conversation through the end of your show, it distracts me. they re always fascinating. that s what i mean, hence, i am always a little confused at the beginning of my show. but it s worth it, it s worth it for the viewers. good to see you, my friend. you to my friend, we got breaking news tonight, donald trump s criminal defense team filed its reply to the special counsel jack smith s requests that united states supreme court decide whether the disgraced former president is entitled to presidential immunity in his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. the special counsel of donald trump have already filed briefs on the same issue with the d. c. appeals court. jack smith is pushing the supreme court to get involved now and make a final decision on the issue, so that the case against trump can proceed as scheduled. trump s team claim that special counsel jack smith s argument, quote, urges the supreme court to bypass ordinary procedures and
protest? a riot? the makings of some scattered illegal violence? or do you see something worse. one of the most severe felonies against the u.s. which is now on trial tonight. do you see sedition? that is what federal prosecutors see and what some juries saw and have now convicted, and it s our special report for you right now. we are living through a test of accountability, the doj s effort to convict in these separate sedition trials two years out from an attack that might fade out of view for some people. today the doj demanding juries continue to face what it felt like, what happened, the facts of that day. seemed like they just took mike pence out really quickly. yes, they did. a moment i never saw in my life, these individuals just rushed through security. they are inside statuary hall. obviously this is a huge victory for these protesters. they have disrupted the system in an enormous way. i completely condemn the violence in the capital. i ve spoken to the
known to be loathed to deviate from past practice, a man known as kafrl, methodical and some even say plotting, came out and did something that he surely does not want to do. ee he addressed the fbi s search on monday in mar-a-lago, donald trump s private club and residence. garland spoke from the justice department just hours after the fbi field offers in cincinnati became embroil flood a tense armed standoff with the man who fired a nail gun while brandishing an ar-15-style weapon. the incident comes amid an alarming spike in threats on law enforcement and after the raid on mar-a-lago. garland s, the biggest moment of his address today announced a major move by the doj that the department had asked a court in south florida to unseal the search warrant that was the predicate for the fbi search of mar-a-lago on monday. let s watch merrick garland now. just now, the justice department has filed a motion in the southern district of florida to unseal a search warrants and prop
congressional committee investigating the january 6th insurrection has reached out to the justice of met with information that donald trump tried to contact one of the witnesses in their probe. that was one of the big new pieces of information that, in yesterday s hearing. the committee also showing how the president tried to make the march on the capitol look spontaneous. he and his supporters have been planning for it for days. cnn jessica schneider has the highlights. reporter: january 6th house select committee revealing details about an unscheduled meeting in the oval office just weeks before the insurrection. what ensued was a heated and profane clash between this group and president tribes white house advisors who treated personal insults, accusations of disloyalty to the president, even challenges to physically fight. reporter: the meeting lasted well into the night. some of his attendees repeated unproven election fraud claims reproaching different ideas to t
as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday nights. good evening once again i m stephanie ruhle. today, as its seventh hearing on the january 6th committee laid out its case, to donald trump summoned its mob to the capitol? on a december 19th, 2020 tweet promising that that they would be wild. this tweet served as a call to action and as some cases as a call to arms, for many of donald president trump s most loyal supporters. donald trump s 1:42 am tweet electrify to galvanize supporters especially the dangerous extremists and the oath keepers, proud keepers and other white nationalist groups. there were many revelations about the days that led up to january 6th. after joe biden had officially been declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, we learned that trump was considering announcing a march ahead of his rally. the committee has obtained this draft, an dated tweet from the national archives. and includes a step saying president has seen. the draft