actually transpired on january 6th. today, we got the first look at the document titled, 1776 returns, when the lawyer for the philadelphia president of the proud boys included it in a federal court filing. we heard mention of this document in previous indictments against members of the proud boys, some of whom were charged with seditious conspiracy last week. prosecutors revealed that an individual, whose identity is known to the grand jury, sent this blueprint to proud boys leader enrique tarrio on december 30th, 2020. one way to think about the attempted coup and i think the way that the committee is discussing it, and the way we discuss it on this program is sort of broadly two different efforts that merged on january 6th. there was trump and his circle of people around him, who were pro-coup, attempting to overthrow the rightfully elected president, joe biden, to keep donald trump in power. they were trying to use every government mechanism they had at their disposal
least legitimate committee in american history. over the next hour, we ll drill into what happened january 6th. we ll look at the revelations that may come out tonight. we ll ask what effect the january 6th riot has had on american democracy, and the way it is seen around the world. with the context attorney and former mayor of baltimore stephanie rawlings blake, ron christie, former senior adviser to president george w bush, and former federal prosecutor joe moreno. hello, welcome to the programme. after 11 months, nearly 100 subpoenas, and more than 1,000 interviews, the congressional committee investigating the january 6th attack on the us capitol will deliver its findings. a few hours from now, on primetime television, the public will be shown the interviews the committee conducted behind closed doors with white house staff, trump campaign officials and the interviews they conducted with members of the former presidents own family. we know so much about january 6th, but
because it is a concern, as you said, as it s close to the affluent neighborhoods. it s something they don t want to see, and people want to be necessarily herded into shelters either. let me just tell you it is a profound crisis here. this is just in the city. there s over 50,000 people living on the streets, who have pitched tents and a lot of different places. and we do absolutely have to get people off the street right away, but my concern is that our city kind of has two choices to go, are we gonna go back to failed strategies, which is really just about hurting people and incarcerating a percentage of folks, or are we going to build the type of housing that is needed, and address the underlying problems? and so, that is a very big issue. and we have to involve every single level of government, that s one of the things i bring to the table, especially with my federal state county and city relationships. this should be interesting. are you ready for a runoff, if it ha
was a blatant attempt to use force, to destroy american democracy and the rule of law. that s what made that day so uniquely terrifying, such an existential threat to the democratic order. the organizers, the rioters, wanted to topple the rightful government, and install a wrongful one, using mob violence to do so. the president backed them on, as some of the people closest and participated in the planning. in the variety of wannabe paramilitary groups, they view january six as a testing ground for precisely this undertaking, for using force, violence, intimidation and the threat there of, to overturn the democratic order. today, we saw a big development in the case against one of those groups, the proud boys. department justice charged the longtime leader of the proud boys, enrique tarrio, and four of his top lieutenants, with extremely rare charges of seditious conspiracy. as the indictment alleges, quote, the purpose of the conspiracy was to oppose the lawful transfer of p
nick queststead. he will be one of the key witnesses on thursday and he is expected to reveal more previously unseen video of the proud boys that day. we are also expecting to hear from u.s. capitol police officer caroline edwards, who was injured in the attack. she told nbc news garrett haake in october january 6th felt like a war zone. they started ripping down barriers. that s when the moment i knew this is not like any other protest. they approached our line. they injured me and a couple of officers by tearing down you know our barricade and then the fight on the west front began. it was chaos. i ve never seen anything like that. and now breaking just a few minutes ago, new reporting from the washington post that president trump had been insisting for two weeks before the insurrection that he wanted to march alongside his supporters to the capitol. joining me now is nbc news justice reporter ryan reilly, politico investigative reporter josh to besee and luke broadw