supporters to go home. trying to make the case that trump chose to allow his supporters to carry out that deadly assault on the capitol. on january 6th, when lives and our democracy hung in the balance. president trump refused to act because of his selfish desire to stay in power. president trump did not fail to act during the 187 minutes the between leaving the ellipse and telling them up to go home. he chose not to act. one of the committees key points, donald trump knew the capital was under siege 15 minutes after he left the rally. yet, made no effort to stop the violence. at 1:25, president trump went to the private dining room off the oval office. from 1:25 until 4:00 the president stayed in his dining room a hits connected to the oval office fire short hallway witnesses told us that on january 6th president trump sat in his usual spot at the head of the table facing a television hanging on the wall. it would take probably less than 60 seconds from the oval of
Profile convictions and other high profile cases and other victories under her belt. give me an upstate who has to testify because of all of these different people are blocking and these fake electors, the judge said absolutely no way, nothing is getting thrown out. rudy giuliani, he will testify too? it is like limit he s trying to fight. it he didn t show up to one of the hearings where he was seeking to fight it. but experts say he is likely to be forced to testify. we re not sure about lindsey graham. the senator from south carolina who is also subpoenaed. he s trying to fight that. there s a hearing coming up in that case as well. but look, there s a number of folks who have already testified. some have become public. some are still under wraps. but a lot of officials, governor kemp will s-going to testify by video next week. secretary of state brad raffensperger has already testified. the house speaker of georgia has already testified a number of officials not under federal s
Hi there i m stephanie ruhle live from msnbc headquarters here in new york city, continue our special coverage of the january 6th committee s second and dramatic primetime hearing. a hearing where we saw never before seen video, and brand-new audio. and while fox news decided not to air this national news, the committee showed the channel playing a lead role during the 187 minutes of what was described as donald trump s dereliction of duty on january 6th. we also heard testimony from two former white house insiders, deputy national security advisor matthew pottinger, and sarah matthews. they both resigned shortly after the insurrection took place. the panel tonight focused on those three plus hours between the time donald trump left the rally, and when he sent out that tweet telling his
This ain t in an egg hunt, this is our democracy. i got to. when you have billions of light today that they have to be absolutely sure of what they have. they have to know that there are some authorities issues there. all right, would i m hoping is that they re sharing data with the doj. what you re saying it s also really an indictment of what happened that day. not just when you say any strike, but talking about technical data that the doj they might have already shared with the doj. where they might have already have it ahead. things that they have to actually validate. it might be very close. and they are looking all those thousands of interviews with millions of lines of data. with text messages from multiple individuals. it is a massive undertaking. and in effect that they were able to wrap this up so quickly in a hearing something about the committee starting in july. they didn t get a look at polling with full teams until september october. it really is miraculous. and really
Why? because we are continuing our special coverage of the latest dramatic hearing from the house january 6th committee. and the panel s eighth hearing, zeroed in on the 187 minutes donald trump was sitting in the white house dining room as rioters stormed the capitol on his behalf. what explains president trump s behavior? why did he not take immediate action in a time of crisis? because president trump s plan for january 6th was to halt or delay congress official proceeding to count the votes. the count ground to an absolute halt and was ultimately delayed for hours. the mob was accomplishing president trump s purpose, so of course, he didn t intervene. two former white house officials, matthew pottinger and sarah matthews explained what prompted them to resign just after the insurrection. they worked in the white house on january 6th as trump did