w audio of what republican lawmakers were saying just day after. i want you to hear kevin mccarthy describing what happened and how he called the then president to tell him to call off the eye rioter. on the phone call to the president telling him what was going on. asking him to tell these people to stop, to make a video and go out. i was very intense and very loud about it. he did put a tweet out and later a video out. i told him i didn t like the video out later. the second day i wish the video was first. what they are saying then and what they are saying now. then it goes onto kevin mccarthy calls for a bipartisan to investigate the circumstances around the attack and to insist we cannot just sweep this under the rug. we cannot just sweep this under the rug, he says. this is from arkansas congressman french hill pleading with his fellow republicans to get the then president to do the right thing. all of you have such a great, wonderful, warm relationship with dona
thank you, laura, see you friday. this is don lemon tonight, on the eve of the first public hearing by the committee investigating what happened on one of the darkest days of our history, we have audio of what the republicans were saying after, comes from their book this will not pass, going to talk to them on this program, don t want to miss this. but hear kevin mccarthy describing what happened when he was evacuated from office and how he called the president so tell him to call off the rioters. i made a phone call to the president telling him what was going on, asking him to tell these people to stop. to make a video and go out. and i was very intense and loud about it. he did put a tweet out, later he did put a video out. i told him i didn t like the video but wished that video was first. what they said then, what they re saying now. and then goes on, kevin mccarthy calls for bipartisan commission to investigate the circumstances around the attack and to insist, i
believe that we are going to overturn the election and when that doesn t happen, most likely won t happen, they re going to go nuts. we re going to have more new audio in a moment but this is the eve of the january 6th select committee s first public hearing. cnn pamela brown has the latest on what we can expect. reporter: after a nearly year-long investigation, the january 6th committee is preparing to share their findings with the american people. and they re zeroing in on one man, former president trump. i think that donald trump and the white house were at the center of these events, that s the only way really of making sense of them all. reporter: from the beginning, the investigation focussed on the unprecedented efforts by trump and his allies to stop the transfer of power to president joe biden, while trump was impeached by the house days after the riot for inciting the
i feel more energetic. the person that i ve always been has shown up to the party again. making friends again, billy? i like to keep my enemies close. guys, excuse me. i didn t quite get that. i m hard of hearing. oh hey, don t forget about the tense music too. would you say tense? i d say suspenseful. aren t they the same thing? can we move on guys, please?
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