go to the american public and tell them to stop this. he has to go to the american public and stop this.me kevin mccarthy was not the only republican callings on donald trump to put an end to the violence that day. we learned 11 other republicans congresswe reached out to the white house or made some kind of public statement that day to implore the president to do something, to do anything to stop the violence. in fact, his eldest son, don jr. texted then white house chief of staff mark meadows saying, he s got to condemn this asap. the capitol police tweet is not enough. and he has to lead now.as it has gone too far. and gotten out of hand. three different fox news hosts sean hannity, laura ingram, brian, all of them, all texted meadows saying trump needed to make a statement telling people to leave. that is what we know was happening outside of the white house during the 187mens from trump s speech on the ellipse urging supporters to fight like hell andel when he finally
state of alabama, that proved to be too much. it actually went too far. so, it s not like the rubber band can stretch forever. the question now, in georgia is, how far can a stretch and that s what we will be watching. jelani cobb, thank you very much. thank you. much thank you very much. thank you. that is all in on this tuesday night. msnbc prime starts right now. good evening. e hey, good evening to you, chris.ni thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. you probably won t hear him talk this way again, but i want to play this for you. this was what the top house republican kevin mccarthy said on live television back on january 6th 2021 as the attack on the capitol was unfolding in realtime. i have spoken to the president. i asked him to talk to the nation to tell them to stop this. i told him he needs to talk to the nation. i was very clear with the president when i called him. this hasen to stop and he s goto