January 6 Committee: Trump’s tweet inspired “openly homicidal” rhetoric

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🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 104 minutes

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During its seventh public hearing, the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol focused on the connection between former President Trump and extremist groups as the violent mob came together. Former Oath Keepers spokesperson Jason Van Tatenhove testified that Trump could try to “whip up a civil war” if he’s elected again. Van Tatenhove tells Anderson Cooper why he says “all bets are off” if the former President finds his way back into the White House. Plus, the Austin American-Statesman newspaper released parts of the surveillance video from the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas that resulted in the murders of 19 children and two teachers. It took officers 77 minutes until they finally entered the classroom and killed the shooter. CNN Crime and Justice Correspondent Shimon Prokupecz joins AC360 to discuss the reaction from the Uvalde community after seeing the video. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening. I'm Anderson Cooper in New York on Jake Tapper in Washington, DC. Tonight,
0:11.1	a hearing of the House January 6th Committee aimed at connecting the former president to
0:15.6	extremist elements who stormed the Capitol and making a case that he deliberately used
0:20.0	them in his attempt to overturn the election.
0:23.2	Someone, Anderson, who knew what he was doing, and according to Committee Vice Chair
0:27.2	Congressman Liz Cheney, had every reason to know what he was doing was wrong.
0:34.1	Now the argument seems to be that President Trump was manipulated by others outside the
0:39.9	administration, that he was persuaded to ignore his closest advisors, and that he was
0:46.0	incapable of telling right from wrong. This, of course, is nonsense. President Trump
0:53.0	is a 76-year-old man. He is not an impressionable child.
0:57.5	But today was the first time the public was shown testimony from Pat Stepaloni, the former
1:02.2	White House counsel, who spoke to the panel last Friday.
1:04.7	I'll start by asking if you agree with Mr. Cheney with the conclusions of Matt Morgan,
1:20.0	the billbar of all of the individuals who evaluate those clinics that there is no evidence
1:25.6	of election fraud submission to undermine the outcome of the courts.
1:29.6	Yes, I agree with that.
1:30.6	Do you and your mind inform the belief that the President should concede the election
1:35.7	loss at a certain point after the election?
1:39.9	Well, again, I was the White House counsel. Some of those decisions are political, so to
1:47.0	the extent that, but if your question is that I believe he should concede the election
1:53.3	at a point in time, yes, I did.
1:56.0	I believe we are McConnell went on to the floor of the Senate. I believe in the December
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