backwards, and my foot caught this terrible hind me, and my chin hit the handrail, and then at that point i had blacked out. she was knocked unconscious, even though she was bleeding, and days from the traumatic brain injury, she had just suffered, somehow she miraculously returned to duty on that day. thousands of protesters directed to the capitol, fine by donald trump himself, quickly began to overwhelm the police. and as officer edwards try to hold that line, she saw a colleague in distress. it was bryan sicknick. i see movement to the left of me, and i turn, and it was officer sicknick with his head in his hands. he was ghostly pale. i look back to see would have hit him, would have happened, and that is when i got sprayed in the eyes as well. and officer sicknick was injured while trying to control the trump mob. he suffered two strokes, and died the next day. the assault on the capitol continued for hours. what i saw was just a war scene. it was something lik
today we are talking january 6th, and maybe you are wondering why symone, maybe you are saying symone the capitol attack last today, sure it was, bad but everywhere they went home, right? that is just it, y all. because we see through that sparked the insurrection are very much alive, the people from the capitol day they went home our democracy is still in danger. that is why, at least 20 million people tuned into the january 6th committee s first primetime hearing this past thursday, where they heard the testimony of capitol police officer caroline edwards, and documentary filmmaker nick quest among others. now the first people to breach the line of officers outside the capitol, they pushed edwards onto the concrete steps, knocking her unconscious. when she woke up, edwards went right back to the funding the united states capitol, only to be attacked again with chemical agents. yes, chemical agents. here is what she told committee members about that day. never in my wildes
capitol hill. you are right there in washington where this is going down. good evening to you. the stakes were incredibly high for the first hearing. what did the select committee accomplish tonight? reporter: what the committee hoped to do was essentially create a road map for a thesis that they have that donald trump is principally responsible for a plot to subvert the will of the voters and stand in the way of the peaceful transfer of power. they didn t give us all the information, but they set the stage for what is going to be a seven-part argument toward that end. the way they introduced this argument was by hearing from some of the people closest to the former president, including his own daughter. take a listen. this is the president s daughter commenting on bill barr s statement that the department found in fraud sufficient to overturn the election. how did that affect your perspective about the election when attorney general barr made that statement? it affec
despite the lawful outcome of the 2020 election and in violation of his constitutional obligation to relinquish power. over multiple months donald trump oversaw and coordinated a sophisticated, seven-part plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the transfer of presidential power. there was also previously unseen video they played from trump s top advisors including former attorney general bill barr. he said in no uncertain terms that he told trump that his rigged election claims that they were a lie, calling it, quote, bullshit. the committee played video of the attack that even for people who lived it and even for people who have seen the playback from every angle, the video presentation was new and alarming and there was also this photograph of a makeshift noose and gallows with the capitol dome in the background. it says quite a lot about that day, and the committee s first witness, a u.s. capitol police officer who described the siege as a war scene. let
here. from all of our colleagues across the networks of msnbc news, thank you for staying up late and i will see all of you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow now it is a top of the hour. we are looking at live images of the cannon caucus room at the u.s. capitol. members of the january six investigation are about to enter the room and take their seats. in terms of what we are expecting, here betty thompson is expected to gavel the hearing in the session. as i was mentioning we expect opening statements both from chairman thompson, and from the republican vice chair liz cheney. we also know that there are two live witnesses, who are slated to testify tonight. capitol hill police officer who was injured, and the attack. also documentary filmmaker, who captured footage on january 6th that we will be seeing for the first time tonight. he is and that it with the pro trump paramilitary group, the proud boys that was a subject of a seditious conspiracy, federal felony indictment earl