♪♪ >>> THIS WEEK, PROSECUTORS WORKING ON JANUARY 6th CASES GAVE US A NEW UPDATE. NEARLY 1500 DEFENDANTS HAVE NOW BEEN CHARGED FOR THE ROLES IN THE INSURRECTION. MEANWHILE, DONALD TRUMP IS CALLING FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE JANUARY 6th COMMITTEE TO BE INDICTED. HE IS PROMISING TO PARDON ALL THE RIOTERS. A NEW DOCUMENTARY SHOWS A PERSPECTIVE OF SIX PEOPLE WHO WITNESSED THE VIOLENCE FIRSTHAND. >> DEMOCRACY NEEDS A GROUND TO STAND ON. WE HAVE TO TELL THE TRUTH. IF WE CAN HANDLE THAT. >> WE ARE NOT LOSING THE U.S. CAPITOL TODAY. >> YOU READY? >> JOINING US NOW ARE THE DIRECTORS OF THE DOCUMENTARY OF "THE SIXTH", AWARD-WINNING FILMMAKERS. THIS IS THE BEST DOCUMENTARY I HAVE EVER SEEN. I HAVE NEVER WATCHED PRIOR TO THIS MORE THAN FIVE MINUTES OF FOOTAGE FROM JANUARY 6th. THIS IS , THIS CENTERS THE PEOPLE. I JUST WANT TO PLAY THIS PIECE FROM THE DOCUMENTARY, A STAFFER WHO WORKED AT THE WHITE HOUSE AND CONGRESS AND TALKS ABOUT ASSUMING THE WORST. >> I HAD TO ASSUME THE WORST. I HAD TO ASSUME THESE PEOPLE WERE ARMED. YOU KIND OF GO INTO SURVIVAL MODE. I REMEMBER ESSENTIALLY CASING THE OFFICE, WHAT CAN I USE AS A WEAPON? I REMEMBER FEELING LIKE, WHATEVER IS IN HERE THAT IS HEAVY IS WHAT I WILL HAVE TO USE YOU KNOW? IF IT COMES TO THAT. >> ANDREA, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS AS A COMPLETE SCENARIO, RIGHT, FROM START TO FINISH, YOU NOW HAVE PRESIDENT TRUMP OUT HERE TALKING ABOUT GIVING BASICALLY SOLACE TO THOSE INSURRECTIONISTS BY PARDONING THEM AND MAKING THE CASE THAT THE JANUARY 6th COMMITTEE MEMBERS SHOULD BE INDICTED. WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT YOU GUYS CAPTURED, JUXTAPOSED AGAINST THAT BACKGROUND, WHAT IS YOUR REACTION? WHAT SHOULD WE KNOW THAT DONALD TRUMP CLEARLY DOESN'T KNOW ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED THAT DAY? >> THANK YOU. WHAT I WANT, I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHAT WE NOW KNOW. I THINK THAT WE HAD THE LUXURY OF BEING ABLE TO SPEND OVER A YEAR PLUS WITH OUR TEAM LOOKING AND SCOURING THE FOOTAGE, FINDING THE RIGHT PEOPLE, FINDING SIX PEOPLE WHO JUST WENT TO WORK THAT DAY TO TELL THE STORY AND THAT WHAT WE STITCHED TOGETHER FROM BEGINNING OF DAY TO THE END WAS ONE OF THE MOST VIOLENT, HEARTBREAKING, GUT PUNCHING DAYS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. PEOPLE THINK THEY KNOW JANUARY 6th BUT THEY DON'T. THEY DON'T KNOW THE SCALE OF THE VIOLENCE. EVERYONE THAT WAS IN THE CAPITOL THAT DAY THOUGHT THEY WERE GOING TO DIE. THERE WAS THE SENSE OF 10,000 PLUS PEOPLE SURROUNDING THIS BUILDING AND BREAKING IN. IT IS CRIMINAL. IT WAS VIOLENT. I THINK PEOPLE JUST SAW THIS IN PIECES. THEY DON'T QUITE UNDERSTAND THE MASS IN THE SCALE AND THE THREAT. WE ARE SO LUCKY MORE PEOPLE DID NOT DIE AT THE END OF THAT DAY. WE ARE ETERNALLY GRATEFUL TO THE PEOPLE THAT DID THEIR JOB THAT DAY AND THE NEXT DAY, WHO SERVED IN THE LEGISLATURE, CONGRESS, JOURNALISM AND LAW ENFORCEMENT. WE SHOULD BE THANKFUL OF THE FACT LAW ENFORCEMENT IS BEING BOOED AT AND HISSED, THEY ACTUALLY DID THEIR JOB AND PROTECTING THE LIVES OF THE LAWMAKERS THAT ARE NOW TURNING THEIR BACK ON WHAT HAPPENED THAT DAY IS DESPICABLE. YOU KNOW? THERE IS A CODE AND ETHIC TO EVERY SINGLE PERSON THAT WE PROFILE IN THIS FILM ABOUT HOW THEY DO THEIR JOB AND THANK GOODNESS THEY DID. THE OUTCOME COULD HAVE BEEN SO MUCH WORSE IF THEY HADN'T. >> TO THAT POINT ABOUT LAW ENFORCEMENT, HERE IS THE PHOTOGRAPHER TALKING ABOUT THE PICTURE HE TOOK. >> IF THEY WANTED TO KILL HIM, THEY WOULD HAVE KILLED HIM. THE MAN PLEADED FOR HIS LIFE. HE TOLD PEOPLE HE HAD KIDS. IT IS KIND OF CRAZY. IF I HAD TO PUT A DOLLAR ON IT, I WOULD SAY EVERYBODY WAS LIKE, BLUE LIVES MATTER, BLUE LIVES MATTER. [ BLEEP ] DIDN'T MATTER THAT DAY. I FELT FOR HIM. I HAVE A SON. I THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT IT WOULD FEEL LIKE FOR HIM IF SOME WEAK HAPPENED TO ME, YOU KNOW? THIS IS A ANOTHER HUMAN BEING. >> PART OF WHAT I APPRECIATED IS THAT YOU CENTERED THE VOICES OF THOSE WHO WERE IMPACTED ON THAT DAY BUT THEIR REFLECTIONS ABOUT THE CROWD AND WHO SHOWED UP AND THE INCONSISTENCIES AROUND THEIR THEORIES OF JUSTICE, SEAN, ARE LAID BARE. >> YEAH. WE, I THINK IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR US TO GIVE A VOICE TO THE PEOPLE THAT WENT THROUGH THAT DAY AND WHAT THEY WENT THROUGH AND PERSONALIZE IT. I THINK IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT. I THINK, WITH THE CROWD THERE, WE ALSO DID SOMETHING I THINK WAS IMPORTANT. WE LISTENED IN OUR AREA FOUND. YOU HEAR THINGS IN OUR FILM YOU DON'T HERE IN OUR OWN SOUNDBITES AND IT TALKS ABOUT, HE IS TALKING ABOUT BEING RIGHT NEXT TO THIS MAN PLEADING FOR HIS LIFE, PLEADING BECAUSE HE HAS KIDS. YOU ALSO HEAR HOW HE IS CAPTURING ALL THE DIFFERENT THINGS THE CROWD IS SAYING, THE CROWD IS SAYING, TAKE THEIR GUNS. THE CROWD IS SAYING, YOU ARE GOING TO DIE TONIGHT WITH SUCH CONVICTION YOU CAN HEAR IT IN THEIR VOICE THAT YOU BELIEVE IT. I THINK PEOPLE NEED TO TAKE THIS ALL IN AS A BEGINNING OF THE DAY TO THE END OF THE DAY THROUGH THE PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF THE SIX PEOPLE THAT WE FOLLOW AND KIND OF DECIDE WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT WERE IN THE CROWD THAT DAY, WHAT THEIR INTENTIONS WERE AND WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED. >> WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED, I MEAN, THERE IS A PART IN THE FILM WHERE FORMER METROPOLITAN POLICE CHIEF CONTI TALKS ABOUT A PHONE CALL THAT HE HAD, HE WAS PART OF THAT WITH MAYOR BOWSER AND LITERALLY PLEADING FOR HELP FROM THE NATIONAL GUARD. THE DEE WAS DEPLOYED TO THE CAPITOL TO DO SOMETHING TO HELP. THE CAPITOL POLICE CALL FOR HELP, THE NATIONAL GUARD, THIS CALL WAS JUST, WE WILL PLAY A CLIP BECAUSE IT IS SO HARD TO BELIEVE. YOU WONDER WHAT TRUMP WOULD DO IF HE WERE IN OFFICE AGAIN, WE KNOW WHAT HE DID ON JANUARY 6th. TAKE A LISTEN. >> WE HAD A PHONE CALL THAT WAS CAN BE BY MYSELF, THE MAYOR, THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA D.C. NATIONAL GUARD, THE U. S. CAPITOL POLICE CHIEF WHERE HE ESSENTIALLY WAS PLEADING FOR ASSISTANCE FROM THE NATIONAL GUARD. IN RESPONSE TO THAT, WHOEVER ON THE OTHER SIDE FROM THE REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT, THE DISCUSSION THEN SWITCHED TO TALKING ABOUT OPTICS AND BOOTS ON THE GROUND AND WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE, WHICH, YOU KNOW, IN A CRISIS SITUATION, I DON'T CARE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE. IT LOOKS LIKE HELP TO ME. >> IT TOOK HOURS UNTIL THE NATIONAL GUARD WAS APPROVED. DONALD TRUMP PUT THAT VIDEO OUT. WHEN HE PUT THAT VIDEO OUT, PEOPLE FINALLY DID GO HOME. IT JUST REALLY FEELS LIKE HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING. >> THAT IS A BIG PART OF IT FOR ME. WHEN YOU STEP BACK, WHAT THE SUB STORY I THINK YOU GUYS CAPTURED HERE IS THE OTHER STUFF THAT WAS GOING ON IN THE FACE OF ALL OF THE DRAMA AND THE TRAGEDY ON THE HILL, THE STUB STORY WAS THE WHITE HOUSE WASN'T DOING ANYTHING. THERE WAS NO REAL EFFORT AND I THINK THAT CUT REALLY EMBRACES THAT PART OF IT. WHEN YOU ARE PUTTING THIS STORY LINE TOGETHER AND YOU ARE TALKING IT THROUGH, HOW DID YOU CAPTURE THAT? YOU SAID, THIS IS THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS. WE COULD SHOW YOU, YOU KNOW, DONALD TRUMP AND THE ROOSEVELT ROOM SITTING THERE WATCHING TELEVISION EATING A HAMBURGER. YOU KNOW THAT IS WHAT IS GOING ON. YOU KNOW THAT WAS THE REST OF THE STORY, WHY THE D.C. POLICE WERE SO ANIMATED ABOUT THE LACK OF RESPONSE FROM FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL. >> YEAH, IT WAS A DIFFERENT TYPE OF FILM FOR US. WE HAD THIS HUGE KIND OF FORENSIC TIMELINE IN OUR OFFICE. WE WERE LOOKING AT ALL THE DIFFERENT THINGS, ALL THE THINGS PLAYING OUT THAT DAY AND WHEN WE STEPPED BACK AND WE SAID, WHERE IS THE NATIONAL GUARD? WE KNOW THAT, WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. I KNOW WHAT HAPPENS, I SEE THE NATIONAL GUARD, THEY ARE ALWAYS AROUND. THEY DO WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO DO. WE WERE JUST SCRATCHING OUR HEADS. WHY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT THIS? IT WAS ACTUALLY ANDREA THAT SO WE NEEDED TO DO A DEEP DIVE IN THAT AND THEN THE CHIEF STARTED TALKING ABOUT THAT AND HE SAID, YOU KNOW, HE BASICALLY SAID THE NATIONAL GUARD IS NOT HERE AND I WILL DO IT AND DO MY DUTY. THE CAPITOL IS UNDER ATTACK. I WILL DO WHATEVER I CAN. I WILL GET LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TO COME AND HELP. THAT IS WHAT THEY DID. WHY ARE NOT PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THIS? D.C. POLICE FOR FOR HOURS, ESPECIALLY IN THE TUNNEL, FOUR OR FIVE HOURS THEY WERE UNDERHAND TO HAND COMBAT. POLICE ARREST PEOPLE IN UNDER 10 MINUTES. THEY ARE NOT TRAINED TO FIGHT HAND TO HAND COMBAT LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW? >> YOU COULD ARGUE THAT THE POWERS THAT BE THAT HAD THE AUTHORIZATION TO RELEASE AND DEPLOY THE GUARD TO HELP WEREN'T AWARE OF WHAT WAS GOING ON. THE ENTIRE WORLD WAS WATCHING WHAT WAS GOING ON. I THINK THAT IS WHAT IS SO UPSETTING. WHY WAIT THAT LONG? THAT IS WHAT WE FELT WAS SO IMPORTANT. ONCE WE REALIZED HOW SOON THEY WERE ASKED
