to a committee member, jamie raskin, in his first interview since the hearing. there was never before seen testimony from trump s inner circle, including attorney general bill barr. and the former president s daughter and senior adviser at funky trump. there was also disturbing new footage of the violent attack that took place on the capitol. the committee made out exactly how the hearings will show that this was a culmination of an attempted coup and they say the former president was at the absolute epicenter of it all. here is just some of what we saw. donald trump, the president of the united states, spurred a mob of domestic enemies. to march down the capital and subvert democracy. i made it clear that they didn t agree with the idea of putting out this stuff, i told the president was bullish. it i respect attorney general barr. so i accepted what he said was saying. president trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and let the blame of this attack. president t
general bill barr and former president trump s daughter ivanka trump and disturbing footage of the violent attack that took place on the capitol, the committee made out exactly how the hearings will show that this was a culmination of an ateamed coup and they say the former president was at the absolute epicenter of it all. here is some of what we saw. donald trump, the president of the united states, spurred a mob of domestic enemies of the constitution, to march down the capitol and subvert american democracy. i made it cleardy not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff which i told the president was bullshit. i respected attorney general barr so i accepted what he said and was saying. president trump assembled a mob, assembled a mob and lit the flame of this attack. president trump is wrong. i had no right to overturn the election. pat cipollone threatened to resign. i kind of took it up to whining to be honest with y
carlos carmelo. before i cut you off before the break. you made sure to give a shout out to liz cheney. she is pretty far behind in the polls in wyoming. what she has done for the american people tonight, is that going to help or hurt her? well, i think liz cheney s goal is public service. i worked with liz cheney in 2000 and 2004. i ve had criticisms of liz cheney, related to the iraq war and a number of other things i ve had, of her. but i think she s much more worried. i mean, much more concerned about what happens with our democracy and our constitution than her political life. she is behind, as far as i can tell i don t dismiss the odds of her winning in that. i think her appeal to principled conservatism still does well but as i said earlier, she knows she s putting her political life on the line. and doing this on behalf of the
her appeal to principled conservatism is still boding well, but as i said earlier, she knows she is putting her political life on the line in doing this on behalf of the constitution of the united states of america, and our democracy. and she s willing to lose her office because that s not the most important thing she holds dear. what she holds dear is our country. she would rather stand for the constitution than wyoming. carlos, when you watch tonight, it is unclear if it helped the committee or if it helped democrats but it definitively did not help donald trump. if you re in florida tonight, that s your home state, if you re ron desantis, are you watching this and seeing the lane get even clearer or wider for you to take on trump in 2024? tonight was as democrats, laid out a whole lot of attack ads tonight. tonight was definitely a great night for any rival of donald trump within the republican party. they won t criticize him publicly, they don t want to be
goal is public service. i worked with liz cheney in 2000 and 2004. i ve had criticisms of liz cheney, related to the iraq war and a number of other things i ve had, of her. but i think she s much more worried. i mean, much more concerned about what happens with our democracy and our constitution than her political life. she is behind, as far as i can tell, she is behind. i don t dismiss the odds of her winning in that. i think her appeal to principled conservatism still does well but as i said earlier, she knows she s putting her political life on the line. and doing this on behalf of the constitution of the united states of america. and our democracy. and she is willing to lose her office because that s not the most important thing she holds dear, what she holds here as our country. standing for the constitution, than wyoming. carlos, when you watch tonight, it s unclear if it help the committee, or if it helped