the dramatic bodycam. the hero who saved five people trapped inside a burning home. and a game of catch on the ultimate field of dreams inspiring america. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone president biden in a late-night press conference from saudi arabia defending his visit to a country he once labeled a pariah state. the president arriving in jeddah where he came face to face and fist to fist in a heavily scrutinized greeting with crown prince muhammad bin salman mr. biden telling reporters he raised the murder of washington post journalist jamal khashoggi at the top of their meeting the president saying he pushed back on the crown prince s claim of innocence the president walking a political and diplomatic tightrope hoping to hold saudis rulers to account for human rights abuses while securing more saudi oil to further bring down gas prices here at home peter alexander is there and was able to question the president. reporter
turning up the pressure on pat cipollone to testify after hutchinson revealed that cipollone was worried that he and trump s entire team would face a litany of criminal charges if trump went to the capitol on january 6th. hutchinson said the president knew his supporters were armed and trying to join them. there are also new questions, though, about the former white house aide s claims that trump lunged for the steering wheel of his presidential suv when secret service agents told him he couldn t go to the capitol. now the secret service tells the committee that agents are willing to dispute that story under oath. cnn s ryan nobles is on capitol hill. ryan, big day for the committee. do we know what s next? reporter: well, there s no doubt, victor, and alson that the committee seems to be razor focused on pat cipollone the former white house counsel and his role in all of this. to this point he s only had very base level conversations with the committee. he has not had an
whose reporting did more than most to make it clear that watergate was for more than the simple break-in it first appeared to be. it s worth mentioning now because contrary to the impression people might have today, knowledge about what watergate truly was in size and scope and the threat to democracy it posed did not come all at once all neatly wrapped up in a bow. it was revealed in day by day slices of the truth by bob and carl and so many others. that notion seems just as true tonight, 50 years later, when it comes to the latest assault on democracy. we ve had plenty of revelations almost since the capitol was attacked, so many that it s hard to keep track, and harder still to be surprised or imagine any of it changes what we think we already know. yet this week, the house january 6 committee, even as it tries to bundle up the scandal and tie a bow around it, has also delivered plenty that is new. and today promised more. listen to kmut tee member zoe lofgren today on cnn
impression people might have today, knowledge about what watergate truly was in size and scope and the threat to democracy it posed did not come all at once all neatly wrapped up in a bow. it was revealed in day by day slices of the truth by bob and carl and so many others. that notion seems just as true tonight, 50 years later, when it comes to the latest assault on democracy. almost since the day capitol was attacked, so many that it s hard to keep track, and harder still to be surprised or imagine any of it changes what we think we already know. yet this week, the house january 6 committee, even as it tries to bundle up the scandal and tie a bow around it, has also delivered plenty that is new. and today promised more. listen to committee member zoe lofgren today on cnn talk about donald trump s effort to strong arm georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger after the election. i think we ve all heard the infamous phone call where then-president trump was trying to fo
more than a thousand witness interviews including those with leaders from the proud boys from the doj s letter in part, read this, it is now readily apparent that the interviews the select committee conducted are not just potentially relevant to our overall criminal investigations, but are likely relevant to specific prosecutions that have already commenced. well, the news that we alluded to this afternoon, a spokesman confirmed an earlier new york times scoop to our team on the hill that the committee will cooperate with the doj. what that could mean and how that partnership could play out, we will have more on that in just a few moments, but first, one of this week s central questions was whether or not the committee would eventually vote on referring trump to the department of justice for a potential criminal case. watching yesterday s explosive hearing, politico suggests this, the committee is making that referral in its own way presenting evidence in a clear chronology t