the voter turnout. it ll be different this time. biden because joe biden will had on four years in office. they will have something had to vote on . quick story on fox and friends. we had a voter focus groupi th panel. many of them were democrats.ou and i waghrs shocked because i thought everybody has their opinion already made. it s crystalize. you re proo or or anti trump. ih and that wasn t the case.heir vt several democrats said they would switch their vote to trump. why? o becauson e of their opinion of biden. my point is he doesn t get tome be nothing this time.rendum he s something, and this time o it will be a referendum. on joe biden.n my so i totally agree. but what s interesting is ont he my list of where republicans are going to have troublg e wate the converse, which is thatffic. he s going to try to hide in o the basement, except this timep it will be the oval office.will and the same way when i wasoke on the trump campaign, we tried to smoke them out of the basement.
to tripledemic illness on th rise. what you need to know, heading into this holida weekend. looking back at thi consequential week, and th focus on fighting for democracy, and freedom, both here, an abroad. our favorite historians, here to put it all i perspective, as a special, extra early addition of th 11th hour is underway, on this friday night. good evenin once again. i am stephanie ruhle. nearly 24 hours after its final report was mad public, tonight, the january 6th committee released a new batch of witness transcripts they are from interviews wit key people in trump administration, including, bil barr, pat cipollone, kayleig mcenany, hope hicks, and his daughter, and senior adviser ivanka trump. we will brea down what we are learning in just a moment, but first, th committee s report is wrapping up its 18 month investigation, and it is very clear about the main reason for the attack o art american democracy. th panel says, the central caus
interviews with some of thos authors. velshi begins right now. good morning to you, it is saturday december 24th mary christmas eve i m velshi quote, the central cause of th january 6th was one man. that is perhaps one of the mos important census from th january 6th committee s highly anticipated final report which was released late thursday night. in a sprawling 845-pag document, the panel lays the blame for the attack on th u.s. capitol, directly at th feet of one man, donald trump. writing quote, none of the events of january 6th woul have happened without him. that blockbuster final repor concludes with nearly a doze proposals on how to preven another january 6th, including asking congress to conside barring internal trump fro ever holding public office again. now, this is not without
stephen passantino try t influence her testimony. hutchinson recalled passantino telling her to quote, focus on protecting the president following the release of the report, trump took to social media platform to respond. deflecting blame for the attac by the way on to the house speaker nancy pelosi and doubling down on his electio lies but thursday s report is not the last we re gonna hear from the committee. more of those transcripts abou 300 and total are expected t be released in the coming days the committee only has until january 3rd to release all o their material to the public that is when republicans tak over the house and the panel will be dissolved. let s bring in the democrati congressman-elect daniel goldman of new york. come january, he s going t represent new york s tenth district but he also served as th majority counsel for the house impeachment inquiry into donal trump. he was also an assistant u.s attorney for the souther district of new york congressman-elect, good
the others who referred to a cast of coup enablers named in the report, like mark meadows, the ex chief of staff, trump ally lawyers like rudy giuliani, jeffrey clark, and kenneth cheese burrow. the panel named cheeseburger specifically as one of the potential quote, c conspirators in the disgrace ex presidents attempt to hol on the power the committee identifies him not eastman, as the architec of trump s bogus fake plot along the final report, th panel has released dozens of testimony transcripts to the public, a lot of that came out last night, including a neve before seen transcript o former white house aide cassid hutchinson s interviews with the committee. now, this is interesting and one of those interviews, hutchinson told investigator that her first lawyer, stefa passantino, i want you t remember that name to this guy s going to become very very relevant. he served as the deputy whit house counsel under trump.