tonight, brand-new januar 6th committee transcripts, jus in, as we analyze the full report, and where all of the investigations go from here. then, from dangerous weather to tripledemic illness on th rise what you need to know, heading into this holiday weekend. looking back at this consequential week, and th focus on fighting for democracy, and freedom, both here, an abroad our favorite historians, her to put it all in perspective as a special, extra earl addition of the 11th hour is underway, on this friday night good evening once again i am stephanie ruhle nearly 24 hours after its fina report was made public, tonight, the january 6th committe released a new batch of witnes transcripts. they are from interviews wit key people in trump administration, including, bil barr, pat cipollone, kayleig mcenany, hope hicks, and his daughter, and senior adviser ivanka trump we will break down what we are learning in just a moment, but first, the committee s repor is wrapping up
but some courts have already said that they can just do it, they don t need to wait fo congressional action and of course, congress ha already determined by bipartisan way that donald trump incited insurrection against the union. and even in the senate, ther were 57 votes out of 100 for that proposition, and he was impeached for it on the hous side so we can say that it alread exists as a legislative fact i the country that donald trum incited insurrection all right congressman before we go, people acros this country are about to walk into christmas dinners they are going to be talking t their family members about thi report most of whom will not have rea it what is the one message yo want people to take away this report taught us, next. this report taught us tha we have to watch people who ge into power, which is a basic
need right now nina s got a lot of ideas for the future. a lot of ideas. so when she wants a plan based on what matters most, she turns to fidelity. at fidelity, anyone can create a free plan. a plan that can change as your priorities do. and nina s free plan? it leaves her free to focus on what s important right now. that s the planning effect. from fidelity. subject 1: i ve always heard about it, listened to stories, and cried, and thanked god that it wasn t my child. and then it was my child. subject 2: nobody is thinking about, well, what if my kid gets diagnosed with cancer? it can happen. what if it does happen? what do we do? simone: in that moment, death was not an option. and if death is not an option, then i have to find the best place that will help her to live.
like that was a distraction an nobody should even worry about it he feels like their work stands, and they put out this nearly 850-page report, they ar putting out all of their transcripts. they think that they are being very transparent and they think that thei evidence is very, very strong. they think that they have an impact in both weakening trump and convincing much of the public they credit themselves wit that if jim jordan, and jim banks want to go through their transcripts and criticize them they say that you are welcom to do it, we stand by our work to that very point, eli given how detail this report is, do you think the republicans when they take control of th house might reverse course o back off from this idea of the investigation, given how detailed this thing is, they might end up humiliating themselves even trying to do this it is all in the eye of the
transition and is now professor at the university of michigan school of law, an former new york prosecutor and civil rights attorney charle coleman. barb, to you first, what i your reaction to what th congressman just laid out? well, i think we ve got a real national treasure and jamie raskin he is a constitutional law scholar with a dee appreciation for the history o this country but he has the ability t translate it to ordinary members of the public, which i think is incredibly important. the report details a coup. you know, if i would answer th questions that he just did, yo know, this report is about wha it is that trump tried to stea power from joe biden, with a coup he tried to overturn the vot of the people, and that apparent in this report. and so, you know, what comes next after this is potential criminal prosecution, but yo know, there are a lot of way to hold people accountable, an criminal prosecution is just one of them. documenting these facts for th