unsealed by the justice department. among those documents, the search warrant and property receipt of once the fbi was after, both obtained by nbc, and confirming an investigation into potential crimes associated with violations of the espionage act. after the agency removed nearly two dozen boxes of material, 11 sets of qualified documents, some of them top secret. were removed from trump s mar-a-lago office six days ago. two months after a trump lawyer signed a letter saying all classified material had been returned to the government. that is according to new reporting from the new york times, citing four sources familiar with the letter. regardless, over the last week, their response from republican politicians has ranged from uncritical solidarity with trump, to an increasingly marked silence, as the depth of the implication becomes too extreme to dance around. of course, that hasn t stopped many from trying, as some republican lawmakers continue to demonize federal law e
our democracy. joining me now is democratic congressman jim himes of connecticut. he s a member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, thank you so much for staying up late and being part of our special coverage tonight. let me broadly ask you sir if i can, your broad takeaways of this final hearing that we heard and overall the eight hearings that we witnessed? well thank you for having me a man. i think i was one of the last of the congressman out of the chambers on that day and remember the weapons that were drawn in the insurrection. i remember seeing them displayed out on the ground just outside the chamber as they reasserted control over the capitol. despite that, i will tell you that getting the full picture, how this was a comprehensive, detailed plan with all kinds of different aspects right? we re gonna call the secretaries of state of georgia and demand the precise number of votes to be found too i would let me win the election. setting up fake elector
good evening. earlier this week i received a positive covid diagnosis. pro cdc guidelines i have received the initial two shots and all of the boosters. thus far i have been blessed to experience very minimal symptoms. because i am still quarantined i cannot participate in person with my colleagues. i have asked vice chair miss cheney to preside over this evening s hearing, including maintaining order in the room and swearing in our witnesses. over the last month and a half, the select committee has told a story of a president who did everything in his power to overturn an election. he lied, he bullied, he betrayed his oath. he tried to destroy our democratic institutions. he summoned a mob to washington. afterward, on january 6th, when he knew that the assembled mob was heavily armed and angry, he commanded the mob to go to the capital, and he emphatically commanded the heavily armed mob to fight like hell. for the weeks between november election and january 6th, donald tr
that is how trump insiders describe the former president election lies to the january 6th committee. it was all part of today s public hearing. cnn s ryan nobles has the highlights right now. we were getting ready to win this election. frankly, we did win this election. reporter: donald trump s false claim that he won the 2020 election before all the votes were counted. a lie he continues to peddle, but one that some of his closest advisers told the january 6th committee they did not believe. like his attorney general. he s become detached from reality if he really believes the stuff. reporter: s campaign manager. i didn t think what was happening was necessarily honest or professional. reporter: and several top campaign lawyers. i remember telling him, that, i didn t believe the dominion allegations, but they put were proposing, i thought was nuts. theory was also that s. reporter: trump s insistence that he won the election despite a wide range of evidence t
campaign propaganda. by the democratic party. every challenge same. nothing like this ever happened in this country. now news anchor disslowing for half. other side can speak. evidence is presented, and evidence not censored or edited. so what we saw last night was not hearing it was a show trial. there with a no pretense ever fairness or cac rat see. the whole thing was convinced by what they saw last night? right around 0. they are not going to win single vote so why did they do it? there had to be a reason. well reason they did every minute news anchors are winding but some imaginery from every minute they are doing they they are not covering collapse of american economy. something that everybody actually cares about. fox i would today, inflation hit 8.6 apifr that s official numbers. those are numbers arrived at using god s own metrics but still increase inflation in more than 40 years not surprising consumer confidence did he lowest level ever reported. why? really comes