nearly 1,000 homes destroyed in the suburbs between denver and boulder, fueled by extremely dry conditions there. and wind gusts more than 100 miles an hour. snow blanketing it all, complicating families efforts now to recover what they can and slowing the search for a cause. investigators have ruled out downed power lines. from washington tonight, the news involving the january 6th investigation. the house committee now says it has first-hand accounts of what then president trump was doing as his supporters attacked the capitol. where was he and for how long was he watching it all? here s jon karl. reporter: the january 6th committee has now spoken to people who were at the white house with donald trump the day his supporters attacked the capitol. and the top republican on the committee says they now know what the former president was up to as the chaos unfolded. the committee has first-hand testimony now that he was sitting in the dining room next to the oval office watching t
it s not a consequence dense that this is promoted by people not in power. trump namely. still trying to get the election overturned. it s been a year. we have new details tonight about an attempt by a lawyer tied to trum p to help the vice president back in the day a six step plan to overthrow democracy. i will reveal it to you next. somewhere out west a lone river flows carving its way through time and if you were to find it
entertain as planned, we should put the plan up for people. put the full screen up of this. open and count the ballots. throw out the electoral college votes of seven states by allege theg have competing electors. now that is a very arcane thing. we know why that is in there. declare the trump the winner with 232 votes to 222 in the face of howls of from democrats destroying democracy will do that. send the matter to the house. demand normal rules so gop majority can re-elect trump. do this without asking permission from congress or court. the pence that you knew, can you imagine him reading something like this, not telling people openly that it was given to him and then making a call like that to dan quayle looking for counsel on how to get away from his constitutional duty? no. i can t. to be honest. i think it just goes to show, you know, what people are
his role in the mueller report when he mentioned telling the white house about sensitive information that he as a so-called member of the gang has received. i talked about that. i think he was communicating to the white house, the witnesses they wanted to call and what our committee what witnesses we were after. incidentally he may have mentioned that information. i don t think it was a serious breach on his part, and i ve seen no evidence of his cooperating or to accuse another word colluding with the white house on this investigation. the chairman of the house committee is threatened to s&p the fbi director to get specific answers on whether the counterintelligence investigation that s going on by the house intelligence committee into president trump is still active. do you know if it s still active in the senate intelligence committee? yes. it s still active. we re not finished. we ve finished some portions.
that everybody is not fully aware that accepting this kind of information isn t a criminal violation. this was also an open invitation for foreign countries to now interfere in the u.s. election. this is the moment when they say the lights are blinking red for the 2020 election. that is the president of the united states saying come on in. we spend a lot of time talking about the obstruction line over the mueller report, but this goes back to what the heart of the investigation was all about that a foreign adversary in the united states interfered in the 2016 election in what the special counsel said was sweeping and systematic fashion. we know that the mueller report was receptive to that help and under they would benefit electorally from a campaign led by moscow to help lift up trum