investigation which other people have been subpoenaed. in this letter to the cable news host, they released a series of his texts. his communications with trump white house chief of staff mark meadows. the reason they are e leased those texts it appears is to make the case both to him and the public. that he is an important fact witness for the investigation. and they need to ask him asks about what he knows. he may know stuff other people don't. now the tv host in question is a man named sean hannitity. a prime time weeknight host on fox. regardless of whether or not you have heard of him or seen his show or commentary about january 6 or about trump more broadly, it does appear from the investigation released tonight that mr. hannity was kind of in the thick of it. with the white house chief of staff and apparently with the president himself. they say quote, the select committee now has information in its possession indicating you had a advanced knowledge regarding president trump's and his legal teams planning for january 6. it appears you were expressing concern and providing advice to president trump at certain white house staff. regarding that planning. you had rel vent communication while the riot was under way and in the days there after. these communications make you a fact witness in our investigation. the select committee is in possession of dozens of text messages you sent to and received from former white house chief of staff. and others. related to the 2020 election and president trump's efforts to contest the out come of the vote. for example, on december 31, 2020, you texted mark meadows the following. quote, we can't lose the entire white house counsel office. i do not see january 6 happening the way he is being told. he presumably meaning the president? after the sixth, he should announce he'll lead the nationwide effort to reform voting integrity. go to fl. presumably florida. and watch joe, joe biden. mess up daily. stay engaged when he speaks people will listen. >> this text suggests you had knowledge of concerns by president trump white house counsel office regarding the legality of the former president's plans for january 6. these facts are directly relevant to our inquiry. january 5 the night before the violent riot you sent and received a stream of texts you wrote quote i'm very worried about the next 48 hours. the counting of the votes scheduled for the following day at 1:00 p.m. why were you concerned? also on the evening of january 5, you texted white house chief of staff quote pence pressure. white house counsel will leave. what communications or information led you to conclude white house counsel would leave? what did you know at that time? committee continues it also appears from other texts you may have had a conversation directly with president trump on the evening of the january 5. and perhaps other times. regarding his planning for january 6. we're aware of and interested in your communication to mr. meadows and others during the violent attack on january 6. as the rioters were attempting to occupy the capitol building. for example on january 6 you texted to mark meadows, press coverage relating to a potential effort by members of trumps cabinet to remove him from office using the 25th amendment. as you may recall secretary devoss and chow both resigned following president trumps conduct on january 6. as did members of the president's white house staff. we would like to question you regarding any conversation you had with mark meadows or others about any effort to remove president trump using the 25th amendment. additionally you appear to have had a discussion with president trump on january 10, that may have raised a number of specific concerns about his actions in the days before the inauguration january 20. you wrote in congressman jim jordan january 10. guys we have a clear path to land the plane in nine days. he can't mention the election again. ever. i did not have a good call with him today. and worse i'm not sure what is left to do or say. i don't like not knowing if it's truly understood. ideas? that sent to white house chief of staff. and republican congressman jim jordan. committee continues quote none of the communications are subject to privilege. ey bare directly on the issues before the committee. we cannot in good faith fail to question you on these and specific issues relevant to the vgs. including an investigation into the facts and circumstances relating to the interference with the peaceful transfer of power. this is interesting. again this gentleman is a cable news host. the committee says quote, we stress that our goal is not to seek information regarding any of your broadcasts. or your political views. or commentary. we have deep respect for the first amendment to our constitution. as we detail above, you appear to have information directly relevant to the events of january 6 and attack on the institutions of democracy. we have a duty to understand all of the under lying facts and make legislative recommendations. please identify for the select committee the name of your counsel. we'll work closely with the person as soon as possible. to schedule a time for a transcribed interview. and communication ws the white house, trump or any other persons involved in the events of january 6. we now ask you to preserve all records of such communication. >> we have no doubt that you love our country. and respect our constitution. now is the time to step forward and serve the interest of your country. we thank you in advance for your cooperation. it is signed the chairman and liz cheney vice chair of the investigation. what a world we're in. again this letter sent tonight to a cable news host at the popular fox news channel. we don't know how he'll respond. we don't know if he'll provide information to the committee or not. the committee should be noted they had previously released another of his text messages to the white house. he pleaded for president trump to tell supporters to leave the capitol. on january 6. so we know from this mans private communications that he believed at the time of the attack on the capitol that trump was responsible for it and control the behavior of the trump supporting mob that day. for what it's worth that sentiment, that trump was responsible that he could have stopped january 6 if he wanted to, that is not something this gentleman articulated publicly about january 6. private communications suggest that's what he knew to be the case. we will see. his lawyer says that he's reviewing the request from the committee. and there's been no response yet. we'll see. in terms of connecting the dots here, there had been previous reporting including from testimony to the senate that trumps white house chief of staff had said at a white house meeting on january 3, that he would resign as white house counsel. he was reported to have said that january 3 meeting in the o vaul office. where trump was discussing the possibility of installing a new attorney general so he could use the justice department to basically force the falsification of the election results. we knew previously from other testimony that he had threat nds to resign. at that meeting over that prospect. about the justice department being used in that way. these new texts from hannity released tonight suggest the white house counsel also threatened to resign. even earlier than that. four days earlier. last new years eve. what was that threat to resign about? also, from the texts from mr. hannity released by the investigation tonight it would appear the white house counsel also was renewing the threats to resign. on days later on january 5. the night before the attack on the capitol. according to texts that threat to resign would appear to have been a response to the pressure that was being put on vice president pence. by trump and his pressure to try to get him to effectively spoil the counting of the electoral college votes. in congress. on january 6. did pat threaten to resign on new years eve on january 3, on january 5? again we do not know if hannity will respond to this request for him to provide information to the committee. to flesh out the facts around the previously unknown details about what happened. it is interesting they are appealing to his patriotism. and asking him to give information to the committee. i don't know. i think regardless of party, regardless of cable news out let of your choice, all americans would like to know what mr. hannity knew on january 5. that made him text to the white house i am very worried about the next 48 hours. what did he know about what was going to happen? they made him tell the white house he was worried. we shall see. but tonight we have something else new. the publication of a book today. by a member of the january 6 investigation. who was also the lead impeachment manager appointed by house speaker nancy pelosi. to prosecute the case against former president trump. in the second impeachment. the impeachment for inciting the attack on the capitol. this time last year. as you will recall, it feels like it's been five minutes and also 50 years. this time last year the house in fact voted to impeach trump. that was the vote was january 13. one month later, a majority of the u.s. senate 57 senators also voted to convict the former president. that was the largest bipartisan vote for an impeachment in american history. a 57 vote majority is not enough to secure a conviction in the senate. to get a conviction you need two-thirds. 67 senators to vote. not 57. looking back on that, the historical consequence of that are stark. had enough republicans senators that day voted to obtain that formal conviction, had it been 67 senators voting to convict and not 57, former president trump would not just be the only president twice impeached in u.s. history. which he is. he would have become the first ever president barred by law from ever running for any public office again. had they actually convicted him. had they got 67 votes he would have been barred from running for public office ever again. he was not convicted. 57 votes not 67. because he was not convicted, he is not barred from running for office. he is likely to run for president again. even as the justice department and the january 6th investigation weigh the question right now of whether -- could ever be held criminally liable. for his role in the conspiracy to stop the transfer of power to the new president. and there by over through the united states government. the january 6 attack on the capitol was part of the plan. we know it. thanks to a year of investigation that it was only part of the plan. it was an integral part of the plan. it was just part of it. three term maryland congressman sits on the january 6 investigation now. he also was the lead impeachment manager. he personally led the effort against trump for the january 6 attack. the week the capitol was attacked last year, jamie raskin lost his beloved 25 year-old son. to suicide. tommy died on december 31. he was buried on january 5. last year. congressman was with his daughter and son-in-law at the u.s. capitol the following day. the day after his son's funeral. when the attack on the capitol happened. congressman raskin new book out today called unthinkable. trama, truth and the trials of american democracy. the book is in some sense it's a biography of his son. a love letter to his son. it's also an astonishing very difficult loving account of losing his son. it is also a memoir about his life. his own leap in particular from being a constitutional law professor to being a very high profile member of congress. it's also a sering and original and at times very surprising account of the attack on january 6. and the impeachment that followed. a lot of insider information about the impeachment effort we never had before. it's also a call about the ongoing threat from trump and from the authoritarian antidemocratic forces that he unleashed in this country. that are more dangerous now than they've ever been. in his new book out today, we learn among other things he had initially proposed a motion that senators should vote on trumps impeachment by secret ballot. they shouldn't stand up and vote in their own name ts. but conduct the vote in secret. a lot of americans believed that had it been a secret ballot the conviction of trump wouldn't have just been assured. it might have been unanimous. raskin proposed that senators should sit alphabetically. rather than by party. to break senators apart from partisan bonds. at least a little bit. in the physical sense. so they could more easily vote their conscience. to convict or acquit. we learn that he's come to see the attack on january 6 as three coinciding rings. ts first ring the outer ring the rioters who came to scream and smash things. the second ring the middle ring was the insurrectionists who came to actually stop the congressional vote counting process. including the par militaries who were trained and some cases brought arms to the capitol region. to try to achieve that goal. the innermost ring is the ring of the coup. quote in my mind it was here in the bulls eye center of the action that trump operated likely along with chief of staff, rudy giuliani, house minority leader, michael flynn. representative jordan and the most extreme elements of the gop house and senate conferences. the strategy for trump to stay in power. if in when pence did that, by vaguely citing allegations of fraud in those states and quote returning their votes to the state legislature, pence would succeed in lowering biden's electoral vote total to below 270. which would immediately trigger under the 12th amendment a contingent election. the house contingent election the one place trump could quote win the election. the three rings of sort of the the attack that he describes. in terms of what was going on in january 6. of course there is tonight ahead of attorney general speech tomorrow. on january 6. 2:30 p.m. will give an address to justice department staff and american public about the january 6 investigation and prosecution. there's tonight still a wide open pressing question. as to whether anybody in the innermost ring the ring of the coup. the people who actually devised and tried to implement the plan to over throw the government. there's an open question tonight as to whether they'll get off scot-free. efforts will go unanswered. the question remains. whether they will have to answer for that -- for what they did. with anything more than more chance tos try to do it again. here's how jamie raskin writes it. from that day, from the floor of the house. >> quote, boom. i hear the sound i will never forget. a sound like a battering ramp. the sound of a group of people barrelling up against the central door. with some huge hard thick object. hell bent on entering the house chamber. pressing furniture against the door. and run to the door to help protect it. we are then quickly told to get back by capitol police officers. who rush in and defend the entrance with their guns drawn. the pounding accelerates and we can hear the sound of angry chanting out there. hang mike pence. also we want trump. we want trump. someone official calls upon us to evacuate. calmly. everyone moves. some people run. to the speakers lobby. carrying gas masks. i look up to the gallery to see hour colleagues frozen in place. crouching and sliding through the rows. to make their way to the gallery above the republican side. i see new hampshire representative and california representative only in her fourth day on the job crawling their way over to the gallery above the republican side. we escape and reunited later a colleague tells me they decide ds to cross over to the republican side because they thought a mass shooter who entered would be less likely to aim the republican side of the house. meantime the officers up there locked all the doors to keep the rioters from breaking in. they will unlock them to get colleagues out. i feel strange about leaving them up there. who knows where we're going. where will any of us find safety on january 6? a bloodthirsty mob of hundreds entered the building. with no security check. who knows what weapons they are carrying. what if one of the rioters is carrying an ar 15. many of us are thinking the same thought. i wonder where all the chaos is taking us. whether my daughter and son-in-law. chief of staff are safe at the capitol and they will be rescued soon. whether i should try to turn back and find officers. whether the insurrectionists have firearms. and allies plan to escalate the violence. facing an insurrection a coup or civil war. whether we will finally impeach the traitor for setting loose the dogs of war upon us and invoke the unsong 25th amendment. dear america will survive the fall into political madness. i feel curiosity, anger and resolve. we travel down down down. faster. please hurry. down, down, down into the dark complex basement passage way of the capitol. one thing i don't sense as we're jostled this way and shepherded that. one emotion i have not experienced at all. on this gloomy and objectively terrifying day. i will not experience all through the night. that is fear. i feel no fear. i felt no fear today at all. we have lost tommy and the worst thing that ever could have happened to us has already happened. i'm still in the lantd of the living. and tommy is with me somehow every step of the way. occupying my heart and filling my chest with oxygen. showing me the way to some kind of safety. my beautiful son is giving me courage. as we flee the u.s. capitol building for our lives. my trama, my wound. has become my shield of defense. and my path of escape. and all i can think of is my son propelling me forward to fight. joining us now is congressman jamie raskin. democrat of maryland. author of the new book unthinkable. trama, truth and the trials of american democracy. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> so i have to ask you, reading the book and knowing you a little bit and having talked to you over the course of the last few years. you are incredibly articulate. about your choice to stay public to kp working and write this book in the middle of the grief and challenge. now that you are putting it out to the world, and able to talk about it, does it still feel like the right thing to do? does it feel like you had to do it? >> well, tommy was a young man. he was a boy who was filled with extraordinary moral and political passion. and i think if feels right because of who he was and what he wanted for the world. tommy was in his second year at harvard law school. when we lost him. he was deeply engaged in movements for human rights, against war. for animal rights and welfare. and to defend and expand democracy. he was asking a lot more of democracy. not less. and so i did feel him very much in my heart and chest. through the entire period. it's been a tough year. as you know. and i wasn't getting a lot of sleep for a long time. i was up at night and there were very few people left to call. even on the west coast. when i was up late. and i decided that i could either spend the rest of my life obsessed with this 50 day period. or i could try to record it for my daughters and my family. for my friends and fellow country men and women. and i would do that and try to make sense of what happened. >> a year on now, how do you think tommy would feel about the work that's happened in the country? in response to the attack, in the effort to try to investigate what happened and pursue accountability. obviously the first step is the effort that you led. the impeachment. you're a member of the january 6 investigation. we have learned so much more since. there's open questions about what happened and how it will be accounted for. how do you think he would view our progress over the year? >> when tommy was not under the darkness of his depression, he was the life of the party. and he was radically optimistic. about our prospects for changing things. in america and all over the world. and i think he would be looking on the bright side of how many people are cooperating. with our investigation. how many people are coming forward to tell the truth. about what happened and how many people really want to solidify the institutions of american democracy. there's no doubt we get closer to donald trump there's a people like steve bannon and meadows who are very much protecting the secret of what took place. i think that truth will prevail. he had confidence that in democracy you're not going to be able to fool all of the people all of the time. the truth will resurface. >> you're hard on yourself throughout the book. both in terms of seeing the sign of what was going on with your son. in terms of seeing the signs of what was going on with the country. and with the democracy. you write in detail about how speaker and spring of 2020 had asked you and some colleagues to basically game out all of the ways the election could be mesed with. the way trump and his cohort might try to corrupt the election result or try to steal it. you describe the different situations to prepare for. we predicted every maneuver except one. the unleashing of mob violence to intimidate the vice president in congress. and stop the vote. for trump to intervene with military force. to put down the uprising he helped to organize. hindsight is 2020. if if you had the thing you beat yourself up for is not seeing that coming. had you been act to predict that as a potential out come, is there something that could have been done proactively to stop it? >> we just spent countless hours figuring out every possible parliamentary maneuver and counter maneuver. if vice president pence in fact decided to declare the extra constitutional lawless powers to reject and rebuff the votes. if the gop pursued objections to particular states or states to walk out. we tried to predict every possible maneuver. of course, being democrats and being liberal minded people, we were thinking completely within the context of the constitutional and legal system. and that's why i quote some of the right wings favorite philosophers. like karl -- sovereign is he who controls the exception. we moves out of the rule of law and twilight land of the exception. they were talking about invoking the insurrection act. they were making things up about the electoral count. making things up about the constitution. and that we had not prepared for. i fault myself for. just like i said i fault myself for not talking about suicide. to tommy. and i liken not talking to a depressed person about suicide to not talking to a teenager about sex. you think somehow you are being clever. and you are suppressing a reality that you don't want to materialize. but you are mauking it worse. because when you don't speak the words it endows them with more power. i likened not talking about suicide to not talking about fascism. we have to talk about fascism. which al bright reminded us is not a specific ideology system with particular content. it's a strategy for taking power and maintaining power against the rule of law. and against the majority. in a democracy. >> something that doesn't happen all at once. it starts as you describe and observed it starts in places you might not expect. in creeps. if you ignore it while it's starting, it only grows. we're going to have a take a quick break. stay through the break i want to ask you about the breaking news that i just described. the investigation into january 6 has asked somebody in my job of cable news host to testify and provide documents to the committee. obviously that's a sort of a red hot question. and a live prosfect for a lolt lot of reasons. lot of reasons ♪ limu emu... & doug ♪ ♪ superpowers from a 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that he provide information to the investigation. >> the supreme court is repeatedly said everybody owes the honest truthful testimony to congress. or a court. when we come calling. you can be a truck driver and elementary school driver. a teacher. or you can be a doctor or you could work for msnpc or fox. if you have evidence that is relevant to a congressional investigation or court case, you turn over the evidence. we were very clear in this letter that was sent to mr. hannity it was not about anything he said on the air. and he's not going to be in trouble for any view political viewpoint he's taken. that of course would trouble me. this is about what he knew about plans to attack the peaceful transfer of power on january 6. he has to testify like everybody else. >> it seems from the text messages attributed to mr. hannity released by the ngs tonight. advancing the story for us a bit. previously described to the senate actually by witnesses testifying to the senate, that the white house counsel had threatened to resign. on january 3. in reaction to trump working out some plan by had which he would have the justice department -- essentially act to falsify the election results. and again previously had been described publicly in that testimony that the white house counsel was going to resign over that. hannity's text messages suggest there were a couple of instances in which the white house counsel was threatening to resign. one on january -- described on new years eve. december 31. another the night before the january 6 attack. am i correctly reading into those he's describing new stand offs within the administration. new concerns about the potentially legality of the president's course. that we didn't previously know about? >> well, we knew that trump's own appointed leadership at the department of justice for example was threatening to resign if he indeed go forward with the plan to install richard clark as new attorney general. so he could proclaim the big lie as justification for getting mike pence to reject the electoral college votes and kick the whole thing into a contingent election. this is the exact same process. there were people who saw the constitutional danger of what donald trump was doing. and tried to blow the whistle in their way. they tried to act as a restraining force. they didn't go to talk about to the department of justice or the media. they didn't blow the whistle publicly. at least they were doing what they could behind the scene tos stop it. it tells us a lot about what was taken place there. and about how we might be able to avoid a situation like this in the future. that's the charge of the january 6 committee to tell the truth. in a comprehensive and pain staking way about what took place. to make recommendations legislative and policy. recommendations about how to avoid a future attack on american democracy. >> congressman, one last question about the investigation. again you're the only constitutional law professor in congress. and it's comes in handy way more often than it's comfortable to come in handy these days. given your unique perspective. do you have a view on whether or not congress has the power to subpoena its own members for the an investigation like this. congressman jordan, perry of pennsylvania. both refused or at requests to voluntarily provide information and testimony. if you and your fellow members of the investigation decide that you want to subpoena them, do you believe you have the power to do that? it's never been done before. >> without saying anything about what the committee may or may not do. it's clear we do have such a power. under article is we have the power to define the rules of our own proceedings and the power to discipline and potentially expel members. also the speech and debate clause says that members of congress shall not be questioned anywhere else other than congress. about conduct they may have engaged in. learly indicates permission for questioning our own members. which is something of course we do all the time. in the ethics committee. >> congressman, democratic congressman from maryland. author of a really really excellent, heartbreaking new book. called unthinkable. trama, truth and the trials of american democracy. congressman, thank you for writing the book. thank you for talking to us about it. i know that nothing is easy at this point. including conversations like this. bless you for having them. thanks for being here. >> thank you for reading hi book and having me. >> appreciate it. we have more ahead. stay with us. we have more ahead stay wh itus ♪ i see trees of green ♪ ♪ red roses too ♪ ♪ i see them bloom for me and you ♪ (music) ♪ so i think to myself ♪ ♪ oh what a wonderful world ♪ i recommend nature made vitamins, because i trust their quality. they were the first to be verified by usp, an independent organization that sets strict quality and puards. nature made. the #1 pharmacist recommended vitamin 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