good evening from new york. i m in for chris hayes. we are still waiting for the january 6th committee s report on donald trump s attempted coup. but today, ahead of the final product, the committee has released a brand-new batch of transcripts from its closed-door interviews. those transcripts providing new insight into the inner workings of the trump administration, both in the days leading up to january 6th and as trump s inner circle scrambled to respond to the committee, the committee s investigation. in fact, among the new transcripts is an interview the committee conducted with the former trump secretary of defense, this man, mark esper, who answered questions surrounding the ex president s desire to use the military to quell domestic disputes. in an interview with former deputy press secretary sarah matthews, who said she heard trump seemed to privately admit that he lost the 2020 election. quote, alyssa fara, the former communication director said to me that behind
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
whiteout conditions on the roads. good morning to you. welcome to way too early. after a historic 18-month investigation, the house select committee investigating january 6th has unveiled its full report on the deadly capitol is tack and former president trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. at more than 00 pages, the report is broken down into eight chapters that provide details from more than 1,000 witnesses interviews and hundreds of thousands of pages of text messages, emails and other documents. chapter 1 is titled, quote, the big lie, a reference to trump s widespread effort to push false claims about the 2020 election being stolen. the chapter notes that trump made efforts even before election day to delegitimize the election process by suggesting it would be marred by ballot fraud. chapter 2 is titled i just want to find 11,780 votes and focuses on trump s attempt to pressure state and local election officials to overturn the 2020 election results. the
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