-Damning new documentary footage of key Trump ally, Roger Stone,
discussing plans for a violent coup to overturn
the 2020 election has emerged thanks to the committee
investigating the January 6th insurrection.
Meanwhile, the committee is still reportedly
debating some of its biggest unanswered questions,
including whether to subpoena Mike Pence or Trump himself.
For more on this, it's time for a closer look.
[ Cheers and applause ]
The committee investigating
the January 6th attack on the Capitol
was supposed to have held its ninth public hearing today,
but delayed the hearing due to Hurricane Ian.
The delay also gives the committee more time
to resolve some major questions,
namely whether or not to subpoena key figures
like Mike Pence or even Donald Trump himself.
-Preparations for the hearing come at a critical moment
for the committee with very big unanswered questions
for the committee's members
as they prepare to wrap its work up
by the end of the year.
From "The New York Times" quote --
"The panel whose public hearings
this summer exposed substantial new details
about former President Donald J. Trump's
efforts to reverse the outcome of the 2020 election
must still decide whether to issue subpoenas to Mr. Trump
and former VP Mike Pence.
And it must still grapple with
when to turn its files over to the Justice Department,
how to finish what it hopes
will be a comprehensive written report
and whether to make criminal --
I'm gonna say it again -- criminal referrals."
-Don't worry, you don't need to say it again.
The only referrals Trump is getting these days
are criminal referrals.
Can you imagine someone writing a job referral for Trump?
I can't imagine Trump gets many customer referrals either.
I doubt any of his businesses
will be getting any five-star reviews on Yelp
unless it's from one of his weirdo pals.
[ Laughter ]
You know it.
Anyway, I gotta be honest.
If I was on the committee,
I'm not sure where I'd land on the question
of whether to subpoena Trump.
I mean, on the one hand,
it would be great to get him under oath on camera
so you could make him answer questions
in front of the American public under the threat of perjury.
On the other hand, he's not gonna answer questions
under threat of perjury.
Putting Trump on the stand is as good an idea
as putting a chimpanzee in a school play.
He's not gonna stick to the script.
Yeah, the beginning was fun
when the monkey came out in a costume,
but then it got weird and scary.
Trump can't even answer softball questions from his friends
on Fox News without going off on deranged tangents.
Here's a quick highlight reel from a softball interview
he did with Sean Hannity last week.
And I should note, none of the answers here
had anything to do with the questions that preceded them.
-You could go all over Hollywood and try
and get somebody to play the role of President Xi,
the president of China. There is no actor like that.
There's nobody like that.
The media said, "Why does he call this person?"
I call this person, because that's where the action is.
Letitia James, she had a -- she had a focus on murder
and crime in New York,
where they walk into stores with axes,
and they start swinging the axes at people.
They wanted to rip down all the statues in this country,
including the Jefferson Memorial,
the Lincoln Memorial.
I mean, it's not even believable.
-No, it's not.
You want us to believe protesters
were gonna try to tear down the Lincoln Memorial?
It seems like that's the most topple-proof statue we got.
That's how smart Lincoln was.
They said, "We're gonna make a statue of you standing up."
And he said, "Nah, dawg, I'm too tall.
I'm too tall and skinny for that,
a strong breeze would take me down,
put me in a wide-ass chair.
I'm just going to sit down low in a big old chair.
Get my butt down in the cushion.
Best of luck, protesters."
Also, what the hell is Trump talking about
when he says people in New York City are swinging axes?
Did they accidentally watch "House of the Dragon"
and think it was the news?
[ Imitating Trump ] Have you seen what's happening
in New York City?
People are wearing gold cloaks.
They're having sword fights.
They put a ponytail on Doctor Who.
It's so sad.
Doctor Who --
I would never in a million years -- Doctor Who.
I saw that, I said, "Doctor what?"
And they have him --
New York City has a major dragon problem.
Letitia James, you know, she's --
they should be doing something about the dragons.
[ Normal voice ] Can you imagine that guy sitting down
for a televised congressional hearing?
It would take days.
The networks would have to preempt all their programing
just so Trump could ramble about statues or ax murderers
or windmills or toilets that don't flush.
Although it would be nice to get him under oath
about the toilets he's always talking about.
Mr. President, you have repeatedly said
you have to flush toilets 10 times,
15 times because of the lack of water pressure.
Is that actually true?
[ Imitating Trump ] Yes.
[ Normal voice ] Is it possible, sir,
that rather than being the toilet's fault?
They are, in fact, not designed to flush letters
from dictators and manila envelopes full of state secrets?
[ Imitating Trump ] I would like to plead the Fifth.
[ Normal voice ] So there are still some key decisions
remaining for the January 6th committee to make.
But what they've already discovered has been shocking.
And there's apparently more to come.
For example, one of the central characters in the next hearing
was supposed to have been Trump ally Roger Stone.
And now we have damning new documentary footage of Stone
openly discussing plans for a violent coup
before the 2020 election.
Stone laid out in detail months
before the election how the Trump team would refuse
to accept the results, claim the election was stolen,
and use the courts to overturn the results
and even throw out the real electors
who showed up to the Electoral College,
count on January 6th,
and replace them with phony Trump electors.
-What they're assuming is that the election will be normal.
The election will not be normal.
Oh, these are the California results.
Sorry, we're not accepting them.
We're challenging them in court.
If you like to show up at the Electoral College.
Armed guards will throw them out.
I'm the president [Bleep] you.
You're not stealing Florida.
You're not stealing --
I'm challenging all of it.
And the judges we're going to
are judges I appointed.
[Bleep] you, you're not stealing the election.
-Why do these guys all explain their criminal schemes out loud
and highly specific details before they do them?
I want to make sure there's a camera here before I start.
They're like Bond villains spelling out
exactly how they're gonna kill him
right before he slips out of his handcuffs.
Just don't get tips on being a bad guy
from Christoph Waltz.
[ Imitating Waltz ] You see, James,
you will have your hands tied to this chain
from where you will dangle above a pool of sharks
while I hack into the Bank of England,
and -- Oh, wait, he's gone.
[ Normal voice ] Now, just a quick little sidenote here.
As I've explained before, some of our less charitable viewers
have complained that my Christoph Waltz
sounds more like Werner Herzog.
And to those people, I would just like to say.
-[Bleep] you.
[ Laughter ]
-Not only
does it not sound like Werner Herzog,
it barely sounds like Christoph Waltz.
[ Laughter ]
Also a bizarre detail in this whole Roger Stone thing
is that he gave these interviews to a Danish film crew
for a documentary for some reason.
In fact, CNN interviewed the Danish filmmakers this week
who explained that staffers for the January 6th committee
also visited them in Copenhagen
as part of their investigation into the coup attempt.
-Joining me now, the filmmakers
of "A Storm Foretold".
Christoffer Gulbrandsen is the film's director and producer,
and Frederik Marbell is the director of photography.
You were contacted and then subpoenaed
by the January 6th committee.
What happened when they came?
They came to meet you in Copenhagen, right?
-Correct. -What happened?
-Well, they came four lawyers
from the committee and questioned us
for four days.
And we then had a discussion
about what their point of interests were
and what they were looking into.
And we tried to accommodate what they needed to do their work.
-After everyone on the January 6th committee
has had to talk to, it must've been so pleasant
to chat with Danish documentary filmmakers.
I mean, they've had to depose Bill Barr, Rudy Giuliani,
that ghost that died and came back as an even paler ghost.
Also, hats off to the January 6th staffers
who managed to convince their bosses that they needed
to go to Copenhagen to get this footage.
You could have probably just sent an e-mail.
Hey, Mr. Chairman, there's a damning footage of Roger Stone
planning the coup in Copenhagen,
and the the file is too big to e-mail.
So, yeah.
So we were thinking maybe the only way to get it
is to backpack through Europe for a month.
We promise to come back with evidence
and one of those super-fun pictures where it looks like
we're holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
[ Laughter ]
We'll wear a suit for it.
[ Laughter ]
Yeah, we're gonna take a Eurail,
but we're gonna pack, like, a super-formal suit
for that picture where we hold up the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
[ Laughter ]
But it's insane -- [ Laughs ]
Because, you know --
[ Cheers and applause ]
But as insane and incriminating as all of this is,
nothing is more head-scratching to me than Stone's response
to the release of the documentary footage.
He claims the footage is manipulated
and bizarrely compared himself to Kim Kardashian.
-Roger Stone has issued a lengthy statement
disputing the authenticity of all of them,
saying this...
-I mean, I'd say you have more in common with Alanis Morissette
neither of you seem to understand
the definition of ironic.
[ Laughter ]
Seriously, what the hell is he talking --
Did someone manipulate a video of Kim Kardashian
to make it look like she was planning a coup
when we all know that would totally be a Khloé move?
Also, when a Kardashian plots a coup,
do you think they spell coup with a K?
I think maybe.
But here's the thing.
Stone's call to the violence wasn't just idle chatter.
In addition to his friendship with Trump,
he's also had ties to right wing
militia groups like the Oath Keepers,
whose members are on trial right now for seditious conspiracy.
A few weeks ago, the January 6th committee
even released real-time audio
they'd obtained of Oath Keepers communicating
during the insurrection using a walkie-talkie app.
Some of the memories you'll hear in this clip
were there in person
while others were watching on television
and relaying what they were seeing.
And specifically, they discussed one of Trump's tweets
during the attack, which they interpreted
as essentially giving them permission
to go after members of Congress.
Also, I would like to note that as menacing as they sound,
they are also clearly giant [Bleep]
-Wow, I can't believe the doofus sitting at home
watching TV with a walkie talkie turned out to be wrong.
Also, who's the lazy ass[Bleep] who pulled the cushy assignment
to sit home and watch the insurrection on TV
while everyone else had to actually go out there
and do the rioting?
Good luck, guys. Looking pretty friggin' radical down there.
Okay, they're going to commercial.
Oh [Bleep] it's Magnum.
Oh, yeah.
I've got -- I've got Magnum on my TV right now.
He's saying something about a reverse mortgage,
and it's making a lot of sense to me, guys.
Well, it's making a lot of sense to me what he's saying.
We should be able to take the money out of our own houses.
I will write down the phone number so y'all have it.
Also, here is the most shocking part, to me, about that clip.
-A pro-Trump militia member was watching CNN.
I thought they were fake news.
Way to betray the MAGA movement, dude.
Was he also secretly home drinking chamomile,
wearing Birkenstocks, and charging his Prius?
Seriously, why weren't you watching Fox?
If you're a pro-Trump rioter,
you got to be watching Fox because...
-That's where the action is.
-These guys all spelled out in highly specific detail
what they were planning on doing.
They admitted on camera into a microphone over
and over and over again.
If you plotted a graph
with how many crimes they committed over time,
the line would go straight up along the y...
-Axes.
[ Laughter ]
-Oh [Bleep] Jesus Christ.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Oh, good, encourage them.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Encourage the writers, by all means, yeah.
This has been a closer look.
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