did it we know who did it, it becomes from the tension path storytelling standpoint how you communicate and capture the public s attention about that story. well, there are lots of characters who are not known to the broad public tonight were involved in this. there were a number of heroes who surfaced throughout this process and we want to make sure that we re profiling them as well as the villains of this story but it s very important to know how it was done as well as whodunnit. and that s what the citizens in the world s greatest multiracial, multi religious, multi cultural constitutional democracy need to know, what are the weaknesses that these reactionaries all right neo-fascist forces conspire to take advantage of. because they did, and it will be both agonizing and riveting for the country to see how
january six committee and he joins me now. it s striking at the end of the list, congressman, at the end of it it seems a lot of people very close to the president have cooperated with the committee given testimony. nobody wants to get left behind because the truth is coming out in the way that it s supposed to in a democracy and it s kind of the way you journalists operate saying we ll have everyone else speaking to us, but not you unless you decide to come forward. it s like a woodwork [laughs] exactly no one wants to get left on the dock, you know. but the truth is the whole country now knows the basic outline of the story. we don t know exactly when every single person was doing at every moment, but we know that there was one line of attack which was a violent insurrection unprecedented and our history injuring wounding hospitalizing more than 150 of our police officers and interrupting the peaceful transfer of power for the first time in american history.
you could feel that in your bones, you really can. i have 1000th of a connection to it that you do but it feels very clear. again, your reporting on this has been essential and i thank you for making the time with us. thank you. all right coming up an update on a story i brought to you last night on a january six defendant who blamed trump for his actions at the capitol. didn t take long for the jury to come back with a verdict. we ll give you that to you after this.