investigation as the testimony, of course, of them, themselves, as well, giving evidence about the coordination of trump s plans leading up to and on the day of the riot, about who spoke to the president that day, who also was in the when things were happening and what the president may have told them. maybe communications about what exactly was happening inside of the white house over those nearly 187 minutes. well over three hours. filling in the gaps. gaps between when donald trump told his supporters to go to the capitol and when he tweeted a video to the rioters telling them that he loved them and to go home. now, we know that s the very focus of thursday s primetime hearing and we have someone tonight who knows the people who were in the white house with then-president trump during those three hours and he knows them quite well. trump s former active chief of staff nick mulvaney, he knows matthew pottinger, one of trump s deputy national security advisors scheduled to t
testimony but a crime. and he didn t have the courage or guts to show up here any says a staffer. i challenge benny thompson today to have it come to this courthouse. he s going to be charged with a crime. he s got to be man enough to show up here. well we all know that many thompson has covid right now. but there is also the idea of that statement. benny thompson is not prosecuting anybody. he s in a different branch of the government entirely. right? i think that a deal was cut there between ben and his lawyer was his lawyer said, look, you really got to keep a lid on it in the courtroom. let me be do the talking. but a lot to chant on the courtroom steps. you know the lawyer, right? you used to work with him at the same office, right? it doesn t surprise you that ease that vocal outside? certainly the judges a trump appointee he s going to know that they re talking on the courthouse steps at some point. that is not open the judge will get him in trouble? i think it will. i m
i think that is problematic for him. i think that is probably a different and difficult kind to control. that is the understatement of the year. what do you think? i think it is a mistake, always, to let a client speaks to media like that. and what was so bizarre to me. listening to sleep and. it is that he challenged and said that benny thompson didn t have the guts to shop the court. steve bannon didn t have the guts enough to show up in front of congress person to a lawful subpoena. he just basically he did have the guts, he did have the courage, he could hide behind a microphone for his podcast and breitbart. but he didn t have the guts enough to stand on the committee and the question about what he did. as they say. details details, about the facts of life. and since i did reference the prices right. i remind population to have your yeah i used to watch with my grandma. thank you so much. doug jones, shampoo, and doug high. thank you everyone, we ll be right back. roug
of covid. 150 million people voted in this election and a lot of people don t have faith in the electoral process and we never really got to finish what we started that day because of this unfortunate event. and i condemn the people that did that. president trump condemned the people that did that. he said they don t represent his america and they should be prosecuted and i agree. well when we talk about how we got there it didn t help that people like you didn t want to certify the results of the election without any proof of the same right? benny thompson didn t want to approve the election in 2005 and he is leading this commission. every republican resident in this century was challenged and questioned by democrats the same way we did on january 6th. hold on a second. i don t remember house democrats standing up and saying we refuse to certify this presidential election. remind me when that happened? well, i don t know we stood up and refused to certify the election. we want
really got to finish what we started that day because of this unfortunate event. and i condemn the people that did that. president trump condemned the people that did that. he said they don t represent his america and they should be prosecuted and i agree. well when we talk about how we got there it didn t help that people like you didn t want to certify the results of the election without any proof of the same right? benny thompson didn t want to approve the election in 2005 and he is leading this commission. every republican resident in this century was challenged and questioned by democrats the same way we did on january 6th. hold on a second. i don t remember house democrats standing up and saying we refuse to certify this presidential election. remind me when that happened? well, i don t know we stood up and refused to certify the election. we wanted to look at the constitutionality of the voting process in several states like pennsylvania, georgia, and arizona. they d a