good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. today, the january 6th committee released brand-new video, showing just how reluctant donald trump was to condemn the violent insurrection he incited. now, remember of course, it took trump hours to publicly denounce the violence, and tell them up to go home. three plus hours when he finally did so, he released this truly deranged video message from the rose garden. i know your pain. i know your pain. i know your hurt. we had an election that was stolen from us. it was a landslide election, and everyone knows it, especially the other side. but you have to go home now. we have to have peace. we have to have law and order. we have to respect our great people and law and order. we don t want anybody hurt. it s a very tough period of time. there s never been a time like this, where such a thing happened, where they could take it away from all of us, from me, from you, from our country. this was a fraudulent election but, we
with the efforts of the january 6th committee, are putting the pressure on the department of justice. joining me now is a new york times reporter who has been reporting on this, michael schmidt. michael, your piece was illuminating in a lot of ways, one of them, when i saw the georgia fulton county da was investigating the fake electors, i thought, well we know the feds are looking into that too. that s the first place where we see some sort of venn diagram overlap. what does that mean inside the justice department? well i think the question and issue that has arisen out of the hearings is that, why is it that the congressional committee seems so far ahead and the prosecutor in atlanta seems so far ahead? it looks like some of that has to do with the methodical nature of the justice department. the justice department is one like a tank. takes a long time for them to move their gaze. but once they get on a target, they don t let go, in an effort to destroy it or get the bottom of it
good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. today, the january 6th committee released brand-new video, showing just how reluctant donald trump was to condemn the violent insurrection he incited. now, remember of course, it took trump hours to publicly denounce the violence, and tell them up to go home. three plus hours when he finally did so, he released this truly deranged video message from the rose garden. i know your pain. i know your pain. i know your hurt. we had an election that was stolen from us. it was a landslide election, and everyone knows it, especially the other side. but you have to go home now. we have to have peace. we have to have law and order. we have to respect our great people and law and order. we don t want anybody hurt. it s a very tough period of time.
kind of like wipe the slate clean, like, okay, here s the real condemnation this time. and last week, the january 6th committee released what essentially amounts to a blooper reel of that speech, the next day speech, the written speech on the teleprompter, where we saw trump even after his coup failed, refuse to say, pointedly, the election was over. whenever you re ready, sir. i would like to begin by addressing the heinous attack yesterday. and to those who broke the law, you will pay. you do not represent our movement. you do not represent our country. and if you broke the law can t say that. i already said you will pay. the demonstrators who infiltrated the capitol have defied the seat of i can t