say, listen, listen to what we re going to tell you. in addition to what we told you in the previous handful of hearings. listen to what we re going to tell you. watch what we re going to show you today. after he was told by officials on the federal level, inside the white house, on the state level, anybody who he could listen to, who actually knew what was going on, who had the evidence. especially bill barr, he just looked for people who would tell him what he wanted to hear. and then what today showed was that when he didn t get those people to help him, he turned to the people he knew would listen, his twitter followers, oath keepers. just to underline what we re seeing now, we re seeing, if you put the pictures back up, we re seeing images of some of the police officers that have already testified and specifically the one in the middle there, sergeant acalino. staff sergeant, a former u.s. army sergeant, iraq war veteran, who was so gravely wounded defending the capito
behavior have a tough time leaving the circle? it beats me, honestly. i don t know why the phenomenon exists, but it s certainly very strong. and this is another example of it. but you see it in members of congress who on january 6th or the day after said this is it, i have had my ride, and they re right back on to mar-a-lago. it s a big mistake. a big mistake for the republican party. we re not the party of a man on a white horse. we re a party of conservative philosophy. if we get back to that, and i think we will, we re going to overcome the problem. this is another place, i want to be clear here, i think the committee, some of the members of the committee are going too far. congressman raskin at the end of the hearing today talked about the republican party having a problem of authoritarianism. that is flatly wrong. not to mention insulting, but flatly wrong. what he s trying to do is use trump, about whom i ll say it again, i have nothing good to say, he s trying to use donald t
proud boys, you would have to have a conspiracy and a plan. what they did lay out was the idea that this was not coincidence. this is not happenstance. it wasn t as if on january 6th they had an epiphany and said let s all gather today here. no spontaneity, that s gone. they knew all this, and remember, the phrase put up or shut up, which pat cipollone talked about. put up or shut up. there was no evidence to support the fact that any of what the people were being told at the capitol was legitimate. there was no widespread fraud. trump knew that. his team told him, his lawyers told him. he still decided here is the last-ditch effort. i will summon these people to come here and then do what you will. he knew there were weapons in the crowd. this is so important. so the last hearing, we know there were weapons in the crowd. he didn t care about that. he still wanted to march on the capitol. now we have an archival draft tweet that wasn t sent, which talked about going to the capito