mistake. and i pled guilty to that, and i have remorse for that reporter: the mob ahead of you was breaking windows and forcing their way in. okay, well, you would have to be there to really understand the whole situation. people see footage on tv that i wasn t privy to so, to me, it was like we were saying, excuse me, people were polite, and it was beautiful. reporter: shamus hughes with george washington university is closely tracking the january 6th cases. you re only in there for two minutes, but let s put it in context a thousand others were there, too 100 police officers were attacked that day. a million dollars worth of property damage the certification of the election was delayed. these are serious events. reporter: every individual is part of that. absolutely. reporter: he says the 60 day sentence is one of the longest for those charged with nonviolent offenses. do you think the judge was making an example of jenna the judge wanted to put a point on it that t
capitol to advise the vice president to directly violate the electoral counteract. . i think some of concerns we expressed, unfortunately the very poor advice that the president was receiving has now become more apparent to more people. you said he got bad advice. was he getting advice to break the law? i don t know that. john eastman, that e-mail exchange is with john eastman and greg jacob. so at the time, you know, we were in a secure location having been evacuated by the secret service. he was talking to mitch mcconnell and mccarthy and pelosi and schumer talking about how do we get back in to do our work? meanwhile there was correspondent i wasn t privy to until after the 6th.
biden. well in a way, yes. because what you saw was a lot of very strong conversations, arguments, coming from the moderate wing, coming from the right of our party. you saw bernie and elizabeth dealing with it as best as they could. nobody came after biden. now biden has more of an understanding about what they re going to do to him when it s his time to go. tomorrow night, we want to get to we don t want to get ahead of ourselves, but tomorrow night is going to be a different dynamic. race is going to play a much big errol. if you re joe biden watching this, i m not privy to what questions are going to be asked tomorrow or i wasn t privy to what questions were going to be asked tonight. if i m joe biden, i m looking at everybody on that stage thinking, who s the far left person who they re going to ask but none of those moderates are going to make it. all the moderates fired on the progressive. he saw how they dealt with it. most of those guys are not going to be there ar
its work, i wasn t privy to anything with regard to the investigation and that was absolutely appropriate. i frankly didn t even know that there was an investigation until it was made public. i did know that the fbi was very concerned about what the russians were up to in the summer of 2016. in fact, they came to us and were concerned about the number of russians who were coming on temporary duty that summer to the embassy who seemed to have extreme technical skills. so we had some conversation about that and about whether visas could be slowed for those people. was the implication those people coming from russia under diplomatic cover to be part of the active measures campaign on site in the united states? right, and that was in the context of the august concern that we knew the russians were into some of the voting rolls and whether they actually technically get their hands on votes and switch purchases which was the concern in august of 2016 when cia director brannan
thank you for being here. thank you. i want to ask you about the russian interference in the 2016 election. you were a very senior state official at the time that was happening. also at the start of the counter intelligence investigation into what was going on. that was the subject of ten hours of testimony today by the director, former director of counter intelligence of the fbi. do you know of anything improper or anything that doesn t sit right with you about the way the investigation into that matter was handled? well, i have to say that because of the way the fbi does its work, i wasn t privy to anything with regard to the investigation, and that was absolutely appropriate. i frankly didn t even know that there was an investigation until it was made public. i did know that the fbi was very concerned about what the russians were up to in the summer of 2016. in fact, they came to us and were concerned about the number of russians who were coming on temporary duty that summer t