Good evening. You are going to see a number of extraordinary things over the course of this next hour.

It is very rare that we see history happening in real time. We've all seen the images of what happened outside the capital on January 6th of the capital being breached,

people wandering around, destroying property. That was historic, but it is even rare to see what was happening behind closed doors where the people in power were making decisions.

That is what you're about to see tonight. In this hour ahead, one of the most consequential moments in living memory in a way you've never seen it before.

Footage from January 6th, 2021 obtained exclusively by CNN as the attack on the capital unfolded, showing how congressional leaders,

speaker Nancy Pelosi and others were forced to flee the capital from their offices and move to a secure location where they frantically coordinated with then vice president Pence and Trump cabinet members to quell the insurrection and finish certifying the election, trying in short to keep democracy and the rule of law from coming apart at the seams.

Our guests tonight, including legendary reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, will be seeing much of this video for the very first time, seeing what is a remarkable historical record of that dark day.

Earlier today, the House January 6th Committee, they played a small portion of it only a few minutes. We're going to be showing you about an hour's worth of it before making themselves history earlier.

We are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion and every American is entitled to those answers so we can act now to protect our republic.

So this afternoon, I am offering this resolution that the committee direct the chairman to issue a subpoena for relevant documents and testimony under oath from Donald John Trump in connection with the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol.

They all voted in favor of that. The day would be significant alone for that or just for the footed, the committee presented. Members may would have mounted their closing arguments in their case, but there's far more.

So the video we're going to show you tonight, no one else has seen before, only a few minutes of it were shown in the committee hearing today. It was shot by Alexander Pelosi, who is a respected documentary filmmaker and she's the daughter of House Speaker Pelosi. She was with her mom and her family documenting what was supposed to be a peaceful transfer of political power on January 6th, the kind of day that distinguishes this country from so many others when things came unglued.

Alexander Pelosi kept on rolling this first clip, which runs nearly 17 minutes is part of a documentary that Alexander Pelosi has been working on for years. It's edited and we should warn you you will hear no shortage of profanity, but this is the vantage point from Alexander Pelosi in the Speaker's office on the day of January 6th and following events with her mom.

I'm going to go for a couple of minutes.

Today is a sacred day for our democracy as we mark the peaceful transfer of power.

The Constitution gives us a year of specific role today. We are here for one person, one person, certainly, to jump to votes.

And that is our role. And that is the beauty of these Mahogany boxes that are being brought over from the Senate there, the repository of the certificate sent by the governors, which embody the will of the people.

You're in the game. This is it. And we have to be ready in a timely fashion and more quickly we can have the votes. More quickly we can designate Joe Biden to come to Harris president by President of the United States.

I just want to say this in close and this way.

Today is the piece of the epiphany January 6th. This is of the major eye, west of the world seeing the birth of Christ in that.

Let us pray in any way that you do for our country and that today will be an epiphany for the American people as they see the difference between our respect for the oath we take versus what they're up to.

And let us hope that they will see the light as well and have their own epiphany on the other side.

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