6th hearing, i have to say, i am struck by the enormously fruitful fact finding, that the committee has done so far, and continues to do. each day, there is new information, learning new things. so, most recently, the committee met with former overstocks eo, patrick byrne, that s the overstock guy, about the now infamous december 2020 white house meeting. he attended a, or a group of outside trump advisers tried to sell the president on the coup. that s just today, getting testimony from him. today, they got testimony from a former white house aide, named garrett ziegler. never heard of him before. who, reportedly, let the ragtag group of coup plotters, into the white house, for that crazy coup plotting december meeting. still, a year and a half after this happened, the committee, the new testimony, learning new things. additionally, the committee is also pulling on, another, i think, important threat. you may have seen things about this, we ve covered it a bit in the news to
good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, as we approach thursday s primetime, january 6th hearing, i have to say, i am struck by the enormously fruitful fact finding, that the committee has done so far, and continues to do. each day, there is new information, learning new things. so, most recently, the committee met with former overstocks eo, patrick byrne, that s the overstock guy, about the now infamous december 2020 white house meeting. he attended a, or a group of outside trump advisers tried to sell the president on the coup. that s just today, getting testimony from him. today, they got testimony from a former white house aide, named garrett ziegler. never heard of him before. who, reportedly, let the ragtag group of coup plotters, into the white house, for that crazy coup plotting december meeting. still, a year and a half after this happened, the committee, the new testimony, learning new things. additionally, the committee is also pulling on, another, i think,
Night talks in tel aviv. Mr blinken also said the us and israel had agreed on a plan to allow humanitarian aid into gaza. In gaza itself, un agencies have warned of a deepening humanitarian crisis, and more than 2,800 people have been killed by israeli air strikes. Meanwhile, hamas, which is designated as a Terrorist Organisation by governments including the uk and us, says it fired a barrage of rockets atjerusalem and tel aviv overnight, with sirens sending lawmakers to bomb shelters, at the united nations, a Draft Resolution on israel and gaza failed to pass the security council. Western nations voted against it because it failed to condemn hamas. This is the scene across gaza right now. The humanitarian situation is worsening. There are bids to improve access to allow some aid into the territory to allow those for whom food is running out and medicines are in short supply. Even electricity is unavailable in many Health Facilities in gaza. International pressure to allow more aid to
a secret service. particularly his detail. one of his closest aides, a man named antonin ornato, we talked about a bit, figures, quite prominently, and january 6th. he was serving as deputy white house chief of staff for operations on january 6th, but was also a secret service agent. as the washington post reports, quote, some of the secret service came under criticism during trump s tenure, for appearing to embrace his political agenda. in fact, or notice appointment was a huge departure from precedent, to take someone who is in the secret service, and made them, essentially, political actor. working for the president, in the white house. in fact, during the presidential transition, following the 2020 election, biden coming in, the post also reported that the service had to alter some security detail for than president-elect, show biden, quote, amid concerns that current members were politically aligned with president trump. i remember reading that during the transition, and scratchin
he was serving as deputy white house chief of staff for operations on january 6th, but was also a secret service agent. as the washington post reports, quote, some of the secret service came under criticism during trump s tenure, for appearing to embrace his political agenda. in fact, or notice appointment was a huge departure from precedent, to take someone who is in the secret service, and made them, essentially, political actor. working for the president, in the white house. in fact, during the presidential transition, following the 2020 election, biden coming in, the post also reported that the service had to alter some security detail for than president-elect, show biden, quote, amid concerns that current members were politically aligned with president trump. i remember reading that during the transition, and scratching my head. by the way, that is published december 30th, 2020, six days before the psychos down. and, speaking of that, the secret service was, at the very least, pre