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that s the time between his speech to supporters outside the white house, to the moment he asked the rioters who he called very special to leave the capitol and go home. the committee has said it may hold additional hearings, but tonight will deliver the main argument that the president could have called off the assault, but chose not to do so. let s head straight to capitol hill, and our correspondent nomia iqbal. give us a sense of who we are going to hear tonight. who are the key witnesses? 50. the key witnesses? so, the committee the key witnesses? so, the committee hasn t - the key witnesses? so, the committee hasn t officially | committee hasn t officially confirmed those witnesses yet. they have been quiet, it s been interesting throughout the hearings, they been reluctant to confirm it straightaway because of security issues, but it has been widely supported that we are expected to hear from two very key people that were part of donald trump s administration, ....
hung. he thinks mike deserves it. he doesn t think they re doing anything wrong. tonight new testimony from witnesses who were inside the white house with the president when it happened. it was bad and the situation was getting out of hand. we were always in the dining room. it was my understanding he was watching television. i thought the president needed to tweet something. i read that tweet and made a decision to resign. mike pence didn t have the courage to do what should have been done. the chairman of the investigation, bennie thompson, out with covid. joining tonight by video. we will walk through the events of january 6th minute by minute. we ll tell the story of that supreme dereliction by the commander in chief. a supreme dereliction. tonight s january 6th hearing live from washington with nicole wallace, joy reid, chris hays, lawrence o donnell, stephanie rule, alex wagner. all here for msnbc s primetime hearing on the january 6th inve ....
our democracy. joining me now is democratic congressman jim himes of connecticut. he s a member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, thank you so much for staying up late and being part of our special coverage tonight. let me broadly ask you sir if i can, your broad takeaways of this final hearing that we heard and overall the eight hearings that we witnessed? well thank you for having me a man. i think i was one of the last of the congressman out of the chambers on that day and remember the weapons that were drawn in the insurrection. i remember seeing them displayed out on the ground just outside the chamber as they reasserted control over the capitol. despite that, i will tell you that getting the full picture, how this was a comprehensive, detailed plan with all kinds of different aspects right? we re gonna call the secretaries of state of georgia and demand the precise number of votes to be found too i would let me win the election. setting up fake e ....
good evening. earlier this week i received a positive covid diagnosis. pro cdc guidelines i have received the initial two shots and all of the boosters. thus far i have been blessed to experience very minimal symptoms. because i am still quarantined i cannot participate in person with my colleagues. i have asked vice chair miss cheney to preside over this evening s hearing, including maintaining order in the room and swearing in our witnesses. over the last month and a half, the select committee has told a story of a president who did everything in his power to overturn an election. he lied, he bullied, he betrayed his oath. he tried to destroy our democratic institutions. he summoned a mob to washington. afterward, on january 6th, when he knew that the assembled mob was heavily armed and angry, he commanded the mob to go to the capital, and he emphatically commanded the heavily armed mob to fight like hell. for the weeks between november election and january 6th, don ....
That he make a strong public statement condemning the violence and instructing the mob to leave the capitol. he did not capitol leave until 4:00 where he filmed his now infamous go home message. pat was a top white house leader. his reaction to his advice throughout the afternoon. when did you first realize that there was violence? i first realized it, it may have been on television or it may have been for it may have been, and i found out that people were, they weren t in the capital yet, and then i started watching it, and then i was aware. did you think [applause] [inaudible]. i thought there needed to be an immediate response statement that people leave the capitol ....