committee member jamie raskin said that s the moment that trump became the first president in american history to call for a protest against the peaceful transfer of power. we expect the committee to try to link this to extremist groups mobilizing around january 6. also, the committee has suggested they will probe possible links between trump s circle and some of the extremist groups. one of the witnesses today, stephen ayres, a convicted rioter. also a former spokes keeper for the oath keeper will join us. joining us now elie honig. your gravitational force is pulling us over here. we re talking about what the committee wants to do today. the tweet from donald trump why that inspired them to mobilize around january 6. and why is that important? yeah, john, the committee is going to make the point that the one and only reason that the mob descended around the capitol, liz cheney wrote, president trump assembled the mob. we re going to hear about the december 18th meeting
extremist group and a man convicted for crimes related to entering the capitol. the committee also played clips from its deposition last week with a former white house counsel pat cipollone. chad pergram watching it all joins me live now from capitol hill tonight. chad, good evening there. what happened today? hello. good evening, bill, allegations of witness tampering. liz cheney says the former president tried to call a witness who has not yet testified before the committee. the panel told the doj about the contact by the former president. the committee focused on a late night verbal brawl in the oval office with trump loyalists fighting with white house attorneys, including pat cipollone who just talked to the committee on friday. i don t think any of these people were providing the president with good advice. in the conclave, trump advisers challenged top white house aides that they needed to go to the mat for the former president. i m going to categorically des
unfolded. the committee is trying to determine what trump was doing and how he reacted to the violence in realtime. for more now, let s bring in reporter marshall cohen. what more could you tell us about what cipollone did or did not say behind closed doors. fredricka, how are you? this is a big one. it is a real break through for the committee. they had been pushing for months to get pat cipollone to come in and give a deposition and they clinched that yesterday. as you mentioned, more than seven hours behind closed doors. so what did they possibly ask him about. he was there when donald trump s allies were thinking about declaring martial law. he was there when donald trump allies were considering sending in the military to seize voting machines and he was there on january 6 while donald trump sat back, watched tv and did not intervene while his supporters ransacked and raided the capitol. now this is critical because the committee has been focusing on what they say is a
had been rescued. some had scrambled on to their roof tops and some just ran for their lives. we ve never seen something like this. folks who deal with this for a living have been doing it for 20 years. have never seen water this high. we still can t get to a lot of people. there s so much water, the current is so strong, it is not safe for some of the water rescues that we need to do. we ll be in the search and rescue certainly today and tomorrow and then we ll be looking at a year s worth of rebuilding. president biden has declared a major disaster across eastern kentucky and the national guard is helping to rescue people. joining us now from clay county, what is the situation where you are? reporter: well, fred, it is really hard, still, to get to the worst of this. this is an ongoing situation. we re not really in the aftermath yet. my cnn crew dave and chris pulled over on the side of the road to talk to you and catch you up on what we are seeing so far. the import
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