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
undercuts the defense of a rally just getting out of hand, and this was revealed by furtive texts from trump s own aides. potus is going to have us march there/the capitol. potus is going to caller fit unexpectedly. it was planned, so it was expected. that text shows how donald trump was cooking up a lie to make it look spontaneous. that s also bad because it shows some of trump s intent by hiding it in advance and that the whole march was what trump turned to after a grave meet that was plotting a military role in a coup in the united states to take over your country, democracy and government. this is heavy stuff. this was also part of what was documented today, where some of trump s most extreme plotters pushed for him to abuse pow we are an illegal order to seize voting machines. his team of outside advisers paid him a surprise visit. they proposed the immediate mass seizure of state election machines by the u.s. military. it got to the point where the screaming wa
failed because this man is continuing to use a seditious lies to try to hold on to power in this country, is illegally pressuring witnesses to not give testimony to one of the branches of government that has a sacred obligation to protect the constitution. i mean, if you think about it, we have candidates all over the country proudly campaigning on this seditious lie. it is time. i feel very strongly that there is a mountain of evidence now about this man s state of mind and exactly what went down, and that when he couldn t do it legally, he said screw the law. i don t care about the law. i want to hold on to power, and that is a crime. well, so much there to unpack in your one response, claire. i think in some ways, the quietest witness was the most tragic one. it was mr. ayers. he was one such radicalized trump supporter. he described himself as a family man and a working man. he said everything about his life has changed. in an eerie way, there was an echo to a life bein
the next election to try to make sure your side is a better chance next time the people sell their differences at the ballot box. . you cannot turn violent and you cannot try to achieve desires through harassment or intimidation. and a real leader who sees that going down that path, approaching that line has a responsibility to say stop. we gave it our boost. we came up short. we try again next time. because we settle our differences at the ballot box. on december 14th, 2020, the presidential election was officially over. electoral college had cast his vote, joe biden was the president elect of the united states. by that point, many of donald trump s supporters were already convinced that the election had been stolen. because that s where donald trump had been telling them. so with donald trump was acquired to do in that moment, but would have been required of any american leader was to say we did our best and we came up short. he went the opposite way. he seized on the anger
That would enable that would result in president trump remaining president trump for a second term. yeah, that s the halting sort of sing song of someone trying to figure out, do i just say, steal the election? do i say coup? it was finished. it was over. the electoral college voted. president biden was holding military meetings. made it clear they weren t going the take orders from a coup leader after january 20th. that s what that was all about. the january 6th committee according to prosecutors and legal experts, has clearly advanced all of this because they gathered all that testimony. a lot of it was clearly true, fact-checked, corroborated. that s how investigations work. they also gave these individuals a chance to respond, which is only fair to tell their side of the story. you can imagine for example being in a meeting and saying, i heard about idea.