Hi, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. Just wrapping up here arguably the most dramatic

public hearing of the January 6th select committee. It was jaw dropping until the very

last moment. Some big news. A bombshell there dropped by Congressman Liz Cheney at the

end. But most of the hearing drilled down on what the members of the select committee

have for months now, and describing as the evidence they've garnered to describe the

marshaling of the mob. When they say that, they mean the efforts by the twice impeached

ex-president that would be Donald Trump and his allies to assemble the army of insurrectionists

that would ultimately storm the United States Capitol on January 6th. The committee today

laid out that mound of evidence showing that Donald Trump knew perfectly well. He had lost

the election. And yet he turned to those who told him what he wanted to hear. He formed

shopped until the very last moment at one point. He agreed to name conspiracy theorist Sidney

Powell as a special counsel to investigate her audacious claims of voter fraud. It was

at a December 18th meeting that became the focus of much of today's hearing. White House

egg Cassidy Hutchinson, who we heard from in the last public hearing, described that

meeting is unhinged in a text. The committee delved deep into the right wing fever swamp

and ensued at Trump's incitement. And the committee laid out all of the various ways that

team Trump was in tacit cooperation, not just day to day, but hour to hour with the domestic

violent extremists and white supremacists responsible for carrying out the violence on January

6th. And as we mentioned right at the top, at the very end of the hearing was Cheney with

her bombshells becoming a pattern for her. She revealed that Donald Trump called one of

the witnesses. It happens to be a witness that she says, we the public, the viewing public

has not heard from yet. The witness had had his or her lawyer call the committee and

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