present with good advice. i didn t understand how they got in. alleged conspirators invited into the white house by the president with bizarre results. can the federal government seize voting machines? it s a terrible idea. come over back down i asked pat cipollone if he had the authority to make me special counsel and he said yes. a mob summoned by the president to come not just to the national capitol setting, but to the u.s. capitol building. we are going to be only saved by millions of americans moving to washington, occupying the entire area, if necessary storming right into the capitol. there s gonna be a red wedding going down january six. so why did you decide to march to the capitol? basically, the president got everybody riled up and told everybody to come down, so we basically just followed what he said. a jarring closing revelation from the investigators. after our last hearing, president trump tried to call a witness in our investigation
across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with us. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. wit us i will the january six investigation, day seven. american carnage turned a excellent prophecy on what his rage would visit to our people. the view from inside the oval office told for the first time by trump s own white house counsel. i walked in, i saw sydney powell sitting there. i was not happy to see the people in the oval office. overstock person. i looked at him and said who are you? i don t think any of these people were providing the present with good advice. i didn t understand how they got in. alleged conspirators invited into the white house by the president with bizarre results. can the federal government seize voting machines? it s a terrible idea. come over back down pat cipollone if he had the authority to make me special counsel and he said yes. a mob summoned by the president to come not just to the national capitol setting, b
more testimony from the indicted leader of the oath keepers jason rhodes. we begin tonight with trump summoning the mob, a memorable line from liz cheney laid out exactly what happened. president trump assembled the mob and lit the flame of this abeing at all. today s hearing spelled out exactly how the mob was summoned that day and as with most things donald trump can be traced back to a tweet. in this case on december 19, 2020. as the committee showed it s important to note what happened in the frantic final weeks of the trump administration leading up to that tweet. today s hearing filled in those blanks focusing on everything that happened after december 14th, the critical date when the electors meet and the election is finally over. in fact, here s what mitch mcconnell said the very next morning. yesterday electors met in all 50 states, so as of this morning our country has officially a president-elect and a vice president-elect. many millions of us had hoped the pre
links between extremist groups like the oathkeepers and the proud boys and members of former president trump s inner circle. marshall cohen is live in washington this morning with a preview for us. how does the committee plan to connect those dots, marshall? reporter: good morning, it is all about the right wing extremist groups and donald trump and the committee has been making the case that this was so much more than a wing k and a n, this was a real affiliation to create a violent attempted overthrow. so as you mentioned, we re expecting in-person testimony from two witnesses today. i ll break them down for you. the first is a guy by the name of jason tatenhove, former national spokesman of the oathkeepers. their members breached the capitol on capital 6 and some charged with sedition. this guy tatenhove was not part of the group on that day, he hadn t been affiliated but he h critic these days of their right wing violent ideology and their anti-government views. so he w
cnn has learned that christina bobb was at least one of the people giving those assurances, even signing a letter saying so. the doj filing goes on to say the documents were, quote, likely concealed and remove frd a storage room at mar-a-lago as an effort to, quote, obstruct, unquote, the fbi investigation. it says that some recovered items were so classified that even some fbi counterintelligence personnel and others needed additional security clearances to review them. so, that s for the doj filing. now, again, just seconds ago, we got the trump team s reply. cnn s sara murray and josh campbell join us now with a look at what s in it. that s right. we are just starting to look through this. essentially what the trump team is focused on is this argument about this special master and whether there should be another outside party who is reviewing the documents that the fbi seized when they searched mar-a-lago in august. and it is very clear in this filing that the trump team