this is don lemon tonight. a firsthand account from the witness who gave dramatic closed-door testimony to the january 6th committee, today. this is the sitting president of the united states, saying this in the white house, that was actually very scary. you have used the words frightening, and scary. you were frightened? those are strong words. of course they were pickups the. in the capitol, revelations on the plot to overturn the election. what the president told the doj. what i am asking you to do is say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congress meant. a not a conspiracy theory about italian satellites had reached the highest levels of the government. the completely baseless conspiracy theory that an italian defense contractor for flitted software to a satellite which switch to votes from trump to biden. members of congress angling for pardons. the only reason i know to ask for a pardon, is because you think you have committed a
here. from all of our colleagues across the networks of msnbc news, thank you for staying up late and i will see all of you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow now it is a top of the hour. we are looking at live images of the cannon caucus room at the u.s. capitol. members of the january six investigation are about to enter the room and take their seats. in terms of what we are expecting, here betty thompson is expected to gavel the hearing in the session. as i was mentioning we expect opening statements both from chairman thompson, and from the republican vice chair liz cheney. we also know that there are two live witnesses, who are slated to testify tonight. capitol hill police officer who was injured, and the attack. also documentary filmmaker, who captured footage on january 6th that we will be seeing for the first time tonight. he is and that it with the pro trump paramilitary group, the proud boys that was a subject of a seditious conspiracy, federal felony indictment earl
revealed. right now, the nation s focus returns to the u.s. capitol as we await the most comprehensive account yet of crimes committed against the united states on this sacred ground. welcome to cnn special coverage of attack on democracy here on cnn. i m jake tapper, about an hour away from the rare prime time presentation on this committee and let s be clear, what will happen in the hearing room tonight is not just about the mob that stormed the capitol on january 6th, specifically, it is a month s long campaign and conspiracy to undermine democracy in america. it s about a president and those around him desperate to hold on to power at any cost, even if it meant destroying the american experiment. committee aides say we will hear and see interviews conducted with trump insiders for the first time. we expect that to possibly include members of the former president s family, as well as former senior administration and trump campaign officials. the hearing will showcase l
tonight, the january 6th hearings. good evening. thank you so much for being here with us tonight. we know that you have a lot of options for where to watch and how to watch tonight s hearing. it makes us all the more grateful that you have chosen to be here with us on msnbc. i m rachel maddo with joy reid. tonight is a big night for us. a big night for american democracy. we have had a few other instances in our modern history of big, public hearings. all the networks scuttling their schedules to air the proceedings live, but none of us have ever covered something quite like this before. the january 6th investigation is about the first time in american history that the transfer of power between presidents was not peaceful. tonight in the ornate cannon caucus room inside the u.s. capitol the january 6 ths investigators said they would give them a skralg amount. the investigators plan to show video footage from the attack that s never been seen by the public before, including
the time, he is trying that in court, but we believe what he was doing for donald trump was political activity and, thus, shouldn t get this allowance that he can have there, and there were two quotes that she wrote her filings about meadows and clark. the hardship facing the defendant is no different than any other criminal defendant charged with a crime, including co-defendants who already surrendered or agreed to surrender and fani willis wrote about clark, seeks the avoid the inconvenience of being arrested subject to the mandatory state criminal process but provides this court no legal basis to justify those ends making those arguments at a time that shadow what donald trump could potentially be wanting to make in the future as well and what the d.a. would have to defend against. we will see what he does tomorrow and going forward. thank you. and back to our big breaking story this hour. russia says wagner chief yevgeny prigozhin, who led that mutiny just two months ago, was o