contemplating a scenario in which the mob marches to the capitol and pro-trump insurrectionists might be clashing in the streets to protect the pro-trump people. now we got a guy that was there, involved in the leadup to the insurrection, who was on the stage there at the rally the day before who breaks into the capitol and who is cooperating with federal government and who says and has said on tape the plan all along was to go to the capitol. yesterday, a lot of us got up very, very early. we went to this event in which donald trump spoke. the plan was always to go to the capitol. we were going to march from that event which was at the ellipse. the plan was always to march from the ellipse to the capitol and there was gentleman to be another rally. i was one of the speakers slated to speak at the capitol. well, it turned to a rally inside the capitol. of course, this opposite key questions. whose plan was it to march? how did that plan come about?
including meadows, were contemplating the scenario in which the mob marches to the capitol and pro-trump insurrectionists might be clashing with counterprotest es in the streets, hence the protect the pro trump people and now we ve got a guy who was there, who was involved in the lead-up to the insurrection, on stage at the rally the day before, who breaks into the capitol and who s cooperating with federal government, and who says, and has said on tape, the plan all along was to go to the capitol. yesterday, a lot of us got up very, very early. we went to this event in which donald trump spoke. the plan was always to go to the capitol. we were going to march from that event, which was at the ellipse, the plan was always to march from the ellipse to the capitol. and there was going to be another rally. i was one of the speakers slated to speak at the capitol. well, turned into a rally inside the capitol. and, of course, leaves open key
so you can see, anderson, just not a topic that republicans wanted to engage on today. the question has to be asked, why are they so afraid just to watch what happened today and then respond to what they saw? yeah. ryan nobles, appreciate it. thank you. perspective now from cnn senior political commentator and former south carolina democratic legislator bakari sellers. also cnn special correspondent jamie gang ll. when you hear senator johnson say that most of the people on january 6th were engaging in peaceful protest, you juxtapose that with everything we heard today including officer harry dunn explain in really horrifying detail how some of these pro-trump insurrectionists hurled racial slurs at him calling him the n word, how can some of these republicans be so i was going to say untethered from reality. but i mean, they re just living they saw what happened. they know what happened. it s just lying. well, i m not sure they re untethered from reality either. i think th
bakari, when you hear senator johnson say that most of the people on january 6th were engaging in peaceful protest, you juxtapose that with everything we heard today including officer harry dunn explain in really horrifying detail how some of these pro-trump insurrectionists hurled racial slurs at him calling him the n word, how can some of these republicans be so i was going to say untethered from reality. but i mean, they re just living they saw what happened. they know what happened. it s just lying. well, i m not sure they re untethered from reality either. i think that is the new reality. i think the unfortunate part for me and the frustration that i have, anderson and jamie, is that i want to believe that this is the tipping point to something. i want to believe that maybe the republican base and maybe people will change. but i can t believe that s going to occur based upon what we see day in and day out from the republican party. and not all. because i think that liz che
denying there was a riots at the capitol, some denying the pro-trump insurrectionists, some say former president trump didn t incite the riot. adam kinzinger says the vast majority of republican colleagues do believe trump incited the riot. before i get to january 6th, you re a veteran of iraq and afghanistan, not just as a member of congress dealing with it. you were there. the headline in the economist calling it a crushing defeat. do you agree or disagree with that headline? i agree. it s a crushing defeat. the taliban said america has the watches, but we have the time. i m proud of the american people for sticking by this mission for 20 years. we actually needed to do it longer. we still have troops in kosovo. unfortunately it worked. the taliban have outlasted the