individual s names in this report. the bar associations across the country, local bar associations have to step up. local prosecutors have to step up the accountability piece is the piece here, and that is what folks will be looking for. we certainly will, symone thank you. if you are just joining us right now i m stephanie ruhle. it is midnight on the east coast and i am on the west coast, we are continuing our breaking news coverage of the release of the january 6th committee s final report on the siege of the capital and donald trump s effort to change the results of the 2020 election. it was made public just over an hour ago, it totals 845 pages. what is the first passage all about? the big lie. with that, let s get smarter with a lead off panel, former you new york prosecutor in civil rights attorney charles coleman. pulitzer prize-winning reporter for an joyce vance, who spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor and symone sanders-townsend still with us along with stua
that we have already seen to this. we cannot compare watergate, just this really was the beginning and the plot for what would ve been a civil war, a small version on january 6th. and that is laid out even in the first few pages of this document. from a legal standpoint, from a principled standpoint, it absolutely has to be taken seriously. it is not just an indictment on democracy, sorry an indictment on the republican party, it is as clear statement on how these people will go to any and many lengths to literally dismantle american democracy. and that is no laughing matter. katie, in 845-page report that is now sitting in the lap of the department of justice. jack smith, a report like this isn t like a pot potato that they now have to deal with or do they just get a winning lotto ticket? there are all sorts of details in this thing. i think based on in the summer over the election in the fall and now more recently the subpoena sent out to the fake electors plot i don
i am so upset. every thing that we worked for, wiped away, she continued. that is hope. i agree, totally self inflicted, he wrote. that is freshman. brad parscale, trump s former campaign manager texted katrina pierson, she was an adviser, and campaign surrogate for trump. he texted her at 7:21 p.m. on january 6th, saying the days events were the result of a, quote, sitting president asking for a civil war. quote, this week i feel guilty for helping him win. a woman is dead, mask all added. you do realize this was going to happen, pierson answered. quote, yes if i was trump into my rhetoric, he said, it was not the rhetoric she, she said. her scalp replies, yes it was. six symone people can try to say all day and every day that
my rhetoric, he said, it was not the rhetoric she, she said. her scalp replies, yes it was. six symone people can try to say all day and every day that this is partisan, this is democrats putting this. every word i just said blaming, indicting, pointing the finger at donald trump showing regret for siding with him, why are trump s closest people. whole picks, katrina pierson, brad parscale, that is a trifecta of trump human shield for their. it truly is and i would hope that people would, first of all, get to the 600 plus stage to be able to read that. i hope folks that are watching would click this and send this around and that it could change the mind and belief of some republicans and folks that are still with donald trump out there. but the reality is, it will not. the why go back to the point of accountability. accountability is the only