everyone. i am ayman mohyeldin in for stephanie ruhle. there was an unexpected twist today, the january six committee switching up its playbook, suddenly adding a new surprise hearing for tomorrow afternoon at 1 pm eastern. so, the public can hear from a secret witness. just last week, the panel said remaining public hearings would actually be pushed into july. but late this afternoon, the committee said this new hearing will focus on quote, recently obtained evidence and received witness testimony. who and what we ll hear tomorrow, remains a mystery at this hour. but the short notice of this unexpected hearing has speculation running wild. we also learned today the justice department has been focusing on john eastman. he is, of course, the trump allied lawyer who has become a central figure in the january six committee s investigation. in a court filing, eastman says that a federal agent executed a search warrant, and seized his iphone in new mexico last week. witness testim
records that were taken by the twice-impeached ex-president when he left office in january 2021. the new reporting also details team trump s months of resistance led by the ex-president himself to handing over records containing some of the country s most important and guarded national security secrets. it reveals that the search of trump s private resident was actually many months in the making and really just the latest chapter in a long, simmering investigation. here s what happened when the national archives got their hands on the first batch of documents from mar-a-lago back in january according to this new reporting in the washington post, quote, when archives employees began opening up and sifting the material they noticed an immediate problem. the boxes arrived without logs and inventories to describe their content according to a person familiar with the recovery. instead they contained a hodgepodge of documents including some that didn t come from trump s time in o
on the political front, our correspondents have the latest on tomorrow s two big primaries for prominent republicans on opposing sides of the trump divide. january 6th vice chair liz cheney and former vice presidential nominee sarah palin. we begin with the fallout from the fbi s search of former president trump s home in mar-a-lago. joining me, nbc justice and intelligence correspondent ken delanian. ken, the latest on the investigation, the increased security, the concern about threats to the fbi and to law enforcement, the criticism of merrick garland, all of it. the most disturbing part is the fbi and dhs issued a joint intelligence bulletin yesterday saying they had seen a massive uptick in specific and credible threats to federal law enforcement. this was reflecting reporting we did last week and open source intelligence firms are also seeing this in message boards and chat rooms online. we re not just talking rhetoric here. we re talking specific threats. they re eve
he met with after the mass shooting and the victims of another preventable tragedy, this time in his hometown. watch. uvalde, texas, is where i was born. it s where my mom taught kindergarten less than a mile from robb elementary. uvalde is where i learned to master a disy bb gun. took two years before i graduated to a 410 shotgun. uvalde is where i was taught to revere the power and the capability of the tool that we call a gun. uvalde is where i learned responsible gun ownership. wore green high top converse with a heart she had drawn on the right toe because they represented her love of nature, camilla s got these shoes. can you show these shoes, please? wore these every day, green converse with a heart on the right toe. these are the same green converse on her feet that turned out to be the only clear evidence that could identify her after the shooting. how about that? you know what every one of these parents wanted what they asked for, what every parent separately expr
gun laws and investing in mental health at any time since sandy hook. can we get there by the end of next week? i don t know. on the war in ukraine, british intelligence officials say russian air strikes in kyiv over the weekend were focused on critical railways for supplying ukraine s capital. the fighting is intensifying in the east as vladimir putin warns of new strikes in response to the u.s. providing ukraine with longer range weapons systems. we re looking forward to what promise to be bombshell hearings before the january 6th committee this week with the promise of new witness testimony and previously unseen material. we begin with that spike in gun violence. join here we with me is garrett haake. the gun violence in philadelphia over the weekend just one example of the chaos sparking fear in so many communities. reporter: in a terrifying example at that, there have been more mass shootings so far this year than the number of days that have passed in 2022, a stri