so i accepted what he was saying. mr. meadows was asking me what i was finding, if i was finding anything and i remember sharing with him that we weren t finding anything. what was mr. meadows reaction to that information? i believe the words he used were so there s no there there? good morning, i m andrea mitchell in washington. joined by katy tur and hallie jackson for our special msnbc coverage, taking you through all the new facts, stunning new videos and compelling testimony from the january 6th committee s first primetime hearing on thursday night. and looking forward to what we have in store in the coming weeks. among the major questions that we will be tackling, what evidence will the committee provide in subsequent hearings to place former president donald trump at the center of an attempted coup. allegedly using radical groups like the proud boys and oath keepers, whose leaders have been both been charged with seditious conspiracy to try to overthrow our go
is? what if the question isn t are we really going to do this, are we going to maybe elect a convicted felon running explicitly on a platform that ends the american experiment in democracy but on a more basic level should we be asking a different question like is he all right? watch as the presumptive republican presidential nominee celebrates a deadly domestic terrorist attack he helped incite on the united states capitol, as he openly shows contempt for and toward his own supporters standing in front of him, as he rambles on and on and on and on about sharks of all things in rants so bizarre that unhinged doesn t come close to capturing it. he just came up. are the teleprompters not working? said not even a little bit! great job. and then i don t pay the company that does it, right? and then i end up with a story, trump doesn t pay. i don t pay contractors that do a [ bleep ] job. and that s a [ bleep ] job. that s a [ bleep ] job. this is the worst border in the hist
or you have that previous ruling, but usually that s not enough. phil? back with us now, audi kor niche, sayou were both involvedn an intense conversation, but i m not going to ask. i want to get to the scale of the operation, given what s coming on the law enforcement side of things. we ve seen what s happening publicly. behind the scenes, walk us through the preps both on the state and the federal level? so they have a couple of scheduled rallies. one for 10:00 a.m., and one at noon at the courthouse. we re looking at a 3:00 appearance, so that s people gathering fairly early. the flyer for the 12:00 noon rally says peaceful rally. they actually point that out, as if it didn t needed to be. but between miami city this is in miami city. not miami beach, that s an 1,100-person police department.
charlottesville, virginia, as you re seeing a profound police presence. it is stronger than what we have been able to capture with our cameras since earlier in this day when things got very heated as a result of a rally that was supported by white nationalists, white supremacists, members of the kkk all trying to march to emancipation park where their noon rally which has now been cancelled due to unlawful assembly rulings, they were protesting the removal of the robert e. lee statue there. there were all sorts of people coming out in force as well supporting anti-fascism and that is when things got very heated. this is the virginia state police. we ve seen the charlottesville police and to a degree the university of virginia campus police. we know one of those officers was injured earlier today and it s not hard to see why. some of the pictures we have been able to show you, you have seen people throwing bottles, rocks, there have been baseball
charlottesville. mark, where do things stand right now? as we ve just said, the rally is off. are people dispersing? are things calmer now? we re kind of in a holding pattern right now. once the unlawful assembly was declared, emancipation park was cleared out and the ralliers started to head toward mcintyre park, which is where the city had unsuccessfully tried to move the protest. and now richard spencer, leader of the alt-right, told the ralliers to disperse. we don t really know where they re going at this point. and the counterprotesters are now headed down toward water street, which is fairly close to emancipation park and the downtown pedestrian mall. so right now we re kind of in a lull right now, just because there s lack of direction of where everyone is going or if