congressional committee investigating the january 6th insurrection has reached out to the justice of met with information that donald trump tried to contact one of the witnesses in their probe. that was one of the big new pieces of information that, in yesterday s hearing. the committee also showing how the president tried to make the march on the capitol look spontaneous. he and his supporters have been planning for it for days. cnn jessica schneider has the highlights. reporter: january 6th house select committee revealing details about an unscheduled meeting in the oval office just weeks before the insurrection. what ensued was a heated and profane clash between this group and president tribes white house advisors who treated personal insults, accusations of disloyalty to the president, even challenges to physically fight. reporter: the meeting lasted well into the night. some of his attendees repeated unproven election fraud claims reproaching different ideas to t
this press conference under way right now with kentucky governor andy beshear talking about the devastating floods. 25 fatalities across five counties. that number will continue to grow. and to be refined. remember, we don t have cell service in some areas to please be patient as we get new information or if it changes. we continue to pray for the families that have suffered ununfathomable loss. some have lost almost everyone in their household. rescuers at the kentucky department of fish and wildlife has been the forefront of these recovery efforts. they ve had to ultimately gather the bodies more than just about anybody else. so, please also pray for those first responders. the mission has been specially challenging and what they re experiencing firsthand is tremendously stressful and difficult. we thank them for what they re doing. deaths include four in breather county, two in clay, 14 in knot, two in lecher, and three in perry. again, those will continue to rise. if th
focused on violent military tactics. i want to bring in national security analyst, julia, a former department of homeland security assistant secretary and she is also the author of the devil never sleeps, learning to live in an age of disaster. thank you for coming on. as terrifying as the attack on the capital was, with this new information, do you get the sense that it could ve been much, much worse? absolutely. the amount of weaponry that the proud boys alone had, as well as the oath keepers, just suggests that they were ready for some sort of activity that would ve been much more violent than what we saw. then, the question is, why did that happen? and in some of the filings we have seen so far in particular, in the cases against the oath keepers, because remember, a number of the oath keepers have now pled, they have turned against leadership, so we are learning a lot about what the planning was, they were waiting for some moments, some triggers, some activation from t
committee member jamie raskin said that s the moment that trump became the first president in american history to call for a protest against the peaceful transfer of power. we expect the committee to try to link this to extremist groups mobilizing around january 6. also, the committee has suggested they will probe possible links between trump s circle and some of the extremist groups. one of the witnesses today, stephen ayres, a convicted rioter. also a former spokes keeper for the oath keeper will join us. joining us now elie honig. your gravitational force is pulling us over here. we re talking about what the committee wants to do today. the tweet from donald trump why that inspired them to mobilize around january 6. and why is that important? yeah, john, the committee is going to make the point that the one and only reason that the mob descended around the capitol, liz cheney wrote, president trump assembled the mob. we re going to hear about the december 18th meeting
the wiretapping of his political opponents. conspiracy, extortion, blackmail. high crimes against the very structure of our constitutional state. the nixon/agnew team receives an overwhelming mandate from the american voters, sweeping every state but one, massachusetts. as a result of the cover-up, richard nixon stayed in office a lot longer than he should have. but imagine if the american people had known in the summer of 1972 the extent to which richard nixon had participated in criminal enterprises. it s not just a desire for political power. it s a lust. i mean, that s what nixon said. i lust for power . the man in the middle in the watergate scandal is 34-year-old john wesley dean, iii. i thought the cover-up was going to end after the election. i was wrong. i have no prior knowledge of the watergate break-ins. it s going to get worse, much worse. seven men went on trial today in a washington federal court charged with the break-in and burglary of d