good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. today, the january 6th committee released brand-new video, showing just how reluctant donald trump was to condemn the violent insurrection he incited. now, remember of course, it took trump hours to publicly denounce the violence, and tell them up to go home. three plus hours when he finally did so, he released this truly deranged video message from the rose garden. i know your pain. i know your pain. i know your hurt. we had an election that was stolen from us. it was a landslide election, and everyone knows it, especially the other side. but you have to go home now. we have to have peace. we have to have law and order. we have to respect our great people and law and order. we don t want anybody hurt. it s a very tough period of time. there s never been a time like this, where such a thing happened, where they could take it away from all of us, from me, from you, from our country. this was a fraudulent election but, we
eastern. california congressman adam schiff will take the lead. the focus, first, to pressure state officials into overturning joe biden s 2020 victory, a race, of course he won fairly. i m gonna say it one more time, a race he won fairly. and the plan to get fake electors to washington, d. c., in time to stop the transfer of power on january 6th. this was, i think, really unprecedented in u.s. history. this broad effort to overturn the presidential election, and you ll see just what the weight of the presidency brought down on these officials. another hearing means more republican witnesses, and that s what we re gonna get to tomorrow. arizona s republican house speaker, rusty bowers, gets his turn. committee aides tell nbc news he will detail, for the first time, how trump and rudy giuliani leaned on him directly to overturn biden s victory in arizona. joining bowers tomorrow, two other republican officials, who were targets of a very similar pressure campaign. georgia
intended to intimidate lawmakers. if we have to, we re going to go to homes and let them know what we think about them. there were multiple protests. i don t remember the exact number, three at least outside either my district office or my home. you re correct. my then 15-year-old son was home by himself for the first one. all of my personal information was online. it was my personal email, my personal cell phone, my home phone number. in fact, we had to disconnect our home phone for about three days because it would ring all hours of the night, would fill up with messages. brian butt cutler, we re outside. outlining pressure from trump aides and the ex-president himself to peddle the big lie even as team trump admitted they didn t have any evidence. he said we ve got lots of theories, we just don t have the evidence. and i don t know if that was a gaff. maybe he didn t think through what he said. both myself and others in my group and my counsel both remembered tha
and the pope offers an apology. the pontiff in canada with a message of contrition to indigenous people who suffered abuse. his historic words just ahead. we start with some breaking news, though. one of the biggest investigations into former president trump s 2020 election fraud scheme. district attorney fani willis in fulton county, georgia, is leading an investigation into trump s efforts to reverse that state s 2020 result. a judge has just ruled that willis cannot question one of the so-called fake electors who took part in the scheme. the reason? willis recently hosted a fundraiser for that republican s political opponent. let s get to kara. walk us through the ruling here. that s right. the judge disqualifying fani willis from investigating this one fake elector, georgia state senator burt jones. he was one of the fake electors. he is also running for lieutenant governor. the judge saying that fanni created an untenable conflict by hosting a fundraiser for the riva
committee, three top officials who led the justice department in the final days of the trump administration including the former acting attorney general jeffrey rosen will make clear the doj saw no evidence of widespread fraud sufficient to overturn the election and will detail how he and others resisted trump s pressure to back the baseless claims. a preview of newly obtained footage from the documentary film crew that followed former president trump and his team for six months before and after january 6th. it was just released by discovery plus, which, of course, is cnn s parent company. watch. okay. my father, he s very honest and he is who he is. he believes everything he s doing is right. i think i treat people well, unless they don t treat me well, and then we go to war. can we talk about january 6th? yeah. obviously people want to hear what he had to say there. so that documentary filmmaker alex holder has said that he will be deposed today after receiv