Hey, everyone, it's Reid. Before we get started, just want to make sure that you're following along with the Lincoln project on all of our coverage regarding the January 6th Committee hearings.

Testimony has been explosive. The evidence has been damning against Donald Trump and his attempt to steal the 2020 election.

I hope you'll follow us and understand just how close we were to losing it all. And now on with the show.

Welcome back to the Lincoln project. I'm your host, Reid Gaelin. Today, I'm joined by co-founder of the Lincoln project, host of LP TV's The Breakdown,

an author of New York Times bestsellers running against the devil and everything Trump touches dies. The one, the only Rick Wilson. Rick, thanks for coming back.

Great, Gaelin. It's good to be with you in the same room. I know. It's a sound. I know. It is secret, undisclosed. It's good for our relationship. It is, as always.

All right, so Rick, this past Tuesday after being offered a couple of weeks, we saw the House Select Committee on January 6th resume its public hearings with its 7th convening.

The session was led by representatives Jamie Raskin of Maryland and Stephanie Murphy of Florida and focused on the role that right wing extremist groups played in the violence that took place that day.

It featured testimony from Jason Van Tatenhove, a former spokesperson for the Oathkeepers and Steven Ayers, a participant in the insurrection.

So after seven of these, Rick, what was your top takeaway from what you heard and saw?

If you think about the one six committee as a sort of a penser movement, what you saw on the hearing this week was a flank of the Penser movement that described both the knowledge that the election had not been stolen.

The evolution of Trump's legal team selling this lie to him, even though the professionals and the actual non mutants were telling him it's all bullshit.

And how that lie then evolved into a very considered plan, a conspiracy, if you will, to have an armed and violent crowd motivated enough by Trump and his language in his rhetoric to go at the US Capitol.

There's a lot more evidence now of how this conspiracy worked.

And I think this is a really bad day for team Trump.

I think it was and obviously as they have done so far, you know, with the six previous hearings, they have done their homework, they have charted out the path they want to take.

I thought that representatives Murphy and Raskin did a very good job and we'll get to their closing statements in a moment.

But you know, one of the witnesses Jason Van Tatenhove, so he was a guy that worked with the Oathkeepers, which is, as he said, is not a veterans organization.

It's not a community support group. He worked with Stuart Rhodes, the, you know, I think soon to be, if not an already imprisoned leader of this.

And he was very clear, Rick, that this was an armed militia movement, that its leadership hoped became a paramilitary organization on behalf of Donald Trump.

So think back to the 1920s and early 1930s, brown shirts in Germany, right?

These are people who are well and heavily armed looking for a fight to advance a specific politician or political ideology.

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