republican congressman. we will wear that any members of congress had [inaudible] mr. gates and mr. brooks mr. gates was the first to ask for a pardon. [inaudible] i m sorry. the only reason i know to ask for a pardon is because you think you have committed a crime. the president is getting very agitated and he said, people tell me i should just get rid of both of you and change the leadership, put jeff clarke in, maybe something will finally get done. i thought that it was [inaudible] how does the president even know mr. clark? i said, so suppose i do the, suppose i replace him, replace with [inaudible] jeff clark. what would you do? i said, mr. president, i would rather resign immediately. stephanie ruhle, all here for our special primetime recap of the fifth day of the january 6th hearings. good evening from msnbc headquarters, i m rachel. i am joined here by my beloved colleagues lawrence o donnell, nicole wallace, joy reid, ari melber. and if that s
adamant that he had one and that we were not doing our job. the president said, just say the election is corrupt and leave the rest to me and well. republican congressman. we will wear that any members of congress had [inaudible] mr. gaetz and mr. brooks mr. gaetz was the first to ask for a pardon. mr. biggs did, mr. gohmert asked as well. i m sorry. the only reason i know to ask for a pardon is because you think you have committed a crime. the president is getting very agitated and he said, people tell me i should just get rid of both of you and change the leadership, put jeff clarke in, maybe something will finally get done. i thought the puzzle was asinine. how does the president even know mr. clark? i said, so suppose i do the, suppose i replace him, replace him, jeff rosen, with him, jeff clark. what would you do? i said, mr. president, i would rather resign immediately. but so baloney said this is a murder suicide pact. tonight rachel maddow, nic
intended to intimidate lawmakers. if we have to, we re going to go to homes and let them know what we think about them. there were multiple protests. i don t remember the exact number, three at least outside either my district office or my home. you re correct. my then 15-year-old son was home by himself for the first one. all of my personal information was online. it was my personal email, my personal cell phone, my home phone number. in fact, we had to disconnect our home phone for about three days because it would ring all hours of the night, would fill up with messages. brian butt cutler, we re outside. outlining pressure from trump aides and the ex-president himself to peddle the big lie even as team trump admitted they didn t have any evidence. he said we ve got lots of theories, we just don t have the evidence. and i don t know if that was a gaff. maybe he didn t think through what he said. both myself and others in my group and my counsel both remembered tha
and he needed to see, this is the toughest, smartest, baddest guy in the room. y in the r oom. instead, he s got a nerd in the chair who is just being kind of horribly slapped around by everybody there. and trump s imagining, i am going to put it all on this guy shoulders and tonight, tonight trump has to wonder, is jeffrey clark my gordon lady? is he going to do five years for me? or is he jeff majority? it s going to be the first one to flip? and when he flips, what does he say? yeah, i think all that is true. the other thing that is bad for trump s, he didn t stop, as lawrence is explaining, because it was illegal. he stopped because it looked like it wouldn t work to steal the election. and he still had something that he still wanted to pull off on the sixth. so, this was not just some random i mean, we cover the night of the election, he was lying election i. that was before the thing was called. but he had a lot more time left than, in his mind. here, if that was on the front
the sixth. so, this was not just some random i mean, we cover the night of the election, he was lying election i. that was before the thing was called. but he had a lot more time left than, in his mind. here, if that was on the front pages, if everybody was working from that, and the doj was hollowed out, that was going to interrupt the other thing you want to do on the sixth, which is to try to get these fraudulent electors and mike pence to at least slow down the certification. so, he really had a, potentially, illicit reason to not blow himself up on the third. and we do get sort of the unity of the plot. right? it s not that there are 1 million different ways he is trying to pursue holding on to power. it is all, sort of, when idea. if this eastman derived idea, that you can get the states that he didn t win to nevertheless say that he won