MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace pitched the idea Monday that news agencies start playing videos of the January 6th protest just like the September 11th memorial.
The entire segment was in support of the J6 committee despite all of their debunked ‘evidence’.
Former Democrat Senator from Missouri Claire McCaskill suggested a way to drive home the impact of the claim President Trump was watching the Capitol riot live on TV from the White House as if the case was being tried in a courtroom.
“If I were trying this case I would put up in front of the jury what was actually on TV between 1:45 and 2:20 so they could re-live and remember what the president saw sitting in that small dining room off the Oval Office,” McCaskill said, saying she remembered “feeling physically ill” during that time along with “a disbelief, a shock to my system that this was happening in our country. And these were people that I cared about that were being threatened. I remember feeling so helpless. Imagine when you’re not helpless and you enjoy it [like Trump]?”
“That’s a great idea, Claire,” Wallace chimed in.
“They really need to see what [Trump] was watching,” McCaskill went on. “He was watching this [live footage from the Capitol], Nicolle. He was watching this, and he was celebrating, and any normal human being that wasn’t a criminal would have said, as President of the United States, I have the power to stop them…”
After McCaskill finished speaking, Wallace embraced the idea of replaying the January 6, 2021 news footage in real-time, “It’s such a good idea that maybe I’ll steal it and we’ll spend some time with it leading up to [Thursday’s hearing] this week. I was on the air with Brian Williams for a lot of [January 6] and texting with national security officials and saying, ‘What am I watching?’”
She complimented panelist and Washington Post national investigative reporter Carol Leonnig’s “incredible body of reporting on that day,” but favored McCaskill’s idea. “You’re right, reliving [January 6] the way we relived the day of 9/11 for many, many years will be really powerful,” Wallace said.
Every year on September 11, MSNBC replays several hours of the live, real-time footage of that day in 2001 from its NBC broadcast coverage.
Wallace went on to question her guests about the January 6 committee, which is composed of seven Democrats and two ardently anti-Trump Republicans, Reps.
Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. and Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill. Cheney is trailing her Trump-backed primary challenger by more than 20 points.
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This whole segment reads to me like MSNBC wants to keep the ‘domestic terrorists’ narrative going for generations. What do you think? Let me know in the comments below.
Erica Carlin is an independent journalist, opinion writer and contributor to several news and opinion sources. She is based in Georgia.