their time. and it was a great, grave disservice for the country. i respect attorney general barr. so, i accepted what he was saying. tonight, congressman jamie raskin on the big, new things we learned on night one. and what they say about donald trump s consciousness of guilt. we weren t finding anything that would be sufficient to change the results in any of the key states. plus, with the incredible focus on to trump militia groups says about what is to come. you say that proud boys members increased after the stand back stand by comment? exponentially. i would say tripled, probably. and the potential for a lot more, eventually. and how trump s propaganda network keeps finding new ways to launder a coup. sean hannity wrote, in part, key now know more crazy people. when all in starts right now good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. the country still processing the testimony from last night s inaugural primetime hearing of the january 6th commit
who are like, this is bs, we don t see them. but they talk to you! right? that was the other big part of it. it s like, there s a bunch of people around who are like, absolutely not. we haven t gotten to hear them. and if i can editorialize, i m looking forward to reading through those [inaudible] to read what they had to say. we will watch more on monday, very much looking forward to. it congressman jamie raskin, thank you very much. you bet. still to come, the committees calculated decision to focus much of the first hearing on the involvement of, as you hear the congressman say, those right-wing gangs, those militia groups. why that matters, what it sets up for the rest of the hearings, next. rings, next
their time. and it was a great, grave disservice for the country. i respect attorney general barr. so, i accepted what he was saying. tonight, congressman jamie raskin on the big, new things we learned on night one. and what they say about donald trump s consciousness of guilt. we weren t finding anything that would be sufficient to change the results in any of the key states. plus, with the incredible focus on to trump militia groups says about what is to come. you say that proud boys members increased after the stand back stand by comment? exponentially. i would say tripled, probably. and the potential for a lot more, eventually. and how trump s propaganda network keeps finding new ways to launder a coup. sean hannity wrote, in part, key now
demanded that mike pence do wasn t just wrong. it was illegal and it was unconstitutional. you will hear this in great detail from the vice president s former general counsel. witnesses in these hearings will explain how the former vice president and his staff informed president trump over and over again that what he was pressuring mike pence to do was illegal. last night, the january 6th committee held its first hearing on the attack on our democracy. who is the first hearing of seven, which are expected to be scattered over the next weeks. the next hearing, if you want to put this in your calendar, will be on monday, 10 am eastern, with live coverage here and special analysis in this hour of everything we ve learned. so, definitely tune in then. joining me now is a member of that committee, committee congressman jamie raskin, a democrat of maryland, who also served as lead impeachment manager for donald trump s
second impeachment. congressman raskin, good to have you on. i think going in yesterday, i was wrestling with, like, what is the genre of this thing? what does this look like? what does it sound like? what is it? and so i always impressed, honestly, at a craft level by why you presented last night. how did the committee think about it? what did they think the hearings are? what are you trying to do in them? well, one thing we are trying to do is to change peoples concept and understanding of what a hearing is. because for the last several years, based on trump s gop, a hearing has just been members coming in and then engaging in polemical combat and fighting each other. and engaging in ad hominem insults so, we have a real bipartisan committee, in a sense that we are all together. we have a common purpose. we are trying to draw on