tonight, brand-new januar 6th committee transcripts, jus in, as we analyze the full report, and where all of the investigations go from here. then, from dangerous weather to tripledemic illness on th rise what you need to know, heading into this holiday weekend. looking back at this consequential week, and th focus on fighting for democracy, and freedom, both here, an abroad our favorite historians, her to put it all in perspective as a special, extra earl addition of the 11th hour is underway, on this friday night good evening once again i am stephanie ruhle nearly 24 hours after its fina report was made public, tonight, the january 6th committe released a new batch of witnes transcripts. they are from interviews wit key people in trump administration, including, bil barr, pat cipollone, kayleig mcenany, hope hicks, and his daughter, and senior adviser ivanka trump we will break down what we are learning in just a moment, but first, the committee s repor is wrapping up
but some courts have already said that they can just do it, they don t need to wait fo congressional action and of course, congress ha already determined by bipartisan way that donald trump incited insurrection against the union. and even in the senate, ther were 57 votes out of 100 for that proposition, and he was impeached for it on the hous side so we can say that it alread exists as a legislative fact i the country that donald trum incited insurrection all right congressman before we go, people acros this country are about to walk into christmas dinners they are going to be talking t their family members about thi report most of whom will not have rea it what is the one message yo want people to take away this report taught us, next. this report taught us tha we have to watch people who ge into power, which is a basic
losing him seats and one thing we can almos always be sure of, almos always about mitch mcconnell s that for him, it is party over country. party and the power that h wants is more important even then what the country needs. and make no mistake, whe people say how long is thi bridge going to last he is going to get right bac behind donald trump if trump s brand becomes a winning bran again for the republican party is he going to do anythin legislatively, push his part in congress to take action t ensure that trump wouldn t b able to run again, david absolutely not. he had a chance to convict donald trump on impeachmen charges and that would ensur that he wouldn t be qualifie for office again and he chos not to the only reason that we do not make fun of mitchell connell for his simplicity like we d for kevin mccarthy is becaus mitch mcconnell is not a
he chose to ride the wav because it was important for his own power. and that is what mitch mcconnell does and i don t expect that to really ever change comments aren t binding, yo could always take them back, but do you believe these comments could cause any tension or strain betwee mcconnell and kevin mccarthy i desperately trying to lock i power on the house kevin mccarthy is trying to make everybody has friends starting with donald trump so he cannot bring the bridg like mitch mcconnell can mitch mcconnell it is personal donald trump arguably lost mitch mcconnell the majority leadership of the u.s. senat in these past midterms but here is the interestin thing, mitch mcconnell, kevi mccarthy, ron desantis, mike pompeo, michael rubio, ted cruz, all of them want the investigators to get rid o donald trump because they ar not willing to do it themselves they want donald trump gone.
the people who sat all of th events into motion is there anybody in the countr who believes that any of thi would have happened absent donald trump s will? he was the one who got the groups to change the date an the time of their permits from january 21st they were going to protest after joe biden was inaugurate to january 6th he was the one who galvanize extreme right in the country t focus on the peaceful transfer of power as the target of thei wrath, and violent it was the one who spread th big lie. he was the one who tried to ge the legislators to overturn th popular results to try to ge these state election officials to fabricate thousands of fake votes for trump. he was the one who tried t stage a mini coup at the department of justice, and jus get the doj to clear the election was corrupt and leave the rest to his republican friends in the house and finally, he was the one wh