this is as rioters had been storming the capitol for hours. the former vice president and the house speaker are focused on certifying the election. that remains the goal. take a listen. ft. mcnair, has facilities for the house and senate to meet as a backup plan should anything should anything happen that would warrant that. logistically, we want to bring the members here, house and senate, anyway. we re just making a judgment. we d rather go to the capitol and do it there. but it doesn t seem to be safe. so you notice that nancy pelosi was so concerned about the safety or the safety situation at the capitol at that time that they were willing to try to figure out a way to convene lawmakers and bring the vice president to ft. mcnair to certify the election. that wasn t necessary. but other videos show the remarkable amount of fear and for both vice president pence s
testify or pleaded the fifth, so to have that video from cassidy hutchinson, sort of relaying what mark meadows said in his conversations with the president, i think, was big for the committee to sort of make their point that donald trump knew that he had lost but just was not willing to drop it. to hear her say that mark meadows said he knows he lost, he knows it s over. quite compelling indeed. sara murray, thank you. let s get right to cnn s kristen holmes with more on the footage of a bipartisan group of lawmakers scrambling to restore order on january 6th. how does this incredible video demonstrate the chaos that surrounded that day? bianna, it doesn t just demonstrate it, it highlights it. we see for the first time speaker of the house nancy pelosi fleeing the capitol amid that riot. we also see, as you said, this bipartisan group of lawmakers essentially working together two pliel miles away at ft. mcnair, trying to get control over this
back, be some into this exact location. all right, last word with lawrence o donnell, good evening. good evening, we have a desk full of breaking news here on related to the committee s hearing today. news about the source the fbi has developed from inside mar-a-lago. there is now a name attached to it. washington post has been breaking during your coverage tonight. and we will have much more, we have professor lawrence joining us andrew weissmann joining us later. an awful lot to get there in this hour. get to, it lawrence, thank you. thank you, rachel. while, we do have a lot, as i said, i just full of breaking news. the first thing i want to do for you is add to the nancy pelosi video that you have been watching tonight from, first it was taken inside the capitol and then it was taken. capture inside for mcnair where speaker pelosi and all the congressional leadership, bipartisan congressional