hello, everyone. this is don lemon tonight. thanks so much for joining. if i actually wrote all of this for hbo max, you would say, no! no way. that didn t happen. you almost have to remind yourself that actually happened. that a president of the united states, right? refused to accept the results of our free and fair election. tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power that makes us a democracy. try to hold on to power for himself. they ignored the will of the people. you will set to remind yourself that it actually happened. it did. today, we learned a lot more about how it actually happened. the testimony from witness after witness after witness about the shameful episodes in our history, a lot of it, never before seen. i m going to play with what they play with the people to hear. i m gonna play it for you. the biggest bombshell came the last few minutes. this is what liz cheney had to say. after our last hearing, president trump tried to call a witness in our investi
Too. I have to say this is a big night. Let me start right here. This is who is going to be our guest tonight, and this is from page 184 of the book. On the evening of december 18, mark meadows, my because, Chief Of Staff, returned from a meeting of the oval office and abruptly asked if i wanted the detail i could go home. His detail quickly prepared the limo and left campus without explanation. Shortly after marks departure i walked down with molly to get a sense of the president s evening plans. Usually if the president went home i would stay at my desk but since mark had left early with such confidence i thought perhaps the president was wrapping up for the evening and i would get to go home early, too. When i walked into the outer oval i saw the president was meeting with general mike flynn, the former National Security advisor who had pled guilty to lying to the fbi about his involvement with russian officials, cutting a Cooperation Deal in special counsel Robert Muellers inquiry
red flags we would have us prosecutors, is someone s they dump their lawyer, they dump their corporate paid for lawyer. or their lawyer that the drug king pin gave them. that simple tasks. this is why our legal system [inaudible] [laughs] this is the truth! look at his suit. these people are not cheap, they are not cheap, they cost a lot of money. i ran up like a quarter of 1 million dollars in legal bills. and i didn t do anything [laughs] i didn t try to overthrow the government. it s not cheap. you can see the yellow, or you take a young person, with no resources, give them a lawyer, and pay for it. they ll do. it you can see the connections. we re learning that trump had planned for that crowd to march to the capital, we saw a drafted tweet, that the president has seen, that said in part: march to the capitol after stop the steal! it was never sent, but how significant is that? well this isn t the only evidence that he wanted to march to the capitol. there s also t
and whistles. boy, the response that we saw that tweet was incredibly compelling. all across social media, within the crowd boys, the rallies, they saw that as a call to action and war. you re not going to the clean conspiracy that prosecutors like, that agreement. right there! meeting up the lines! uncharacteristic not to bash, and he s a master knowing where the line, is going right up to the line, dipping half a toe over the line, but it is a tough call. what about the fact that we don t know the missing link between how the organizers from the extremist groups got the information that he was going to say, let s go to the capitol? does not suggest that there is some sort of connection? so, this is a great. point flynn and stone both, unimaginably, associated and posting pictures with the extremist groups. remember cassidy hutchinson told us january 5th, donald trump told meadows to talk to those guys and, presumably,
they ve been convinced, co-opted. many of them have been brainwashed. today, i know we want to get to break. can i just say very quickly, i did watch fox news tonight. they were running a story about a black lives matter protest and how horrible little children are to police officers. that is literally with their covering. fox news in the same sentence. that s the information that so many republicans were talking about that. something being co-opted. let s listen. this is the capital rider. what made you decide to leave? basically when president trump put his tweet out, we literally left right after that came out. to me, if he would ve done that earlier in the day, 1:30, you know, we wouldn t be in this bad of the situation. at any time, he could ve put