our ears. we heard the shocking details of all the behavior of the president of the united states on january 6 and we heard from cassidy hutchinson. she s a 26-year-old former top aid to then white house chief of staff mark meadows. i ll play a lot of what she had to stay right now. i think it s important. if you didn t see it or think someone should see it, call them and let them know. we re playing it for you. it s important for the country to see. the world to see. listen to every word she had to say. because it s like nothing we have ever heard before about an american president insisting on joining his supporters headed to the capitol, supporters by the way armed with knives, guns, spears, and flag poles. i think the last time we talked you mentioned that some of the weapons that people had at the rally included flag poles, oversized sticks or flag poles. bear spray. is there anything else you recall hearing about that the people who gathered had? i recall tony and i
on january 6 and we heard from cassidy hutchinson. she s a 26-year-old former top aid to then white house chief of staff mark meadows. i ll play a lot of what she had to stay right now. i think it s important. if you didn t see it or think someone should see it, call them and let them know. we re playing it for you. it s important for the country to see. the world to see. listen to every word she had to say. because it s like nothing we have ever heard before about an american president insisting on joining his supporters headed to the capitol, supporters by the way armed with knives, guns, spears, and flag poles. i think the last time we talked you mentioned that some of the weapons that people had at the rally included flag poles, oversized sticks or flag poles. bear spray. is there anything else you recall hearing about that the people who gathered had? i recall tony and i having a conversation with mark, probably around 10:00 a.m. 10:15 a.m. where i remember tony ment
welcome to politicsnation. tonight s lead, uncharted territory. right now, the week ahead promises to be an unprecedented one for our nation, which of course follows last week s unprecedented fbi search of donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. and the revelations that have followed since nearly a dozen sets of classified materials were retrieved from the former presidents home, as part of a federal espionage investigation. this weekend, we learned that a trump lawyer sent a letter to the justice department in june. claiming that all classified materials had been returned to the government. that s according to reporting from the new york times. according to four people with knowledge of that document. nbc news has not seen the document and is working to confirm the reporting. but today, top democrats in the house are calling for a damage assessment of those documents. trump s defense dubious claims of executive privilege and preemptive declassification. meanwhile, summon law enf
congressman but really about the dangerous rhetoric coming from her colleagues. that and so much more. today in the culture corner, we need to talk about nfl quarterback, the cleveland browns, yes, deshaun watson. issuing an apology after months of the line allegations of sexual harassment and assault from dozens of women. okay? self preservation? i m simone and i have something to say. unprecedented. a word that has been thrown around a lot in the past week. unprecedented fbi search of the former president s home of their unprecedented concerns that the former president took and mishandled top secret hat documents that could pose a security threat to the country. and potentially break laws including the espionage act. your reaction on both sides this pouring after those classify government documents were found in donald trump s mar-a-lago resort. now, trump was saying the fbi took boxes of material that was, quote, attorney client privilege. and executive privilege, and is d
against the former president, mcconnell, lindsey graham, for goodness sakes was saying he would have enough. that seemed to have been the moment when a difference could have been made, i mean if he had chosen to stick with that opposition to try to rid the republican party of the former president, would he be in this position today? he would be in a better position. mitch mcconnell has stiff-armed trump. mccarthy chose the other route which was to embrace trump. you know, look, mccarthy probably would still have had problems had he stiff-armed trump with some of his members but i d rather be on the right side of history than the wrong side in this case so i think he made the wrong choice with that. it s a morality tale about ambition. i mean, he has yearned for this for years and years and years. he was denied this by the freedom caucus back in 2015 and his answer was to be as solicitous as possible and gotten every concession you could think, basically handing