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Boulduan. this hour it was a late night on capitol hill as the january 6th committee laid out in damning detail more evidence of donald trump s repeated refusal to do anything to quiet, calm, or call off the capitol rioters for hours. last night s primetime hearing focused on the more than three hours that trump actively did nothing to stop the deadly violence. two former west wing aides testifying that trump watched the violence unfold on television, confirming that he never called the military or law enforcement. not a single call. and we saw in testimony, we saw testimony of how he refused the pleas for action from essentially all of his advisers and his family. we also saw outtakes of the video trump recorded the day after the attack. in it, he refuses to say even then that the election was over. let s begin with cnn s jessica schneider live in washington with highlights from last night. jessica, there was a lot there. reporter: there was, kate. ....
Delivered last night. i want to play a bit of that. listen to this. but this election is now over. congress has certified the results. i don t want to say the election s over, i just want to say congress has certified the results without saying the election s over, okay? you take that and then the final thing we learned, the final thing that donald trump said before turning in for the night, he tells an aide mike pence let me down. it s striking that he s consistent if nothing, but even after everything he saw for those three hours, he s still at the end of the day saw him the victim. yes. and that is who he is to this day. that is likely the sort of identity that he will run for president on. it seems to be only a matter of time for him announcing that he ll run again. and he s going to run as someone who says to the american people, says to republican voters, that the election was stolen from him, stolen from them. and you can see him there in that moment essentially saying ....
Conducted. also, civilly, there are existing civil lawsuits against donald trump right now from officers and others who were endangered that day based on even a lower standard of evidence, the preponderance of evidence. doj looks at those closely because those lawsuits hinge on whether the president of the united states had some duty owed to people to be able to prevent their injury or their harm and close not to do so. finally, the phrase dereliction of duty, people use it colloquially, i understand why, and you did see a clear dereliction of duty. legally that actually means something. it normally is for the u.s. military code and really only applies to those in the military, although he s the commander in chief, he s a civilian commander in chief. likely it s not a stand-alone crime. but it s the culmination of that obstruction, of that defrauding that we saw evidence of last night. myles, nia, myles mentioned the outtakes which was something that was highly anticipated and ....
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reporter: while pay raises have been wiped out by inflation, unemployment remains near 50-year lows for now. we re still here and still serving customers and the sun is shining tom, i m trying to imagine what some of the dinner conversations are right now. what is consumer sentiment telling us reporter: well, the numbers right now are pretty bad consumer sentiment at the worst levels on record dating back to the 1970s, and the reason is simple inflation eats into every family budget and at the moment virtually everything americans are buying costs more, and there s a very real risk that the country is now headed for a recession, lester. all right, tom costello, thank you. tonight s other top story, new reaction tonight from former president trump and president biden after last night s primetime hearing by the january 6th committee which accused mr. trump of leading an attempted coup garrett haake is at the capitol. reporter: in a made for television primetime production, ....