hire, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york on a very busy day of news and more details on what promises to be a blockbuster hearing on the january 6 hearing and we ll have much more on that. we begin with the verdict in the alex jones trial where a jury has just awarded nearly $1 billion in damages to the family members of the sandy hook victims, people who suffered from the lines that alex jones started spreading hours after the massacre. harry lipman joins us, a former u.s. attorney and former deputy assistant attorney general. let me just not go the down the rabbit holes of alex jones but the families had pain and suffering from the massacre being described as a hoax and the nearly billion dollars in damages does nothing, nothing to deal with their grief but it was as signal, it seems harry, that the jury felt that it was represent henceible. even his defense attorney said in close, nicole. this is a despicable human being and, of course, he s the vilest vermin out there on
president biden looking to flip the script on republicans with a law and order midterm swing. we re live in pennsylvania with more on that. the news on another speech later this week, and why the president s advisers think now is the time to make a broader pitch to voters, besides the obvious pre midterm timing. two u.s. officials telling nbc news russia has combat drones from iran. what we re learning about how they plan to use them on the battlefield in ukraine and the push to prevent a nuclear disaster in that country. i m hallie jackson in washington. we start with the latest fallout after that mar-a-lago search. i want to bring in nbc s julia ainsley, ben collins, charles coleman, former prosecutor, sich rights attorney and msnbc legal analyst and clint watts, msnbc national security analyst. julia, let me start with you first. the dod ruling is expected to come down at some point today. we don t know the timing. that s what i m trying to say here. we do know it s expect
quote, irrelevant to the contempt of congress case against him. that is set to begin next week. the doj wrote, quote, the defendant s sudden wish to testify is not a genuine effort to meet obl gigations, but a last-ditch attempt to avoid accountability. bannon s reversal comes after he received a letter from former trump that waives executive privilege, but new court documents show that an attorney for former president trump actually spoke to the fbi weeks ago and contradicted bannon s claim that the former president had invoked executive privilege over particular information or materials, so who is telling the truth and who is not? more on that in a moment. also, in the january 6th public hearing that is tomorrow, this is the next one, the panel is expected to focus on how the violent mob came together, the rule of extremist groups in the deadly insurrection, and any connections of those groups to trump s inner circle. a former spokesman for the oath keepers, a far right
and new day continues right now. so the hearing the january 6th committee has been building up to tonight in primetime. i m john berman, brianna is off, chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is here. they really have been building up to this. we have a huge day ahead of us. people are waiting to see what are they going to say about that black hole of time of what happened on january 6th in the oval office. and they say they have new information. the focus is going to be the 187 minutes during which former president donald trump was at the white house and this mob of largely trump supporters storming the u.s. capitol. the committee will present a minute by minute account of what they call donald trump s dereliction of duty. what he did not do despite pleas from his aides, allies, his family. you are going to hear that phrase dereliction of duty we expect quite a bit. tonight is also going to feature never before seen outtakes of this moment where former pre
that time tatenhough. nbc news reports while he was not part of the oath keepers whose members have pled guilty to seditious conspiracy in connection to the riots or the events leading up to january 6th, the source said jason van tatenhove is expected to speak about the radicalization including how stewart rhodes capitalized on conspiracy theorys to build capitalism and funding. from the white house s top lawyer pat cipollone. he sat down with the committee for more than seven hours and here s what stephanie murphy had to say. we were grateful that he was willing to come before the committee and share with us. of course, there were areas where he claimed privilege, but it was important for us to understand what the president s top legal adviser thought about the activities that were happening post-election and in the run-up to january 6th. and now on the eve of another critical hearing likely to reveal more damaging details about the conduct of the ex-president and his al