Right here, and stops right now. [applause] the last thing before we go tonight, a precious inheritance. it has been nearly five and a half years since donald trump spoke the shocking words, american carnage, in his inaugural address. today, the january 6th committee member, congressman jamie raskin, used his closing remarks, to give his take on the now famous phrase in the state of our democracy. american carnage, that s donald trump s true legacy. his desire to overthrow the peoples election, and seize the presidency interrupted the counting electoral college votes, for the first time in american history, nearly toppled the constitutional order, and brutalized hundreds and hundreds of people.
Country for uncertainty in our country. sitting president asking for a sitting president, asking for civil war. and then, when he said, this week, i feel guilty for helping him win, katrina pierson responded, he did what you felt right at the time, and therefore, it was right. mr. parscale added, yeah, but a woman is dead. and, yeah, if i was trump, and i knew my rhetoric killed someone, when ms. pierson replied, it wasn t the rhetoric. mr. parscale said, katrina, yes, it was. the january 6th committee revealed those stunning text messages to the american public, for the first time, between trump ally brad parscale and katrina pierson. for more, let s get straight to mark leibovich, staff writer at the atlantic. he is the author of the new must read summer book, thank you for your servitude: donald trump s washington and the price of submission. mark, i m so glad you are here. just before the show, you just seemed concerned, i was previously looking for some
Need to make up with him, that they need to apologize profusely. remember, a few weeks ago, when kevin mccarthy was caught on tape, basically saying, i m gonna ask him to resign, this is atrocious. and you know, it was like two days. i mean, what is trump gonna do? what will daddy do? and mccarthy has coward before him and apologized, and so forth. and trump says, oh, okay, you know, it s like have asserted my mastery over you. and, look, i think there is a lot of like the kind of woke psychology that contributes to the loyalty to teen choice, or sort of lords over the republican party. but he is certainly exploited it to his benefit. but why? you recently wrote in the atlantic the most pathetic man in america. and you talk about lindsey graham, and others, who didn t need to be pathetic for donald trump. they had big long-standing careers, long before him. right, like i get it why sean spicer is waiting to be a human shield. the last time he was in the
Compare where they were in charlottesville with around 500 people. and right now they are the frontline stormtroopers of a rally of 30 or 40,000 people. they come very close to knocking over the government of the united states. he bolstered them, he built them up, he expanded their numbers, but he also ended up getting a lot of them in trouble. of course when other people get in trouble, donald trump s nowhere to be found, unless it s something he thinks he can still use in the future. i will note in this regard that there were pardons rendered to several people who ended up being important organizers of the extreme right and one of them was roger stone. another was michael flynn as you saw today and and also there was another pardon was given to steve bannon. on another point about flynn and stone, cassidy hutchinson testified that trump told his chief of staff mark meadows the
Business either re-aired or re-capped watergate hearings every night in primetime when that investigation was underway in 1973. we know now looking back at history that that was a good decision by news organizations back then. it was a service to the country at the time in a lot, so we here at msnbc have committed to do the same for every daytime hearing from the january 6th investigations. whether or not you are able to watch these hearings live let s go. here are the main revelations from the investigators. we will go through them one by one. let s start with what i think may be the two most explosive points that were made today. both of them brand-new and both very specific. the first is how the mob of trump supporters ended up at the u.s. capitol building on january 6th. remember the rally was not at the u.s. capitol building. the rally was just outside the white house, quite a long walk actually from the u.s. capitol building. today the january 6th investigators revealed for the