know these things now and do you think it is good? do you think it is good information and important to know? it is important to know about this now and to continue to discuss this because the story is not over. the big lie is continuing. it is continuing in states, and there are republican officials who have to make the choices that bill barr and mike pence and the rest of and mitch mcconnell, who didn t say anything, who in this article said, well, i can t say anything because the georgia senate election. think of the governor of arizona right now, doug ducey, where the republican members of the state legislature are continuing to conduct this audit and removing the power of the democratic elected secretary of state, are doing everything they can to perpetuate the big lie and to really make it harder to hold fair elections in the future. there are people like doug ducey who know better. the governor of arizona knows better and should be speaking out and should be doing somethin
so vigorously on his behalf. he watched more as a passive spectator than as the president of the united states who had helped to incite the violence unfolding little more than two miles away. trump didn t call off the intruders until almost 4:30 p.m., about a half hour after pence had called the pentagon looking for support from the national guard. that never-before-reported conflict between trump and the man whose life he endangered one of the latest examples of one of trump s most loyal allies privately breaking with him in the aftermath of the election loss. there s the account of former attorney general bill barr who willingly subverted the reputation and integrity of the justice department in service to his ex-boss. the details come to us in an interview with abc new s jonathan carl in the atlanta. quote, my attitude was, it was put-up or shut-up, barr told me. if there was evidence of fraud i
the job, and i don t know if the fund were committed but it wasn t because he thought he would commit a crime on the senior staff. it was because even trump s closest allies were cognizant of the criminality and corruption around the ex-president. do you think they re really going be to be successful in blaming this on a loose network of state, local and federal investigators and prosecutors? what the former president is trying to do is convince the republican grassroots, which are far more likely to be with him, that is the case. you ve seen throughout the presidency a durable where his numbers have stayed in the low 40s and those people believe him no matter what he says. his famous quote was shoot someone on fifth avenue and it stuck with him no matter what. i think you re seeing an effort to convince those folks of that. if there s incontrovertible or compelling evidence that there
demonstrations had told the attorney general bill barr and general mark milley he wanted thousands of active duty troops on the streets of the nation s capital. trump was talked out of the plan by the three officials. michael bender reports in his new book that trump wanted to put general milley, now a target of a coordinated right-wing smear campaign over his comments about race in charge of what could have been a brutal and violent campaign to suppress the protests. milley firmly pushed back in what quickly became a shouting match in the situation room according to an excerpt. it goes like this. quote, i said you re an f-ing charge, trump shouted at him. quote, i m not in charge, milley yelled back. quote, you can t f-ing talk to me like trump said. there s a room full of lawyers here. will someone inform him of my legal responsibilities. he s right, mr. president, bill
people feel like they don t know what is going on and let s focus on the search and rescue. for people still living in those nearby building, no, we want to know how this happened now and make sure this is safe because there are people still living here as well and tomorrow of those answers people feel they haven t gotten them enough from their own condo board. constant updates particularly to the families of those still missing. nicolle? thank you for your extraordinary reporting of just an unbelievable tragedy. thank you very much. when we come back, is the chairman of the joint chiefs milley becomes the latest manufactured villain for the right, new reporting on the role he played last year has emerged in keeping a check on trump s desperate and dangerous power grab against everyday americans. that story is next. is next