by this time tomorrow, we expect to know a whole lot more about what happened behind closed doors at the white house on january 6th. and we know that because we have a couple people speaking to us. the committee has out takes of the president s message to supporters the day after the riot at the capitol showing him having trouble getting through the message, refusing to say the election was settled and attempting to call the rioters patriots. tonight, my colleague anderson cooper, anderson got congressman jamie raskin to tell him more about what out takes the committee has. in just 340moments, committee member adam schiff says you ll hear people urging the ex president to say things to try to get the attackers to go home, things that he can t be prevailed upon to do or say. now, that as one day after the secret service turned over precisely one text exchange to a government watchdog who had requested a month s worth of records for 24 secret service personnel. the january 6th
attorney general s office making their closing arguments. an eventful morning. the trump team presented their closing arguments to the judge. closing arguments are a chance for lawyers to summarize their case. after two hours of summarizing their defense trump used five minutes to attack the district attorney the judge to declare himself an innocent man. paula reed live outside the courthouse in new york. thanks so much. let s expand the conversation with a peer of legal experts. seth waxman and legal analyst norm ison. thank you both for being with us. if you are the prosecutor in that trial taking in the trump defense argument how do you feel about your case? s very strong. i don t think donald trump s lawyers were really trying to fight back against this particular allegation. i think this was more about political theater.
about whether tweets qualify as official presidential acts, or whether ordering a hit on a political rival using seal team six could be prosecuted. listen to this. had a president order seal team six to assassinate a political rival? that s an official act of seal team six. it would have to be and that s like but if he were not there would be no criminal prosecution and no liability? what the founders are concerned about i just asked a yes or no question. could a president who order seal team six to assassinate a political rival was not impeached, can he be subject to criminal prosecution? if he were impeached and convicted first. answer is no. my answers qualified, yes. we are joined by norm ison and political strategist doug. some fascinating hypotheticals.
we expect to see them tomorrow night. here to discuss norm ison in the first impeachment trial. happy to have both of you. thank you for joining us. as i m going to start with you, what do you think of this january 6th committee having up trump out takes a day after the insurrection? they re expected to show them tomorrow. don, this committee has been so good. nick and i are both trial lawyers and you ve got to constantly surprise the jury, give them fresh material, keep them on the toes and persuade them, hit them with the substance. these out takes will be the talk of the country, in each of the eight hours, they had surprises. it sizzled but also substance. i think it will be another block buster. you think it will be the talk of the country tomorrow? you think it will be that compelling? don, do you, on the break we talked about what we like to watch on tv. at the end of movies, they have the out takes in comedies and
a message. i think in this case we ll check if it is there for the full month. thank you so much for being with us. joining me now norm ison. elise was saying right there a western diplomat told her the back and forth on iran is certification dressed up in rhetoric. as they make a lot of noise here, but nothing changes. how do you see it? john, i think that s probably correct. it is very interesting to some extent secretary tillerson is playing to his base, in this case the president s base, saying there are a lot of problems with iran that also fits in with sex tear of defense mattis visits where he came out saying iran is the biggest