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
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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
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