Oh, he says much worse in a new book. And the authors are here to talk about it. Im Jonathan Capehart. This is the sunday show. This sunday it is full steam ahead at the capitol, where in less than 48 hours lawmakers will gavel in for first scheduled hearing of the January 6th select committee. Capitol hill and metropolitan Police Officers are expected to give their personal accounts of that harrowing day. But the time and place of the hearing is about all we know. Since plans to create a more bipartisan committee crumbled this week. Now, republicans are threatening to run their own investigation after Speaker Pelosi vetoed Kevin Mccarthys, quote, ridiculous appointments of trump sycophants Jim Jordan and Jim Banks to the slate. It is my responsibility as Speaker Of The House to make sure we get to the truth on this, and we will not let their antics stand in the way of that. Joining me now is mississippi congressman benny thompson, chair of the House Homeland Security Committee And Lea
this is what they wanted to do. i get it. they just didn t do it well. i believe the most powerful point because you re right, you have never seen anything like this before. we have never experienced anything like this before. it is a low point of our politics in our lifetime. you have men and women who are witnesses and potential victims of an act that they refuse to hold someone they know is responsible to account for. they refuse. and i really believe the house managers won t do it because it s too incendiary. this is all about votes so you ll piss these people off and make it more likely they vote against you. i believe this is the question. who needed to die? if they had gotten pelosi, or schiff or pence, god forbid, would you vote to convict then? who did they have to get? i would be pointing. how about her? how about him? you guys eat lunch together. what if he died? yeah. and i really think that s where we are right now. well, i said i said last night what i b
given an ending in the trial that we re watching. other than the presentation of the horrifying reality that brought these senators together today. this day, today, was a farce. after all, there is only one reason this trial is being held after trump s defeat. and that reason is senator mitch mcconnell. mcconnell asked to kick the trial until after trump was out of office. this is a fact. he never that he was doing that because they had to consider whether or not it is proper to try a president so late in the game? that is a fact. he said he wanted to give the trial the time it deserved. he lied. he voted to say it wasn t constitutional. he didn t know that then. it was another bait-and-switch. democrats, how many times will you pet the snake? the law here is clear. the constitution provides no conditional nature to the senate s duty. okay? the senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. that s it. there are no if s. there is no other language. what do you do? y
president s defense team tried to get dismissed on constitutional grounds with the support of all but six republicans. the democratic house managers made their case in part by citing legal scholars who agreed with them. and they began with a documentary style video, a moment by moment timeline of the insurrection, seemingly k chrono chronological. here s a portion of it, with a warning, it s not easy to watch. traitor! traitor! heave, ho! heave, ho! [ screaming ] get off! fight for trump! fight for trump! fight for trump! this is what the defense is asking senators to put behind them barely a month after that happened. whether they choose to or not, jamie raskin was not about to let anyone off the hook. he made this legal and political moment intensely personal. his youngest daughter and son-in-law, were at the capito last month. here s his account of it. my chief of staff was with tabitha and hank locked and barricaded in that office. the kids hiding under the de
and with fast nationwide 5g included at no extra cost. we ve got you covered. so join the carrier rated #1 in customer satisfaction. and get a new samsung galaxy starting at $17 a month. learn more at xfinitymobile.com or visit your local xfinity store today. i m chris cuomo. welcome to another live hour of prime time. 1:00 a.m. in the east. 10:00 p.m. in the west. we re here because history is unfolding again before our eyes. days that follow the day that just passed. it will be remembered for d decades. the only president to be impeached twice on trial again. the trial will proceed because it is constitutional. and that was backed up by a majority of the split jury. both sides formally open the cases at noon wednesday. we ll break apart what happened in day one in a moment. first here s a recap from jeff zeleny. this cannot be the future of america. we cannot have president s inciting and mobilizing mob violence against the government and institutions. sering argument