awful this is for the republicans. yes, trump is definitely the target of the house committee, but the justice department will be looking at others as well. >> robert gibbs, there's something -- there's a conversation that we had heard before, a text message exchange we read about before. reading it again kind of crystallized things for me. it was an exchange between katrina pierson, one of the rally organized, and brad parscall, former trump campaign manager. they say this. the results of the events of that day were the result of a sitting president asking for a civil war and that this week -- this is they said -- i feel guilty for helping him win now that a woman is dead. she responded with, you realize this was going to happen.