its leader stewart rhodes gets ready to stand trial, facing allegations he helped to plot to end the transfer of power through violence. plus, young iranians risking everything to demand an end to ultra conservative religious government oppression and violence against women and the outrage is only growing. we begin with the return of the house january 6th committee. we are now less than 48 hours from the committee s next public hearing on wednesday. committee members remain mostly tight lipped about what evidence will be presented. congressman adam schiff indicated it would be sweeping. still unclear is whether the committee will bring up a significant allegation from its former technical adviser, denver riggleman, who told 60 minutes that a call was placed by the white house switchboard to a cell phone linked to someone in the mob that day. you get a real aha moment when you see that the white house switchboard had connected to a rioter s phone while it s happening. th
i interrupt you with i m sorry to interrupt you, we re going to go with leticia janes. howard: and new york s democratic attorney general who had postponed her press conference until biden was off the air, announced a civil suit against donald trump, his adult children and the trump organization. donald trump falsely inflated his net worth by billions of dollars to unjustly enrich himself and to cheat the system. howard: and that is the trump-obsessed media environment we all live in. msnbc spent hours and hours talking about almost nothing other than the suit against trump which he denounced as a political witch hunt calling leticia james a fraud. cnn was more balanced but devoted plenty of time to the lawsuit including an interview with michael to cohen who showed up on hsnbc as well. fox news covered the story but much less than its rivals. as for the president, russia and ukraine, i m sure by now joe biden is accustomed to being blown off the screen by the former pr
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on the political front, our correspondents have the latest on tomorrow s two big primaries for prominent republicans on opposing sides of the trump divide. january 6th vice chair liz cheney and former vice presidential nominee sarah palin. we begin with the fallout from the fbi s search of former president trump s home in mar-a-lago. joining me, nbc justice and intelligence correspondent ken delanian. ken, the latest on the investigation, the increased security, the concern about threats to the fbi and to law enforcement, the criticism of merrick garland, all of it. the most disturbing part is the fbi and dhs issued a joint intelligence bulletin yesterday saying they had seen a massive uptick in specific and credible threats to federal law enforcement. this was reflecting reporting we did last week and open source intelligence firms are also seeing this in message boards and chat rooms online. we re not just talking rhetoric here. we re talking specific threats. they re eve