final act of the trump show, abc news chief washington correspondent jonathan carl describes how then president trump remained out of sight, watching tv in the white house private dining room, while insurrectionists stormed the u.s. capitol. karl reports house minority leader kevin mccarthy called trump asking him to tell the riots to leave. mccarthy reportedly said, i just got evacuated from the capitol. there were shots fired right off the house floor. you need to make this stop. according to can we just say right here, kevin mccarthy, go ahead, according to carl s sources the former president liked what he saw, boasted about the size of the crowd and argued with aides who wanted him to tell his supporters to stop rioting. trump finally acquiesced two hours after the riot started, posting a video on twitter asking his supporters to go home
we ll get through this, what we do right now in pushing back against this big lie will determine how long it s going to take for america to get through this dark period. congressman, we want to talk about the january 6th select committee, you are obviously apart of that. we have seen president trump and his allies trying to be obstructionist about this. the current white house says they re not going to go along with that. you have bannon and others defying subpoenas to appear. what happens? if they don t commit, is there any way you can compel them to? steve bannon was called in as a witness during the russia investigation, he came in not under subpoena and then he was under subpoena. when he came in under subpoena, he brought 25 questions written out for him by the white house. he says these are the only
steve bannon called to testify about this. would he sit for an interview? we are stil in the early stages of that. the process this committee move forward piece by piece trying to put together what went on that day. as you were pointing out at the top there, there is a lot that we sort of know what donald trump was doing. there is a picture that has emerged from these books but you get these sorts of official accounts based on what aides say would be different. you have done a lot of report on eastman during this period around january 6th, and
mike pence was betraying him and the country. this is exactly by the way what jonathan carl was writing about and what we read other accounts of, ben sass is saying trump is watching tv and loved every second of this. this is what republicans don t want americans to see. if there is a conspiracy of sigh silence that they created around january 6th is all to protect donald trump and their brand for the heinous reactions this man had to a crowdover taking the capitol and committing sedition to try to stop the process to count the electoral votes. he would brag to guests about his super tevo device where he would catch up on that morning s show or sometimes hours later
it was not rigged. donald trump just turned off a lot of former republicans in wisconsin and that s why he lost. right. people remember the chaos and craziness of the trump s years and they remember how it ended and january 6th and as much as the republicans trying to whitewash it, people remember. people know there was a recent poll, i am sorry as i forget whose polls it was but it was asking republicans do you want donald trump to be your candidate in 2024. it was less than half the party. more than half the party says they support trump and they like trump but whatever. less than half say they want donald trump to be the nominee. in a sense, the more trump emerges and becomes sort of story of the republican party,