World to persuade trump to stop the violence, which he for 187 deadly minutes failed to do, or outright refused to do. The breaking news today, the select committee now breaching the innermost ring of trumps family circle. His daughter ivanka is being asked by the committee for information on her direct contacts with her dad, the expresident , at key moments on the day of the insurrection. Among those moments, according to a letter from Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson to ivanka released today, quote, as january 6th approached, President Trump attempted on multiple occasions to persuade Vice President pence to participate in his plan. One of the president s discussions with the Vice President occurred by phone on the morning of january 6th. You were present in the oval office and observed at least one side of that telephone conversation. The Committee Also appears to zero in on ivanka trumps efforts as the insurrection unfolded to get trump to step in and stop the violence. The Commi
Hi there, everyone, it is 4 00 in new york as we begin our Special Coverage, Insurrection In America, on the one Year Anniversary of the Insurrection Astack on the United States capitol. One year from what we saw on air right here a year ago. Insurrectionists swarm the halls of capitol, the senate chamber, even the offices of our congressional leaders. With the Police Officers who were trying to hold the line outside the capitol completely overwhelmed. Many of them coming under violent assault in whats been described ads medieval handtohand combat. At least five officers would lose their lives after confronting the trump mob that day. The first minutes of our broadcast on January 6th 2021 marked the end of that 187minute period of inaction by The Expresident , donald trump, who was described this morning by his former White House Press secretary Stephanie Grisham as gleefully watching on tv ignoring calls to end the violence refusing all along to act. It wasnt until 4 17 p. M. Eastern
overturn the election results. that man is donald trump s top white house lawyer pat cipollone. he sat down for a transcribed interview under oath with investigators this morning. as far as we can tell, that interview or that meeting is ongoing at this hour. punch bowl news reports this about the parameters of today s testimony from cipollone, quote, sources tell us that the select committee does not have an agreement about what investigators can or cannot ask him. prior to hutchinson s testimony the panel had discussed an arrangement with cipollone for an on the record interview, but cipollone backed away from it, sources tell us. cipollone is expected to claim executive privilege over conversations he had with trump, but there is plenty that the committee is interested in outside of that category. for example, we expect cipollone will be asked about conversations with former white house chief of staff mark meadows. the possibility that cipollone could provide gamechanging i
committee is about to go public with has been gleaned by more than a thousand interviews and more than 125,000 documents that s according to the washington post. it may very well represent the last and best chance to break the fever of trumpism and the hold that trump and the big lie have on millions of our fellow citizens. the nearly year and a half since the deadly insurrection, the gop has not just memory hold january 6th itself, but in many ways it s come to embrace the insurrection and what it represented. its leaders have gone from blaming trump angrily and privately considering casting him out to the political wilderness once and for all to choosing to politically resurrect him. the party declaring the events of january 6th as legitimate political discourse and many of the same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election are now laying the groundwork to overturn the next presidential election if it doesn t go their way. new york times reports this, key figures in
A little more than an hour after miss powell, mr. giuliani, general flinn and the others finally left the white house, president trump sense the tweet on the screen now telling people to come to washington on january 6th. be there, he instructed them. we ll be wild. as you see, this was a pivotal moment, this tweet initiated a chain of events. the tweet led to the planning for what occurred on january 6th including by the proud boys who ultimately led the invasion of the capitol and the violence on that day. that was january 6th select committee vice chair liz cheney tying that now infamous december 19th tweet by donald trump to the perpetrators of the most