tonight, brand-new januar 6th committee transcripts, jus in, as we analyze the full report, and where all of the investigations go from here. then, from dangerous weather to tripledemic illness on th rise what you need to know, heading into this holiday weekend. looking back at this consequential week, and th focus on fighting for democracy, and freedom, both here, an abroad our favorite historians, her to put it all in perspective as a special, extra earl addition of the 11th hour is underway, on this friday night good evening once again i am stephanie ruhle nearly 24 hours after its fina report was made public, tonight, the january 6th committe released a new batch of witnes 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 break down what we are learning in just a moment, but first, the committee s repor is wrapping up
look, there was a first phase. trump gives a speech at th ellipse, he s telling the crowd, let s take back our countr from an election stolen. you have to fight like hell. when you catch someone in fraud, you can go by different rules. he says all of that. at the very same time, the proud boys were attacking th capitol. that was phase one what the report says is th d.c. police were able to fight that back. the problem was, trump s speec at the ellipse induced doe thousands of people to march from the ellipse, to the capital, overwhelming th police resources at the capitol. that timing, and the way the did it, with such methodical step-by-step proof, i think, i enormously important project myth the other thing i would say, i you start to read through thes transcripts that, very striking, is i have never seen so many people forget so much. i mean, a stone or conventio