by this time tomorrow, we expect to know a whole lot more about what happened behind closed doors at the white house on january 6th. and we know that because we have a couple people speaking to us. the committee has out takes of the president s message to supporters the day after the riot at the capitol showing him having trouble getting through the message, refusing to say the election was settled and attempting to call the rioters patriots. tonight, my colleague anderson cooper, anderson got congressman jamie raskin to tell him more about what out takes the committee has. in just 340moments, committee member adam schiff says you ll hear people urging the ex president to say things to try to get the attackers to go home, things that he can t be prevailed upon to do or say. now, that as one day after the secret service turned over precisely one text exchange to a government watchdog who had requested a month s worth of records for 24 secret service personnel. the january 6th
now. i will let other see you. it has been one of those days. this is don lemon tonight, by this time tomorrow, we expect to know a whole lot more about what happened behind closed doors at the white house on january six. we know that because we have a couple people speaking to us, but i digress. i will get into that. new tonight is the committees outtakes at then president s message to his supporters the day after the riot at the capitol, showing him having trouble getting to the message, refusing to say the election was settled and attempting to call the rioters patriots. tonight, my colleague anderson cooper got congressman jamie raskin to tell him more about well takes the committee has. in just moments, committee member adam schiff reveals that you will hear people urging the ex president to say things to try to get the attackers to get home, things that he cannot be prevailed upon to do or say. that as one day after the secret service turn by precisely one text exchan
it s going to be his demeanor, the wait he says it and the way he moves from one to the other when people ask him to do something different. i think that is going to be extremely telling. it s going to be like putting a major criminal on the witness stand and cross-examining him with his statements. is this a star witness? the star witness was cassidy hutchinson. okay. all right. she was the new john dean. let me ask you about norm, you worked regeed regularly wit white house secret service on records handling issues. are you suspicious about the text messages that have gone missing and turned over one, that s it, just one? yeah, suspicious would under state the case, don. if it was only an isolated incident of the secret service not preserving documents that would be one thing. there have been very serious allegations of a witness intimidation scheme as part of these proceedings. the good cop, bad cop that we saw trump do with michael cohen
but there have been very serious allegations of a witness intimidation scheme as part of these proceedings. the good cutback cup that we saw trump do with michael cohen, the example, right? the committee played these grooming messages before the good cop, before cassidy hutchinson s testimony. and then, afterwards, trump comes down on her like a ton of bricks. who helped him? a whisper campaign involving former secret service agents who were supposed to be disagreeing with her and were close to him. and then we find the same secret service agents were supposed to preserve these tax and may not have done. so apparently, didn t you. so i think it stinks. here s what you pointed out. the model of the secret service at basset or, i m, sorry, ambassador eisen, use it worthy of trust and confidence, you said that that is no big question mark.
close, but we moved him in time before anything could happen to him. in the nick of time the witness intimidation scheme is shut down. merrimon s mother, beverly sue merrimon pleads guilty to conspiracy to intimidate witnesses, and that charge is added to her son s case as well. the puzzle is finally complete. after four and a half years making a case they go to trial. now, i will tell you when we purr proceed to the indictment, our he gave us more evidence. he had went out and tried to kill the witnesses. it s hard to say i m innocent, but i want all these people dead anyway. both rooen bush and larry testified for the prosecution. as part of a deal larry pleaded guilty to being accessory to murder after the fact. he served a three-year sentence and was released. ryan bush was never charged with a crime. on february 13th, 2001, justin merrimon was convicted of the rape and murder of katrina