undercuts the defense of a rally just getting out of hand, and this was revealed by furtive texts from trump s own aides. potus is going to have us march there/the capitol. potus is going to caller fit unexpectedly. it was planned, so it was expected. that text shows how donald trump was cooking up a lie to make it look spontaneous. that s also bad because it shows some of trump s intent by hiding it in advance and that the whole march was what trump turned to after a grave meet that was plotting a military role in a coup in the united states to take over your country, democracy and government. this is heavy stuff. this was also part of what was documented today, where some of trump s most extreme plotters pushed for him to abuse pow we are an illegal order to seize voting machines. his team of outside advisers paid him a surprise visit. they proposed the immediate mass seizure of state election machines by the u.s. military. it got to the point where the screaming wa
the january 6th hearing is appealing to both. it s pushing people to feel u.s. democracy is under assault. many insiders, political pros, people who populate your tv screen all day had a gnawing feeling the presentation on thursday would not sway public opinion. the fact pattern should convince steptics to care more about the attack on the capitol and all of trump world s dishonorable conduct in the winter of 2020. but this is where the facts come into conflict with feelings. i m with jim sciutto on this one. the cnn anchor was sick of all the chatter whether any minds will be changed on thursday night. that s not our job, he wrote. our job is to report and disseminate the facts, and that s what we do. it s also a fact the american media has been so split apart, and that split affects every story we cover. it s like the weather. it has to be factored into everything all the time. fox news put the facts refusing to air thursday evening instead showing video while tucker carlso
the attack. the former fox news s political editor, around the election desk, that was the first call arizona for joe biden will testify. he has been sharply critical with his former fox colleague s coverage of the election, and spurred lies about it afterwards. on wednesday, you get your former actor attorney general jeffrey rosen. that hearing will be focused on trump s efforts to replace him with an official that supported his false voter fraud claims. and on thursday, the hearing will focus on trump s efforts to pressure mike pence, to refuse to certify the 2020 election. today, chairman bennie thompson said the committee has the goods. everything we possess everything we present, will be able to verify. if there is anyone who disagrees in which we present, all they have to do is come before the committee, take we will swap them, then put with him under oath, and they can talk. about 20 million people in the u.s. joined into last night s hearings, according to ear
tonight, the january 6th hearings. good evening. thank you so much for being here with us tonight. we know that you have a lot of options for where to watch and how to watch tonight s hearing. it makes us all the more grateful that you have chosen to be here with us on msnbc. i m rachel maddo with joy reid. tonight is a big night for us. a big night for american democracy. we have had a few other instances in our modern history of big, public hearings. all the networks scuttling their schedules to air the proceedings live, but none of us have ever covered something quite like this before. the january 6th investigation is about the first time in american history that the transfer of power between presidents was not peaceful. tonight in the ornate cannon caucus room inside the u.s. capitol the january 6 ths investigators said they would give them a skralg amount. the investigators plan to show video footage from the attack that s never been seen by the public before, including
exactly the worst attack on the u.s. capitol in more than 200 years came to be. who was behind it and how the threat still looms over every aspect of american democracy? the washington post is reporting this about what to expect this. bennie thompson and liz cheney will lead the evening s presentation which will lead testimony from caroline edwards, she is a u.s. capitol police officer who was seriously nnged as pro-trump rioters and members of far-right extremist groups forced their way into the building. here s what january 6th committee member congressman jamie raskin told nbc s garrett haake to have officer edwards testify tonight. 150 officers ended up wounded, injured, hospitalized. the united states capitol has never seen anything like that. we ve had officers who ended up with broken ribs, broken vertebrae, broken arms, legs, feet, missing fingers, contusions, concussions and traumatic brain injuries and post-traumatic stress syndrome that dozens and dozens of the