we also learned the mob s chants of hang mike pence erupted after a rioter broadcast a trump tweet about pence s decision to certify the election results. the committee revealing trump s shocking reaction. and aware of the rioters chants to hang mike pence, the president responded with this sentiment, quote, maybe our supporters have the right idea. mike pence, quote, deserves it. i m joined now by former democratic senator from minnesota and host of the al franken podcast, al franken. senator, thanks so much for being with us. we appreciate it as always. thank you, jim, for having me. absolutely. how do you think the committee did in that first prime time hearing? what was your assessment? i was very impressed, especially impressed with cheney. she gave i thought she did a devastating job. she laid out the case and not just the case, but the stakes of it. i think she showed that it wasn t just that one day, that this was a multiweek expeconspi. i think the conspi
campaign propaganda scripted by the democratic party. the effect was north korean.n. every channel the same nothing like it has ever happened in this country. now the news anchorsno faithfuly did pelosi s bidding, pretended they were airing some sort of congressional hearing, but they were lying. it was not a hearing at a hearing. dissent is permitted. the other side can speak. evidence ispr present. o evidencer is not censored or deceptively edited. that s not alloweded. it was a so what we saw last night was definitely not a hearing. trialalthere. a hearing. there was no pretense of fairness or accuracy. the whole thing was indecent. aw some of you were convinced by what they saw last night by what they saw last night they re not goingng to win a single vote. so why did they do it? e there had to be a reason there had to be a reason well,, the reason they did it ia every minute news anchors are whining about some imaginary threat from and on every is they re doing that . th
also tonight, liz cheney described kevin mccarthy as shaken on january 6th, scared and calling members of the trump family for help. now, he s calling the investigation of the attack illegitimate. what happened to the republican leader who privately said he would hold people accountable for the insurrection? plus, devastating new reporting about the police response to the uvalde shooting. according to the new york times, officers knew there were kids in need of medical help but waited to enter the classroom anyway. we begin with the legal case against trump and why it matters. as president biden declared today the violent siege against democracy is far from over. it s important to the american people to understand what truly happened and to understand that the same forces that led january 6th remain in effect today. trump lost election. we know that. you know that. the committee has now proved that trump and his advisers knew it, too. i made it clear i did not agree w
despite its record on human rights and the killing of jamal khashoggi. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper on this friday. and we start with our politics lead. and the fallout from the first primetime hearing of the january 6th committee, where it laid out new evidence and its attempt to prove former president trump concocted a massive conspiracy to stay in power, despite knowing he lost the 2020 election. republican congresswoman liz cheney detailing what she calls a seven-part plan by trump and his allies to steal the presidency. and she says as part of that plan, trump, quote, summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. and then became angry when advisers told him to call off the rioters. the committee also played a jarring new video showing exactly how the events of january 6th unfolded, including possible coordination between two of the far-right groups who were among the first to breach the capitol. committee chairman
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