capitol hill attack. of course, the concerns now, what we ve learned from them since and the former president s lengths to some extreme groups others say were overit is aed, some saying not stated enough. i m neil cavuto in your world. trying to make sense of this hearing and one to go. where things stand for the former president of the united states and those around him, whether the committee was tipping its hands at possible criminal charges down the road. too soon to say. to chad pergram on capitol hill. what went down, chad? the committee focused on what it characterized as a profane verbal brawl at the white house december 18, 2020. it was between aides and those pushing election conspiracy theories. the committee says the fight prompted the president to tweet in the wee hours of december 19. he implored people to descend on washington on january 6. mr. trump warned it would be wild. trump s purpose was to mobilize a crowd and how do you mobilize a crowd in 2020? w
every other american citizen in this situation. that was the chairman of the january 6th select committee, bennie thompson, weighing in on the report that former president trump plans to run for president again to help him avoid criminal charges. good morning and welcome to morning joe. we ve got a lot to get to on this tuesday, july 19th. in a moment, we re going to talk about the two trump white house officials who will testify in thursday s primetime hearing by the january 6th committee, as the panel shifts its focus to the three hours of inaction by former president trump during the attack on the capitol. plus, a defendant without a defense? opening arguments in steve bannon s contempt trial get under way in a few hours, despite the judge dismissing almost all of bannon s legal options. meanwhile, senator lindsey graham is fighting a subpoena in georgia, but the court documents only refer to him as mr. graham. we ll explain why that s significant. dozens of deva
washington today, and many same republican politicians who are running up that hill still came out to kiss his ring. plus, the pain that alex jones inflicted on the families of the sandy hook massacre victims as he stands trial for defamation. and dr. anthony fauci will be my guest on white house plans to get the monkeypox outbreak under control. not a sentence i thought i d ever say. good evening, everyone, jason johnson in tonight for joy reid. we begin the reidout with signs that the justice department is widening its investigation into january 6th and the efforts to overturn the election. in an exclusive interview today with nbc s lester holt, attorney general merrick garland said that the department s investigation is moving at an unprecedented speed, and he refuses to rule out prosecuting the twice-impeached former president for his actions. you said in no uncertain terms the other day that no one is above the law. yeah. that said, the indictment of a former
session fears. this hour i ll be joined by dr. anthony fauci to discuss the biden administration s response to monkey pox. the public health emergency and the impact of the most recent covid variant spreading across the u.s. we begin with the new u.s./china tensions. joining us now are nbc chief white house correspondent peter alexander cohost of weekend today and the former nato supreme allied commander. peter, tensions you have been tracking so closely between two major powers, the two remaining super powers, clearly es-kating. i cannot recall any time between the u.s. and china where the military behavior by china has been at this fever pitch. i think you re right. the escalation has increased in recent days with these live fire missile tests in the taiwan strait in taiwan s territorial waters there. so much so that just yesterday nbc news has now confirmed with white house officials the white house summoned china s ambassador to the united states to the white house fo
maybe this will give him more time to be a mentor, i hope more time to write and be inspiration to young physicians and kids in high school. i hope this president would give dr. fauci presidential medal of freedom, but he s received presidential medal of freedom. todd: kevin corke, is that what kids need, fauci as a mentor? kevin: i m not a kid. dr. fauci clarifying he s not actually retiring, hes he s moving on to a mentoring role at the end of the year. president biden did thank his chief medical advisor on twitter. america is stronger, more resilient and healthier because of him? many republicans are calling for a federal investigation into fauci. dr. fauci, retirement or not, will be spending a lot of time in front of a congressional committee and committees if republicans take back control. we will ask him questions about gain of function research, why he didn t push back on china s lives. we ll have a lot of questions and will subpoena him and expect him to answ