says the president should call it quits after one term. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett, outfront tonight, mentally gone, detached from reality or just a liar. put star witness of today s january 6th committee hearing was trump s attorney general, bill bar who says in no uncertain terms that he made it clear to trump that the lies about a stolen election were exactly that lies. but according to barr, and many other trump aides who testified, trump didn t care. there was never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were. there was somewhat demoralized because i thought boy, if he really believes this stuff, he has, you know, lost contact with he s become detached from reality, if he really believes this stuff. and the so-called stuff being peddled by the president and his rag-tag team of lawyers, this is how they were described by the trump aides and officials who looked into them. they were idiotic claims, b bullshit, crazy, complet
were false and misguided and then said about trump, quote, if he really believes this stuff, he has, you know, lost contact with, he s become detached from reality. congressman, this is a crucial point. do you think it is possible that trump became detached from reality? that he really just lost it? that he started to believe all this stuff? that he wasn t intentionally misleading people? or do you know that he knew, that he knew and he did know it was a lie? you know, the president, the vice-president, the cabinet, all of those people rejected the house of representatives effort to get them to invoke the 25th amendment to at least meet to consult on that question. so at this point, it s kind of moot. we have to assume that he was a rational actor and i do assume he was a rational actor. there was a lot of money still to be made based on this bogus bs claim as the attorney general
reported. we are a bipartisan committee that is undertaken a deadly, serious solemn investigation into the worst attack on the capitol of our united states in our history, the first one to interrupt the peaceful transition of power. so i understand there might be more bogus, nonsense, bs claims coming from the former president but that s just quoting his own attorney general, william barr, who he praised so much over the years. you re right, he did praise him and you re right that is what the attorney general, you played him, saying about the president today. i want to ask you one other thing today that stood out and got a lot of people talking, congressman, and that was the allegati allegations that giuliani was drunk, that s why he went on to tell trump to do it early, the context was that he was presumably drunk. now, giuliani s lawyer now denying this allegation but i want to understand from you why you felt it was important to
insurrection. congresswoman zo lofgren even has evidence that trump s family members benefitted from the money raised. the fiancé of donald trump jr. says she was paid $60,000 as a speaking fee to speak at the elipse at that rally before the january 6th capitol attack, erin, we reached out to kimberly, so far, no comment. all right, thank you very much, jessica. and i want to go outfront now to a member of the house six, january 6th committee, democrat congressman jamie rasken and congressman, i always appreciate your time. it does seem, you ve heard the reporting there, but it seems watching this that your committee is making the case that financial crimes were committed here and of course, you know more than we do at this point. do you believe there is a criminal case? well, the key point that came across today was that donald trump was perfectly aware that he was telling the big lie. he was being told by everyone from his campaign manager, bill
is joining me. after the impeachment hearing on monday, the house judiciary committee is going to draft articles of impeachment. i went to washington, d.c. to talk with a member of the committee who may know more than most about it. jamie rasken, a professor of constitutional law who joined us for our latest installment of up. after the exit of kamala harris from the presidential race, big questions about the democrats and diversity. sought manifest in a new dust-up between mike bloomberg and cory booker. the dnc vice chair will join us. to be or not to be about medicare for all. among the 2020 dems, we re going to talk about it, plus this headline obamacare is working and how might this change the conversation? that discussion, next.