continues on the 11th hour with stephanie role and that starts right now! right now! good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle! breaking news tonight, just over one hour ago, january six committee released its final report. it is 845 pages long and it comes after a nearly 18 month investigation into the attack on the capitol and donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. the report begins with a forward from house speaker pelosi, committee chairman bennie thompson, and vice left knee. the false narrative that set off the deadly riot at the capitol in eight detail chapters. it starts with the big lie. former president trump s false narrative of his stolen election. we have a lot to dig into so let s get smarter! with the help of our lead off panel tonight it is a great and a very important one. caroline, egg plus a prize winning reporter from the washington post. katie benner, pulitzer prize -winning justice department reporter for the new yo
had a few minutes with the report. andrew, let me get your first reactions to anything that has leapt out at you, if anything. recognizing that you ve only had a few minutes, i m gonna give you more time to read, this but this is just your first headline reaction to it. yeah no i see dan and i are doing the same thing. we are trying to do two things at the same time. this is a monumental, or as you said, it is over 800 pages and there are four appendices that look fascinating, addressing such minor issues as the preparation of law enforcement to meet the challenges of january 6th and whether there was foreign interference in the 2020 election there were these appendices, and they re trying to take the entire report. and then the table of contents is really, to me, attracts what i think is the genius of the january six committee. which is really focusing on all of the different ways that the former president tried to stay in office. as opposed to just thinking about january
through this report as has everyone. hold on a minute. i don t point out that we may be the most reading the most important news night of the year and i am looking at an all-female panel! let s do it joyce, what sticks out to you the most so far? so what you can see immediately when you dig into the report is how much trouble the committee went to to document absolutely everything that they are saying. there and notes in every chapter, extensively documenting the committees and narrative that you read through. and so for instance, when you get to one important point where the committee is saying, it was apparent that everyone there was an enormous risk of violence that night, and the president should have canceled his speech on the ellipse, or someone in the white house would ve canceled it for her. you can then read in the ad notes all of the evidence that supports that and judge that for yourself. really, the committee has written a living document for the public to tak
panel tonight it is a great and a very important one. caroline, egg plus a prize winning reporter from the washington post. katie benner, pulitzer prize -winning justice department reporter for the new york times. former u.s. attorney joyce vance who spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor. she s also a law professor at the university of alabama. professor melissa murray, and where you live school, she was a law clerk for sonia on the federal bench before her nomination to the supreme court. all right gang! let s roll our sleeves up! we got a lot to get through joyce, you ve been reading through this report as has everyone. hold on a minute . i don t point out that we may be the most reading the most important news night of the year and i am looking at an all-female panel! let s do it joyce, what sticks out to you the most so far? so what you can see immediately when you dig into the report is how much trouble the committee went to to document absolutely everything that they are
forward from house speaker pelosi, committee chairman bennie thompson, and vice left knee. the false narrative that set off the deadly riot at the capitol in eight detail chapters. it starts with the big lie. former president trump s false narrative of his stolen election. we have a lot to dig into so let s get smarter! with the help of our lead off panel tonight it is a great and a very important one. caroline, egg plus a prize winning reporter from the washington post. katie benner, pulitzer prize -winning justice department reporter for the new york times. former u.s. attorney joyce vance who spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor. she s also a law professor at the university of alabama. professor melissa murray, and where you live school, she was a law clerk for sonia on the federal bench before her nomination to the supreme court. all right gang! let s roll our sleeves up! we got a lot to get through joyce, you ve been reading