alex, we just heard you say i should have known. what are you referring to? i said, paul, paul, i should have known. what were you referring to? i was referring to paul got so many threats. he didn t take serious. i was just telling him, paul, paul, i should have known. i don t specifically remember saying that, but i can clearly hear myself say that. what kind of threats did you understand paul was receiving? paul got the most vile threats, the stuff that was on social media. you couldn t believe it. you couldn t believe it. it was so over the top, truthfully, we didn t think anything about it. it was just so crazy. people talking about what he was going to get and how they were going to do this and get him and it s stuff you really disr disregarded it because it s so over the top. thought it was so over the top. keep going please . when was the last time you talked to maggie? probably two hours ago. okay, you said about two hours ago you talked to them?
one of the many threads running through the tapestry of the hearings is the indifference, at best, to violence committed in his name and inclouding the now notoriou tweet about then vice president pence. do you remember seeing the tweet about the vice president did not have the courage to do what needed to be done? i do. hot was your reaction when you saw this tweet? as a staffer that works to always represent the administration to the best of my ability, and to showcase the good things that he had done for the country, i remember feeling frustrated, disappointed, and really it felt personal. i was really sad. as an american i was disgusted. it was unpatriotic. unamerican. we were watching the capitol building get defaced over a lie. with me now washington post associated editor, bob a woodwardand former white house nixon counsel, john dean. bob woodward, we should notice is more recently the co author of peril and buernstein of chasing history. and a new forw
didn t do anything with any hose. i didn t do anything with any dogs. was there anybody with you? no. all right. keep going please. you can t see it from the road. is it a house or a mobile home? sdwl it s a house. what s your name? my name is alex murdaugh. did you hear anything or come home and find them? was anyone else supposed to be at your house? no, ma am. please hurry. we re getting somebody out there to you .
making the crowd look smaller. sdwl it s another cinematic moment. the reason you re pointing out it s interesting is because one of the big defenses by trump of trump by his allies is it s a crowd of people that got out of hand. today is one of the days the committee is trying to underscore and undermine that defense to say actually not only were there people with knives, pistols, spears but the president and his security folks were informed and informing him of that, right? so, it s not just about the mags. it s trying to show everybody what it means. and they were armed and said then we re going to march to the capitol. they don t want to hurt me. he said let them in. they re not going to hurt me and encourages them to march down to the capitol. this is the president of the united states who is basically taking what he knows is an armed group of his own supporters and