tonight, brand-new januar 6th committee transcripts, jus in, as we analyze the full report, and where all of the investigations go from here. then, from dangerous weather to tripledemic illness on th rise what you need to know, heading into this holiday weekend. looking back at this consequential week, and th focus on fighting for democracy, and freedom, both here, an abroad our favorite historians, her to put it all in perspective as a special, extra earl addition of the 11th hour is underway, on this friday night good evening once again i am stephanie ruhle nearly 24 hours after its fina report was made public, tonight, the january 6th committe released a new batch of witnes transcripts. they are from interviews wit key people in trump administration, including, bil barr, pat cipollone, kayleig mcenany, hope hicks, and his daughter, and senior adviser ivanka trump we will break down what we are learning in just a moment, but first, the committee s repor is wrapping up
to tripledemic illness on th rise. what you need to know, heading into this holida weekend. looking back at thi consequential week, and th focus on fighting for democracy, and freedom, both here, an abroad. our favorite historians, here to put it all i perspective, as a special, extra early addition of th 11th hour is underway, on this friday night. good evenin once again. i am stephanie ruhle. nearly 24 hours after its final report was mad public, tonight, the january 6th committee released a new batch of witness transcripts they are from interviews wit key people in trump administration, including, bil barr, pat cipollone, kayleig mcenany, hope hicks, and his daughter, and senior adviser ivanka trump. we will brea down what we are learning in just a moment, but first, th committee s report is wrapping up its 18 month investigation, and it is very clear about the main reason for the attack o art american democracy. th panel says, the central caus was one man. former presi
the local side, it is clea that that intelligence that we all had was ignored on one side, and not ignored on the d. c. governments side. as you see i the reports, they canceled tim off, they had older officers out there that were available, myself we had our intelligence center, and we lean forward in the report that said specifically that loca government was proactive i their attempts to make sur that what we all saw was going to have an online bid. lastly, i will say that the report say that law enforcement intelligence could not hav prepared for the unimaginable. i push back on that. that is our job, our job every day these men and women go to work and you don t know who the are. they are intelligence officials, security officials, and their job is to plan for those things that ar unimaginable. in fact, a wee before january 6th, we did jus that. we did what we cal structure analytical technique and we went through variou scenarios. one of the scenario
so to say that the intelligenc community and law enforcemen was not predicting this and ca never have imagined, i think i takes a lot of what you saw on the protective side off of the hook that is kind of the head-scratcher it wasn t unimaginable, it was unimaginable we have reporters at nbc withi 48 hours before the capito riots saying oh my god something horrible is going to happen, all sorts of different outlets were in those channels and they said this thing i coming in good faith, caroline forsma toward the committee reall even say that this was unimaginable it wasn t. it wasn t, and my oldes daughter, she texted me tw days before this, she said dad is it going to be safe for you to go to work? she works in d.c.. she said my job is letting u out early or telling us that w can take off it looks pretty bad online so my daughter who is not an intelligence agent or homeland security professional we all knew that my issue, and this is not to
bad person and thought him and his associates plotted, an planned, and instigated januar 6th. so if you are waiting 18 month for that, congratulations. a person in the field, we ar waiting for a more in-dept review of not the intelligence failures i want to make sure the report said clearly that there was a large amount o intelligence, and the proble is what was going on with that intelligence structurally. why was it not followed. and the report lets a lot of these agencies off the hook. when you look at the juxtaposition between what the federal government did wit that intelligence and what w did on the local side, it is clear that that intelligence that we all had was ignored on one side, and not ignored on the d.c. governments side. as you see in the reports, the canceled time off, they ha older officers out there tha were available, myself we ha