individual s names in this report. the bar associations across the country, local bar associations have to step up. local prosecutors have to step up the accountability piece is the piece here, and that is what folks will be looking for. we certainly will, symone thank you. if you are just joining us right now i m stephanie ruhle. it is midnight on the east coast and i am on the west coast, we are continuing our breaking news coverage of the release of the january 6th committee s final report on the siege of the capital and donald trump s effort to change the results of the 2020 election. it was made public just over an hour ago, it totals 845 pages. what is the first passage all about? the big lie. with that, let s get smarter with a lead off panel, former you new york prosecutor in civil rights attorney charles coleman. pulitzer prize-winning reporter for an joyce vance, who spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor and symone sanders-townsend still with us along with stua
that we have already seen to this. we cannot compare watergate, just this really was the beginning and the plot for what would ve been a civil war, a small version on january 6th. and that is laid out even in the first few pages of this document. from a legal standpoint, from a principled standpoint, it absolutely has to be taken seriously. it is not just an indictment on democracy, sorry an indictment on the republican party, it is as clear statement on how these people will go to any and many lengths to literally dismantle american democracy. and that is no laughing matter. katie, in 845-page report that is now sitting in the lap of the department of justice. jack smith, a report like this isn t like a pot potato that they now have to deal with or do they just get a winning lotto ticket? there are all sorts of details in this thing. i think based on in the summer over the election in the fall and now more recently the subpoena sent out to the fake electors plot i don
after the deadly insurrection at the u.s. capitol, the panel tasked with investigating the attack is now out with its final report. and the committee points to one man as responsible for the riots. former president donald trump. nbc news capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles has the latest. reporter: overnight, the january 6th select committee releasing its final report. a more than 800-page narrative that concludes former president donald trump is directly responsible for the violence on that day. it was something that i think for most americans it was beyond imagination. reporter: the report providing evidence trump and members of his inner circle in an effort to cling to power and overturn his election defeat, quote, engaged in at least 200 apparent acts of pressure and condemnation in the two months between the election and the attack on the nation s capitol. if it had not been for the encouragement of donald trump, it would have never occurred. it would have been
long-running saga of the ex-president s legal woes, with donald trump taking the stand in a civil lawsuit today and facing the prospect in taking the stand in the congressional investigation into january 6th, as well. and his private club and residence, donald trump sat for a sworn deposition in the defamation lawsuit brought by e.g. carol, who has accused donald trump of rape. the associated press reports this, the deposition will give her lawyers a chance to interrogate trump about the assault allegations, as well as statements he made in 2019, when she told her story publicly for the very first time. trump says the rape allegation is a hoax and a lie. his legal team has worked for years to make this day never come, to delay the deposition that was filed when he was still president. and the january 6th select committee is set to ask for the same thing, trump s testimony as soon as today. the vice chair liz cheney said last night the panel s decision to issue a subpoena to
i m not saying i did that, but maybe i did. the republicans today took that trick, that high school trick, and they took it to its logical extreme. new this morning, house republicans on the judiciary committee released a 1000-page roadmap detailing allegations of political bias in the fbi and department of justice under president biden. this is a preview of what a gop majority may uncover from daily administration at the midterm. i know what you are thinking, a thousand pages, they must really have some damning evidence there. but no, this is the high school big margins trick times doesn t. literally. as the washington post puts it today, the report itself is less than 50 pages. so what s in there? it s more than 700 pages of already public letters and those are mainly just dozens of duplicates of the same two letters. and then there are about 300 pages of just signatures. talking points memo characterizes the report as nothing more than a who s who of fox news flavo