focus. the january 6th tour taking pictures of hallways, tunnels and staircases inside the capitol complex, clearly not normal tourist fare and there s more. the committee has also released video of that same man you saw there near the capitol on january 6th issuing violent threats against house speaker nancy pelosi. senate majority leader chuck shumer and other democratic members of congress. we re coming in like white on rice for pelosi, nadler, schumer, even you, aoc. we re coming to take you out and pull you out by your hairs. how about that, pelosi? we re coming to take you out. we ll pull you out by your hair. we made the decision to play the video to you at all, not to amplify the threats, but to present the powerful evidence in the hands of the committee that refutes congressman loudermilk s previous forceful denials that he was not involved with tours of any insurrectionist in the run-up to january 6th. today loudermilk doubled down denying once again that he was
and we ll get a live reaction from the white house. but we begin with the house committee investigating the deadly january 6 capitol insurrection. holding its first in a series of highly-anticipated public hearings last night. the panel released previously unseen footage of the riot. and featured damning testimony to make the case that the january 6th attack was the direct result of then president donald trump s desperate attempts to cling to power. the chairman of the committee congressman bennie thompson said at tack was the culmination of a attempted coup coordinated by extremist groups like the proud boys and answering trump s call. ally, after ally, claim that the election was stolen from him were false. including testimony from his former senior campaign aide, his elder daughter, his former attorney general, we want to warn you, we did not bleep the curse word bill barr used in his deposition. i made it clear i did not agree with the idea of saying the election was st
survivors and saw some of the bodies of the first dead children that they had at the hospital. his testimony, there are parts of it that i m not sure that every word he said about what he saw with those wounds got across. there is one word that he used that i m going to get you in this hour. it is a horrifying graphic ex description. there s been that discussion about should be photographs of this so that people can really understand it. well chris, there was language there in that hearing today that is beyond anything that you would actually expect to see in such photographs. i m not sure that it had any impact at all on the republican members of that committee. i watched a clip, a long clip of the individual you re talking about. it was incredibly powerful and i agree that that is as important for people to hear as any debate about these images. my father worked in gun safety activism and one of the things that you find in those circles is a lot of the most militant peopl
backed tournament. and they re doing it for the money. wait till you hear much. let s go outfront. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, they are going to go nuts. that s a direct quote from a republican congresswoman, talking about trump supporters the day before the january 6th riots. saying she was very concerned about what was to happen the next day and she asked the house republican leader kevin mccarthy to come up with a safety plan. i m not just giving these quotes from somebody said she said. no, it s all on tape. and part of new audio just released from new york times reporters alex burns and jonathan martin. here is congresswoman lasco on january 5th, 2021. i also asked leadership to come one a safety plan for members. i m actually very concerned about this, because we have who knows how many hundreds of thousands of people coming here. we have antifa. we also have, quite honestly trump supporters, who actually believe that we are going to overturn the elect
have felt whenf members of the congressional black caucus suggested that she janets yellen was in fact a racist, maybe even a white supremacist. what does jenny ellen do wrong? well, they suggested what shest did wrong was she failed to harness the power of the federal reserve to help african-americans specifically now at first yellen seemed confused by this complaint. the point of the fed f is to kep the american economy stable. the point is not to pay off oil blocks democratic voters and she tried to explain this our power she said, can tnc be targeted at the experience of particular groups. th that was her response. but the congressional black caucus did not buy it. r messagt their message to janet yellen was the same as their message. you and every othero person in this country. three hundred and fifty millionn people do it. we say we will denounce as a racist. and finally, janet yellen got that message. boy, did she. within a year yellen had all but abandonedtr the trad