outfront tonight, new evidence, january 6th committee abruptly scheduling a hearing for tomorrow. last week, said no additional hearings until next month and then suddenly a hearing scheduled for tomorrow as the committee released only a brief statement, including quote, recently obtained evidence and witness testimony. this is a very sudden reversal for the committee and it comes at an important context. we just learned federal agents seized the phone of trump s election attorney, john eastman, man who presented trump a road map for overturning the election. someone who was right there, front and center, in trump s ear in the days and weeks ahead of the deadly insurrection. and someone who was working the phones for trump. so his phone is now seized. here s just some of the testimony we ve heard so far about the importance of john eastman. and what it, dr. eastman want you to do? that we would in fact vote, take a vote, to overthrow, or i shouldn t say overthrow that w
shocking everybody, there s hearing tomorrow. 24 hours notice hearing tomorrow, new information has come in and witnesses are involved. what do you think is behind this sudden change? well, erin, you know, the committee has earned a great deal of creditability. so just as they postponed one hearing, the doj hearing which turned out to be a block buster one, that pointed to the possible culpability of that other lawyer, jeffrey clark, now they have seemingly moved up that plans for the hearing schedule. having tried many cases, worked on the hill, sometimes witnesses do step forward who have dramatic new information and you don t delay when that happens. get them on the stand, that s always been my watch word when trying cases. so that i take them at face value. they have something explosive here. and that s the question, gloria, norm uses the word