many times, while i was watching their testimonies, i was brought to tears. i mean, i can see that the impact of having been there to witness what they had to witness was going to have a lifelong effect on most of them. and knowing the pain that i feel, i mean, my heart just breaks for them. we re going to be talking about the trial in just a little bit. first, let s go back to the breaking news for capitol hill. from capitol hill, rather, with nbc s vaughn hillyard. so, vaughn, a lot of people want to know about a possible motive. is there any update on that? reporter: this individual is 25-year-old noah green, alex. we know that this man spent most of his life in the state of virginia, in neighboring virginia here to washington, d.c. what the exact motive is, it s still unclear. what led him to the capitol yesterday, this friday, what led him here is still unclear, why attack the u.s. capitol is unclear. we do know from facebook postings, however, that prescribed
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They re going. the question is, can michael cohen help explain and fill in the gaps. that s my guess. maybe he has some big smoking gun story but that isn t necessarily where prosecutors find the most value. your sense of michael cohen at this point in time, this is his moment in sun as he goes to washington d.c. i guess there will be more sunlight in the open session of the oversight committee. here he is, front page news today. he s going to be on the front page tuesday, wednesday, thursday of next week as he does this congressional testimony. and he s going to be in jail soon. look, i think mimi just hit it on the head. we don t quite know what michael cohen is going to reveal. we just know that he s trying to save his neck in some significant way. we also know this, at least from my vantage point, that his relationship with the southern district of new york, his testimony before congress on wednesday will put pressure on donald trump. what donald trump will do and