heard he doesn t think they re doing anything wrong. the stunning details of an out of president, who wanted to join the mob. the president said something to the effect of, i am that i think president, take me up to the capitol now. the president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. mr. engel grabbed his arm, and said, sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel. we are going back to the west wing. we re not going to the capitol. the president of the united states is chief of staff, his closest advisers, preparing for the violence, and then, trying to save themselves. i recall hearing the word, oath keepers. and hearing the word, proud boys, closer to the plan of the january 6th rally, with mr. giuliani s. white house chief of staff mark meadows, did he ever indicate that he was interested in receiving a presidential pardon related to january 6th? yes, ma am. tonight, one of the members of the january 6th investig
i think, i didn t care that they have weapons. they re not here to hurt me. i remember him saying to the effect of, mark needs to do something more, literally calling the vice president and mark responded something to the effect of, you heard, he doesn t think they re doing anything wrong. the stunning details of an out of touch president, who wanted to join the mob. the president said something to the effect of, i am the effing think president, take me up to the capitol now. the president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. mr. engel grabbed his arm, and said, sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel. we are going back to the west wing. we re not going to the capitol. the president of the united states, his chief of staff, his closest advisers, preparing for the violence, and then, trying to save themselves. i recall hearing the word, oath keepers. and hearing the word, proud boys, closer to the plan of the janua
today. the cnn newsroom continues right now. you are in the cnn newsroom. we begin with breaking news. president biden has written an op-ed in the washington post where he rejected calls for a cease fire in gaza. priscilla alvarez is with the president in wilmington. what is the president s message tonight? this covers a few things related to both the israel conflict as well as ukraine. to start, the president does reject those calls for a cease fire. those have been mounting both domestically and abroad and he writes quote, as long as hamas clings to its ideology of destruction, a cease fire is not peace. to hamas members, every cease fire is time they exploit to rebuild their stockpile of rockets, reposition fighters, and restart the killing by attacking innocents again. this is in line with the administration s position, which is that there shouldn t be a cease fire. instead, they have been advocating for pauses in the fighting to get those hostages released as
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got here? no. not that i can specifically remember. i don t remember i remember hearing ideas discussed with mark and scott perry, mark and rudy giuliani i don t know which conversations were alluded to the president. i don t know what he personally wanted to do when he went on to the capitol that day. yeah, i there were discussions about him having another speech outsi of the capil before going in. i know that there was a conversation going to the house chamber at one point. he was going into the house chamber himself! the presidents striking into congress with a mob of his armed supporters, to stop the count of the vote.