it all down and are two hour fox news at night we have team coverage of tonight s prime time event standing by to offer their in-depth analysis, but we begin with correspondent live from capitol hill tonight. chad you were there the day of the riots was set out to you at the hearing tonight? herring video tonight disturbing to watch with violent pictures of writers reaching the capital and targeting police. capitol police officer carolyn edwards was knocked out defending the west front of the capital. it was something like i d seen out of movies. i couldn t believe my eyes there were officers on the ground you know they were bleeding they were throwing up i m in a soft friends with all over their faces i was flipping in people s blood. it was carnage, it was chaos. when the mob stormed the building on january 6th last year this is how i described it on the air. the most significant breach of anybody of any sort of incursion into the capital. this the most significant
here. from all of our colleagues across the networks of msnbc news, thank you for staying up late and i will see all of you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow now it is a top of the hour. we are looking at live images of the cannon caucus room at the u.s. capitol. members of the january six investigation are about to enter the room and take their seats. in terms of what we are expecting, here betty thompson is expected to gavel the hearing in the session. as i was mentioning we expect opening statements both from chairman thompson, and from the republican vice chair liz cheney. we also know that there are two live witnesses, who are slated to testify tonight. capitol hill police officer who was injured, and the attack. also documentary filmmaker, who captured footage on january 6th that we will be seeing for the first time tonight. he is and that it with the pro trump paramilitary group, the proud boys that was a subject of a seditious conspiracy, federal felony indictment earl
as a law enforcement officer, i would find myself in the middle of a battle. that s capitol police officer sharing her harrowing experiences with the insurrectionists on january 6th, as she testified in the first hearing into the attack on the united states capitol. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this friday, june 10th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. the committee investigating the january 6th attack began laying out its case in vivid detail last night. it was searing, powerful, at times hard to watch. but very necessary to do so. offering never before seen video and new evidence that investigators say shows donald trump and his advisers new that he lost the election fair and square, and yet still sought to overturn the will of the american people. committee vice chair liz cheney also presented evidence of how trump s actions led to the planning of what happened that day, that the white house knew in the days leading up to the attack that t
including during president trump s ellipse rally, indicating that elements in the crowd were preparing for violence at the capitol. over multiple months, donald trump oversaw and coordinated a sophisticated, seven-part plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the chance for a presidential power. in our hearings, you will see evidence of each element of this plan. that s the january 6th committee vice chair liz cheney laying out the case against donald trump in the first hearing into the the attack on the u.s. capitol. the committee presented new evidence and graphic, new video last night. we learned that, as trump watched his plan unfold on television, it was vice president mike pence who essentially acted as president, making calls to rush federal help to the scene. there is also new information on trump s staggering reaction to threats against his vice president s life. and how a republican congressman who assisted in the election scheme allegedly knew his a
and we ll get a live reaction from the white house. but we begin with the house committee investigating the deadly january 6 capitol insurrection. holding its first in a series of highly-anticipated public hearings last night. the panel released previously unseen footage of the riot. and featured damning testimony to make the case that the january 6th attack was the direct result of then president donald trump s desperate attempts to cling to power. the chairman of the committee congressman bennie thompson said at tack was the culmination of a attempted coup coordinated by extremist groups like the proud boys and answering trump s call. ally, after ally, claim that the election was stolen from him were false. including testimony from his former senior campaign aide, his elder daughter, his former attorney general, we want to warn you, we did not bleep the curse word bill barr used in his deposition. i made it clear i did not agree with the idea of saying the election was st