Seventh day of hearings for the January 6th capitol riots.
We learned that Donald Trump did exactly what we thought he did.
He directed and incited violence toward the nation's capital
toward lawmakers toward his own vice president.
And the hearing provided a lot of evidence to that make that point.
Now, there was a big meeting that took place between Trump administration
officials including his white house counsel and some of the believe it or
not more unsavory people in his orbit.
People like Sidney Powell who he wanted to name a special counsel to seize voting
machines and states that Trump had lost.
And hours after that meeting took place again, that was on December 18 2020,
he sent out a tweet and this is what the tweet said.
Peter Navarro releases 36 page report alleging election
fraud more than sufficient to swing victory to Trump,
a great report by Peter statistically impossible to have
lost the 2020 election Big Protest in DC on January 6.
Be there will be wild and that was determined to be by
Trump's supporters by the way a call to action.
And nothing makes that clear,
then the clip that you're about to watch here is a collection of goofballs and
crazy people reacting to that specific tweet by Donald Trump.
Let's watch.
>> President Trump in the early morning hours today tweeted
that he wants the american people to march on Washington DC on January 6th 2021.
>> And now Donald Trump is calling on his supporters to descend on
Washington DC January 6.
He is now calling on we the people to take action and to show our numbers.
We're going to only be saved by millions of Americans moving to Washington,
occupying the entire area if necessary, storming right into the capital.
We know the rules of engagement,
if you have enough people you can push down any kind of a fence or a wall.
>> This could be Trump's last stand and
it's a time when he has specifically called on his supporters to arrive in DC.
>> Now this is a little bit of a side note but
you can probably notice tim pools included in that montage that compilation video
that the select committee put together for this hearing.
And it's kind of hard to continue on with your grift of posing as a left
winger who somehow constantly spouts right wing talking points when
you're included in a compilation video of unhinged right wingers.
Supporting trump's call to action there.
Anyway, just to the point I wanted to make.
>> Yeah, I think the most important one there is actually not from Alex Jones or
tim pool.
It's from that guy matt bracken who's got an info wars shirt on,
I don't know if he's part of info wars.
But he said, we're gonna this is well before January 6th this is after
that infamous December 19th tweet about how it's gonna be wild.
He says, we're gonna storm into the capitol, we can knock down the barricades.
I mean, you just heard it yourself they plan to do what you saw on January 6th
all the way back then it was not impromptu we got carried away.
,my God we got excited and we did this.
No they planned to do it and this is really important guys both for
all of us in understanding it.
But eventually for prosecutors proving their case, when Trump says, wild,
wild could mean a lot of different things in different contexts.
So it might be perfectly in it.
So we're gonna a wild party or whatever,
when he says wild look at the reaction it got from the right wing commentators and
the right wing militia, they immediately understood what it meant.
It meant violence.
And when you see their speeches they have all these code words.
One code word is 1776.
When they say that that means violent revolution that means violent coup.
Okay, so to us 1776 this year of independence, that's a good thing etc.
But when they say they mean attack violently and Steve Banner is gonna
come into this in a second and he's very clear the day before January 6.
Exactly, so there was some evidence implicating Steve Bannon,
there has been evidence implicating Steve Bannon.
But I would argue that today's video made that even more clear.
So here is Steve Bannon's reaction to Trump, specifically mentioning
that there's gonna be a big protest in DC on January 6, be there will be wild.
Here's how Bannon reacted.
>> The committee has learned from the White House phone logs that the president
spoke to Steve Banner, his close adviser at least twice on January 5th.
The first conversation they had lasted for 11 minutes.
Listen to what Mr Bannon said that day after the first call he
had with the president.
>> All hell is going to break loose tomorrow.
It's all converging and now we're on as they say the point of attack, right?
The point of attack tomorrow,
I'll tell you this it's not gonna happen like you think it's gonna happen.
Okay, it's gonna be quite extraordinarily different.
And all I can say is strap in.
>> I wonder what they were talking about during that phone conversation.
Steve Bannon is now saying that he is willing to testify before
the select committee investigating January 6th.
We'll see if that actually happens.
The backstory is that Trump is angered that there hasn't been
anyone supportive of him to testify during these hearings?
Well we'll see what happens.
We'll see if Bannon has the guts to show up and and answer questions about this.
But yeah, it is interesting that after the first phone call with trump that was
Bannon's commentary on his show.
>> So that commentary is very important because their main defense is,
hey look it just kind of happened Trump didn't say to do it.
He just used kind of loose words and people got carried away.
But when you find out no, right after his tweet,
all the militia planned to do violence.
They took his call to come on January 6 as a call to violence.
And then you see Steve Bannon right after talking to Trump before January 6,
knowing what was coming where he says point of attack several times,
he says, all hell is going to break loose.
He says it's not gonna go down the way you think it is.
So that means Trump told him, yeah, we didn't tell the public that we're
going to attack the Capitol, but we're going to attack the Capitol.
And so that's why all hell is breaking loose and it's a point of attack etc.
So that is damning.
Bannon says, if I come to the hearings, I'll go medieval on them.
Okay, sure.
>> Sure, sure, sure.
So that's his way.
But you know, you never know Democrats get scared easy, so they might not bring him
in and Trump if you're a tough guy, why don't you come and testify?
You can defend yourself for hours and hours.
But as always Trump says, you go to the Capitol and
then he goes back home to his bunker and watches it from TV,
he tells somebody defend me, but he goes into his bunker because he's a coward.
>> Now final video that I wanna show you and
then we'll go over a few other highlights.
This one features a text exchange between Trump's former campaign manager,
Brad Pascale and Katrina Pierson and apparently Pascale felt some remorse
over the fact that he had assisted in getting trump elected in the first place.
This is after the capitol riots had already taken place.
This is after Ashley babbitt was shot and killed as she was attempting to get
through a window in a door to get to members of Congress to do who knows what?
So here's the exchange, here's what he said.
Mr pascal said, quote, this is about trump pushing for
uncertainty in our country, a sitting president asking for civil war.
And then when he said this week, I feel guilty for helping him win.
Katrina Pearson responded, you did what you felt right at the time and
therefore it was right Mr pascal added, yeah, but a woman is dead and yeah,
if I was trump and I knew my rhetoric killed someone when MS Pearson replied,
it wasn't the rhetoric Mr pascal said, Katrina, yes, it was.
So he is not in any way on the left, he is a rabid right winger,
he was trump's campaign manager and there he is showing remorse for
getting the man elected in the first place because of the rhetoric
that he used that led to the riots of course, but also yeah.
A woman by the name of Ashley babbitt getting shot and
killed because she was misled by donald trump into thinking that the election
was stolen from trump when in fact it had not been stolen from trump.
Yeah, that was stunning to me because I didn't realize parscale was human.
Yeah, I thought he was just like all these dirtbags had no emotion, no empathy.
Didn't care about anybody else loved that they trampled on people as
they got into power.
It turns out he actually cares if someone died.
He cares.
That trump was quote trying to start a civil war.
That's his campaign manager.
That's not some deep state guy that's the guy who was probably the most critical
guy into getting him into office in the first place, right.
And Katrina Pearson in other parts said that trump quote likes the crazies and
he likes his supporters to be quote, very, very vicious.
So those are his top allies saying trump, wants civil war.
He likes vicious supporters who are crazy.
So if you're a right winger and you think Katrina Pearson is lying brad parscale and
Bill Barr and all of his White House counsel and
everyone that you told us was great before is all lying and
trump's trump and lunatic Rudy are the only ones telling the truth.
There's nothing we can do to help you because no amount of facts will
convince you.
And finally today's hearing closed with the disclosure of donald
trump engaging in witness tampering.
Trying to personally hit up the witnesses to do what I mean.
We know what happened with Cassidy Hutchinson A day before.
She was supposed to give her fourth day of depositions.
She was contacted by a trump lackey and essentially told, we know you're loyal.
We know you're gonna do the right thing Cassidy.
Who knows what trump was trying to say to the witness.
I'm sure we're gonna learn more about that in an upcoming hearing next week.
In fact, they're planning on scheduling it during prime time, which to me signals,
they have something huge bigger than anything we've seen so far in the hearing.
So we'll see what happens.
And I don't know if that's gonna be next week or in a future hearing.
But the fact that trump engaged in witness tampering that in and
of itself is a crime.
And so the balls in Merrick Garland's court.
Okay. The attorney general gets to decide
whether or not there are any criminal charges filed against Donald trump so far.
We haven't heard a word about that from the attorney General, but
I don't know how much more evidence you need really.
Yeah, no, if Merrick Garland doesn't file any charges,
it will be historic, cowardice, Historic