stephanie ruhle. and we have breaking news from the january 6th committee this evening. just moments ago, the house analysts subpoenaed the secret service over there missing text messages from january 6th and the day before. and today, all nine january six committee members met with the dhs inspector general. their focus, trying to retrieve that missing information. it s obviously an alarming thing to learn that there were secret service text messages from january 6th itself and the day before that were deleted as part of a device replacement program. we don t know what the facts are and we are going to get to the fact that as to why that happened and we will do whatever we can to retrieve the substance of those texts. and earlier today, the panel made it official. thursday, 8 pm eastern, we ll be there next hearing. that is when they will reveal where trump was and wasn t doing when his supporters were rioting at the capitol. the committee is keeping the possibility of f
buddies and allies to overturn the 2020 election. as we reported on this program at this hour yesterday, mark short, he s of course the former chief of staff to former vice president mike pence, testified before a d.c. grand jury last week. now according to new multiple reports, we also know that a second senior pence aide also testified. that would be greg jacob, pence s legal counsel. both men, of course, had a front row seat to the extraordinary pressure campaign on mike pence by trump and his allies, people like john eastman, to get pence to stop the certification of president joe biden s election victory on january 6th. wall street journal reports these stunning details about their testimony. quote, one area of interest to prosecutors was a january 4th, 2021, oval office meeting where conservative lawyer john eastman pushed pence in trump s presence to either reject the electoral votes outright or suspend the proceedings and asked several state legislatures to re-examine
is just declare victory, right? he is going to declare victory. but that doesn t mean he s a winner. he s just going to say he s the winner. on the eve of his trial, new audio of steve bannon, laying out trump s 2020 plans. plus, as the senate tries to trump proof american democracy, will it be enough? we re gonna get insight on that, one of in starts right now. good evening from new york. i am alicia menendez, in for chris hayes. and we have some major new developments tonight in the ongoing investigation into the insurrection on january 6th. the wall street journal reports that members of the house january 6th committee are considering seeking interviews with both mike pence and donald trump. congressman adam kinzinger, one of two republicans on the committee, says that they may request a written interview with the former vice president, or they could issue a subpoena to try to compel him to testify. the committee is still weighing whether it will ask trump to tes
friend and may be your closest confidant who stabs you right in the back. i made the whole thing up. don t fire me. i don t know if i can trust you. you can t. i promise i never betray you never. jesse: democrats have someone to worry about. this time democrats don t need to turn around. they can see the knife going in. it s one of their power players, up and comer, darling of the left, aoc. she s already on thin ice after not endorsing joe. president biden, he is saying he s going to run again in 2024. will you support him? if the president chooses to run again in 2024, first of all, i m focused on winning majority now. we ll cross that bridge. i think if the president has a vision and that s something we re all willing to entertain and examine when the time comes. that s not a yes. i think we should endorse when we get to it. jesse: she s now aoc is starting to sound like a defactor. she s saying lot more than she should. it s not like this is totally
Is a pretty crucial question at the heart of this which is was the government taking concerns about this concrete seriously enough . And what we found out this morning which i think will be really tricky for the government is that ministers were told some years ago that more money was needed to deal with some of these building defects. Considerable increases in can in funding was needed, in fact the opposite happened and funding was reduced and rishi sunak was the chancellor at the time so undoubtedly Prime Minister will be asked whether he took these very seriously enough, whether one of the problem is that is now being faced is that there was not enough funding in the first place. I suppose there is a broader political question at this going to be asked which is has the government Austerity Drive which of course was quite a long time ago now but also some of the ramifications of that, the of that, how is that i had an impact as well . There will be many Opposition Politicians who qui