appear voluntarily and answer a whole variety of questions. he did not contradict the testimony of other witnesses, and i think we did learn a few things, which we will be rolling out in hearings to come. during pivotal moments, cipollone was in the know and very much in the room, including the oval office on january 3rd shooting down trump s plan to replace the acting attorney general with an election denying doj lawyer. and two sources say he was with trump during the riot itself watching it unfold on television. with me now is former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york elie honig who is also a cnn senior legal analyst. elie, let s be honest here. neither of us were in the room for all eight hours, which would have been great for news, but less good for actual having a life. that said, we have gotten bits and pieces from our reporting from our team at cnn about what pat cipollone was asked about when he may have said. what s your biggest takeaway
the world to hear eichmann in his own voice as actors reenact the recording sessions. [ speaking foreign language ] in 1960 eichmann was apprehended, bringing him to israel to stand trial after which he was ultimately executed. prosecutors knew the tapes existed. they had transcript, but eichmann claimed his words were distorted. the director spent movnths convincing the anonymous donor who had placed the tapes at the german archives to give him
90s at the time, when he was a child, his family fled from the nazis all across europe. i also spoke with michael goldman who was one of the lead investigators in the case when he was a child, the nazis captured and murdered essentially his entire family, his mother, his father, his sister, his extended family, and he himself was put in concentration camps. he survived, auschwitz, and a decade and a half later he found himself as one of the lead investigators in that trial, the 1961 trial we just saw clips of. he came face-to-face with his notorious mass murderer. let s take a quick listen. i was in my investigation room, and when he entered the room, i saw a poor frightened person shaking, and in comparison to eichmann in his s.s. uniform, i couldn t believe it. it was the same person standing in front of me, responsible for the death of my parents. but when he opened his mouth, i cannot forget this, when he
decades after nazi war criminal a adolf eichmann denie his role in the holocaust, we are hearing a confession. in his own words, recently unearthed audio tape take center stage. in them eichmann defends the holocaust and even expresses pride in the murder of millions of jews. cnn has more on these recordings that were secret until now. reporter: when adolf eichmann stood trial in 1961 in jerusalem, he claimed he didn t know the extent of the holocaust and was just following orders. [ speaking foreign language ] reporter: but a few years earlier in 1957 while hiding in argentina, eichmann spent hours boasting about his role, all recorded on tapes meant for memoirs. now after decades under wraps, the israeli documentary, the devil s confession is allowing
person would do in that situation. bach and goldman furiously rejected that. his quote to me was it s rubbish. it was the angriest i ve ever saw him get. they gave examples of times when eichmann went out of his way to kill. they told me eichmann wanted to kill as many jewish children as possible to wipe out future generations. eic es these tapes show that bach and goldman were exactly right. there s nothing banal about what eichmann did. he killed because he hated and he was evil. it brings that white hot fury when you saw the words. one thing i wanted to ask you about more broadly. gabriel bach, the reason we spoke about him on television some time ago is he passed away. we ve seen moments over the course of the last several years