also kept a lid on that videoooe footage. and in in some cases, dojts did not share it with criminal defendants who d beeged onn chan on january six in violation of . their constitutional rights. so we felt it wa so we felt it c anrvice to bring what we could to you. there was no justificationd for keeping the secret any longer. a poand a powerful argument to e made that sunlight is always and everywhere. the best disinfectant. it and in fact, because it waso soe video evidence, it is to some extent self-explanatory. anyone could look at the tapapee and decide what he or she thinks of it.very c so the tape we showed lastlearla night indicated very clearlys et that capitol hill police in pro some cases escorted protestersha through the capitol as if they were giving a tour. they did that with jacob.sley translate the so-called q and uncommon ad qanot one poit they even tried to open locked doors on channelize behalf. beha he was sentenced to four years in prison for his cr
and if so, when? we are not going to stop what we are doing to share the information that we have gotten so far with the department of justice. tonight, the latest on the back of forth between the 16 committee in the justice department the connection between the coup plotters and the supreme court and the alleged complicity of certain members of congress, including the senator from cancun. then, the republican governor found vacationing in europe while his state deals with historic flooding. and we will talk new mexico, where they are experiencing the rather disturbing we life on the ground consequences of the big lie. i still believe our elections are fraudulent, i believe that we already have enough evidence when all in starts right now. good evening from washington d.c., i m mehdi hasan, in for chris hayes. the attempted coup that took place on january the 6th, 2021, infected all three branches of government. tonight, we are going to talk about how members of e
coming. and because they didn t knows ay they were completely unprepared for what happened that day, lurethat is a very strange fail of communication. and it has never beensponse explained. to understand more about the response to januaro jay 6tha inside the capitol, we sat down with a man called johnson johnson, served as a for capitol hill police officer fo r twenty two years. on the day of the protests, he says he wases responsible for securing the certification of the presidential election. iff there is anyone at the very heart of the january ct six story, its former capitol police lieutenant eric johnson and it for some reason, the january six committee never called him to testify . my voice was one of the first ones you hearo ge on the audio transmission. sot an i did expect to get an interview some time, but no, it didn t happen. i guess the focus wa.s on donald trump. according to johnson, no n one answered his numerous pleasd for help over capitol police radio frequencies.
actions. and i hope the committees investigating him. yeah. loudermilk s defenses that it wasn t a tour, these were visiting constituents. and he was taking them to the gift shop and all sorts of other nonsensical arguments. he has a chance to speak to the committee but hasn t done so. today, congresswoman, we learned from a plea agreement that on january the 6th, writer mark meza was armed with a, quote, 0.45 caliber taurus revolver, that can fire both shotgun shells and regular bullets through the barrel. the gun was also loaded. doesn t this finally dispel the right-wing myth this pushed by technical sun on fox as the other night that no one showed up with guns at an insurrection? it does. we also haven t gotten to the bottom of the pipe bombs that were there. i remember, as the capitol police were escorting the, in a car that was armored, i remember hearing on the radio, the capitol police radio, them
worked well together to effect an efficient evacuation in an orderly fashion. why are people not allowed back to the well, while we are still determining if the buildings are structurally sound, it is determined that this building is safe for occupation at this time, and that is why the building is occupied. how long will it take to assess whether it is safe to go in? it will take a couple of hours until we determine the structural soundness of the buildings and determine that they are with the 100% certainty safe for reoccupation by people again. and can you talk at the well, the primary thing is to make sure that everyone remains safe so we won t let anybody back intoa building that we are not sure about. does that hamper your ability to communicate with other law enforcement agencies well, all of the communication took place via the capitol police radio and we were