0 i m alicia menendez. federal investigators may now be turning up the heat on members of trump s legal team. those documents are stashed at mar-a-lago. christina bob spoke to federal investigators on friday. in name two other lawyers who investigated the case. nbc news also reported and trump s possession had been returned to the government. it has been nine weeks since the trump of there s still no explanation as to why he took the documents and what he intended to do with them. the new york times is reporting on one possible plan. the time said since late last year, trump told his advisers he would return the records if the national archives handed over material that he believed would discredit the fbi s 2016 rush investigation. trump never pursued the idea. this weekend, trump again spread the false claims that those white house records are his. even though they are not and will never will be. i had a small number of boxes in storage at mar-a-lago guarded by secret service. i
what we saw. with that let s get smarter. with the help of our lead off panel this evening, jackie alemany, congressional investigations reporter for the washington post and msnbc contributor. she was in the room during tonight s hearing. i want to bring in former missouri senator, an msnbc political analyst, claire mccaskill and neal department of justice veteran and former acting solicitor, general neal katyal, former obama who argued dozens of cases before the supreme court. claire, here we go, night one is done. it was brutal and damning for anyone associating with the insurrection, trying to overturn the election, or even pushed the big lie. do you think the committee did their job? i think the committee did a great job tonight. i thought liz cheney was particularly strong. she laid out the case i think neal will back me up here. it was an elegant and thorough opening statement. the jury, which is the american public, heard very clearly, what donald trump did, in terms of
0 good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. tonight, the january 6th committee concluded the first of a series of its public hearings. and the point was abundantly clear. our democracy remains in danger. moments from now, we will talk to a committee member, jamie raskin, in his first interview since the hearing. there was never before seen testimony from trump s inner circle, including attorney general bill barr. and the former president s daughter and senior adviser to president donald trump. there was also disturbing new footage of the violent attack that took place on the capitol. the committee made out exactly how the hearings will show that this was a culmination of an attempted coup and they say the former president was at the absolute epicenter of it all. here is just some of what we saw. donald trump, the president of the united states, spurred a mob of domestic enemies. of the constitution to march down the capital and subvert democracy. i made it clear that they didn
different ramifications for that. i haven t had a discussion with the dems that if he did resign would that happen? this is one personal fear i have. i do not want do get in any conversations about pence pardoning. again the only discussion i would have with him is that i think this will pass. and it would be my recommendation you should resign. that would be my take but i don t think he ll take it but i don t know. let s bring in the panel. jackie is a congressional investigations reporter for the washington post. also with us former acting solicitor and legal adviser neal katyal is here and miles taylor is here. before we dive into the extraordinary content of the tapes we have to stop i think