are armed. he s mindful they are going to the capitol. that informs his incendiary remarks during the subsequent speech. it informs his passivity over the course of the day. all of that demonstrates intent, that they be successful, that the joint session be disrupted. the whole key for jack smith, what is inside his mind? very difficult for a prosecutor to do. here is a direct manifestation from a witness who heard him say, i know these people are armed, let them here. that undoubtedly will be part of the evidentiary showing of the president s intent. all right. please stick around. ken, thank you for your reporting. if you get any news, you have to come back immediately. we have the mic for the next two hours. we ll be waiting to hear from you. when we come back, more on what we could be getting from
former president. i suspect that ll come as they trickle back into d.c. tonight. yet, garrett, you know, this is, again, january 6th we are talking about. we saw lawmakers literally running for their lives on that day and, yet, they are coming to trump s defense here, which is a far cry from, i think, what many of them were feeling in the moment on that day that we heard, in fact, when they took to the house floor, and after this attempted insurrection, ultimately did follow through with their duties. it s just amazing they can have this amnesia. amnesia implies a passivity to it, ana, i don t think is there. it is a deliberate effort to turn the page from all things january 6th. whether it s because some republicans understand the images like what we were showing are terrible for republican electoral prospects, to be
history, it produces these extraordinary moments, but it produces these characters as wealth. yes, it certainly does. i think i used the word volcanic before. that certainly applies to prigozhin, not really to vladimir putin, more quiet, thoughtful man, you would have said, if he hadn t invaded ukraine so casually 16 months ago. but it is partly, i think, and these are big judgments which perhaps one shouldn t make, but it does have something to do with the internal passivity of russian society. going back to 1991, for instance, scarcely anybody rallied round the system that gorbachev had introduced,
history, it produces these extraordinary moments, but it produces these characters as wealth. yes, it certainly does. i think i used the word volcanic before. that certainly applies to prigozhin, not really to vladimir putin, more quiet, thoughtful man, you would have said, if he hadn t invaded ukraine so casually 16 months ago. but it is partly, i think, and these are big judgments which perhaps one shouldn t make, but it does have something to do with the internal passivity of russian society. going back to 1991, for instance, scarcely anybody rallied round the system that gorbachev had introduced, scarcely anybody supported him
situation. you have these taunts from, essentially, an oligarch who formed his own militia, prigozhin. used to be close to putin. the head of the militia denouncing the defense minister, the military leadership, saying he s not getting enough weapons, he did all the fighting. here s the most interesting thing to me. we have not heard a word from vladimir putin about this. as prigozhin rants and taunts, the leader stays in the kremlin aloof and silent. is that a deliberate strategy by putin, to stay above it all? is it a sign that he is increasingly losing control? we simply don t know. but the conversations i m having with russian analysts go to this mystery of putin s passivity in this moment. what s going on?