Former president Trump a lot was exposed in terms of his knowledge base about what
was going on with that January 6th insurrection.
And also his little top cop Attorney General Bill Barr also made it known that
he was not necessarily on team Trump.
And so let's talk a little bit about more about those things that we learned in last
night's January 6th hearings.
Which was the first time they've ever had these kind of live hearings.
And it was also really led by Liz Cheney,
they had a Republican talking to Republicans.
She played a lot of the interviews she shot under oath in an attempt really to
show that Trump was this unhinged madman.
Which I think we all kind of knew him to be, but
that he was trying to carry out a coup to overthrow the Democratic process.
And let's go ahead and
start first with that top cop built bar admitting the truth IE.
That Trump's claims about that big lie were a big lie.
>> 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 of members of the public.
That there was this systemic corruption in the system and
that their votes didn't count and 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 it was crazy stuff and
they were wasting their time on that.
And was doing great grave disservice to the country.
>> A grave disservice indeed, and this wasn't all Bill Barr had to say about it.
He also doubled down and he did so under oath,
mind you calling it exactly what it is.
Watch this.
>> I 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 [BLEEP] and I didn't wanna be a part of it.
And that's one of the reasons that went into me deciding to leave when I did.
I observed, I think it was on December 1st, how can we can't live in
a world where the incumbent administration stays in power based on its view.
Unsupported by specific evidence that the election,
that there was fraud in the election.
>> Yeah, that's right.
Bill Barr calling it out and doing so under oath.
It is, it's a hell of a thing.
But I think really shocking piece is how ivanka also responded, check this out.
>> How did that affect your perspective about the election?
When Attorney general Barr made that statement.
>> It affected my perspective, a respected Attorney General Bar.
So I accepted what he said was saying.
>> This is interesting and definitely check out Liz Cheney
really just bringing it all together for us.
>> President Trump told his top justice Department officials quote.
Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and
the Republican congressman.
Senior Justice department officials men he had appointed told him they
could not do that because it was not true.
So President Trump decided to replace them.
President Trump was yelling and quote really angry at advisers
who 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.
>> The New York times really captured it really poignantly here when they stated.
That all the testimony in terms of the testimony that they shared last night
has added up to show how Mr. Trump was trying to destroy the US government.
MS Cheney said absolutely without a doubt
it definitely seemed that Donald Trump was not really here for democracy.
It was that kind of the same sentiment you got Brett.
>> Yes that's it because the two sides of the tug of war in that is over the truth.
That's driving all of us insane is the is like
Donald Trump being out there saying that he just wants to hold onto power.
And reasonable people saying that in the course of American democracy in
the history of this country there has never been anything like this.
And now we have different people laid out explicitly on those different
sides of the tug of war that is what they wanna do.
And then the you know Liz Cheney wants to tie that to actual violence and
Trump knowing that being on whatever side he is in the tug of war.
He is calling for the violent disassembling of American democracy and
we now know that Bill Barr and Ivanka Trump were on the other side.
Bill Barr saying and he he resigned, we all kind of knew that but
him saying under oath, I thought all the claims that led up to the big lie.
The one thing that trump is really banking all of his support on and
has never really stopped doing that say for like two hours
during the insurrection when people like Hannity called him out on it.
But by doing that you know that the people,
even the people that I would consider crazy people like Bill Barr who was
brought in after Jeff sessions to protect Trump from an impeachment now.
Well he's on the other side because that was a bridge too far even for him.
>> Which is so interesting in part because there were so many lawyers involved in
the Trump administration that didn't have a line that they were willing to go.
The distance and of course a lot of them now don't necessarily have low licenses.
But I do appreciate that Bill Barr is like no dice, I'm not doing this,
this isn't okay.
It didn't really seem to try to sugarcoat it.
And I think it's interesting as well that Ivanka was not team daddy as much as she
was team logic.
But I think she also recognizes when her father has gone too far and
she probably doesn't trust him as far as she can throw him.
The fact is that Donald Trump is not someone who can be trusted in any way and
he's always looking out for himself heist.
And it's also my understanding that this morning he essentially kind of tried
to come back in terms of objecting to what Ivanka said by indicating that she had
no idea she wasn't involved in anything.
So it's very interesting though because he definitely didn't attack her in the ways
in which that he generally attacks people.
Maybe that's kind of the father daughter love that's actually there
between the two.
I guess it's just a little less creepy.
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