a quarter of a century. addressing a jubilant cloud, the president promised to build a strong economy and cold for unity. our senior international correspondent, orla gerin, reports from the turkish capital ankara. our senior international correspondent, orla gerin, reports from the turkish capital ankara. the recep tayyip erdogan juggernaut rolls on. and tonight in the turkish capital, the streets belong to his supporters. who have stuck with him through thick and thin and hyperinflation. translation: we are blessed at our president leading us again. i there is no better feeling than this. let the world hear it. he is a leader has taught the entire a lesson. and here he was, serenading supporters, or trying to. from a bus top near his home in istanbul, having beaten off the biggest challenge in years. the only winner, he said, is turkey, before stocking is turkey, before stoking divisions with an attack on the opposition and the lg btq community. earlier, he handed out cash
and out of control, a wildfire in new york to more than 100 million people under heat alerts in the u.s.. where was donald trump, and what was he doing before 187 minutes as rioters stormed the u.s. capitol, forced the 2020 election certification to stop, and hunted for vice president mike pence? well, that was the question the january six committee took great pains to answer in thursday night s primetime hearing, according to sworn testimony by numerous insiders, trump had become irate when the secret service refused to and go to the capital. he then spent most of the next three hours as a private dining room watching the chaotic scenes on tv, and refusing pleas from everyone around him to end the violence. his closest advisers testified they never saw or heard trump summon help from any federal agency, listen to this. are you aware of any phone call by the president of united states to the secretary of defense that day? not that i m aware of, no. are you aware of any
president biden test positive for cover 19. where did you get it? how did he get it? is double vaxxed and double boost it. what exactly is the treatment you taking? fox news medical contributor joins us live. plus, new york ombudsman, a republican gubernatorial candidate a man with some kind of blade confronted him on stage. we have coverage prime time january 6 committee hearing. martha maccallum and bret baier are there to break down what happened tonight. chad pergram. good evening, chad. what stood out here tonight? the main agenda here by this committee is to try to show that former president is really not qualified for office. again, that is something that liz cheney, the top republican on the committee talked about pretty extensively in her closing statement. i was taught months ago that the whole idea here was that this was a version of preimpeachment, which is the third impeachment of president donald trump you re going to break down some of the event is over her
news that we have heard about marc short, that he s testified in the doj s probe. what does that signal to you about where the investigation stands? well, i mean, i look at it and it says obviously there is some interest. there was a lot of frustration, just kind of personally, for the last, i guess, year and a half, like what s doj doing? i think our investigation, though it is not a criminal investigation, certainly has brought some things to light that doj is watching, and it seems like between that and some of the search warrants that have been served and some of the other things we have seen that they are moving forward. look, i think it is important for the department of justice to get a handle on what the criminality of what happened is, and if there are crimes to prosecute them because we cannot live in a country where we send a message that a president is above the law as long as he fails at a coup attempt, but by the way, if he ever succeeds at a coup attempt, the
of election fraud were just lies. what they were proposing, that was nuts. the mayor was definitely intoxicated. law firms were not comfortable making the arguments that rudy giuliani was making publicly. evidence today that former president trump knew he lost, and kept telling lies about it. the president accepted that. he said, okay, fine, but what about the others? i told them that it was it was crazy stuff, and i was doing great, doing service for the country. and why the investigation now involves fundraising off claims that were notably false? not only was there the big lie, it was the big group off. tonight, committee member zoe lofgren, republican election lawyer and witness from today s hearing, ben ginsberg. plus, nicole wallace, joy reid, chris hayes lawrence o donnell, ari melber, in our special primetime coverage of the second day of the january 6th hearings. good evening and thank you for being with us tonight. i m rachel maddow here at