our democracy. joining me now is democratic congressman jim himes of connecticut. he s a member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, thank you so much for staying up late and being part of our special coverage tonight. let me broadly ask you sir if i can, your broad takeaways of this final hearing that we heard and overall the eight hearings that we witnessed? well thank you for having me a man. i think i was one of the last of the congressman out of the chambers on that day and remember the weapons that were drawn in the insurrection. i remember seeing them displayed out on the ground just outside the chamber as they reasserted control over the capitol. despite that, i will tell you that getting the full picture, how this was a comprehensive, detailed plan with all kinds of different aspects right? we re gonna call the secretaries of state of georgia and demand the precise number of votes to be found too i would let me win the election. setting up fake elector
campaign. and during that time, i traveled all around the country and met kayleigh mcenany, who is also working on his reelection campaign. i worked there for a year, and i formed a close relationship with miss megan mcenany, and she moved over to the white house in april of 2020 to start as white house press secretary. and she brought over a group of campaign staff with her. so i joined her over at the white house in june of 2022 start as her deputy. and where you, miss matthews, at work in the white house on january 6th? yes, i was working out of the west wing that day. yes, i was working out of th yes, i was working out of th west wing that day control. that can scale across all your clouds. we got that right? yeah, we got that.