donald trump started his takeover of the republican party. and our long descend to where we are. we now know that donald trump knew what he was asking mike pence to do was illegal. and we are left to wonder about just how much danger donald trump knew mike pence was in when he was sending anti pence tweets to the smartphones of the trump mob attacking the capitol. by 2:24 pm, the secret service has had moved vice president pence from the senate chamber to his office across the hall. the noise from the rioters became audible, at which point we knew they had gotten into the building. then president trump tweeted, mike pence didn t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution, giving states a chance to certify a collective set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. usa demands the truth. bring out pence! the situation was already bad. and so it felt like he was pouring
these hearings. the select committee investigating the capitol riot hold its next public hearing tuesday at 1 pm eastern. it will focus on former president trump s efforts to push key officials in several states to change their 2020 election results. georgia s republican secretary of state, brad raffensperger, and his deputy gave are both expected to testify. we ve all heard the infamous phone call where then president trump was trying to force raffensperger to find votes, essentially, just make stuff up so he could become the president again. but we will go through a variety of issues that we think will be revealing. not everything has been out in the public so far. we also know the justice department is paying close attention to the house investigation. today, the committee said, it s cooperating with the doj request for transcripts of the interviews with witnesses. the department made its first request back in april. but the panel wanted to wait until its investigati
and hour-long descent to where we are. we now know that donald trump knew what he was asking mike pence to do was illegal. and we are left to wonder about just how much danger donald trump knew mike pence was in when he was sending anti-pence tweets to the smartphones of the trump mob attacking the capitol. by 2:24 pm, the secret service had moved vice president pence from the senate chamber to his office across the hall. the noise from the rioters became audible, at which point we knew they had gotten into the building. then president trump tweeted, mike pence didn t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution, giving states a chance to certify a collective set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. usa demands the truth. bring out pence! the situation was already bad. and so it felt like he was pouring gasoline on the fire by tweeting that. 30 seconds later, rio
georgia s republican secretary of state, brad raffensperger, and his deputy gabriel sterling are both expected to testify. we ve all heard the infamous phone call where then president trump was trying to force raffensperger to find votes, essentially, just make stuff up so he could become the president again. but we will go through a variety of issues that we think will be revealing. not everything has been out in the public so far. we also know the justice department is paying close attention to the house investigation. today, the committee said, it s cooperating with the doj request for transcripts of the interviews with witnesses. the department made its first request back in april. but the panel wanted to wait until its investigation was over. on wednesday, doj ramped up the pressure with a letter warning that the delay was holding up criminal cases tied to the insurrection. the committee spent the past week tying trump and his team s actions to that very attack. on m
everything that a black woman did someone wasn t coming to dim that light or blow that out. i wish for someone fanning our flames. you can watch the culture is sunday at 10:00 pm eastern on msnbc. the 11th hour starts now. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. tonight, we are at the end of a dramatic week in the january 6th investigation and on the verge of another week of potentially explosive hearings. we are going to get into all of that now. but i want you to stick around for something special a little later in the hour, something we don t think you will see anywhere else tonight. but first, let s talk about these hearings. the select committee investigating the capitol riot hold its next public hearing tuesday at 1:00 pm eastern. it will focus on former president trump s efforts to push key officials in several states to change their 2020 election results.