reporter: cnn has learned that the january 6th committee is planning to zero in on a healing. extremist groups that are tied to roger stone and michael flynn. the hearing comes as another trump ally, steve bennett, changes his tomb. telling the committee he would be willing to testify in a live setting. they believe it is a stunt to try to wiggle out of his criminal contempt charges. a judge on monday declined to postpone his. the committee has already revealed a bevy of information. trump and his allies were made fully aware that there was no evidence the election was still interested in i didn t say what was happening was necessarily reporter: trump new he lost the election but kept telling his supporters that he won. the will of the voters extended all the way to the states where trump personally pressured. he knew that his supporters were armed and planning to be feminine. he directed them to the capital, anyway. stephen i don t care that they have weapons. take t
meeting in trumps immediate orbit there is this question of the extent to which the president knew there would be violence the next day? close advisors like steve bannon might have been aware of the might have passed that information on? they teased that they will draw the links route. maybe that is what may come out? one would have to know that there was going to be violence and participated in encouraging it. evan, bannon was part of the hotel war room group that was peddling the conspiracy for weeks. ! in his explain his role? he was one of the biggest proponents of the lie that there was fraud. that there was fraud, even though bill barr and others kept telling the president in the world by early december,