more testimony from the indicted leader of the oath keepers jason rhodes. we begin tonight with trump summoning the mob, a memorable line from liz cheney laid out exactly what happened. president trump assembled the mob and lit the flame of this abeing at all. today s hearing spelled out exactly how the mob was summoned that day and as with most things donald trump can be traced back to a tweet. in this case on december 19, 2020. as the committee showed it s important to note what happened in the frantic final weeks of the trump administration leading up to that tweet. today s hearing filled in those blanks focusing on everything that happened after december 14th, the critical date when the electors meet and the election is finally over. in fact, here s what mitch mcconnell said the very next morning. yesterday electors met in all 50 states, so as of this morning our country has officially a president-elect and a vice president-elect. many millions of us had hoped the pre
The past. Theyve done it in wars over the past. They can do it again, and thats what we need to protect civilians in gaza. Sari bashi thank you very much for joining us tonight. That is all in for the week. Alex wagner tonight starts right now. Good evening, alex. Just an unfathomable loss of life and it continues, thank you my friend, and thanks to athome for joining me this evening. Throughout the trump era, the 45th president used one tactic, over and over again, to try and get what he wanted, bullying. Sometimes, it came in the form of want cruelty and bigotry directed towards everyone from war heroes, to disabled reporters, to judges of mexican heritage. Hes a war hero because he was captured. I like people that werent captured. Youve gotta see this guy, oh, i dont know what i said. I dont remember. We are building a wall, hes a mexican, we are building a wall between here and mexico. Sometimes it came in the form of hostile exchanges with the press. You know you are a fake, you k
45th president used one tactic, over and over again, to try and get what he wanted, bullying. Sometimes, it came in the form of want cruelty and bigotry directed towards everyone from war heroes, to disabled reporters, to judges of mexican heritage. Hes a war hero because he was captured. I like people that werent captured. Youve gotta see this guy, oh, i dont know what i said. I dont remember. We are building a wall, hes a mexican, we are building a wall between here and mexico. Sometimes it came in the form of hostile exchanges with the press. You know you are a fake, you know that. Its okay, i know youre not thinking. You never do. Im sorry . No, go ahead. You are a rude terrible person. Sometimes trump recruited other people to aid in the bullying, like encouraging crowds to beat up protesters, or getting fox news to pressure republican senators to oppose his impeachment. From the day he entered the president ial race, to his final days in office, trying to reverse the results of t
The national media director and and an associate editor for the website so that s really what kind of kicked it off and i will say and as admit, you know, i did get swept up in it for a bit and part of why i m speaking out is the i want to communicate to other people that may have been swept up in similar rhetoric that there is an exit ramp. there s a way out. you know, for a while you got so close to stuart rhodes you lived in your basement that he actually lived with you. when you got to know him that way. yes. did he show inklings of the megalomania. let me play a little bit of him. this is stuart rhodes on december 12th of 2020. take a look. he needs to know from you that you are with him, that if he does not do it now while he s commander in chief we ll have to do it ourselves later in a much more desperate, much more bloody war. let s get it on now while he is still the commander in chief.