it all down and are two hour fox news at night we have team coverage of tonight s prime time event standing by to offer their in-depth analysis, but we begin with correspondent live from capitol hill tonight. chad you were there the day of the riots was set out to you at the hearing tonight? herring video tonight disturbing to watch with violent pictures of writers reaching the capital and targeting police. capitol police officer carolyn edwards was knocked out defending the west front of the capital. it was something like i d seen out of movies. i couldn t believe my eyes there were officers on the ground you know they were bleeding they were throwing up i m in a soft friends with all over their faces i was flipping in people s blood. it was carnage, it was chaos. when the mob stormed the building on january 6th last year this is how i described it on the air. the most significant breach of anybody of any sort of incursion into the capital. this the most significant
committed and that s where these disconnects really mounts up. the question is are you trying to do something illegal or something political? so joe you think that they have succeeded on either front tonight? there are more hearings to come where kind of just setting the table we know that there s a lot more to come. will shannon i would think coming with a fastball on the first night because this is the night when you grab the public s attention more than any other and he is exactly right in terms of okay is this political or something with a summit criminal that happen you get the feeling that when you watch social media and see the reactions overall that doesn t seem to be a lot resonating right now with the american people at least online from what you see can be very interesting tomorrow to see the ratings shannon is the watergate hearings for example in may 1973 they had enormous audiences 71%
informed and absolutely convinced that that is a berlioz symphony. that is frafrom symphony fantastique composed in 1830. and here s the thing. because you re the best viewers in the world i almost can t believe nbc was this on the nose with its music choice that day. but twabtz just symphony fantastique but the music nbc used as the lead-in to the impeachment hearings in may 1973 was specifically from the fourth movement of that symphony which had a title. the title was march to the scaffold. thank you rachel maddow viewers for knowing your french romantic composers. what would we do without you? whu hi honey, we got in early. yeah, and we brought steve and mark.
convinced that is symphony that is from symphony composed in 1830. i almost can t believe nbc was this on the nose with its music choice that day. but the music nbc used as the lead in to the impeachment hearings in may 1973 was specifically from the fourth movement of that symphony which had a title. the title was march to the scaffold. thank you rachel maddow viewers for knowing your french composers. french composers.
trailed events, before the televised water gate hearings began in may 1973, fewer than one-third of americans thought the break-in was a scandal, after the hearings, 53%, and 71% thought nixon culpable. even then, it wasn t until the month nixon resigned that a majority of the public supported his removal from office. jim, if that s the case, people say why are democrats skittish about impeachment hearings. sometimes you need to lead rather than follow what the polls say. what s your interpretation of that? i read the mueller report, the starr report and tapes. unlike some members of congress. i m one of seven people. the mueller report is a much more serious transgression, and it s a much more polarized