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June 9, 2022 - Viva & Barnes
01:31:16
Jan. 6 Committee Hearing LIVE STREAM with Canuck Commentary - Viva Frei LIVE!
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Tomorrow, we need to go into the Capitol.
Into the Capitol.
What?
No!
No!
Peacefully!
Fed!
Tomorrow?
I don't even like to say it because I'll be arrested.
Well, let's not say it.
We need to go.
I'll say it.
All right.
We need to go in.
Shut the fuck up, Boomer.
Oh, I'm on screen.
Well, okay, hold on.
Shut the...
Oh, that's my camera.
Shut the F up, Boomer.
I didn't notice that the first time.
I love the chat.
Not the chat.
It's swapping between...
stereo and mono, that's what's getting me scared here.
Let's go!
Yep.
This was posted by Darren.
We heard it already.
Actually, let's just hear the Fed, Fed, Fed part again.
By the way, does everyone in the chat not know what this man's name is?
Into the Capitol!
Into the Capitol!
No!
Peacefully!
You gotta go in the Capitol.
Peacefully.
Oh, okay.
I love that.
That is a thing of beauty.
And let's just get to the funny part.
I don't even like to say it because I'll be arrested.
He was never arrested.
I'll say it.
We need to go in.
Shut the fuck up, Boomer.
Okay, sorry.
We can stop there.
Darren J. Beattie, who we've had on for a sidebar.
Amazing work covering this.
People in the chat.
Jack Posobiec was humorously saying it would be a shame if hashtag would start trending on the eve of this.
We can't call it a debacle yet.
I don't think it's going to be a debacle.
I think it's going to be propaganda.
Government produced propaganda that would make Goebbels jealous.
It's the first of, I think it's four live hearings of the January 6th committee tonight, and propaganda It's too much of an understatement to even be demonetized.
Yep.
Request review because no justification for that.
It's the January 6th committee hearing tonight.
There's a number of talking points that are going on about this which I think require discussion, need to be addressed.
This is being referred to as a bipartisan committee.
The legitimacy of the committee is questionable.
There are some, and a great many people who are much smarter than me, much more informed as to American law and politics, who are of the opinion that this committee in and of itself is an unlawful committee without a legitimate legal purpose.
It has not met the requirements of the number of committee members.
Setting that aside, but bearing that in mind, it's being repeatedly referred to as a bipartisan committee, when as far as I understand, it only has Two Republican committee members?
One of whom is Liz Cheney.
I don't know what you'd describe her as, but I'm not sure that most people would consider her to be unified Republican.
Maybe a rhino.
I think the term might be proper here.
Let me just see something here.
The January 6th committee members.
Who are they?
How do I...
I want to know, who are they?
Let's just see who the committee members are.
Meet the members of the select committee.
Let me bring up the article.
CNN.
Don't puke, people.
Share screen.
Share screen.
Chrome tab.
Meet the members of the committee.
Booyah.
Meet the members of the select committee investigating the January 6th Insurrection.
CNN politics.
The liars of the news.
Still referring to it as an insurrection, even though FBI found no evidence of it.
Even though you can call it a violent riot.
You can call it riots gone bad.
You can call it protests gotten violent.
Insurrection is a lie.
Anyone repeating it is a liar.
And this is coming from CNN politics, so par for the course.
Benny Thompson, Democrat.
Liz Cheney, GOP.
Adam Schiff.
Let's all...
You know what?
Let's slow down.
CNN, what matters?
Do you want the latest news in US politics summarized each day?
No, it's okay.
I'd rather not get lied to.
Adam Schiff, also known as Schiff for brains.
Also known as...
Adam Schiff heads?
The Schiff man?
Full of Schiff?
I don't know.
I just made all those up.
Except for the Schiff for brains.
That I think I saw somewhere.
Adam Schiff is not just a liar.
He's the most insidious type of liar.
Because you will recall, Adam Schiff was the man who said he saw firsthand hard evidence, concrete evidence, proving collusion between Russia...
And the Trump campaign.
He had hard evidence.
He had seen it in these committees.
He said that knowing it was a lie, knowing that other people could not confirm that it was a lie because that would be revealing confidential discussions from within closed doors that they could not make public.
So he lied knowing that the lie could never be proven a lie because to prove it a lie would require publicly disclosing confidential information that would get people in trouble.
He's not just a liar.
He's a pathological, sociopathic, evil liar.
He's on the committee.
He's on the bipartisan committee, along with Liz Cheney.
Rep Adam Schiff is a Democrat from California.
Schiff awful serves as the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on it.
My tongue is still mangled from having bitten it savagely myself Sunday of last week.
Schiff is on the committee.
Oh, Jamie Raskin's on the committee.
What was Jamie Raskin most recently in the news for?
He did something so terrible, and I was somewhat sassy with him on the Twitterverse.
I forget.
Jamie Raskin, another man whose honesty is questionable.
Elaine Luria, a Democrat from Virginia Beach.
I don't know enough about her.
Pete Aguilar, a Democrat from Southern California.
Zoe Lofgren.
Democrat from California.
Are we noticing a trend here?
Stephanie Murphy, Democrat from Florida.
Adam Kinzinger.
He's one of two Republicans on the committee and broke with his party by accepting the appointment from Pelosi.
He broke with his party.
I suspect Liz Cheney did as well.
So what you have are two rogue Republicans partaking in an arguably unlawful committee, which has majority Democrats and majority Democrats.
From California.
Yeah, but you're going to get the truth out of this committee.
And apparently they have like producers putting together video footage.
They're going to have the first of, I believe it's four hearings.
Let me just get this out of here.
Stop the screen so that we can all, all integrity impaired.
We are going to have the first of four hearings of this arguably unlawful committee that does not meet the required quorum or number of committee members to be a bona fide lawful committee, majority Democrat and a lot from California for some reason.
They're going to announce their findings.
500 days of investigations into the events of January 6th.
Now, everyone should appreciate this.
I'll say, at worst, It was a violent riot.
At worst, it was a protest that went south, at least in certain areas.
At worst, there were two people who were killed that day.
Ashley Babbitt, killed by a police officer.
And I always forget the name of the second woman, Roseanne.
I think it was Rosie.
And if people know in the chat, it's not to be disrespectful.
I cannot remember that name, her name.
Two people were killed by police, not by the rioters.
Despite fake news New York Times reporting that Brian Sicknick, who dreamed of being a Capitol Police officer, and then he was killed by a group of pro-Trump mob rioters.
Lie.
Lie from day one, and people who knew, knew that it was a lie.
This was a protest that got violent.
I think we can agree on that.
The extent of the violence will be debatable.
Whether or not this protest was characterized by violence, in as much as the Ottawa protest was characterized by Yahtzee flags, there's going to be those arguments that the media took a few pockets out of context or built them up to more than they were, and that by and large, it was peaceful, save and accept for.
The argument can be made that the same bastardizing of the protest that was done in Ottawa was done on January 6th.
One thing's for certain, violence never started in Ottawa until the cops showed up.
But violent protest.
500 days of investigation.
The FBI has spared no expense looking into this.
They haven't looked into how the police opened the doors, how the police lifted the barricades, how the police welcomed protesters in, misled them to thinking that they had permission to be there.
They didn't look into that.
They looked into conspiracy to commit obstruction of Congress.
They've recently indicted the Proud Boys.
They went through this with a fine tooth comb.
500 days.
And compare that.
To recent events where, given police inaction, it led to the murder of 19 children and two teachers.
They don't want to look into that.
No investigation.
Joe Biden is happy with the outcome.
He's satisfied everyone did what they had to do.
No investigation.
But this, but this, 500 days.
And now the committee is coming out to announce their findings.
Prime time.
Prime time.
This is what they're using for prime time footage.
Prime time material.
Go to the nation.
Present the findings of this illegitimate committee that are going to be cherry-picked.
We'll see.
We'll see.
I suspect it's going to be cherry-picked, stylized, emotionally edited, emotionally presented.
They're going to parade witnesses who are going to come out and cry about the horrors of that day.
Prime time.
I was sitting here thinking this was at 8 o 'clock in the morning because when do the government officials do primetime stuff?
Occasionally.
They're going to come out now.
500 days.
They're going to try to turn...
Some politicians in their disgraceful nature have equated this to 9-11.
They've equated this to the darkest days.
I'll save American history if not...
World history.
And...
Oh, we got trolls in the house.
Why does Fry defend terrorism?
Off the hook!
You've known me my entire life.
Okay, good.
It's good to see trolls in the house.
Even they get...
Unless it's a joke.
In which case...
Unfunny because it's unclear that it's a joke.
But welcome to the chat off the hook.
They have equated this day, January 6th, to the darkest days of American history.
And they've sold that to you for so long right now that they've got to come out and present a product that's going to affirm all of the lies that they have been saying for the last 500 days.
People have to appreciate what has gone down in this time.
We've seen the videos from the day of.
Robert Barnes and I, we actually live-streamed the day it happened.
Barnes was not on the hill.
He was in Washington at the time.
He mentioned the day of.
Alex Jones was down there and said, stay away from the Capitol.
This is a setup.
It's a trap.
And you can add that to your bucket of, you know, another quarter in the bucket for Alex Jones was right.
Whether or not it was a setup to begin with or whether or not it was an exploited incident afterwards, doesn't matter.
Outcome is the same.
Doors were opened.
Barricades were removed.
Extra security, heightened security was declined.
The most secure building or what is supposed to be the most secure building in the country was breached and penetrated allegedly by unarmed...
I know what names one side of the political aisle calls them.
It was breached by unarmed protesters.
You had people walking around taking selfies within the Capitol building.
And they took that incident, and they took the pockets of violence, and turned it into a war on half of America.
And they now have to justify that war, and the only way they can justify that is by primetime Thursday night, probably the best night of the week for primetime television, to come out and parade their findings of the bipartisan committee.
And they're going to do it tonight.
And it's going to be one nauseating display of politically motivated propaganda.
That's my prediction.
I may be wrong.
Okay, that was a long intro, actually.
And there's a bunch of stuff I want to get to before we actually get to the hearing.
Some of you out there are saying, ignore this.
This is propaganda.
This is going to be rubbish.
Just pay no attention to it.
Well, here's the problem with that statement.
First of all, it is going to be propaganda.
We know it.
It's going to be I mean, in some sense, it's going to be bipartisan propaganda.
I was talking with someone the other day and they said, you know, why would it be bipartisan?
The GOP, it's not in their best interest.
Well, if you operate on the basis that the specific singular purpose of this entire charade is to get certain GOP candidates off the ballot, make their lives a living hell so that they can be smeared for any electoral run.
If you think that that is the singular objective of all of this, there are a lot of what I now understand to be rhinos who don't like a lot of the populist Republican candidates.
There's a lot of Republicans who wouldn't mind if Trump never sees his name on a presidential ballot again.
There's a lot of Republicans who don't want Trump running in 2024.
And so if the only thing that comes out of this is somehow the result of preventing Trump or other populist candidates from running.
Or getting the rabble rousers out, the Marjorie Taylor Greene's, the Cawthorn.
Well, Cawthorn's already gone now.
He had his problem.
Who are the other ones I'm thinking of?
You know who I'm thinking of.
If it's getting them excluded, off ballots, off of committees, make their lives a living hell so that they can't run again or that if they do, they've been tarnished so much they don't win, there's a lot of Republicans who'd be very happy with that outcome.
There's a lot of Republicans, and as much as there's a lot of conservatives in Canada, who would not object to more power, more laws that they can use to justify their political existence.
So if that's the singular only objective of all of this, there's a lot of Republicans who would be happy with that outcome.
In my humble opinion, in my limited understanding, write it off or take it for what it's worth.
So there may, in fact, be something of an underlying bipartisan effort here.
Which is to screw Trump off or out of 2024.
And to screw some of the politically unpopular populist GOP candidates or GOP representatives.
So this is going to be grotesque propaganda.
Paraded and showcased at primetime for max effect.
And if you just ignore it and let that happen, you're silencing yourself.
For no good reason, and actually probably contrary to your political or ideological objectives.
For me, I just want to understand, I want to shed the light on what I think is the truth.
And so, by highlighting it, by commentating on it in real time, I'll be doing that.
The other thing is, oh, there's more important stuff.
Right now, how this is going to be politically weaponized for legislation purposes, Whether it's to make an argument for eliminating the Electoral College, which will effectively result in a situation where the coasts govern the mainland.
So this is a very big issue, and ignoring it is, I think, a big mistake.
Commentating on it and highlighting the absurdity theater, political propaganda that it is, I think is value-added to the world.
So, that.
It's also not Johnny Depp.
So, anyone who is saying, enough with the Johnny Depp, well, we're here now.
And if you don't want to see it, well, you'll be missing out because this is going to be Pravda-level propaganda.
This is going to be...
I may be wrong, but I'm not going to be wrong.
Okay, now let's do standard disclaimers and openings.
Superchats, such as this one.
Viva, how the Prime Minister stole Freedom Book.
How do I get on your show?
Well, I'm going to screenshot this.
Viva, How the Prime Minister Stole the Freedom Book.
Did you write it, Max Power?
I'm going to try to get the book.
I'm a screenshot of this, so let me see if I can get to you afterwards.
Thank you for the Super Chats.
Super Chats.
YouTube takes 30% of each and every one of those.
We're simultaneously streaming on the Rumbles.
Rumble has the Super Chat equivalent called Rumble France.
They take 20%, so it's better for the creator, better for the platform to support a platform you like.
Yadda, yadda, yadda.
You know the shtick.
I thank you all for the support, but I will not get to all your Super Chats.
And if it's going to miff you, if I don't bring it up, don't bring it up.
I don't like people feeling miffed, grifted, shilled, rooked, whatever.
Super Chats, Rumble Rant, any support whatsoever is purely voluntary because you like what I do, you want to support what I do, and there's that.
Okay.
No legal advice, no election fornification advice, no medical advice.
But tonight there will be commentary in real time on what I think Is going to be a travesty of a weaponizing of what was a relatively, I won't say insignificant, but certainly not as monumental as they've made it out to be.
You have to have integrity in order for it to be impaired.
This is true.
You also have to have shame.
Let me rephrase this.
You have to have pride in order to feel shame.
Oh, hold on.
I get that.
You know what's funny?
In French, fuck.
It literally means seal.
P-H-O-Q-U-E.
So all these funny little kids think, oh, I'm just saying seal you.
Janet asks, Viva, next week, True the Vote will be meeting with Arizona Congress to reveal more condemning information.
Please stream.
I'm not sure.
Maybe I'll just do that exclusive on Rumble.
I suspect I will not be able to stream that on the YouTubes.
Viva, thank you for doing this.
I couldn't watch this on my own.
Too triggering.
There's also no point watching it without commentary because you may not know Everything that is being told to you, that's a lie.
I think I've been sufficiently well-versed in the events of January 6th since before January 6th that I think I can highlight stuff, highlight omissions, highlight misinformation.
If you just watch it without commentary, you'll be watching a Johnny Depp trial and you might not understand the nuances of the law.
It might still be fun, but it will be too triggering.
Also, if you're unfamiliar with the events, the fallout, the follow-up.
Oh, I hear things going on.
Okay, Viva, thank you for doing this.
Hold on.
I hear the audio in my back.
Only thing that will make it better if this is sponsored by Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson& Johnson.
And last night, Brandon jokingly calling for the jailing of Republicans that questioned the election.
Today, Republicans get arrested.
That was one of the things I wanted to go over.
I'm going to pull this off like this.
Ryan Kelly.
Running in the primaries in Michigan to potentially unseat Gretchen Whitmer, who herself now we know was the victim of what has now turned out by court to be determined to be a form of entrapment against the accused.
Ryan Kelly, running against Gretchen Whitmer, amongst other Republican candidates, arrested.
Arrested on...
Mischief charges?
No, sorry, that's in Canada.
Misdemeanor charges.
And then Brandon going on Jimmy Kimmel yesterday and saying they're making a well-staged monopoly joke about arresting Republicans.
Hold on.
Let me just pull up just so we can see this real quick-like.
Real quick-like.
Here we go.
The indictment.
Do we all see this?
This was just served, I think, on Monday.
The criminal complaint.
Yeah, this is it.
We can see it properly here.
Check this out, people.
Check this absolute rubbish out.
This is how many days later?
When was this served?
June 8, 2022, for events that occurred allegedly on January 6, 2021.
Ryan Kelly up at the top right there.
Oh, no, you can't say it.
Ryan Kelly at the top.
Date of birth, whatever.
The criminal complaint.
Knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority.
Another charge, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds.
Another charge, knowingly engage in any act of physical violence against persons or property in any restricted ground.
And fourth charge, willfully injure or commit any depredation against any property of the United States.
Okay, I just hear something.
We're eight minutes away from the first primetime hearing.
I'm going to turn the volume down on that because I don't want to hear it while I'm talking.
Okay.
You know what?
Maybe we want to hear this.
Ryan Kelly indicted.
Arrested today.
You know what?
I should share the screen here.
This is relevant.
Hold on.
Share, share, share.
There's going to be two live witnesses tonight.
A British filmmaker who was...
First U.S. Capitol Police officer injured by protesters.
This is the Cannon House Office caucus room.
So, two witnesses tonight.
One's a filmmaker who was embedded with the Proud Boys who just got indicted on Monday.
And the other is a female police officer who was assaulted.
The day of.
And I'll say assaulted.
I have no doubt she was assaulted.
They're going to bring out someone.
There's going to be crying.
There's going to be tugging at your emotional heartstrings propaganda.
And they're going to do it to try to sway people emotionally to tolerate this political persecution, this weaponizing of even if it was a violent protest, so that one political party...
Can use it to go after the other political party and all of their supporters.
Make an example of them so that everyone thinks twice before protesting when you're on that side of the aisle.
Protest summer of love, all you want, burn down buildings.
That's fine.
That's tolerated by the system.
Protest politics and you're not on the right political side of the aisle or you're on the right political side of the aisle, this is what's going to happen to you, your family, your politicians, your country.
Okay, so I'm going to pull this out now.
And then I'm going to go back to...
So, Ryan Kelly was arrested.
Why was he arrested?
Maybe because he's a popular candidate running in the primaries potentially against Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan.
Why else?
Let's just see one thing here.
It's on the YouTubes.
I have...
Oh, here we go.
This.
Why else?
Let's just hear...
The political convenience, the good timing of this well-orchestrated smear.
Arrested, this is what CNN now gets to run with.
The FBI has now arrested a Republican candidate for Michigan governor for his alleged involvement in that Capitol attack.
And Ryan Kelly is now facing misdemeanor charges.
Misdemeanor charges.
CNN's Caitlin Polantz has this reporting for us.
What are you learning, Caitlin?
That's right.
So new charges against a Republican politician.
New charges against a Republican politician.
That's all they wanted.
They can be dropped.
They can be found innocent right now.
Michigan.
Ryan Kelly is facing four counts, essentially for moving with this aggressive crowd of rioters, past the police line on January 6th and into this restricted area.
Let's just hear essentially for...
Essentially for moving with the aggressive riders.
Moving with them.
Into this restricted area.
When did it become restricted?
He's going to star some super chats.
Far right political persona.
Because he's been very vocal about COVID restrictions and about opposing the Democratic government.
Can you believe that?
He's far right.
He's built a far right persona on the basis that he opposes COVID restrictions and was a vocal critic of Gretchen Whitmer.
That's what makes him far right.
My goodness.
If you're a vocal critic of COVID restrictions, you're now far right.
If you are a critic of a woman...
Say a politician.
The gender is irrelevant because, you know, if you're a critic of a politician, Cuomo, Whitmer, Wolf, someone who might have, you know, single-handedly been responsible for the excess deaths of thousands, if not more, of the elderly because of their policies of compelling long-term healthcare facilities and old persons' homes to take COVID-positive patients back.
If you criticize them by criticizing people who might have actually killed people, and there's a word for that, you become the far right.
Persona.
You become the devil.
You become the demon.
In calling out demons, that makes you a demon, according to them.
So Ryan Kelly, convenient timing for the arrest.
It allows CNN to run with the Republican who's been arrested on criminal charges from the events of January 6th.
Far right.
Far right, because he was a vocal critic of COVID restrictions.
I never thought I would live long enough to find people make the Iraqi information minister seem like an honest Joe.
It's next level.
I'm going to get to as many as I can before we go.
The Honey Badger!
For anyone who has not read Gadsad's Parasitic Mind, read it.
Unleash your inner honey badger.
Would you be open to doing a space on Twitter?
I will take the questions and moderate the discussion.
54,000 followers.
I want to introduce you to my American patriots.
I would love to.
In fact, sooner than later, I'll be able to make some...
I might be working with an agent who believes that this is the thing to do.
Twitter space.
Honey badger.
I'm going to screenshot this and I'm going to try to find you afterwards because my David at Viva Fry email account does not work anymore.
And I've got to fix that, but I'm going to fix that.
Absolutely.
I like Twitter spaces.
I was just on Julie Kelly's Twitter space the other night.
She was talking about Jan 6. Okay, I'm just going back to C-SPAN.
It's just more garbage there, so we'll wait for the actual hearing to start.
I don't need to hear C-SPAN's coverage of this.
What do we have here?
Okay, so we got that.
We got this honey badger.
And then there were some super chats that I...
That I know that I miss.
Viva!
Michigan gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelly was arrested today in front of his family.
He was arrested for attending the January 6th protest.
Kelly is being charged with four charges that remain unnamed.
Well, I found...
I had a copy of the criminal complaint that I just read, so I think this was probably from before I did that.
But yeah, arrested by the FBI.
I mean, at least they were nicer on Kelly than they were on Brandon Strzok, who I interviewed on Sunday.
You know, they didn't detain him for two days.
And they didn't...
They didn't, or, you know, do it at six in the morning.
I think they did it.
But they did it in front of his family.
Full...
There's no word for it.
It's state-sponsored terror, is what it is.
It wouldn't be an event without your commentary.
Well, there might be plenty of time for Vivo's golf voice tonight.
We shall see who's there.
William McNally.
I don't know if I brought this up before.
Welcome to the family, sir.
Enjoy the commentary.
The commentating.
It's bread and circuses at its best.
There's no question.
It's over the top.
I am the author.
Number one book in Canada.
Tweeted by Jordan Peterson.
Twitter.
Okay.
Screenshotted.
Okay.
I will find you after this.
In the best way possible.
Not the bad way.
Okay.
Let's go down to the end here.
I'm going to miss some super chats.
Don't pull myself out of the stream, please.
So, Ryan Kelly arrested.
Four charges.
This is all insane.
It's politically insane.
It's madness.
It's political madness.
It's...
Oh, I think we're starting.
Are we starting?
We're starting.
Bring it in.
No, bring that out.
The select committee to invest...
Oh, Jesus.
January 6th attack on the United States Capitol.
It's in order.
Let's do this.
Here we go, people.
It's on.
If you want silent commentary, this is not going to be the place for you.
I don't block people, but I will make fun of anyone who says, shut up, I want to hear the guy.
Thanks to everyone watching tonight for sharing part of your evening.
To learn the facts and causes of the events leading up to including the violent attack on January 6, 2021.
Our democracy, electoral system, and country.
How is the audio, people, compared to mine?
I'm Eddie Thompson, chairman of the January 6, 2021 committee.
I was born, raised, and still live.
Pay attention to the emotional rubbish that they're going to continually bring out.
Which is midway between Jackson and Vicksburg, Mississippi, and the Mississippi River.
Oh, here we go.
Divide and conquer.
If I hear voices today try and justify the actions of the insurrectionists, Oh, here we go.
I would play a drinking game.
Drink every time you hear the word insurrectionist, but we'll be dead in 30 minutes.
Don't play drinking games, by the way.
Carol D., welcome to the channel.
Oh, yeah.
Weaponized theater at its worst.
Emotions.
All of us have one thing in common.
We swore the same oath.
To uphold the Constitution.
We swore an oath to defend the Constitution.
Except the Second Amendment.
Except the First Amendment.
Oh, here's another game.
Domestic terrorists.
Let's see how many times they use that.
Every United States government employee takes have their roots in the Civil War.
Throughout our history, the United States has fought against foreign enemies to preserve our democracy.
The audio is probably going to be a little low here, but I'll maybe bring mine down in touch.
Stormed.
Burned.
Okay, fine.
Sorry.
I thought he was talking about...
After all, in 1862, when American citizens had taken up arms against this country, Congress adopted a new oath to help make sure no person who had supported the rebellion could hold a position of public trust.
Therefore, congresspersons and United States federal government employees were required for the first time I've been re-monetized already.
That's surprising.
How about the ones who let people in?
How about the one who shot a woman in the neck point blank?
Here we go.
Emotional hearts.
They still bear those wounds.
Eh, duty.
Sorry.
This is the bipartisan committee.
Domestic enemies.
This is reminiscent of the McCarthy communist trials of the 50s.
Straight up political persecution.
It's nauseating.
It was domestic enemies of the Constitution who stormed the Capitol and occupied the Capitol.
There are constitutional provisions to challenging the ratification.
President of the United States trying to stop the transfer of power, a precedent that had stood for 220 years, even as our democracy had faced its most difficult tests.
Thanks.
This is like, this is the new religion.
Government is the new religion.
The President of the United States believed we would be doomed to bid his bid for re-election.
And by the way, pay attention to confession through projection.
Throughout the evening.
He was raised the white flag when it came to preserving the union.
But even with that grim fate hanging in the balance, President Lincoln was ready to accept the will of the voters.
Come what may.
He made a quiet pledge.
He wrote down the words, This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this administration will not be reelected.
There are constitutional provisions for challenging the certification.
An unarmed insurrection.
And asked his cabinet secretaries to sign it, sight unseen.
He asked them to make the same commitment he did, to accept defeat, if indeed defeat.
To accept defeat.
And remember Hillary Clinton, what she said about not conceding.
and what every president who followed him would do until Donald Trump.
Donald Trump lost the presidential election in 2020.
The American people voted him out of office.
It was not because of a rigged system, It was not because of voter fraud.
No comment.
Don't believe me?
No.
Hear what his former attorney general had to say about it.
I warn those watching that this contains strong language.
Oh!
Let's hear it.
Let's hear it.
No, just what I...
I've had three discussions with the president that I can recall.
One was on November 23rd, one was on December 1st, and one was on December 14th.
And I've been through sort of the give and take of those discussions.
And in that context, I made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff, which I told the president was bullshit.
He swore!
You know, I didn't want to be a part of it, and that's one of the reasons that went into me deciding to leave when I did.
Bill Barr, it seems to me he had things to do before the election.
You can't live in a world where the incumbent administration stays in power based on its view, unsupported by specific evidence, that there was fraud in the election.
Oh, you mean like what they did with Trump and the Russia collusion for three and a half years, Bill?
Is that what you're talking about?
day 2020 he was the Attorney General of the United States the top law enforcement This is coming from people who spent three and a half years investigating the Russia collusion hoax on the basis that Trump was not a legitimate president.
Confession through projection.
Cheers.
behind.
The United States has rights to seek those judgments.
In the United States, law-abiding citizens have those tools for Three and a half years they spent promoting Trump was not a legitimate president because Russia and Putin got him elected.
And this is what they have to say now.
End of the line.
But for Donald Trump, that was only the beginning of what became a sprawling, multi-step conspiracy aimed at overturning the presidential election.
This is what the Democrats did in 2016.
American people with his will to remain in power after his turn ended.
Donald Trump was at the center of this conspiracy.
I want to see it.
Oh, domestic enemies.
Keep saying domestic.
Keep saying it.
Okay, people, tweet this out so that we can have more people watching here than on C-SPAN itself.
Oh, obstruction of an official proceeding.
Oh!
January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup.
A brazen attempt, as one rioter put it shortly after January 6th, to overthrow the government.
You show up with a frickin' flagpole to overthrow the government.
Oh yeah.
And the way you do it?
With grandmothers who take selfies while they walk through Capitol Hill.
By the way, Mr. Thompson, why weren't there police there if this is what it was?
The outside independent commission to investigate January 6th, similar to what we had after 9-11.
He puts too much H in the plot.
Now that actually upsets me a little bit.
Donald Trump's allies in Congress put a stop to it.
Apparently, they don't want January 6th investigated at all.
And in the last 17 months, many of those same people have tried to whitewash what happened Whitewash.
Now he's ruined my hook.
We write history.
Call it a tourist visit.
Label it legitimate political discourse.
Try to rewrite history.
and his followers have adopted the words of the songwriter do you believe me or your lying eyes we can't sweep what happened on Oh, no.
You've got to keep picking at that.
Turn it into an infection.
500 days of investigation.
Oh, no.
To the Constitution.
Hey, Mr. Benny Thompson, what's your position on the Second Amendment?
It protects all of us.
We the people.
And this scheme was an attempt to undermine the will of the people.
Yep.
2016, Russiagate.
And over the next few weeks, we're going to remind you of what happened that day.
It's not done.
We've got to do much more.
We've got to destroy many more people.
The cause of our democracy remains in danger.
The conspiracy to thwart the will of the people is not over.
There are those in this audience who thirst for power.
But have no love or respect for what makes America great.
Oh, my God.
Who are you describing there, Mr. Thompson, if not yourself, sir?
Allegiance to the rule of law.
Oh, my gosh.
A shared journey to build a more perfect union.
They're so polite when they beat you.
They're so polite when they abuse you.
...to insurrection have put two and a half centuries of constitutional democracy at risk.
The world is watching.
Oh, they're watching.
By the way, we're making sure the world is watching and they're getting something closer to the truth than this rubbish.
Sex bots are in the house.
You go.
Block.
How do we play that role when our house is in such disorder?
We must confront the truth with candor, resolve, and determination.
We need to show that we are worthy of the gifts that are the birthright of every American.
That begins here.
And it begins now.
With a true accounting of what happened.
Yeah, let's see the true accounting.
Are you going to answer why there was not enough police to prevent the most secure building in the country?
You're out, Sexpot.
Working alongside the public servants on this deus has been one of the greatest honors of my time in Congress.
It's been a particular privilege to count as a partner in this effort and to count as a friend the Jill woman from Y1C.
Turn my mic down.
Nonsense.
Oh, look at her face.
Look at her face.
She's so...
She's got that...
This is hard for me.
That's the impression she's got to keep giving.
This is hard for me.
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
And let me echo those words about the importance of bipartisanship.
Half of the country.
Bipartisanship.
Mr. Chairman, at 6.01 p.m. on January 6th, after he spent hours watching a violent mob besiege, attack, and invade our Capitol, Donald Trump tweeted that he did not condemn the attack.
Instead...
He justified it.
These are the things and events that happen, he said, when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously and viciously stripped away from great patriots who've been badly and unfairly treated for so long.
As you will see in the hearings to come...
Can she not read the end of that?
Can she not read the end of that?
Go home in peace and love?
Cheney, you pathological liar.
So I'm going to turn my volume down.
Hold on.
Go home with peace and love, he said in that tweet that you just did not read.
Liar.
I turned it down just a touch.
All of whom were in the West Wing of the White House on January 6th.
Look at her face.
She's got it.
This is so hard for you.
You notice the eyebrows.
It's this.
The President did not really want to put anything out calling off the riot or asking his supporters to leave.
You will hear that President Trump was yelling.
How about you read the tweet that you just brought up in its entirety?
He told him he needed to be doing something more.
And aware of the rioters' chance to hang Mike Pence, The president responded with this sentiment, quote, maybe our supporters have the right idea.
Mike Pence, quote, deserves it.
You will hear evidence that President Trump refused for hours to do what his staff, his family, and many of his other advisors begged him to do.
Immediately instruct his supporters to stand down and evacuate the Capitol.
Tonight...
You will see never-before-seen footage of the brutal attack on our Capitol.
An attack that unfolded while a few blocks away President Trump sat watching television in the dining room next to the Oval Office.
You will hear audio from the brave police officers battling for their lives and ours, fighting to defend our democracy against a violent mob Donald Trump refused to call off.
Tonight and in the weeks to come, you will see evidence of what motivated this virus, including directly from those who participated in this attack.
You will see video of them explaining what caused them to do it.
You will see their posts on social media.
You will see their posts.
We will show you what they have said in federal court.
Oh, yes, federal court.
In federal court while they're being threatened for the destruction of their lives.
Years in prison.
We'll show you what they've said in court after we threatened to destroy their lives.
It's amazing what you can get a person to say under torture and under duress.
President Trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack.
Oh, let the flame peacefully protest.
Go home in peace and love.
A crime defined in our laws as conspiring to overthrow, put down, or destroy by force the government of the United States.
Or to oppose by force the authority thereof.
I'm curious as to who actually believes this.
Conspiracy.
Their involvement in the events leading up to and on January 6th.
Mm-hmm.
Some have pled guilty.
Yep.
The attack on our Capitol was not a spontaneous riot.
Intelligence available before January 6th identified plans to, quote, invade the Capitol.
So why'd you open the doors?
Why'd they open the doors if they had intelligence from before?
Why didn't you have enhanced, increased police security, Liz Cheney?
You knew about it before.
Why'd you let it happen and why'd you open the doors?
Gosh darn it, no one's going to ask those questions.
Which one on the political side of the other side is going to ask those questions?
Tonight I'm going to describe for you some of what our committee has learned.
You had advance notice.
Why didn't you have increased security?
Why did you open the doors?
We have it in a defense that was granted by a judge.
Let's hear it.
Despite the lawful outcome of the 2020 election, and in violation of his constitutional They love the Constitution when they get to hold it against you.
They don't love the Constitution, but they have to respect it.
Donald Trump oversaw and coordinated a sophisticated seven-part plan.
They've met with focus groups.
Seven-part plan.
Seven, by the way.
The seven deadly sins.
Not an accident.
I just thought of that right now.
Seven-part plan.
But despite this, President Trump engaged in a massive effort to spread false and fraudulent information.
They're talking about Russiagate right now, right?
They're talking about Russiagate and Clinesmith falsifying evidence to get Pfizer warrants, the PP dossier, Sussman.
They're talking about that, right?
In this clip, Miller describes a call between the Trump campaign's internal data expert and President Trump.
A few days after the 2020 election.
It's in the Oval Office.
Why is he wearing a mask and a deposition?
At some point in the conversation, Matt Ozkowski, who is the lead data person, was brought on.
Look at her.
She's so sad.
She's got a perpetual puppy dog face on.
He was going to lose.
I can do it.
I can do it.
I can pull a chin.
Look at her.
The lip.
This is so hard for me.
Hate actors.
Hate actors is what this is.
By the way, who's going to be the first politician to cry?
Look at that.
Alex Cannon was one of President Trump's campaign lawyers.
He previously worked for the Trump Organization.
One of his responsibilities was to assess allegations of election fraud in November 2020.
Why was he wearing a mask?
There was one sample of his testimony discussing what he told White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.
Let's hear it.
Little Rock, I apologize.
I can't do this.
I know.
Have a good night, Little Rock.
Be well.
Mr. Meadows, where Mr. Meadows was asking me what I was finding and if I was finding anything.
And I remember sharing with him that we weren't finding anything that would be sufficient to change the results in any of the key states.
Now I'm realizing that this committee is going to be nothing more than ratifying the results of the election.
I think it's going to probably substantially move away from...
There's going to be two portions of this.
Republicans bad, insurrection, and legitimizing the election.
The Trump campaign's general counsel, Matt Morgan, gave similar testimony.
He explained that all of the fraud allegations and the campaign's other election arguments taken together and viewed in the best possible light for President Trump could still not change the outcome of the election.
President Trump's Attorney General Bill Barr also told Donald Trump his election claims were wrong.
Oh my goodness.
I lowered my mic a touch also.
I can appreciate it.
Bill Barr has always reminded me of the guy from Billy Madison, the sound of his voice, the principle.
And, you know, that would have affected the outcome of the election.
And frankly, a year and a half later, I haven't seen anything to change my mind on that.
Attorney General Barr also told President Trump that his allegations about Dominion voting machines were groundless.
We can agree on that.
We all agree on that.
And most of us agree on that.
I saw absolutely zero basis for the allegations, but they were made in such a sensational way that they obviously were influencing a lot of people, members of the public.
I regret to inform that Billy Madison bribed them to pass the fourth grade.
and countering that these machines controlled by somebody else were actually determining it, which was complete nonsense.
And it was being laid out there.
And I told them that it was Crazy stuff.
Yes, I brought this up.
There's no live chat on CBS, no live chat on C-SPAN.
Great, great disservice to the country.
There's live chat here, and I don't block the trolls.
President Trump persisted, repeating the false dominion allegations in public at least a dozen more times, even after his attorney general told him they were, quote, complete nonsense.
And after Barr's resignation on December 23rd, the acting attorney general who replaced him, Jeff Rosen, And the acting deputy, Richard Donahue, told President Trump over and over again that the evidence did not support allegations he was making in public.
Many of President Trump's White House staff also recognized that the evidence did not support the claims President Trump was making.
This is the president's daughter commenting on Bill Barr's statement that the department found no fraud sufficient to overturn the election.
Barr was not a coward.
He's corrupt.
Period.
How did that affect your perspective about the election when Attorney General Barr made that statement?
It affected my perspective.
I respect Attorney General Barr.
So I accepted what he was saying.
Is there anyone who's going to ensure that we can get that statement in context?
Is there any adversarial party to this to say, wait a minute, how long did you depose Ivanka Ford?
Can I get the context to that?
Oh, I guess it's a good thing they went after the licenses.
Look at how they get to use it against them later on.
This is a full-out assault on half of the country.
Whether or not you believe that it's justified, maybe you believe it's justified.
This is a full-out assault on half of America.
Maybe even more than that.
Exactly.
Can we hear the rest of Ivanka Trump's deposition?
Can we hear the parts that don't support you, Liz Cheney?
No.
Because there's no one on the committee that's going to ask for that because it's not a bipartisan committee.
Many Republican state officials ignored the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security.
President Trump invested millions of dollars in campaign funds, purposely spreading false information, running ads he knew were false, and convincing millions of Americans that the election was corrupt.
No one ever liked playing sports with cherry pickers.
You know why?
Because they're cheaters.
They sit by the net.
They wait there for you to throw the ball.
Cherry pickers are not fair players.
Mars is on vacay.
I sent him the link.
I don't want to interrupt him on vacay.
He deserves it.
So the U.S. Justice Department would spread his false stolen election claims.
In the days before January 6th, President Trump told his top Justice Department officials, quote, I don't kick anybody out here.
I don't kick out the people who insult me.
Men he had appointed told him they could not do that because it was not true.
So President Trump decided to replace them.
He offered Jeff Clark, an environmental lawyer at the Justice Department, the job of acting Attorney General.
I'm not even clear that they had a sufficient context to use Ivanka against Trump.
They just pulled a stupid statement out of context.
I have no idea what led up to that or what fault of that.
It's garbage.
It's inadmissible in court.
Half of this crap would be inadmissible in court.
Identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election.
This letter is a lie.
The Department of Justice had, in fact, repeatedly told President Trump exactly the opposite, that they had investigated his stolen election allegations and found no credible fraud that could impact the outcome of the election.
This letter and others like it would have urged multiple states to withdraw their official and lawful electoral votes for Biden.
Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donahue described Jeff Clark's letter this way, quote, This would be a grave step for the department to take and could have tremendous constitutional, political, and social ramifications for this country.
The committee agrees with Mr. Donoghue's assessment.
This is why I can't be a lawyer.
I cannot stand not being able to interrupt.
Clark assumed the role of Attorney General in the days before January 6th and issued these letters.
The ramifications could indeed have been grave.
Mr. Donoghue also said this about Clark's plan.
Let's hear it.
And I recall toward the end saying, what you're proposing is nothing less than the United States Justice Department meddling in the outcome of a presidential election.
In our hearings, you will hear firsthand...
They've had 500 days.
They're going to condense it into a few hours of absolute cherry-picked propaganda.
And how they confronted Donald Trump and Jeff Clark in the Oval Office.
And men involved, including Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen and Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donahue were appointed by President Trump.
These men honored their oaths of office.
They did their duty, and you will hear from them in our hearings.
Did she say duty?
Okay, we're playing one game.
privilege against self-incrimination and refused to testify.
Representative Scott Perry, who was also involved in trying to get I'm also a glutton for punishments.
If I feel there's a little truth to the criticism, I'd like to reflect on it.
Exactly, Arthur.
They wrote an article detailing how they did it.
It wasn't seizing of servers in Germany.
It wasn't flipping votes on a machine.
It was lawfully done.
They changed the rules.
They controlled the media.
They controlled information.
It was a cabal of individuals and special interests and big tech working together to ensure, to fortify the election.
That's where the joke comes from.
President Trump is wrong.
I had no right to overturn the election.
The presidency belongs to the American people and the American people alone.
Where are you now, Pence?
Frankly, there is no idea more on American.
Oh, no idea more on American.
And the notion that any one person could choose the American president.
The American president.
Oh, nothing more on American than that.
The President Trump demanded that Mike Pence do wasn't just wrong.
It was illegal and it was unconstitutional.
Oh.
You will hear this in great detail from the vice president's former general counsel.
Witnesses in these hearings will explain how the former vice president and his staff informed President Trump over and over again that what he was pressuring Mike Pence to do was illegal.
As you will hear, President Trump engaged in a relentless effort to pressure Pence.
I'm sorry, is this about Trump or is this about January 6th insurrection?
See the evidence of that pressure from multiple witnesses, live and on video.
Vice President Pence demonstrated his loyalty to Donald Trump consistently Yeah, duty.
It's a reflex.
I apologize.
It's a reflex.
I think the Vice President was proud of his four years of service, and he felt like much had been accomplished in those four years.
And I think he was proud to have stood beside the President for all that had been done.
But I think he ultimately knew that his fidelity to the Constitution was his first and foremost oath.
And that's what he articulated publicly, and I think that that's what he felt.
His fidelity to the Constitution was more important than his fidelity.
To President Trump and his desire.
The oath he took.
Yes.
You'll also hear about a lawyer named John Eastman.
Mr. Eastman was deeply involved in President Trump's plans.
You'll hear from former Fourth Circuit Federal Judge Michael Ludig, a highly respected, leading conservative judge.
This is like a bad trial where there's no other side to respond to the bad arguments.
It's so nice to have monopoly of the mic, monopoly of the narrative, monopoly of the evidence, and the benefit of nobody challenging you on it.
It's great.
And you will see email exchanges between Eastman and the Vice President's Council.
As the violent attack on Congress was underway, Mr. Jacob said this to Mr. Eastman, thanks to your bullshit, we are under siege.
She got to swear.
We'll also see evidence that John Eastman did not actually believe the legal position he was taking.
In fact, a month before the 2020 election, Eastman took exactly the opposite view on the same legal issues.
In the course of the Select Committee's work to obtain information from Mr. Eastman, he had occasion to present evidence to a federal judge.
A judge telling a lawyer what to do will not get the lawyer disbarred if they abide.
If he reached the conclusion that President Trump's efforts to pressure Vice President Pence to act illegally by refusing to count electoral votes likely violated the law.
Illegally?
No, I actually believe in the Constitution there is a process to challenging certification.
If Dr. Eastman and President Trump's plan had worked, it would have permanently ended the peaceful transition of power, undermining American democracy, Peaceful transition of power.
Everyone recall how they peacefully transitioned power from Obama to Trump.
Secret courts, secret spying.
Fabrications.
Obtaining illegal search warrants.
Just remember that peaceful transition of power.
Judge Carter issued another decision on Tuesday night, just this week, indicating that John Eastman and other Trump lawyers knew that their legal arguments had no real chance of success in court, but they relied on those arguments Exactly worse than Joe Rogan.
You're not.
It's perfectly legal to challenge electoral votes.
There's a process in the Constitution.
There's a process in the...
and the hours following the violence, the Trump legal team in the Willard Hotel war room continued to work to I'm going to give Liz Cheney credit.
Where she deserves credit.
In our fifth hearing, you will see evidence that President Trump corruptly pressured state legislators and election officials to change election results.
You will hear additional details about President Trump's call to Georgia officials, urging them to, quote, find 11,780 votes.
This makes me want to puke, because if I were going to build a dishonest argument, this is how I would do it.
I know what she's going to say.
And this is why I can't sit here and do it.
I know what she's going to say.
New details.
Oh, yeah.
I'm sorry, is this about January 6th, or is this about rehashing the challenge to the election?
What is this about, Liz?
I hope they're calling Dinesh D'Souza as a witness.
Summoned a violent mob.
Directed them illegally.
While the violence was underway, President Trump failed to take immediate action.
She's lying right there.
I would rewind it.
She knows that she's lying right now.
And she doesn't feel comfortable about it.
Let me hear what the two points are.
Our investigation is still ongoing.
So what we make public here will not be the complete set of information we will ultimately disclose.
And second, the Department of Justice is currently working with cooperating witnesses.
Oh my goodness.
So more secret stuff going on in this political witch hunt.
A year and a half is not enough.
We'll go on as long as we have.
They stayed late into the evening.
We know that the group discussed a number of dramatic steps, including having the military seize voting machines and potentially rerun elections.
That avatar is Alec Baldwin holding a fire.
You will also hear that President Trump met with that group alone for a period of time before White House lawyers and other staff discovered the group was there and rushed to intervene.
Thank you.
I'll give her credit on her delivery.
It's good.
It's slow paced.
It's easy to follow.
President Trump sent a tweet on the screen now telling people to come to Washington on January 6th.
Peter Navarro, the same one who was just arrested the other day, too.
So he releases...
As you will see, this was a pivotal moment.
This tweet initiated a chain of events.
The tweet led to the planning for what occurred on January 6th, including by the crowd boys who ultimately led the invasion of the Capitol and the violence on that day.
Kind of like a fake PP dossier leading to a chain of events.
Three and a half years of undermining a democratically elected president.
And according to the Department of Justice, on January 6th, 2021, the defendants directed, mobilized, and led members of the crowd onto the Capitol grounds and into the Capitol.
Leading to the dismantling of metal barricades, the destruction of property, the breaching of the Capitol building, and the assaults on law enforcement.
Although certain former Trump officials have argued that they did not anticipate violence on January 6th, the evidence suggests otherwise.
She might have a future as a Democrat.
Liz's career is not over as a politician.
She might have a future as a Democrat.
Indicating that elements in the crowd were preparing for violence at the Capitol.
This is just a pre-written script.
And on the evening of January 5th, President's close advisor, Steve Bannon, It's beyond a pre-written script.
It's a manipulated, fabricated narrative.
All hell is going to break loose tomorrow.
Just understand this.
All hell is going to break loose tomorrow.
Oh, stop right there.
Don't let him finish the sentence.
Don't let Steve Bannon finish that sentence so we can hear what he meant.
Propaganda taking things out of context.
If this were adversarial, we would have context.
But we don't.
Because it's a bipartisan propaganda committee to go after Trump.
This actually has very little to do with January 6th.
In our final hearing, you will hear a moment-by-moment account of the hours-long attack from more than half a dozen White House staff, both live in the hearing room and via videotaped testimony.
There's no doubt that President Trump was well aware of the violence as it developed.
White House staff urged President Trump to intervene and call off the law.
Robert Brooks, the reason why you're right?
They cut that clip while Bannon was mid-sentence.
Don't tell me what someone said as part of the sentence.
What does this say?
Anyone who entered the Capitol without proper authority should leave immediately.
This is exactly what his supporters on Capitol Hill and nationwide were urging the President to do.
He would not.
You will hear that leaders on Capitol Hill begged the President for help, including Republican Leader McCarthy, who was, quote, scared.
How long is Liz going to talk for?
Do they not have limits?
Not only did President Trump refuse to tell the mob to leave the Capitol, he placed no call to any element of the United States government to instruct that the Capitol be defended.
That was not his call at that time.
I'm sorry, was that Trump's call at that time?
He did not talk to the Department of Homeland Security.
People actually believe this.
and deploy law enforcement assets.
But Vice President Pence did each of those things.
I'm sorry, whose responsibility was the security of the Capitol?
It wasn't Trump's, I don't think.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Two or three calls with Vice President Pence.
He was very animated.
Millie?
Isn't Millie the one who lied about how many troops were left in Syria?
There was no question about that.
And I can get you the exact quotes, I guess, from some of our records somewhere.
But he was very animated, very direct, very firm to Secretary Millar.
Get the military down there.
Get the guard down here.
No, Milley was not the one who lied about the number of troops in Syria.
By contrast, here is General Milley's description of his conversation with President Trump's Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, on January 6th.
Hold on.
Tim Meadows?
Tim Meadows?
We have to kill the narrative that the Vice President is making all the decisions.
We need to establish the narrative that the president is still in charge Do we hear from the other side, or is this just one?
No!
You are hearing from the other side, Kathy Ray, because it's bipartisan.
The seven Democrats and the two Republicans who are turncoat Republicans, if they ever were in the first one, it's bipartisan.
You are hearing from the other side.
how the day played out inside the White House, how multiple White House staff resigned in disgust, and how President Trump would not ask his supporters to leave the Capitol.
It was only after multiple hours of violence that President Trump finally released a video instructing the riotous mob to leave.
And as he did so, he said to them, quote, we love you, and you're very special.
You will also hear...
I'd like to see that and hear that, actually.
Members of the president's family, White House staff, and others.
I don't think I can do this.
This is too much even for me.
This is like watching the Oscars.
This is like being forced to watch the Oscars.
You will hear about members of the Trump cabinet discussing the possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment and replacing the President of the United States.
How does it happen?
Multiple members of President Trump's own cabinet resigned immediately after January 6th.
One member of the cabinet suggested that the remaining cabinet officers needed to take a more active role in running the White House and the administration.
But most emblematic of those days is this exchange of texts between Sean Hannity and former president Trump's press secretary Kayleigh McEnany.
Sean Hannity wrote, in part, he now, no more crazy people, no more stolen election talk.
Yes, impeachment and 25th Amendment are real.
Many people will quit.
Ms. McEnany responded in part, love that.
That's the playbook.
The White House staff knew that President Trump was willing to entertain and use conspiracy theories to achieve his ends.
This is what a show trial looks like.
This is like having a show trial where the defense to the defendant is employed by the state.
But beholden to the state.
At least until he left office on January 20th.
These are important facts for Congress and the administration.
How are those Halliburton shares doing, Liz?
We're at a moment of maximum danger for our republic.
There are people out there who are hearing this and they are believing every word of this.
They are saying, this is horrible.
I forgot how much I hate Trump.
Thank goodness they did this right before midterms so I can refresh my hatred for Trump.
...was so concerned about potentially lawless activity that he threatened to resign multiple times.
That is exceedingly rare.
We have a rumble rant.
However, in the Trump White House, it was not treated seriously.
This is a clip of Jared Kushner addressing multiple threats.
This is legitimately depressing.
As a Canadian, I don't know.
It's all over worldwide.
It's not SMM.
Smoking.
Smoking!
Jared, are you aware of instances where Pat's the baloney threatened to resign?
Is that the right word?
I kind of, like I said, my interest at that time was on trying to get as many pardons done.
And I know that, you know, he was always, him and the team were always saying, oh, we're going to resign.
We're not going to be here if this happens, if that happens.
So I kind of took it up to just be whining, to be honest.
Harbingers.
We'll be the harbingers.
Whining.
There's a reason why people serving in our government take an oath to the Constitution.
It sounds like you're whining right now, Liz.
Our founding fathers recognized democracy is fragile.
People in positions of public trust are duty-bound to defend it.
To step forward when action is required.
In our country, we don't swear an oath to an individual.
No, you swear it to a Constitution that you then do not uphold.
Take our oath to defend the United States Constitution.
Oh, yeah.
Talk to me about that, Liz.
And that oath must mean something.
Tonight...
I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible.
Oh, it's indefensible.
God has spoken, people.
Liz Cheney is now God.
It's indefensible.
Finally, I ask all of our fellow Americans, as you watch our hearings over the coming weeks, please remember what's at stake.
I'll remember what's at stake.
Remember the men and women who have fought and died so that we can live under the rule of law, not the rule of men.
I ask you to think of the scene in our Capitol Rotunda on the night of January 6th.
There, in a sacred space in our Constitutional Republic, the place where our presidents lie in state, watched over by statues of Washington and Jefferson, Lincoln and Grant, Eisenhower, Ford, and Reagan.
Against every wall that night encircling the room, there were SWAT teams.
Show us the picture of blood on the statue.
There in the rotunda, these brave men and women rested beneath paintings, depicting the earliest scenes of our republic, including one painted in 1824, depicting George Washington resigning his commission, voluntarily relinquishing power, handing control of the Continental Army back to Congress.
With this noble act, Washington set the indispensable example of the peaceful transfer of power, what President Reagan called "nothing less than a miracle." The sacred obligation to defend this peaceful transfer of power.
I'm sorry, I thought this was about the violent protest on January 6th and not about Trump, the election, or the alleged non-transfer of power.
I do believe the transfer of power between Trump to Joe Biden was better than Obama to Trump.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
It's a bad Hollywood production.
As we provide answers to American people about January 6th, it's important that we remember exactly what took place.
Oh, my God.
That this was no tourist destination.
visit to the Capitol.
Got to get ahead of the narrative.
We are about to play has never been seen.
Oh, never been seen.
Select committee obtained it as a part of our investigation.
Oh my goodness.
This isn't easy to watch.
I want to warn everyone that this video includes violence and strong language.
Is it a police officer shooting an unarmed woman in the neck?
Is that what it is?
Presentation of the violence of January 6th.
Let's hear this.
I'm going to stop talking.
Although I'm not going to.
10 a.m.
This is an edited propaganda piece right now.
What's the audio?
What audio are we listening to the video?
What audio are we listening to as relates to this video?
Is it the same?
I'm not allowed to say what's going to happen today because everyone's just going to have to watch for themselves.
Oh my goodness.
But it's going to happen.
something's gonna happen.
Who's free?
Our streets!
Who's free?
Our streets!
Who's free?
Let me know when the hard parts to watch are.
This is a...
Oh, I wish the stupid captions weren't covering it.
Are we going to see Ray Epps?
This is the most violent insurrection I've ever seen in my life.
I hope Mike is going to do the right thing.
I hope so.
I hope so.
This is storytelling.
Who edited this, by the way?
Who edited this?
Who put this piece of evidence together?
Does everyone remember my original video that went quasi-viral of Alex Jones' deposition?
And I said, as a lawyer, you don't edit and splice together overlay audio to video.
You don't tamper, tamper, tinker with the evidence.
Who put this together?
Oh, that's a terrible equivalent.
We are West Bank!
You appreciate that this is actual, actual propaganda.
They are telling you a story by snipping together things.
You have to show strength.
And then they snip to video showing strength.
We love Trump!
We love Trump!
This is shocking.
I got to say, I got a hard stomach.
I hope you're going to stand up for the good of our constitution and for the good of our country.
Oh, that's violent.
Disappointments.
Peace circle.
I'm sorry, so this is two minutes after the portion we just heard of Trump.
This is two minutes after.
What's the audio?
What's the audio that I just heard with this video?
Does anybody even ask these questions anymore?
Nobody even knows when they're being lied to.
This is CCTV.
The audio that we're hearing, unless I'm not mistaken, the audio that we were hearing, overlaid with that video, was not related to that video.
This is not just narrative telling.
This is actual falsification of evidence.
Oh, there's Jamie Raskin.
People don't even know to ask these questions.
We were looking at CCTV footage.
It has no audio.
Yet we heard audio.
This looks like the most competent police force ever.
You're defending what is supposed to be the most secured building ever.
And they have bicycles?
What audio are we listening to right now with that video?
What audio?
This is so irritating.
I'm going to get in also.
This is why I can't do this.
Hold the line!
Hold the line!
In Canada, hold the line gets you arrested.
What's the audio?
What's the audio?
Where was that audio taken compared to that video?
*Squeak*
People don't understand.
This is actual...
This is actual misinformation that is being broadcast to the world, prime time, by the government.
Okay, whoever that kid is, arrest him.
Arrest him?
No question.
All these people, arrest, fair punishment for the crime.
I'm sorry.
This is the most secure building.
I know the audio is police radio.
My point is that the audio is not a part of the video that we're watching at the same time.
That's my point.
They're literally splicing together pieces of evidence.
The House in Recess pursuant to Clause 12B of Rule 1. My kids didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our Constitution, giving states a chance to certify a corrected set of facts.
I'd like to know if he's faithfully reading the rest of that.
We like Pence?
Oh, look at this.
The audio that you're looking at right now is not about that rope.
The audio that you just saw...
Maybe it was, but that was a still image.
Oh my goodness.
For people who lack critical thinking in the sense that they just have never been lied to enough that they don't know.
Stassi in full effect.
71 million people are motivated to take our country back from ever before.
You know what the problem is, though?
Stassi in full effect?
Another group of people are going to be fully motivated.
To demonize and think that anything is justified against these people that they now view as the threats to their existence.
Yeah, that's a...
I don't know what that is.
But I...
That's...
Those are not...
I don't believe those are the same...
I don't believe those are the same scenes.
Yeah, we're fucked.
Too many people.
Too many people.
Hey!
What?
2:28, are we back in time now?
Too many people.
Why was there not more police order?
We need an area for the housing members.
They're all walking over now through the tunnels.
This is outright...
This is just beyond manipulation.
I mean, that is...
Oh my God, this is actually crazy.
We're trying to hold the upper back.
We're trying to hold the upper back now.
We need to hold the doors of the camera.
No, just throw in a noose shot.
Throw in a noose shot with other talk about Pence and then tell us how...
I don't even like listening to Angry Lawyer Viva.
This is nauseating.
This is what I mean.
This is bad.
There's no defense to this.
Period.
The only question is going to be what percentage of the 500,000 people did this represent?
Was this as much of an anomaly as the one Yahtzee flag and the one Confederate flag in the three weeks of peaceful protests in Canada?
I don't know.
But nothing defends that.
Nothing condones that.
Those people should be, they should face reasonable charges and reasonable conviction for whatever crimes they were in fact found guilty of having committed by a fair jury.
Yeah, and say, And that's another question.
Where's Ray Epps?
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
Oh, by the way, we're going to find something here about a threat to Nancy Pelosi.
Tweet or audio?
If I'm scripting propaganda, people, this is how I do it.
I can tell you what's coming before it comes.
Because if I'm a dishonest, lying son of a gun, that's how I do it.
Flash Nancy Pelosi's name.
Cue the radio voice.
danger to politicians.
This is terrible.
Overlapping audio.
Don't know where that audio is taken.
Who said it?
On the house floor, on the third floor, to use the subway themselves, it's time to evacuate, so we can secure the members on the other side.
Coffee.
It's up to us people now, the American people.
One more time.
Are you ready to do it?
And whatever it takes, I'll lay my life down if it takes.
I think you mean try to stay sane and not slain.
I will try not to stay slain.
I will try to stay sane.
Thank you very much.
H5, two feet.
That's funny.
Bye.
This is a good point, Michael Painter.
A lot of people just watched the Johnny Depp trial.
They saw how this process should work.
A lot of them are going to realize this is Amber's story without opposition and question one.
From your mouth to the political god's ears.
This is...
This is...
This is bullshit.
If I were a kid, my dad would wash my mouth.
This is unbelievable.
The only Republicans in this hearing are the swamp dwellers who President Trump should have fired on day one.
This is to keep the rhinos.
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