links between extremist groups like the oathkeepers and the proud boys and members of former president trump s inner circle. marshall cohen is live in washington this morning with a preview for us. how does the committee plan to connect those dots, marshall? reporter: good morning, it is all about the right wing extremist groups and donald trump and the committee has been making the case that this was so much more than a wing k and a n, this was a real affiliation to create a violent attempted overthrow. so as you mentioned, we re expecting in-person testimony from two witnesses today. i ll break them down for you. the first is a guy by the name of jason tatenhove, former national spokesman of the oathkeepers. their members breached the capitol on capital 6 and some charged with sedition. this guy tatenhove was not part of the group on that day, he hadn t been affiliated but he h critic these days of their right wing violent ideology and their anti-government views. so he w
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january 6 committee will be focused on how people close into trump s orbit were spreading misinformation that was radicalizing americans. you saw steve bannon doing an about-face saying he wanted to testify and that will be a very interesting point here for the committee where they are saying that people in trump s close orbit were very aware of the misinformation and conspiracy theories that they were spreading to the american public and that that was itself both an effort to overturn the election but also an effort to incite violence. burn and others testimony will be interesting to hear in that it will really content the dots on what exactly were the coordinated parts of that effort. and what trump actually knew about what he was riling up the americans to do. a lot still coming at us. some of that will happen later today with that hearing. good to have you here this morning. thank you. and just a reminder, cnn s special coverage of the hearing begins right here on cnn at 11:00
committee will be doing here. and it is really trying to bring the link between the words of donald trump and the actions of the rioters on january 6. so far we don t seem to have indication that there were direct communications so far between agents like roger stone, michael flynn, close associates of trump and in the plot to overturn the election. what will be interesting from this testimony is that they are saying though that there was a causal link regardless of whether there were direct communications or just the basic knowledge of having extremist groups, having radicalized americans on the ground he near the capitol, that that is enough to show that donald trump was fully aware of what his words were causing the rioters to do and intentional actions that he was inciting people to attack
explosions lighting up the sky. this is the second time in four days that the russian-occupied town there in the kherson region has been hit. the town is site of an important hydroelectric dam. at least six people were killed monday following another series of explosions. the city of mykolaiv also came under heavy fire, at least 12 people injured. scott mclean is live in kyiv this morning. so who is behind those i mean, is it russia, what is going on with all these strikes? reporter: look, the russian-backed administration in that area says that this strike was a ukrainian strike using the american supplied weapons. and in fact one official from that administration said of these strikes that the americans actually went to war with