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good evening and thanks t at-home for joining us in th special edition of alex wagner tonight. we are coming up on the tw year anniversary of the januar 6th attack, and i think all of us at this point have memories of that day seared into ou minds, where we were what we were doing even after all these times past i mean, almost all of us hav those memories as it turns out, a few peopl have no memory of that day a all, apparently. here is an excerpt of deposition of one of president donald trump s persona secretaries, who worked just outside the oval office, testifying to the january 6t committee, from their fina report quote, i don t remember where was that afternoon do you remember being at the white house that afternoon even if you don t remember where exactly you were at th white house? no, i do not do you remember being home wherever home is for you, on the afternoon of january six as opposed to being at the white house? no, i don t. so, you don t remember whether ....
Trump didn t listen and instea he executed on a plan. he and his team we re going to deny that he lost and instea say the election was stolen. former white house aide cassid hutchinson told the committe that at the helm of that effor was her boss, former chief o staff mark meadows, who wa under constant pressure from trump to figure something out. this is what she testified mark was just kind of trying t tell trump, well sir, we hav other options. we re still looking at other things don t worry, we are going to figure this out. this here, how to steal th election and the president said something to the effect of, don t want people to know we lost, mark this is embarrassing figure it out. we need to figure it out i don t want people to kno that we lost even after the election wa certified on january 6th, trum still didn t want people t know that he had lost. the committee has video of the former president saying that much on january 7th as he wa ....
That survived according to the committee, trump tweeted and re-tweeted more than 30 fals comes about the machines and he did the same with every other crazy theory that wa thrown at him with devastating consequences the january 6th report concludes that all of thes lies motivated trump supporter to attack the u.s. capitol and if there s someone to blam in all of this, that man i quite clearly former president donald j trump joining me again as nbc capitol hill correspondent rya nobles ryan, it s good to see you thank you for being here tonight, my friend can you we have a lot going on here as we talk about the transcript and the final report, can yo tell us whether what - the relationship is as i stands now between the material, the evidence that the committe has gathered over the last several months, and the doj. whether the doj s basically whether everyone s paralle ....
Committee to enlist the rnc help in that scheme. in the day leading up to january 6th, trump repeatedl discussed his plan for his supporters to march on the capitol, and for him to join them he even suggested that 10,00 national guard troops should escort him and his supporter to the capitol in an appendix to the report the committee suggests that on reason for the delay in sendin in the national guard troops that day was that military leaders were deeply worrie about trump using those guar members for his own ends, give that it repeatedly suggested that troops should be deployed to help him and his supporters there is also this detail of the report, detailing ho members of the right-win paramilitary group the proud boys, staged an early attack o an entrance to the capitol which cleared the way for th mob from trump s rally t overrun the entrance given all of this apparent coordination and extensive planning, this report raises the question once again, there ....
If you recall as well, some of the testimony that the vic president was not comfortabl getting into the vehicle and some people testified, saying know you and i trust you but i do not know who else is unde detailed driving the car look at alex, it is importan to frame this in a broader context. we are talking about this with conservatives, but at the role of the secret service is t protect the president, vic president. you have to go back and look more broadly at the la enforcement responsibility tha were brought to bear on januar six. this is not just the secre service, we are seeing the prosecution plot unplanned tha went on for weeks and months leading up to january 6th, so think it s a fair question t ask. not only to the secret service but the fbi, the department of homeland security, all of thes complex conspiracies, which ar at trial now some of which have been kept found guilty in the case of th oath keepers where were the federal law - in terms of getting a hold o this informa ....