone who was a senior white house aide cooperating with the investigation. it is important to remember that grisham wasn't in the inner circle of trump world. she wouldn't have spent a significant amount of time in that private dining room, but she would likely have detailed knowledge of who the folks surrounding the room were, who was going in and out, what type of communication was happening within the white house as people from literally every level of the capitol building were begging everyone they knew in the trump ad

stephanie grisham said to reporters when she was leaving she was fully cooperating with the committee. can you give us insight into what was discussed. >> i can't go into the substance of it and i was not part of what was described to me as an informal interview so i can't shed much light on it. obviously we would prefer to have people cooperate at any level than some of the others from the former administration who are fighting tooth and nail. but i don't have the particulars on that. >> you heard your colleague from the select committee, representative kinzinger, he is probably from a party which with few exceptions is still not telling the truth of who won the presidential election. is it possible to have a functional democracy when one sidle not accept when it loses and will try to, i mean in legtle legislatures across the country to change history? >> no, it isn't possible. anderson, i have the exact same sentiment that you express tonight, and i was there on the house floor during that attempted coup. that is the aftermath didn't have to turn out this way. it certainly appeared

well, they believe it was stolen because they have been lied to. >> stephen: stephanie grisham said thatzen -- i forget what number she threw out if she did -- a group of ex-trump officials will be getting together soon to stop the former president. yea? how much stock can you put in that because they tried to stop him so many times in the past. >> the road is littered with groups who tried to stop president trump. he has a unique connection with his party: somebody should have stood up and say he has a unique connection, people will believe it and we know better than let it fester because it will explode. i think pat buchanan said whenever there's a movement to stop x, bet on x because x is going to win. >> stephen: they want to stop x because he has the clear energy. >> he has the clear energy. also former president trump takes a lot overenergy from his enemies, as many politicians do, which is, in other words, look -- and that's part of the -- president biden gave this peppery speech today, but there will be a lot of republicans who can look away from the 6th and say he's really being

. >> former white house press secretary and communications director stephanie grisham joins me. ree with your former colleague, will the anatomy of the big lie eventually unfold? >> thank you for having me and welcome back, by the way. >> thank you. >> yes, i agree with alyssa fully. i think layers are being peeled off like an onion to show everybody around the president, certainly at the end but i will say out of my own experience for the entire time we were in office would do that. we would speak to each other privately, send texts to one another to try to get him off of a certain message or a certain tangent, purposely try to put him in areas where he couldn't answer the press and their questions. i do agree with alyssa. i think that will come out more and more. i hope people will begin to see there were some good people around him trying to stop a lot of bad things. >> and on that note, i'm curious because as you well know the months before the insurrection former president trump was pushing the big lie. i mean, even before the election he was saying if i lose, it's fraudulen

nothing yet for for stephanie grisham.hen you conduct an investigation like this, do you get the sense they're working from the outside in as they try to build the cases you say should be brought? >> well, yes. the january 6th committee and the justice department, that's the classic way you investigate a lot of things that involve possibly giant, very large criminal conspiracies. you kind of start at the bottom. we understand you are just a pawn. that is one of the words a federal judge used in sentencing. they want to have the pawns point fingers at the bishops, knights, all the way up to the king and queen. that's how they work their way in. that does seem to be what the january 6th committee has been doing. you really don't have the same level of ability to see into a grand jury proceeding. there was a report in the "washington post" over the weekend late in the story points out that some of the insurrectionists's lawyers, proud boys or oath keepers lawyers are saying their clients, to the extent they're cooperating wit

not stephanie grisham.n with the campaign, then she held numerous roles which included press secretary. then at the end, she was chief of staff to melania trump. she knows the trumps really well. she's very much in this inner circle, so she may be able to provide what the committee is going for here, which is information -- details about what actually happened but further the mindset. that is really what the committee needs to get from people themselves because you can only get so far with documents. >> that's for sure. whitney wild, appreciate it as always. joining us with more, carrie cordero and commentator charlie dent. carrie, thank you for being with us. when we look at this point, there is a reason the committee is putting out what they're putting out and why they're putting it out at a specific time. what's your gut on where the committee stands based on the release of these texts at this moment? >> well, as it relates to mr. hannity in particular, which was the most recent public release by the com

former white house press secretary stephanie grisham testified to the committee last night and this morning she revealed some of what she told the committee. >> all i know about that day was that he was in the dining room gleefully watching on his tv as he often did, look at all the people fighting for me, hitting rewind, watching it again. that's what i know. >> and unnamed trump white house official told cnn today that donald trump was, quote, letting it play out. letting it play out. today, standing in the capitol rotunda, which one year ago was under the control of a trump mob, the president of the united states said this -- >> you can't love your country only when you win. you can't obey the law only when it's convenient. you can't be patriotic when you embrace and enable lies. those who stormed this capitol and those who instigated and incited and those who called on them to do so held a dagger at the throat of america and american democracy. >> last year mitch mcconnell spoke even more forcefully about the attack on the capitol, which he specifically called terrorism and mitch mcconn

former press secretary and chief of staff to the first lady stephanie grisham announced that the group try and stop donald trump and, quote, a kind of violence and rhetoric that has been talked about and continues to divide our country. donald trump isn't the only one being held to account for his role on january 6th. the republican accountability project is calling out some of trump's loudest and most loyal followers. >> the president bears responsibility for wednesday's attack on congress. >> president trump is responsible for provoking the events of the day. >> the rhetoric crossed a line and it was reckless. the president needs to understand that his actions were the problem and not the solution. this is the cost of telling thousands of people that there was a legitimate shot at overturn being the election. >> they told the truth then, why won't they now? don't move because i've got olivia troy, a former aide to mike pence and michael steele, former rnc chairman. i have the answer on the other side of the break. bes but, no matter how healthy you feel, your immune system declines a

there are former trump staffers according to former trump communication chief stephanie grisham, at least are going to meet next week to talk about a way to stop this fever, this disease in the republican party. what can they do? you've been out there speaking your mind, following your father's example for people who might not know your dad, rest in peace, was a republican congressman from maryland and he voted to impeach richard nixon after watergate and very bravely so and was alone. so you come from good stock but for people who don't have the dna what do you tell them? >> well, look. i am not the only one. you mentioned a few. there are other republican leaders. i saw there was an op-ed by karl rove today pretty hard hitting. my friend chris christie who was very close to president trump is speaking out. we had a number of people resign their cabinet positions and leave the white house. i think people just speaking their mind and their conscience and telling, you know, what really happened, i think the more voices the merrier. this is something really important to me. you know, i've b

stephanie grisham first served as a white house press secretary, her first final position was chief of staff to melania trump, along with her husband donald, did nothing while the team capitol was being attacked. melania trump did not do what sean hannity tried to do one hand the sent a text to mark meadows, telling him, ask people to peacefully leave the capitol. during president trump's attempt to violate election law, trump apparently took more advice from china have hand these advertisers than he did from sean hannity. pillow salesman mike lindell is apparently under investigation by the january six committee. in an interview with cnbc, the pillow sales and said he received a notice from verizon about the subpoena for phone records from november through early january. leading off our discussion tonight is congressman adam schiff, member of the house select committee investigating the january 6th attack on the capitol and chair of the house intelligence committee. thank you very much for joining us congressman schiff, we appreciate it. in>> great to be with you, no lawrence. >> i've

have another voice adding to the conversation, that being former white house press secretary stephanie grisham who gave an interview after meeting with the house committee saying this about how trump was reacting to the riot as it was underway. take a listen. >> all i know about that day was that he was in the dining room gleefully watching on his tv as he often did, look at all of the people fighting for me, hitting rewind, watching it again. that's what i know. >> how significant is grisham's cooperation, and even that stunning first person insight about trump gleefully watching using her words there, that attack. how has the committee reacted to that information? >> i think they've taken it very, very seriously, and i think that because she has been in constant communication with the committee for several weeks now, you know, she spoke and had contacts with jamie raskin as an initial port of call, and she actually went in to provide testimony last week, so stephanie grisham has been instrumental in furthering the narrative and furthering what the committee is trying to find out about what h

jonah hill, stephanie grisham, there's been a lot of journalistic books that have come out in the recent months and more that are coming next year. i will probably wait to tackle a lot of those and i think as the readers appreciate that because there are so many different books out there and they want to know how do these kind of speak to each other and compare to one another. >> host: another was the free world. why did that appeal to you? >> he is best known as a terrific new yorker writer and he wrote the pulitzer prize sometime in the 2,000's for his look at the pragmatists and his impact on life. john dewey, oliver wendell holmes. this book is a delightful read and a look at the cultural life of the cold war mainly the united states partially as well and europe. any moment when american foreign-policy and national forn policy and national security policy was about containment, the american artistic and cultural world kind of exploded. he explores composers and novelists and artists and painters and essayists. each chapter it is a lengthy book around 800 or so pages and each feels li

one member of this group is the former white house press secretary stephanie grisham, who says that about 15 former officials are of all. she is not cooperating with the house committee investigating january six. and she met with them on wednesday. >> all i know about that day is that he was in the dining room gleefully watching on his tv as he often did look at all of the people fighting for me, hitting rewind, watching it again. that is what i know. >> with that let's bring in our lead off guests on this thursday night. peter baker i, chief white house correspondent for the new york times. , pulitzer prize-winning writer with the washington post. co-writer of the new york times bestseller, i alone can fix. it juanita tolliver, and daniel goldman assistant united states attorney for the southern district of new york. he also served as general counsel for the house intelligence committee during the first trump impeachment. good evening to all of you. thank you for being with us tonight. carol leonnig, joe biden started his campaign when he first declared that he was running with the idea

stephanie grisham seen leaving her meeting with the committee telling reporters tonight that she cooperated fully at the time of the capitol attacks she was chief of staff to the first lady, melania trump and was the first in the trump administration, the first administration official to resign that day. the committee is clearly getting to the center of the trump family and what they did that day. how do you read this? >> i think they're focusing on the exact right thing. if one of the -- is what was in donald trump's mind, what was his state of mind, did he intend to incite his supporters to go to the capitol to engage in violence or at a minimum to try to obstruct the counting of votes and certification of votes, then it's important to understand from the people around him, stephanie grisham, his daughter, his son, and others, his chief of staff, what his reaction was. and as the famous 187 minutes or 3 hours and 7 minutes during which donald trump didn't do anything, even though as we know now he was implored to do so based on reporting by his daughter, by sean hannity, by members of con

stephanie grisham publicly resigned on the night of january 6th after the attack on the capitol. she tweeted her resignation at 7:59 p.m. stephanie grisham made history as the only white house press secretary never to publicly speak with the press and today she made history as the first white house press secretary to tell a congressional committee what she knows about a former president's involvement in an insurrection at the capitol and a criminal conspiracy to violate election law. stiff any grisham first served as a white house press secretary. her final position in the white house was chief of staff to melania trump, who, along with her husband, donald, did nothing while the capitol was being attacked. medicalon now trump did not do what sean hannity tried to do when sean hannity sent a text to mark meadows during the attack on the capitol telling him, ask people to peacefully leave the capitol. during donald trump's criminal attempt to violate election law, donald trump apparently took more advice from one of sean hannity's advertisers than he did from sean hannity. pillow s

let's bring in communications director stephanie grisham.he was the first to resign as a result of the insurrection, and she met with the january 6 committee last night. we'll talk about that in a moment. stephanie, good to see you. let's start here with what we're hearing from members of congress. it's not just reflections on the day but the preservation of democracy, and before we went back to that, we were talking with olivia troy about this new group that you've announced now to try to do that, preserve democracy, by stopping former president trump from gaining power again. is this -- do you evhave a specific formula that you think will work, or is this that you have to do something to try to preserve democracy so this is your best effort? >> thank you, guys, both for having me. i appreciate it. i was watching earlier and i know kind of the question was, what will make this group different. we're going to meet next week to go over that and over what different tactics and things will work. if we need to go to the state level or local leve

. >>> the house committee investigating the riot just heard from stephanie grisham, she served as president trump's press secretary. after meeting with the panel, she told reporters that she cooperated fully. she resigned on january 6th in response to the riot. she was expected to discuss what trump was doing as the riot unfolded. meanwhile, the ceo of my pillow, trump ally, mike lindell, is suing the january 6th committee to block a subpoena for his phone records. it's the latest in nearly a dozen similar lawsuits. >>> one year after the capitol attack a new poll finds only 55% of americans accept that joe biden legitimately won the election, and 57% expect more events like the capitol attack. 37% say they've lost faith in american democracy. abc news will bring you live coverage of today's ceremonies marking january 6th beginning around 9:00 a.m. eastern. >>> and now to philadelphia and serious questions being raised after a deadly house fire. 12 people were killed, 8 of them children. officials say the fire alarms in the public housing duplex did not appear to be working even though an i

it would appear that witnesses like former white house press secretary stephanie grisham, who reportedrrection gleefully, in her words, is an eye-witness to that third ring, the coup. is that your sense of where the 1/6 committee's investigation has taken them? >> i think it's increasingly going there, and i think that what -- when chairman thompson talks about getting a minute-by-minute schedule of what donald trump was doing that day, what others around him were doing that day, it's largely to get into the psyche of the white house and what their role was in the coup, and a lot of this extra evidence from before and after january 6th goes to what the mental state would be in terms of criminal law and in terms of what donald trump was thinking, intending, what others around him wanted to happen. and one of the difficulties that i think the department of justice is going to have by focusing narrowly on january 6th is there's enough daylight between donald trump's speech on the ellipse and the actual invasion of the capitol that it becomes hard, from a criminal standpoint, to charge som

stephanie grisham, the former press secretary, she was meeting with the january 6 committee last night spoke to them for about an hour. she answered all of their questions and said that she is fully cooperating with them and there are more people who were working in the trump white house who have been cooperating with the january 6 committee. they may not be household names, for they have firsthand knowledge of situation in the days leading up to january 6 and donald trump's behavior, his state of mind during that time. the hours when he was as joe biden said sitting around watching the events unfold without doing anything. that is the goal of the january 6 committee, getting to what exactly happened. what was the state of mind, how this all unfolded, and their ultimate goal is to figure out what responsibility the former president had in the storming of the capital which is very vivid in everybody's minds. whether they are democrats or republicans, they don't see it the same way but they want to get to the bottom of what is going on and they say that maybe we could soon be getting the

. >> stephanie grisham, who might be a cooperative witness, she is telling nbc news she will be meeting tonight with the january 6th select committee. what does the committee hope to learn from her. >> we hope to learn from anyone close to the administration if they have knowledge of what the expectations were for january 6th, what the different lies are, and given her proximity to the president, her involvement in the white house, i think there is a lot she could potentially tell us and we hope to learn as much as she can share with us about those efforts to overturn the election. and also what the president did and didn't do in the run up to, and on that terrible day. >> let's talk about stormer suspect mike pence. some of the most gripping pictures are him being exporting, darely escaing a mob. if it wasn't for the quick thinking, something else might have happened, so chairman thomas said that the committee wants to speak directly to the former vice president. is he going to be invited? obviously i presume you're not going to subpoena him because on legal grounds it would be difficu

. >> we just spoke to stephanie grisham, former press secretary under president trump. you were instrumental in getting her to come and speak with the committee last night. she said she told you some things you didn't know. i'm wondering what you learned from that. >> it was not a formal interview, so i can't repeat what she said, but certainly she named a lot of names i had not heard before. she identified some minds of inquiry that had never occurred to me and so i put her in touch immediately with our excellent investigative staff. the amazing thing, john, is that the vast majority of people who work for trump, who were out there that day, are coming forward to unburden themselves and to say i want to tell you everything that i know. and, of course, as we get closer to donald trump, there is a coterie of people around him, roger stones and steve bannons who want to try to hide everything. but i think the truth is going to come out and america is going to be shocked and surprised at what we all come to learn this year. >> named a lot of names of people who she believe

former white house press secretary stephanie grisham told the january 6 committee former president trumpbook meetings in the white house before the insurrection. >> guardian reporting is accurate. there were meetings taking place up there. i don't have visibility into what was discussed in all of the people that were there but mark meadows would have been there as well as the legal team working on all of the bonkers plans that you were talking about. the former president did that often, quite a bit, because there was a lot of paranoia of leaks in the white house and would have people up to the residence. >> grisham reportedly pointed committee investigators to documents that could shed light on whether trump intended to go to the capitol that day and learning details about attempts by allies to straight-up overturn the 2020 election. multiple sources tell cnn that trump campaign officials led by the former personal attorney rudy giuliani oversaw efforts in december 2020 to put forward fake electors from seven states that trump lost, pennsylvania, georgia, michigan, arizona, wisconsin, ne

security adviser, keith kellogg, is quoted in peril, giving donald trump similar advice to the man stephanie grisham says, was gleefully watching tv. sir, vice president is secure, kellogg told trump. where is mike? trump asked. the secret service has. him there down in the basement. they're okay and he's not going to get in the vehicle. he knows, kellogg said, that if they put your ass in the vehicle, they're going to take you somewhere. mister president, he added, you really should do a tweet. on capitol hill, nobody is carrying a tv on their shoulder. you need to get a tweet out real quick. help control the crowd up there. this is out of control. they're not going to be able to control this. sir, they're not prepared for it. once the mob starts turning like that, you've lost it, he said. yeah, trump said. trump blinken kept watching television. kellogg looked around and realize the west wing was nearly empty. meadows was in his office, but trump was essentially alone. leading off our discussion tonight, bob woodward, two-time pulitzer prize-winning author, and robert costa national reporter for t

to voluntarily give some of that information right there former donald trump press secretary stephanie grishamitol hill last night and had direct access to the president and agreed to cooperate without a subpoena. grisham said walking out last night she fully cooperated when leaving the building last night. several big names have been subpoenaed and ignored them. including steve bannon who turned himself into the f.b.i. in wash in november after the department of justice charged him with contempt of congress. if convicted he could face a year behind bars. he is fighting the charge in court and it will go to trial next july. former white house chief of staff mark meadows is suing the committee. meadows has not been charged at this point by the department of justice. in addition to grisham the committee has asked the following to voluntarily appear. jim jordan and scott perry and fox news prime time host sean hannity. hannity's attorney said in a statement we're evaluating the letter from the committee and remain very concerned about the constitutional implications especially as it relates to th

look, i'm glad that stephanie grisham and other former republican fishes are pushing back.h more than that. we need republican elected officials in a sustained way to push back hard on what i call this nativist, nihilistic wing of the party, the bannon wing. the people that showed up with paraphernalia and camp auschwitz shirts. trump has empowered that group. we need to disempower that group. this is where i think the leadership teneeds to come from. we have to not normalize these extreme elements. that has been the problem and continues to be, and until we talk about that more honestly and openly, i think we're going to have some challenges. i agree with scott, the midterms are probably going to be pretty good to republicans. it's not about trump, it's about the republicans. but i think for 2024 this is an issue that we are going to have to discuss much more openly than we have up to this point. >> so, charlie, how influential is longtime republican stalwart carl rove to speak to those groups that you speak of when he woke this week in the "wall street journal" urging the

license to what stephanie grisham said staffers are planning to do. >> next we a group of former trumpogether, administration officials are going to come together, and we're going to talk about how we can formally do some things to try and stop him and also, you know, the extremism, that kind of violence and rhetoric that has been talked about and continues to divide our country. >> is being a part of that group or what they're intending to do something that would be of interest to you? >> so i'm going to have a conversation kind of in a listening capacity to see what that group has in the works. but my opinion is this -- the battlefield is the voters. if you want to defeat trumpism, you have to win hearts and minds, you have to have conversations within the existing infrastructure of the republican party. so honestly, my focus is going to be helping good, smart, incumbent republicans who are facing trumpist primaries getting involved in those races. i've seen there have been a lot of efforts, some more successful than others, but the battlefield is the voters, it's changing hearts and

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they were, however, able to have a private conversation with former white house press secretary stephanie grisham yesterday. they do expect to release their preliminary report sometime this summer. again, a capitol truly divided today. harris. >> harris: thank you very much. so we showed you moments ago the vice president and the president of the united states and how they decided to pull politics into today, january 6th, one year later. this seemed to stand out. >> certain dates echo throughout history when our democracy came under assault. days that occupy not only a place on our calendars, but a place in our collective memory. december 7th, 1941. september 11th, 2001. and january 6th, 2021. >> harris: as you might imagine that is getting pushback. she compared the capitol riot that sadly resulted in five deaths. pearl harbor 2,403. september 11th 2,296. americans perished. ari fleischer fox news contributor former white house press secretary and he was in the white house when one of those events happened. ari, your response to what we've heard from the white house today. >> a couple of things.

overnight the committee investigating january 6th heard from stephanie grisham, a key witness, one ofmp's longest serving aides and worked as press secretary for melania trump and president trump and quit on january 6th and since turned against the trumps and her testimony one piece in the puzzle of what's become a sweeping investigation. this committee has heard from more than 300 witnesses, reviewed tens of thousands of documents, issued more than 50 subpoenas. here's the thing, almost all of this work has been done behind closed doors. this committee is trying to get the fullest picture possible of what happened before they go public, perhaps with primetime hearings sometime later this year. congressman bennie thompson, chairman of the committee, says the evidence shows it was likely a coordinated effort. all this as a new abc news/ipsos polls shows the country divided about january 6th but sadly and strikingly united on that one issue that you mentioned. just 20% of americans say that they are very confident in the u.s. election system, just 30% of democrats, just 13% of republica

they are getting voluntary cooperation just like stephanie grisham did last night. >> to that point,ublican leader kevin mccarthy in the sense that republicans walked away, their own members came up with a plan for a bipartisan investigation. one of kevin mccarthy's deputies. they walked away from it. you had liz cheney, adam kinz i kinzinger, those are on the committee. is this committee going to get a lot more done because it does not have the typical republican distractions if you had a jim jordan or other trump allies trying to blow it up all the time? >> maybe. maybe. that's in the select committee. if there were a bipartisan independent commission like 9/11, there would be a different ball game. there would be so much credence given to their investigation. it truly was bipartisan. all of the recommendations that they made, because we want to not just understand what happened, but also learn from it and make sure it doesn't happen again. all of the recommendations they made were implemented. it's hard to make recommendations out of this select committee, which only has two repub

the former chief of staff, maloney trump, stephanie grisham, who is of course now selling a tell-all book and attempting to rebrand to something of a neever trumper. so, now we are left in this weird kind of groundhog day reality. after all these one time trump allies realized exactly how dangerous he was in the moment and the immediate aftermath when they called out this horrifying (inaudible) of duty after the issued statements saying think about the children. all of this exemplified his actions leading in the january six. the entire republican party is basically developed, collective amnesia. and worse than that, now falling in line behind the same guy who we all clearly know. all of them know. mccarthy knows. graham knows. everyone knows. simply cannot be trusted with a power again. it's as obvious and clear as day. because he will try to complete the attack on our democracy he fail to pull off the first time. and those threats to democracy were there from the very beginning, from his first campaign, to a team and trump's second impeachment in the january 6th insurrection. at the

as he faces allegations of abuse from his ex girlfriend, former white house press stephanie stephanie grisham filed a defamation suit against grisham. trump has endorsed several downballot candidates, those running for secretary of state and attorney general in statewide races as well as local election posts even down to the precinct level. trump clearly helping to place his allies in more prominent roles ahead of the 2024 presidential election. sunlen serfaty, cnn, washington. >>> and colorado officials just now finishing up on an update on the wildfires that tore through boulder. i'll speak with the head of fema and the colorado governor right after this. ♪ i'm so defensive, i got bongos thumping in my chest ♪ ♪ and something tells me they don't beat for me ♪ ♪ i love romance, but i got eggshells around me ♪ ♪ don't step on 'em, don't step on 'em ♪ ♪ don't step on 'em, don't step on me ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ he'd better not take the ring from me ♪ nicorette knows, quitting smoking is freaking hard. you get advice like: try hypnosis... or... quit cold turkey. kidding me?! instead, start small. with nicoret

the former trump administration official turned, never trumper, stephanie grisham, providing the panel with a list of potential witnesses it had not previously considered. supporting the committee member jamie raskin. and the committee is expected to require testimony from former vice president, mike pence, in the next two weeks. it's unclear whether pence will agreed to cooperate with that committee. we will talk about that in a moment. but it does seem very unlikely that brooks or other close trump allies will cooperate. the simple truth is that joe biden, with donald, trump in a free and fair election which wasn't in the works which was disclosed, that simple fact, which is a statement of the world, has been rendered in on horrible by trump. the former president will not accept even the most basic acknowledgment that he lost the election or that he attempted a coup or that the deadly insurrection was a logical conclusion of his own lies about the election. you can't say any of that. case in point, yesterday, senator mike rounds conservative republican from south dakota. not a rhino,

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for having done this shows his intent was pretty much -- his state of mind was pretty much as stephanie grisham has described it, he was glad they did it. and that, in turn, goes to the potential criminal investigation that he was -- he's been apparently very much afraid of, given the speech he just gave. this goes to, again, his intent to obstruct, and i'm using words in title 18 section 1512c of the u.s. code, to obstruct or otherwise impede the official proceedings before congress to count the electoral votes. he wanted that stopped, and he did that in a bunch of different ways. one was inciting violence which he now proposes to reward people with pardons. he did that through strong arming his vice president to overturn the election, as his statement last night said, and he did that in also -- by having his campaign -- i assume he had some involvement in it -- prepare these false or fake electoral certificates. all of these things really -- it's all starting to gel, the public information. and the real question is -- obviously the january 6th committee is on top of it and has been collecting

committee investigating the insurrection is meeting tonight with former white house press secretary, stephanie grisham. it comes a day after the panel said they'd like to speak with fox host, sean hannity. >> the committee says there are dozen of texts from hannity and to hannity indicating that he had quote, advanced knowledge of the plans for january 6th. ryan nobles is on capitol hill. so ryan, tell us about those texts. >> yeah, that's right. the econocommittee very interesn communication hannity was having with members of the congress, the white house, and even the former president himself. not just on january 6th, but in the time period leading up to january 6th. based on these text messages the committee released yesterday in their letter to hannity, it seemed as though he had a good idea of just what lengths the white house and trump campaign were willing to go to to try to pressure mike pence to stand in the way of the certification results on january 6th. here's a sample of some of those texts. on december 31st, 2020, hannity to meadows, writes, we can't lose the entire white house counsel's

you know, stephanie grisham, the white press secretary towards the end of his administration. apparently there she's with a group of other high-profile republicans who are in the white house. we have detailed information about exactly what happened and they're willing to testify. do you think that might start a shift, at least with some republicans who acknowledged, ok, maybe this was wrong. >> one would hope one would hope that more than would have turned up today. liz cheney and her father, the former vice president, cheney, who is no friend of democrats and democrats are no friends of his, but he can the show his solidarity for that constitution and the fact that this is the united states of america, it is not the united. cult of trump, which is what some of these people want see happen. but i think that. you're going to need these hearings are going to need them to be. to be covered. you're going to need people to be there testifying on behalf or republican been republicans for quite some time and to telling the truth. and the truth is not going to be pretty. it's not goin

. >> reporter: while witnesses like former white house press secretary stephanie grisham set light onings he was convening ahead of january 6th. >> there were meetings taking place, mark meadows would have been there, as well as the legal team that was working on all of the bonkers little plans. >> sarah murray, thank you so much for that report. >>> still ahead, while covid-19 cases and hospitalizations are finally beginning to drop in some areas of the u.s., hospitals are still overwhelmed by the number of patients. why some medical professionals say they are still in a crisis. ♪ your dell technologies advisor can help you find the right tech solutions. so you can stop at nothing for your customers. announcer: tired of pain radiating down your leg and lower back? get relief finally, with magnilife® leg and back pain relief. and get living. available at your local retailer. >>> some encouraging signs that the omicron surge may be on the downturn. new cases and hospitalizations are beginning to drop in some parts of the u.s., but others still say they are in the midst of a crisis. hos

stephanie grisham said the attendees at these secret meetings were brought in by the white house ushera man named timothy harleth. they were not entered into the official record, which could mean that timothy harleth would be subpoenaed by the economy, which would be a big deal for a guy whose only job on the the white house seemed to be, what comes up on google images when you search his name, picking the white house christmas tree. you can see he's here making sure the tree is green. getting input from the locals. and then he picked the winner gave it a little american bow. there is one other photo of timothy, lighting a candle at the most embarrassing white house meal of all time. [ laughter ] that could be the guy who brings trump down. timothy! a soldier in the war on christmas could be the guy to do this. [ laughter ] we will see. and while their last attempt to steal an election may have failed, republicans and a couple of democrats in the senate, manchin and sinema, are doing everything they can to make sure the next one doesn't. yesterday, they blocked a voting rights bill tha

interviewing former white house press secretary stephanie grisham. without full accountability, closure on that violent day remains illusive. >> reporter: did that day ever really end for you? >> i don't feel like you can totally heal or have closure to something until you have accountability, until you know the full picture of what happened. >> reporter: what that accountability means is very much an open question. yesterday, the attorney general said the department of justice would pursue the perpetrators at any level. savannah? >> thank you. with us now is congresswoman liz cheney of wyoming, the top republican on the congressional committee investigating the insurrection. congresswoman cheney, good morning to you. >> good morning, savannah. >> i've never known you to be one for big emotions. as you sit here today, one year later, and consider, how close did we come in this country? how close did we come to the violent overthrow of a valid election? >> we came very close. our institutions held. but they only held because of the people who were wil