continues on the 11th hour with stephanie role and that starts right now! right now! good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle! breaking news tonight, just over one hour ago, january six committee released its final report. it is 845 pages long and it comes after a nearly 18 month investigation into the attack on the capitol and donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. the report begins with a forward from house speaker pelosi, committee chairman bennie thompson, and vice left knee. the false narrative that set off the deadly riot at the capitol in eight detail chapters. it starts with the big lie. former president trump s false narrative of his stolen election. we have a lot to dig into so let s get smarter! with the help of our lead off panel tonight it is a great and a very important one. caroline, egg plus a prize winning reporter from the washington post. katie benner, pulitzer prize -winning justice department reporter for the new yo
individual s names in this report. the bar associations across the country, local bar associations have to step up. local prosecutors have to step up the accountability piece is the piece here, and that is what folks will be looking for. we certainly will, symone thank you. if you are just joining us right now i m stephanie ruhle. it is midnight on the east coast and i am on the west coast, we are continuing our breaking news coverage of the release of the january 6th committee s final report on the siege of the capital and donald trump s effort to change the results of the 2020 election. it was made public just over an hour ago, it totals 845 pages. what is the first passage all about? the big lie. with that, let s get smarter with a lead off panel, former you new york prosecutor in civil rights attorney charles coleman. pulitzer prize-winning reporter for an joyce vance, who spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor and symone sanders-townsend still with us along with stua
through this report as has everyone. hold on a minute. i don t point out that we may be the most reading the most important news night of the year and i am looking at an all-female panel! let s do it joyce, what sticks out to you the most so far? so what you can see immediately when you dig into the report is how much trouble the committee went to to document absolutely everything that they are saying. there and notes in every chapter, extensively documenting the committees and narrative that you read through. and so for instance, when you get to one important point where the committee is saying, it was apparent that everyone there was an enormous risk of violence that night, and the president should have canceled his speech on the ellipse, or someone in the white house would ve canceled it for her. you can then read in the ad notes all of the evidence that supports that and judge that for yourself. really, the committee has written a living document for the public to tak
that we have already seen to this. we cannot compare watergate, just this really was the beginning and the plot for what would ve been a civil war, a small version on january 6th. and that is laid out even in the first few pages of this document. from a legal standpoint, from a principled standpoint, it absolutely has to be taken seriously. it is not just an indictment on democracy, sorry an indictment on the republican party, it is as clear statement on how these people will go to any and many lengths to literally dismantle american democracy. and that is no laughing matter. katie, in 845-page report that is now sitting in the lap of the department of justice. jack smith, a report like this isn t like a pot potato that they now have to deal with or do they just get a winning lotto ticket? there are all sorts of details in this thing. i think based on in the summer over the election in the fall and now more recently the subpoena sent out to the fake electors plot i don
whiteout conditions on the roads. good morning to you. welcome to way too early. after a historic 18-month investigation, the house select committee investigating january 6th has unveiled its full report on the deadly capitol is tack and former president trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. at more than 00 pages, the report is broken down into eight chapters that provide details from more than 1,000 witnesses interviews and hundreds of thousands of pages of text messages, emails and other documents. chapter 1 is titled, quote, the big lie, a reference to trump s widespread effort to push false claims about the 2020 election being stolen. the chapter notes that trump made efforts even before election day to delegitimize the election process by suggesting it would be marred by ballot fraud. chapter 2 is titled i just want to find 11,780 votes and focuses on trump s attempt to pressure state and local election officials to overturn the 2020 election results. the