good evening from new york. i m in for chris hayes. we are still waiting for the january 6th committee s report on donald trump s attempted coup. but today, ahead of the final product, the committee has released a brand-new batch of transcripts from its closed-door interviews. those transcripts providing new insight into the inner workings of the trump administration, both in the days leading up to january 6th and as trump s inner circle scrambled to respond to the committee, the committee s investigation. in fact, among the new transcripts is an interview the committee conducted with the former trump secretary of defense, this man, mark esper, who answered questions surrounding the ex president s desire to use the military to quell domestic disputes. in an interview with former deputy press secretary sarah matthews, who said she heard trump seemed to privately admit that he lost the 2020 election. quote, alyssa fara, the former communication director said to me that behind
i m not saying i did that, but maybe i did. the republicans today took that trick, that high school trick, and they took it to its logical extreme. new this morning, house republicans on the judiciary committee released a 1000-page roadmap detailing allegations of political bias in the fbi and department of justice under president biden. this is a preview of what a gop majority may uncover from daily administration at the midterm. i know what you are thinking, a thousand pages, they must really have some damning evidence there. but no, this is the high school big margins trick times doesn t. literally. as the washington post puts it today, the report itself is less than 50 pages. so what s in there? it s more than 700 pages of already public letters and those are mainly just dozens of duplicates of the same two letters. and then there are about 300 pages of just signatures. talking points memo characterizes the report as nothing more than a who s who of fox news flavo
hopefully, that settles that. and now we do not ever have to talk about litter boxes in school ever again! and be sure to tell your friends, this pre-midterm weekend, the truth matters. but only if you hear it. so listen up! and on that note, we wish you all a very good night! from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news. thank you for staying up late, i will see you at the end of monday! mo nday you know when you had to write it as a preschool and i had to be a certain number of pages? so you d bump up the font size and make the margins a quarter inch bigger on both sides. i m not saying i did that, but maybe i did. the republicans today took that trick, that high school trick, and they took it to its logical extreme. new this morning, house republicans on the judiciary committee released a 1000-page roadmap detailing allegations of political bias in the fbi and department of justice under president biden. this is a preview of what a gop majority may uncove
harrison an suv struck the curb of a downtown tunnel hard enough, that the vehicles tire needed to be replaced, bringing the motorcade to a standstill. harris had to be transferred to another vehicle in the motorcade, so agents could safely speared her to the white house. like i said, small incident in the grand scream of things, car hits a curb, nobody gets hurt, vice president makes it safely to the white house. and yet, the post carol leonnig reported that things about the episode had both the vice president and the secret servers leadership scratching their heads. first, there is the issue of, how today agent train to drive the most precious cargo in the country have a one car accident on a cleared roadway. when the president or the vice president travels in a motorcade, the streets are empty, you can see right there. so that part is weird. and other red flag is what the secret service agents did immediately afterwards, when they sent a message alerting senior leadership
a secret service official about exactly what was going on over there. on january 6th we will see what she can tell us about how that went. and we are also going to be joined by senator michael bennet, running for reelection in colorado. we will see how confident he s feeling tonight. secret service piece of january 6th is the biggest mystery i think there is. so, i m eager to hear that interview. and michael bennet, always a good talker. have a good show, lawrence. thanks, alex. thank you. we have two important confessions tonight. two historic confessions. historic confessions about the trumpian madness that consumes millions of people in this country. one of the confessions is by a trump supporter who confessed to attempting to kidnap and possibly murder the speaker of the house and to actually attempting to murder the speaker s husband. we have another confession from another trump supporter who has not yet committed the crime he has confessed to, the crime that he h