as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday nights. good evening once again i m stephanie ruhle. today, as its seventh hearing on the january 6th committee laid out its case, to donald trump summoned its mob to the capitol? on a december 19th, 2020 tweet promising that that they would be wild. this tweet served as a call to action and as some cases as a call to arms, for many of donald president trump s most loyal supporters. donald trump s 1:42 am tweet electrify to galvanize supporters especially the dangerous extremists and the oath keepers, proud keepers and other white nationalist groups. there were many revelations about the days that led up to january 6th. after joe biden had officially been declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, we learned that trump was considering announcing a march ahead of his rally. the committee has obtained this draft, an dated tweet from the national archives. and includes a step saying president has seen. the draft
good evening once again i m stephanie ruhle. today, as its seventh hearing on the january 6th committee laid out its case, that donald trump summoned its mob to the capitol? with the now ominous december 19th, 2020 tweet promising that that they would be wild. this tweet served as a call to action and as some cases as a call to arms, for many of donald president trump s most loyal supporters. donald trump s 1:42 am tweet electrified and galvanized supporters especially the dangerous extremists and the oath keepers, proud keepers and other white nationalist groups. there were many revelations about the days that led up to january 6th after joe biden had officially been declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, we learned that trump was considering announcing a march ahead of his january 6th rally. the committee has obtained this draft, an dated tweet from the national archives. and includes a stamp saying president has seen. the draft tweet reads, i will b
hallway, doing nothing pretty could hear the sounds of the teachers and students being shot. so in the most powerful telescope ever made showing the distant galaxies. we will show you the picture of a real star being born. that s all coming up. good evening, i am erin burnett. accusations of potential witness tampering. congresswomen, liz cheney, accusing president donald trump of trying to contact an unidentified january 6th committee witness in recent days. after our last hearing, president trump tried to call a witness in our investigation. a witness you have not yet seen in these hearings. that person declined to answer or respond to president trump s call. instead, alerted their lawyer to the call. their lawyer alerted us. this committee has supplied the information to the department of justice. that is a serious point to make. obviously, she s making a serious obligation. the justice department does have the power to prosecute if they see the former president tamp
with this reporting, quote, the former president has called witnesses throughout the investigation according to those who spoke anonymously to reveal conversations. they ruled out a number of former officials as the recipient of this latest call highlighted by cheney saying it was not former white house counsel pat cipollone whose deputy patrick philbin, former media officials, matthews or former pascale. the allegations of witness tampering by trump and his associates, though, do add new dimension to the wider scandal that is to overturn the 2020 election results which, as vice chair liz cheney added, trump was, quote, substantially and personally involved in. politico reports on the dual track of the committee s public hearings with this analysis. on the one hand, the committee is focused on filling out the historical record of the attempt to overturn the election and its violent conclusion. on the other, its members are laying out an unmistakable map to a potential crimina
she was active in her efforts to try to help with the overturning of the election. some committee members i have talked to are skeptical as to whether or not she was playing an influential role in all of this, but still, the committee is interested in the role she was playing. at this point, they re still open to talking to people, even though it does appear that their investigation is heading toward the finish. we know for sure, jake, they have a big witness coming in this week, and that s patrick byrne, who is the overstock ceo, who was a part of that explosive meeting that was detailed in great specificity in today s hearing. more than anything, the investigation continues. ryan, thank you so much. today s testimony concluded with akaitlan collins has been working her sources, and a lot of people in the media, a lot of people in trump world trying to figure out who liz cheney was talking about when she noted alleged attempted witness tampering, donald trump reaching ou