saying just within the last hour, a vote won t happen until after the midterms. so what is the holdup. new reaction coming in. and developing news for the white house, with officials tally confirming president biden will meet with the families of britty griner and paul whelan, the two dedaned in russia. a lot to get to on this thursday afternoon. i m hallie jackson. glad to be with you in washington. we start with the new developments in the january 6th investigations, plural. the capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, ryan riley and former u.s. attorney and nbc legal analyst before bra mcquade. let me start with you, and chair benny compton was kind of chatty today. he was chatty toops today and what i was asking about is the reporting in the last few hours that the january 6th committee at least for now will not be cooperating, sends can its transcripts and its findings to the department of justice, at least until they re done with the public phase of their hearings. when
saying just within the last hour, a vote won t happen until after the midterms. so what is the holdup. new reaction coming in. and developing news for the white house, with officials tally confirming president biden will meet with the families of britty griner and paul whelan, the two dedaned in russia. a lot to get to on this thursday afternoon. i m hallie jackson. glad to be with you in washington. we start with the new developments in the january 6th investigations, plural. the capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, ryan riley and former u.s. attorney and nbc legal analyst before bra mcquade. let me start with you, and chair benny compton was kind of chatty today. he was chatty toops today and what i was asking about is the reporting in the last few hours that the january 6th committee at least for now will not be cooperating, sends can its transcripts and its findings to the department of justice, at least until they re done with
after the polls closed. i thought that was possible. the other thing that s been in my mind, that rod rosenstein, were he still running the show, might be bringing forth or announcing some indictments. people that we ve been hearing about that he seems to be near to indicting someone like roger stone, for instance, there s been some discussion an indictment of don junior, trump, might be coming shortly. now i think there is a lot of question whether an indictment it s the case if there are indictments, that the grand jury already has under seal, it may be the case whitaker cannot stop those indictments from coming forward. it would take an extraordinary act for him to go through to go back to the court and try to undo those indictments if they are sitting out there. so, it s possible that even though whitaker can undermine the mueller investigation in various ways, that is obviously what donald trump wants him to do, it s also possible there are indictments out there under seal and i
stone, for instance, there s been some discussion an indictment of don junior, trump, might be coming shortly. now i think there is a lot of question whether an indictment it s the case if there are indictments, that the grand jury already has under seal, it may be the case whitaker cannot stop those indictments from coming forward. it would take an extraordinary act for him to go through to go back to the court and try to undo those indictments if they are sitting out there. so, it s possible that even though whitaker can undermine the mueller investigation in various ways, that is obviously what donald trump wants him to do, it s also possible there are indictments out there under seal and is it possible we might see one of those or more of those dorm? i would not be surprised if we did. which is why we tell people to stay tuned, and it looks like heilman wins scrabble with emboldenment. john heilman, kimberly atkins, bar a bra mcquade, our great thanks for starting off our broad