as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday nights. good evening once again i m stephanie ruhle. today, as its seventh hearing on the january 6th committee laid out its case, to donald trump summoned its mob to the capitol? on a december 19th, 2020 tweet promising that that they would be wild. this tweet served as a call to action and as some cases as a call to arms, for many of donald president trump s most loyal supporters. donald trump s 1:42 am tweet electrify to galvanize supporters especially the dangerous extremists and the oath keepers, proud keepers and other white nationalist groups. there were many revelations about the days that led up to january 6th. after joe biden had officially been declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, we learned that trump was considering announcing a march ahead of his rally. the committee has obtained this draft, an dated tweet from the national archives. and includes a step saying president has seen. the draft
an off the rails oval office meeting between rudy giuliani and sydney powell that almost erupted into a fistfight between mike flinn and a white house aide. and new allegations of possible attempted witness tampering by the former president. president trump tried to call a witness in our investigation, a witness you have not yet seen in these hearings. that person declined to answer or respond to president trump s call. and instead alerted their lawyer to the call. their lawyer alerted us. and this committee has supplied that information to the department of justice. president biden is in israel today, the first leg of a middle east trip that includes a controversial visit to saudi arabia, the oil-rich company he said during the campaign should and pariah for killing jamal khashoggi. but now the president does plan to meet with the crown prince the cia concluded was responsible for khashoggi murder. another big goal for the white house is to get the saudis to pump more oi
machines. they brought to the white house a draft executive order that they had prepared for president trump to further his ands. what ensued was a heated and profane clash between this group and president trump s white house advisers. they traded personal insults, accusations of disloyalty towards the president and even exchanges to physically fight. they threatened to beat one another up in the white house. details of that night were revealed during a video of closed-door depositions, including one with former white house counsel pat cipollone. i opened the door and i walked in. i saw general flynn, who saw sydney powell sitting there. i was not happy to see the people in the oval office. cipollone and herschmann and whoever the other guy was showed nothing but contempt and disdain of the president. the three of them were
working with hugo chavez and whoever else. and at one point, general flynn took out a diagram that showed all over the world who was communicating with whom and some comment about nest thermostats being hooked up to the internet. ms. powell talked about voting machines and various countries. cipollone and whoever the other guy had nothing but contempt and disdain for the president. the three of them were sort of forcefully attacking me and verbally. we were pushing pack and asking
let s focus on that unhinged meeting. here are some of the highlights from this long compilation of recorded testimony that the committee played to show what happened in this crazy meeting that went on for hours. and it was the president and his conspirators. how much time did you have alone with the president, i say alone, you had other people but, but from his aides before the crowd came running? probably no more than 10 or 15 minutes. was in that i opened the door and walked in. saw general flynn, saw sydney powell sitting there. i was not happy to see the people in the oval office. whether the democrats were