and this is the breaking news michael just talked about. matter of fact, i ll get into this. criminal contempt is the breaking news. the committee breaking the news, votes to recommend criminal recomk r recommend contempt charges. we never heard anything like it. the committee reading out mark meadows actual text as violent trump supporters ran riot at the united states capitol on january 6th. you saw it. we all saw it. you know how bad it was. at first, this can t be happening and all the videos start coming. remember how you felt watching it live as it happened? we were shocked. we were horrified. we all knew it was violent. we knew it was wrong. we knew it was undemwas undemoc unamerican. this is the propeaganda fox network pretenlding it was a tourist i vevent. donald trump junior knew. despite what they pretend now, they knew. there is proof. they knew it was a brutal attack on the united states capitol. they saw exactly what was happening. they begged mark meadows to
6th. a couple of legal memos that i discussed with jonathan karl providing a justification for that which was taking place convincing the president and people in the white house that they had a legal basis to do this. they were leaning on mike pence and the justice department. you had efforts taking place in the states. i mean, it was very comprehensive but a missing piece, what were the foot soldiers told they should do? i want to know. the answer probably lies in the war room at the willard hotel the night before. so file that away and we ll see what transpires. thank you for watching. don lemon is in the on deck circle. we have one reaction to your show but that was a good one. don t you remember watching? we weren t sure what was happening that day. we weren t sure what was happening was actually happening. the cold reality there was an insurrection happening at our nation s capitol in front of our eyes. sort of like what they said about september 11. it defied imagin
entertainers, even lawmakers, that all privately and, for a time, unsuccessfully beg to do something to stop the violence as the attack unfolded at the capitol. there s plenty of focus about people speaking out of pboth sides of their mouths on tv about this. while that is salacious, there are legal implications here. what could be a road map as to what the white house knew, what the white house did, what the white house didn t do, even what the white house may have coordinated before, during, and after the attack. it shows an acute, keen awareness the capitol was under siege. donald trump jr. writes meadows about his father. he s got to condemn this shit asap. laura ingraham writes, this is hurting all of us. he is destroying his legacy. sean hannity writes, ask people to leave the capitol. of course, the same people who were pleading with mark meadows that day have spent months downplaying the insurrection, saying publicly the opposite of what they were texting privately.
decision to no longer cooperate with the january 6th committee. the panel released explosive new details in a public meeting last night, including frantic text messages sent to meadows from members of former president trump s inner circle as violence unfolded at the capitol. and it is important to know these texts paint a starkly different picture from the public message trump allies have pushed since january 6th in which they have downplayed, glossed over the riots. the tests show unnamed lawmakers, fox news personalities and even donald trump jr. panicked, desperate, pleading with meadows to get trump to tell his supporters to stand down. here s committee vice chairwoman liz cheney. take a listen. multiple fox news hosts knew the president needed to act immed immediately. quote, mark, the president needs to tell people in the capitol to go home. this is hurting all of us. he is destroying his legacy, laura ingraham wrote. one of the president s sons texted mr. meadows,
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