are you? i don t think any of these people were providing the present with good advice. i didn t understand how they got in. in alleged conspirators invited into the white house by the president with bizarre results. can the federal government sees voting machines? the terrifying idea. come over back down pat cipollone if he had the authority to made me special counsel and he said. yes a mob summoned by the president to come not just to the nationals capital sitting, but to the u.s. capitol building. we are going to be only the saved by millions of americans moving to washington, occupying the entire area, if necessary storming right into the capital. there s gonna be a red wedding going down january. six so why did you decide to march to the capital. basically, the president got everybody riled up and told everybody to come down, so we basically just follow what he said. a jarring closing revelation from the investigators. after our last hearing, pr
across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with us. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. wit us i will the january six investigation, day seven. american carnage turned a excellent prophecy on what his rage would visit to our people. the view from inside the oval office told for the first time by trump s own white house counsel. i walked in, i saw sydney powell sitting there. i was not happy to see the people in the oval office. overstock person. i looked at him and said who are you? i don t think any of these people were providing the present with good advice. i didn t understand how they got in. alleged conspirators invited into the white house by the president with bizarre results. can the federal government seize voting machines? it s a terrible idea. come over back down pat cipollone if he had the authority to make me special counsel and he said yes. a mob summoned by the president to come not just to the national capitol setting, b
most of his supporters. you know, that s basically what got me to come down. here we ve also talked about today in previous hearings the extent to which the president himself was told that the election had been stolen by his justice department, by his white house by his campaign, how it had not been stolen. would it have been made a difference to you to know that president trump himself had no evidence of widespread fraud. ? oh definitely. who knows i may not have come down. here mr. ayers, you were in that crowd to the rally in the crowd marched to the capitol. when you arrived on the lips that morning, we planning to go to the capitol? no we didn t actually plan to go down there. we went basically to see the stop the steal rally that was it. so why did you decide to march to the capitol? basically, the president got
might not have felt like a decision. and as he s on that stage on the ellipse, and they re starting to tell him, they have weapons, that crowd has extremely dangerous weapons. and they are choosing not to come through our weapons detectors, because they don t want to surrender their weapons. so, trump now has new knowledge that they have weapons. he has a choice to make, do i stick with my original plan of sending them to the capital, now that i know that they have deadly weapons? yeah, i guess i would. so, he does that, right? and then, he is clearly the guy now established through, you know, these hearings, who has ordered a weapon equipped crowd to go to the capitol. the weapons have a purpose. and then, stephen ayers comes and tells you, he s the guy who told us to leave. that testimony that you just showed about ayers saying we left because he told us to leave sets us up for the next hearing, in which you are gonna see every single minute donald trump did not tell them to leave. a
told us to leave. that testimony that you just showed about ayers saying we left because he told us to leave sets us up for the next hearing, in which you are gonna see every single minute donald trump did not tell them to leave. and they will sink that, no doubt, but this is the moment, we are this police officers suffered a concussion. and that s the minute when donald trump didn t act. it will all be there. one of those, stunning things that happened, that sometimes does in hearing rooms after the testimonies are over, is, you showed some of it, but stephen ayers, going over to the capitol police officers, and he chose to do this. he chose to go over, and shake their hands. there is a stunning photograph, that s still out there now, of harry dunn, sitting there in uniform, with a handshake. and the person who tweeted the photograph said, apology offered an apology, accepted. harry dunn took that photograph. we tweeted it, and said, apology offered.