donald trump made during the violence of january 6th ever be trusted with any position of authority in our great nation again? that was congresswoman liz cheney with a question, an extraordinary question, closing this round of hearings from the january 6th committee. it was a question, but it also seems to be the main argument from the committee as they presented new evidence of what they called donald trump s dereliction of duty during the insurrection. i m john berman, brianna is off, chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is here. and what a remarkable night that was. i mean, going through that hearing, all of these have had a little bit of new information, but last night i think they really tried to get behind the scenes, which is what we have been trying to do as reporters since that day of what was going on. the confirmations of things that had been reported by terrific reporters like you, but also new elements, new audio, new video that in some cases i d
mccarthy, he was subpoenaed, he has gone awol, no consequences. you know who can subpoena kevin mccarthy and probably make him testify is prosecutors. ellie honing, thank you very much for that. joining us now to break all of this down is maggie haberman, cnn political analyst and senior political correspondent for the new york times. danielle goldman, former federal prosecutor and the house s lead impeachment counsel. and norm eisen. norm, the purpose that the committee wanted to get done last night was to establish that there was a dereliction of duty on trump s behalf. do you think they effectively did so? i do think they showed a dereliction of duty. it wasn t only the mountain of evidence that they poured in, contrasting the violence on the capitol and everyone in the white house wanting trump to do something, pence reaching out to the pentagon, others making efforts, trump totally failed.