good evening and thanks t at-home for joining us in th special edition of alex wagner tonight. we are coming up on the tw year anniversary of the januar 6th attack, and i think all of us at this point have memories of that day seared into ou minds, where we were what we were doing even after all these times past i mean, almost all of us hav those memories as it turns out, a few peopl have no memory of that day a all, apparently. here is an excerpt of deposition of one of president donald trump s persona secretaries, who worked just outside the oval office, testifying to the january 6t committee, from their fina report quote, i don t remember where was that afternoon do you remember being at the white house that afternoon even if you don t remember where exactly you were at th white house? no, i do not do you remember being home wherever home is for you, on the afternoon of january six as opposed to being at the white house? no, i don t. so, you don t remember whether you ar
burden of towing all thi explosive stuff withou cooperation but the dye wa pretty much cast and so th rest is history. robert, one more question for you. as we talk about list cheney and her outsized role in all o this, you know that sh maintained a captain a habit like focus on donald trump, as a singular threat to democracy but some of that focus mad other committee members nervous, because they were not sure whether her service to democracy began or ended, an where her own politica aspirations began. and i wonder if you have any insight into all of that, an how much of this is about, you know, capital d democracy, and how much of this is abou someone who believes the should be the next nominee, or at least challenge trump on th republican ticket? so. that question with an obvious, won both for other members tha were staffers. given the fact that liz cheney just a couple of months before she joined the committee, ha
trump didn t listen and instea he executed on a plan. he and his team we re going to deny that he lost and instea say the election was stolen. former white house aide cassid hutchinson told the committe that at the helm of that effor was her boss, former chief o staff mark meadows, who wa under constant pressure from trump to figure something out. this is what she testified mark was just kind of trying t tell trump, well sir, we hav other options. we re still looking at other things don t worry, we are going to figure this out. this here, how to steal th election and the president said something to the effect of, don t want people to know we lost, mark this is embarrassing figure it out. we need to figure it out i don t want people to kno that we lost even after the election wa certified on january 6th, trum still didn t want people t know that he had lost. the committee has video of the former president saying that much on january 7th as he wa
and because of security concerns for cassidy hutchinson, they didn t tell other members what was happening until basically, the 11th hour with that right? this is exactly right they literally were told, th members were that, hey, we r gonna have a special hearing we need you all in washingto in the next couple of days when you do arrive you are t report to the security compartment intelligence facility, the scif, secure roo where they could just discus classified information and it was only then literally three hours before the hearing was to begin, that they were told, the other members, worke cassidy hutchinson had all thi bombshell testimony, which the then gave excerpts to th committee. and the committee could then see for themselves that indeed what she had to say wa explosive. it still was not thoroughl agreed upon at that moment i time that hutchinson should bear th
or completed that was california congresswoman judy chu, she an rest of the house ways and means committee wrote th blockbuster news that despit former president trump being the first president sinc richard nixon to not publicl release his tax returns, despite the fact that the ir had audited president obama an president biden every year the were in office, despite th fact that president trump s ta returns were filled with red flags, somehow, despite all of that, the irs did not perfor the and utterly annual presidential audits that has been required performed sinc the year 1977. somehow, the irs did not loo at trump s taxes until democrats, like judy chu, at the house ways and means committee started asking question joining us now is the woma herself, californi congresswoman, judy chu, membe of the house ways and mean committee. congressman, thank you so much for being with us. i just want to start with ho