the following is a cnn special report. you want to die, you better leave! tonight, what s the bottom line you want the american people to know? there was a very sophisticated multi-part plan overseen by donald trump. you can t ever accept when they steal and reagan rob. attempt to stay in power. as the longest, largest investigation into donald tr trump s attempts to stay presen barreled towards inclusion, t that. the explosive testimony. i heard some the president said something to the effect of i don t think they have weapons let my people in. new insight from witnesses. i said, you want me to take my statement 32 million voters and just let them filled out the window? get back to criminal intent issue. i don t know what he bel believed. the answer questions. i feel like we don t know th full story on the proud boys an oathkeepers. and what might lie ahead. the former president and his allies was an clear and present danger to american democracy. n
selfishness or to stay in power. president trump did not fail to act during the 187 minutes between the lips and telling the mob to go home, he chose not to act. it included gripping new interviews detailing just how scared secret service agents protecting vice president mike pence were about the situation on capitol hill on january 6th. watch this. it was disturbing, i don t like talking about it. there were calls to say goodbye to family members. he was getting for whatever reason it was on the ground. the vp detail it was about to get very ugly. and details about what trump refused to do on that day and the day after, and beyond that. this election is now over. congress is has certified the results. i don t want to say the election is over, i just want to say congress has certified the results, without saying the election is over, okay? after eight hearings, a wealth of evidence mounting against the former president, and a promise of more to come. as we m
totally. have a good show. i ll see you soon. thank you. thanks to nicole, and thanks to you for joinings. this is the beat. i m ari melber. we re tracking several stories. the january 6th committee dropped new evidence today. you might be thinking, wait, why wouldn t they include it in the hearing? but they had so much stuff, like what you see on the screen, that didn t make the hearing. this is a draft of trump s speech the day after. because he was crossing out any reference to prosecuting those blatant lawbreakers. and then there s this new testimony. do you recognize what this is? it looks like a copy of a draft of the remarks for that day. do you recognize the handwriting? it looks like my father s handwriting. it looks like here he crossed out that he was directing the department of justice to ensure all law breaks are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, we must send a clear message, not with mercy, but with justice. legal consequences must be
a white house security official who chose to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation explain exactly how dire the situation for pence an his secret service detail. one of the. vp detail at this time were sent to fear for their lives. they were running out of option and they re getting nervous. it sounds like they came very close to either service having this. when secret service made the call to move this rider s came within 40 feet of him. as he was held in an undisclose location it was the person who responded to a crowd. it was pence who was on the phone with these lawmakers lipa who was on the phone with peopl in the pentagon about what was happening with the national guard. at 2:38 p.m. trump tweeted,
fateful. there s six officers between us and the people that are five to ten feet away from me. there is smoke unknown, what kind of smoke it is, copy. clear. we re coming out now. the members of the vp detail at that time were starting to fear for their own lives. there were calls to say good-bye to family members so on and so forth. for whatever reason on the ground the vp detail tells us that they thought it was about to get very ugly. ugly or lethal, they were prepared to die. they put themselves through that risk as you and others have in the military. does trump bear responsibility for that, and have you ever heard of anything like that in your service? so the answer is yes. the president bears responsibility for that chaotic situation. i, you know, don t have the details obviously of the individual actions, but i thought that the security