overturn the election results. that man is donald trump s top white house lawyer pat cipollone. he sat down for a transcribed interview under oath with investigators this morning. as far as we can tell, that interview or that meeting is ongoing at this hour. punch bowl news reports this about the parameters of today s testimony from cipollone, quote, sources tell us that the select committee does not have an agreement about what investigators can or cannot ask him. prior to hutchinson s testimony the panel had discussed an arrangement with cipollone for an on the record interview, but cipollone backed away from it, sources tell us. cipollone is expected to claim executive privilege over conversations he had with trump, but there is plenty that the committee is interested in outside of that category. for example, we expect cipollone will be asked about conversations with former white house chief of staff mark meadows. the possibility that cipollone could provide gamechanging i
committee is about to go public with has been gleaned by more than a thousand interviews and more than 125,000 documents that s according to the washington post. it may very well represent the last and best chance to break the fever of trumpism and the hold that trump and the big lie have on millions of our fellow citizens. the nearly year and a half since the deadly insurrection, the gop has not just memory hold january 6th itself, but in many ways it s come to embrace the insurrection and what it represented. its leaders have gone from blaming trump angrily and privately considering casting him out to the political wilderness once and for all to choosing to politically resurrect him. the party declaring the events of january 6th as legitimate political discourse and many of the same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election are now laying the groundwork to overturn the next presidential election if it doesn t go their way. new york times reports this, key figures in
a little more than an hour after miss powell, mr. giuliani, general flinn and the others finally left the white house, president trump sense the tweet on the screen now telling people to come to washington on january 6th. be there, he instructed them. we ll be wild. as you see, this was a pivotal moment, this tweet initiated a chain of events. the tweet led to the planning for what occurred on january 6th including by the proud boys who ultimately led the invasion of the capitol and the violence on that day. that was january 6th select committee vice chair liz cheney tying that now infamous december 19th tweet by donald trump to the perpetrators of the most
lifetime. i credit people like dan killede who has been very public about some of the trauma that he experienced and sharing that with the american public and encouraging folks to utilize the services available to address his own personal trauma. and then, of course, the capitol police officers. as senator mccaskill said, it astound me that republicans here in the congress are unwilling to be able to recognize all that these officers sacrificed to protect them and us during the course of the tragic events of that day. congressman, thank you for making time to start us off. claire and john are around for the hour. when we come back, these images don t tell you where the republicans are today. the only republicans on the house floor to commemorate today were congressman liz cheney and her father, former congressman and vice president of the united states dick cheney. plus an avalanche of
president say what president joe biden said today, i am standing in the breach, was president george w. bush s comments after 9/11. i m standing here and they ll have to come over me to get to you. i ve got you. and what s so remarkable, donna edwards, is this president is saying the same things that a president of another party said after we were attacked on 9/11, and i m not comparing the numbers of lives lost, but i see it as liz cheney does. it was an attack ton our country. it was an attack on our democracy, it was an attack an all of us and there were lives lost and many lives destroyed and altered forever. but what i m saying is about two presidents who stood there not on their own behalf, not on their party s behalf, but on the country s behalf and said, i m standing in the breach. as marc is saying, when george w. bush made those comments, every united states senator, every member of the house stood behind him and with him, and today, there were no republicans to be seen other