we should get to the bottom of that. people defending democracy from the inside. i was ready to fight. i saw a lot of bleep. i was not going to die bleep on the floor of the house of representatives. a key member of the committee investigating the coup. the hearings will tell a story that will really blow the roof off the house. and the republican congressman who wore a bulletproof vest on january 6th joins me live. he always brings up we ve got to rescind the election, you ve got to take a biden out and put me in. now he still says that? yes. a special two hour edition of all in, the an american coup, starts now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. in 24 hours, the first public hearings on the january 6th insurrection will finally begin. and while the story has been fairly front and center for a year and a half, the true horror of that day, the terrifying threat, the violence directed at members of congress and the police at the capitol, the vice p
violence in the months to come and another january 6th every four years. cheney is a very odd figurehead for the movement to prosecute the ex presidents attempted coup in the court of public opinion. she provides an interesting case study for the question, what does a politician do when they want to be part of a political party that doesn t want them? i ve covered cheney s political career for almost a decade now. to be honest, i spent much of it viewing her as kind of an object of scorn. i mean, she is a hard right republican and one of the most extreme foreign policy hawks in the party. before entering politics, the first time she came on my radar screen, he s probably best known for her policy to keep america safe. that levied some pretty disgusting attacks against obama era department of justice officials who had, in private practice before they join the government, defended guantánamo bay detainees. haiti formally launched her political career by trying to carpet back
tonight on a special addition of all in. one year, five months and three days ago, was a protest that spun out of control, with the violent culmination of an attempt to steal the presidency. this week, for the first time, the nation will hear the evidence live in primetime. tonight, we will talk to the people on the frontlines against the mob. it was an attack carried out on january 6th. and a hitman sent them. we should get to the bottom of that. people defending democracy from the inside. i was ready to fight. i saw a lot of back in my day i was not going to die bleep on the floor of the house of representatives. a key member of the committee investigating the coup. the hearings will tell a story that will really blow the roof off the house. and the republican congressman who wore a bulletproof vest on january 6th joins me live. he always brings up, we ve got to rescind the election, you ve got to take biden out and put me in. now he still says that? yes
exactly the worst attack on the u.s. capitol in more than 200 years came to be. who was behind it and how the threat still looms over every aspect of american democracy? the washington post is reporting this about what to expect this. bennie thompson and liz cheney will lead the evening s presentation which will lead testimony from caroline edwards, she is a u.s. capitol police officer who was seriously nnged as pro-trump rioters and members of far-right extremist groups forced their way into the building. here s what january 6th committee member congressman jamie raskin told nbc s garrett haake to have officer edwards testify tonight. 150 officers ended up wounded, injured, hospitalized. the united states capitol has never seen anything like that. we ve had officers who ended up with broken ribs, broken vertebrae, broken arms, legs, feet, missing fingers, contusions, concussions and traumatic brain injuries and post-traumatic stress syndrome that dozens and dozens of the
it will reach millions more people than the traditional daily news because we know many networks well outside the cable news networks are taking this live tonight. so it will reach people who are trying to get law and orderle they re going get this version of how law and order fell apart at the at the end of the trump era. the committee says donald trump was at the center of an effort to overturn the results of the election. tonight it will play for the first time ever just a few highlights of the many interviews it s done, including what we now know as video taped interviews with kushner and ivanka. we will also hear from the first capital police officer known to be injured, and testimony from the filmmaker who got this footage that show a secret militia meeting in a parking garage on the eve of the election. the filmmaker reporting lawmakers on the days of the riot. this is being released for the first time today. freedom! i am not allowed to say what s going to happen