security adviser, highly involved in international priorities from the trump/kim summits to china policy. will be impossible to dismiss as a low level staffer. and steve bannon s contempt of congress trial, the former white house senior adviser is charged with defying subpoenas from the january 6th committee, for months. we begin with new information we re learning about the former trump national security official, who will testify in thursday s january 6th primetime hearing. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider joins us now. high level, one of the most senior trump administration officials to resign in the wake of january 6th. what more do we know about what s going ting to happen on thursday? we know the two former officials will be testifying, not only pottinger, but matthews, both resigning shortly after january 6th. matthew pottinger was the deputy national security adviser and we re told at the time of his resignation that he stepped down in response to trump
totally. have a good show. i ll see you soon. thank you. thanks to nicole, and thanks to you for joinings. this is the beat. i m ari melber. we re tracking several stories. the january 6th committee dropped new evidence today. you might be thinking, wait, why wouldn t they include it in the hearing? but they had so much stuff, like what you see on the screen, that didn t make the hearing. this is a draft of trump s speech the day after. because he was crossing out any reference to prosecuting those blatant lawbreakers. and then there s this new testimony. do you recognize what this is? it looks like a copy of a draft of the remarks for that day. do you recognize the handwriting? it looks like my father s handwriting. it looks like here he crossed out that he was directing the department of justice to ensure all law breaks are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, we must send a clear message, not with mercy, but with justice. legal consequences must be
outtakes. they re going to do a preliminary report in october, maybe before, to get things out there and, probably spend the time after the elections to do something more comprehensive, because they re drowning in material in witness testimony, factual documents and so on. so there s a lot more to come here. and i think we ve seen their presentation, the way they ve organized the story has been very compelling. up to now there were a lot of different strands of the january 6th story, fake electors. what happened in georgia, john eastman, mike pence, what happened on january 6th we can saw, and donald trump s tentacles in all these various elements. and they went through it step by step by step and landed the big hearing on thursday night with the biggest fact it s undeniable. you don t need evidence for it. when the country was under attack, when the government was under attack, he did nothing. he took a powder. and there s only one reason why
from the committee members who say trump was gleefully watching the television, doing nothing. they ll go minute by minute through what trump was doing, they say nothing. and this is a big hearing on thursday. and we re waiting to hear more from the secrest e secret servi. this were under subpoena. we ll see if they can produce any of the text messages at issue from january 5th and 6th and how responsive they ll be to the committee. the committee also wants answers about why in this routine phone migration, these crucial text messages, if there were any, were lost. secret service is saying we have been cooperative with the ig when he met with the committee on friday saying a very different tune saying he hasn t gotten the information he needs from secret service about what was happening behind the scenes on january 6th. so a lot to unfold in this today and this week. no question january 6th, and to appear in person as opposed to via a videotaped deposition, et cetera. that will be qu
lendgenius.com. sean: joining us now with the latest breaking news on the status of judge kavanaugh s supreme court confirmation vote, which is why we are in d.c., fox news washington correspondent kristin fisher is with us. what s the latest? we have the big hearing on thursday, a vote set for friday. it s become clear that