otherwise law abiding citizens to take up arms against you. but nothing, truly nothing, has prepared me to address those elected members of our government who continue to deny the events of that day. and in doing so, be tray their oath of office. fanone has worked tirelessly around the clock to make sure the events of that day are not forgotten or whitewashed. he believes it is a continuation of his service to hold everyone involved to account. in his brand new book hold the line he provides his perspective of that day and reckons with a political party that denies the horrors of what he went through and an ex-president that incited the riot. and he says the rule of la should mean something. if there is probable cause to believe trump committed crimes, and by now there is little doubt
out across the national mall. in the growing darkness we could seat blinking red lights of the washington monument in the distance. we didn t say a word. we just hugged. that is where we begin this hour with michael fanone, author of the new book hold the line. and one cop s battle for america s soul. it is so nice to get to talk to you. i don t know if you know this, we play anything you say anywhere in another network s interview, as part of the 1/6 testimony, so our viewers are very familiar with you, but we ve never had a chance to talk to you, so thank you for being here. i appreciate you take position the time to have me on. how are you doing? i m hanging in there. i was going to ask you, i talked to a member of the 1/6 committee staff about having you guys in the room and i said how
young was sentenced to more than serve years in prison. former metropolitan officer and cnn law enforcement analyst michael fanone has a new book hold the line. good morning, michael and thanks for your time. before we deferral into your book, i just want to get from you what you thought were the takeaways from this final january 6th public hearing before the election. you know it ended with a vote to subpoena donald trump and trump responded by repeating election lies. he s still trying to rile up his supporters and i wonder if you re concerned about january 6th happening again? absolutely. i mean, the one overall takeaway that i had from all of these meetings or all of the hearings was that on january 6th donald trump declared war on america, and he didn t do it figuratively. he did it literally. he raised an army of his supporters and directed them to the capitol knowing full well