expect tomorrow. cnn has learned that january six committee is planning to zero in on a key link. the extremist groups ties to trump associates, roger stone and michael flynn. the hearing comes as another key trump ally, steve bannon, is changing his tune. telling the committee, he would be willing to testify but only in a live public setting. it s a move prosecutors believe as a stunt to try and wiggle out from his criminal contempt charges but a federal judge on monday declined his request to postpone his trial for next week. i expect we ll be hearing from him and there are many questions that we have for him. the committee has already revealed a bevy of new information. among the biggest headlines, that trump and his allies were made fully aware that there was no evidence the election was stolen. i don t think it was happening was honest or professional. trump knew he lost election but kept telling the supporters he won. without evidence to back it up. that the c
more missing text messages, the washington post reporting tonight that text from trump s acting homeland security secretary chad wolf and his deputy can cuccinelli are missing. they tell the post that the textbook from a key period leading up to january 6th. we have a new cnn exclusive reporting tonight that prosecutors are getting ready for a court battle to force former trump white house officials to testify about conversations they had with the former president. joining me now to discuss all of this, senior crime and justice reporter caitlin pollens, and john wood, former senior investigator for the january six committee. also with us evening, mr. marc mackinnon, the executive producer of the emmy nominated the circus and former adviser to george w. bush. good evening one and all. have to admire the hat. you gotta, mark mckinnon. you guys gotta get your hat game on. caleb got her glasses game. i don t know. i got nothing. john, you got a good luta. good evening one a
consequences. john, let me just say, when you get this all up, there s so much going on the developments every day, i m really struck by the following things as a result of these hearings. history will record, unequivocally, that donald trump lost the election, in trump knew he lost the election, and he tried to illegally overturn the election, and then encouraged an insurrection at the capitol, knowing that there would be weapons. those four things will be irrefutable recorded by history, and if anybody tries to deny that in the course of the grand jury hearings, i think they re gonna be in trouble. yeah. all the people that we mentioned, you know, the screen with all of the players on that caitlin talked about, these are not never trumpers. these are people who stuck by trump until the very end, even now. and they are speaking to this committee in the committee is trying to get information, they re speaking to the doj and or the committee, but as you say, there are different conseq
well, it s hard to know exactly how far along the justice department investigation is. it certainly seems at times like the january 6th house committee was ahead of the justice department in terms of their interviews with some of the witnesses. and so, i know the justice department wouldn t want to interview these people themselves, but if they can get a head start and prepare by reviewing transcripts from the house committee, that could be very helpful to them. yeah. caitlin, i want to ask you about the january six committee investigation, because i understand you getting some new information about that. they are now focusing on the former trump cabinet officials. do you know who they re looking at specifically? don, they ve already spoken to a few members of trump s cabinet. the list of names is pretty long, there s already eight of them, john ratcliffe is the director of national intelligence that they re trying to get an interview with now, working that out. mike pompeo, the
you gotta, mark mckinnon. you guys gotta get your hat game on. caleb got her glasses game. i don t know. i got nothing. john, you got a good luta. good evening one at all, caitlin, according to post at the washington post, these techs were lost in the reset of government phones after they left office. it sounds an awful lot like we heard the same thing we heard from the secret service, how does this fit with everything that we know? all right, don, this is about a text messages missing, we just heard a story just like this a few weeks ago, but it is a totally new thing. what we re learning here, from this washington post reporting tonight, is that the acting homeland security secretary at the end of the trump administration and his deputy, so that s chad wolf and ken cuccinelli, that their texts have gone missing. and the department of homeland security told the inspector general, so this independent watchdog that overlooks that agency in february, that these texts were lost in