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there is, of course, the fall-out from what trump is accused of doing when he is facing 37 criminal counts for doing and the potentially grave national security implications of that. we ll get to that in a minute. but there is also a legal process that has been kicked off, which begins in earnest tomorrow when the e-president surrendered for his court appearance. the political world s eyes will return to miami when president trump is expected to surrender. after leaving office, he obstructed efforts to retrieve them and that he made false statement. the event will be the former president s second courtroom appearance as a criminal defendant after his arraignment in april in a new york courthouse on state larges that he falsified business records in connection with a hush money statement to a porn star just before the 2016 election. one of the big outstanding questions, though, ahead of tomorrow s appearance, who will be there representing donald trump? nbc news reports ....
to the un. tonight with the context, victoria coates a former advisor to the us energy secretary and long term trump staffer and anand menon, director of the thinktank uk in the changing europe. hello. welcome to the programme. it is a crucial night for the january 6th committee. this will be their eighth hearing, maybe the final televised hearing before the report is pubished in the autumn. and this is the point at which the committee mustjoin the dots for their prime time audience. through seven previous hearings, the committee has laid out a case, that the former president was at the center of witnesses, including former trump and white house officials have testified the president knew he had lost but continued to pressure state officials, lawmakers and thejustice department to overturn the result in his favour. and when it failed, when vice president pence refused to help him, he called on the mob. we fight like hell, and if you don t fight like hell, you re not goi ....
u.s. capitol. so why did you decide to march to the capitol? well, basically, you know, the president got everybody riled up, told everybody head on down. so we were basically just following what he said. after the president s speech as you are marching to the capitol, how did you feel? i was you know, i m angry. you know, after everything that was basically said in the speech, you know, a lot of the stuff he said he already put out in tweets. i ve heard it and seen it before. so i was already worked up and so were most of the people there. thursday a federal judge sentenced him to two years of probation for disorderly and disruptive conduct. he said now that i ve been sentenced, i want to again say that it was wrong for me to be inside the u.s. capitol and that i m sorry. like so many others, i hung on to every word donald trump said and he took advantage of us. my family and i have suffered, first for my bad judgment and then for speaking out. but if it he ....
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attack on the capitol. but more than three hours went by before donald trump said much of anything. next week s hearing, the eighth one of the series, building upon evidence showing how trump tried to use the power of his government to overturn joe biden s victory. we re going to walk down to the capitol. he called on his supporters to come to washington on january 6th. so why did you decide to march to the capitol? basically, the president got everybody riled up, told everybody to head on down. so we basically just followed what he said. tuesday s hearing, vice chair liz cheney revealing that trump tried to call a potential witness. something the committee relaid to the department of justice. let me say one more time, we will take any effort to influence witness testimony very seriously. but today, chairman bennie thompson telling cnn that the committee does not plan to depose this potential witness. it doesn t know why trump made the call. you have i ....