tonight will be tuning in at the very end several weeks from now. if there is any notion on the committee we ll have cliff hangers here and try to string people along or build to some suspen suspensieful climax, they need o start strong and finish strong. you want to hear something new meaning what? well, i think if your goal is to change public opinion, i guess that s what it is here. you have to offer something new that isn t already baked in and internal ielzedized about the a people. it unfolded live on the television screen. we all saw it. everybody formed an opinion who is responsible and what happened and so on and so forth. in order to break people out of those hardened opinions that have been formed over the last year and a half and were really formed in the moment a long time ago, you have to bring new information to materially change public opinion or to make this more salient for the upcoming midterm. i think this isn t going to matter in november.
there is inflation. there is gun violence. it s a very intense news cycle. do you think the substance of what the committee is pretending tonight and in the next days to come will cut through? i do think so. look, without a doubt the american public and the american people right now are hurting. but these things are chantransi and maybe take longer than we want. once it goes away, we re not going back. it s something i think we re always going to regret and it would not be a pretty one, either. it would be a violent attempt. i think we have to remind people there were real attempts for this president to have an illegal outcome. the fact they were call pging t sector state of georgia is a very direct example of the president actually trying to overturn a free and fair election. so there is going to be a lot we have to go through but we really have to put aside criticism,
begin on capitol hill. the committee will hold the first session at 8:00 eastern tonight. committee members are promising never before seen footage and testimony and that includes video from a documentary film maker named nick kwequested th abc news obtained. i m not allowed to say what s going to happen today because everyone will have to watch for themselves. but it s going to happen. something is going to happen. one way or the other. that film maker will be one of the witnesses to testify tonight. he had unique access to the far right group, the proud boys and he captured video of the rioters inside the capitol as they screamed for speaker pelosi. a member of his film crew capturing the scene outside nancy pelosi s office. the vast majority of the
it may, however, manifest itself in 2024 if donald trump runs for president again. let s talk about the use of the video that s scott just referenced. we heard from the committee most of what we ll see is previously unseen video. if it s a new angle of the same violence from a different camera and does it answer a question is it useful when you try to build this case? so the short answer is yes. they have a set of challenges they have to work really fast, 90 minutes and need dynamics to change things up a bit and keep it flowing. but i think their first job has to be to return us, scott is right but it was a long time ago what happens in a big trial, especially if it involved famous events is you need to return the jury, hear the american people to the hell as you just put it, in the sense of shocked, ap appalledness that we had on
indications is behind where the committee is terms of the merr can i get everything you guys have? the doj has way better tools to investigate much more quickly. one of the things we re seeing in the interview you did with representative. i think the committee is trying to increase the political pressure on doj to at least move quickly one way or the other, whether that will work, whether merrick garland is subject to political pressure, we don t know. that s clearly going on here. scott, you said americans, everyone, including republicans should watch the hearings to learn of what happened leading up to january 6th. we are hearing, though, from house republicans their intensified prebutt al. here is today. i don t see a prime time hearing set for gas price, for battling inflation, for feeding our children, for making the