as the oath keepers. a new court filing is revealing the extensive planning of the far right malitia group, including a death list and attempts to obtain weapons ahead of january 6th. also today, former trump strategist steve bannon having a sudden change of heart. he faces possible jail time and now just days before his contempt trial, he says he is willing to testify before the january 6th committee after all. let s start with cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles. what are investigators hoping to reveal to the public during tomorrow s hearing? reporter: i think it s twofold. first, they want to make it clear those right wing extremist groups that came to the capitol on january 6th, the oath keepers, the proud boys, they came here with a specific intent, and that was to cause chaos and even use violence if it meant accomplishing their goals. and they re going to show that there was premeditation here to basically establish the fact that what happened on january 6th
set of 16 public airings this week. his niece, mary trump is here with me to discuss it all. and boxes stuck rawlston gave a rare interview this week. but he wasn t really challenged on some of his most offensive and extreme views. later tonight, i will break down what i would have asked him. and we will preview joe biden s politically whiskey trip for the middle east this week. you know, israel and saudi arabia. good evening. i am mehdi hasan. it is easy to forget the decline of u.s. democracy isn t just happening in washington, d.c., or via the federal judiciary. it s also taking place at the state level, where gerrymandered state legislatures and gop state courts are also steadily undermining the rights of american voters. take what just happened in the great state of wisconsin. on friday, the state supreme court there, not only banned most drop boxes, and also called president biden s victory in the 2020 election, polluted, and illegitimate, simply because it make
secretary gina raimondo. plus, the republicans leadership challenge. get murkowski out of here because she s not a republican. how much influence does former president trump have on the gop? maryland s republican governor rr larry hogan joins me. plus, pat cipollone testifies after cassidy hutchinson s explosive appearance. please don t go up to the capitol. we re going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that happen. i ll talk to committee member congresswoman stephanie murphy about what cipollone told the committee. elon musk wants out of his deal to buy twitter over a dispute about spam accounts. he s just reaching out to something to blame. we re hear from tara swisher co-host of the box media s pivot podcast. joining me are hallie jackson, daniel la gibba and rich lowry, editor of national review. welcome to sunday. it s meet the press. from nbc news in washington, the longest-running show in television history, this is meet the p
returns to primetime, promising to present its most compelling evidence to date, detailing the three plus hours that trump failed to about while the capitol was under attack. republican committee member congressman adam kinzinger released clips of trump aides describing what the president was doing as the violence unfolded. was the president in that dining room the whole time that the attack on the capitol was going on, or did he ever go, to your knowledge, to the oval office, the white house situation room, anywhere else? to the best of my rec recol recollection, he was always in the dining room. what do you recall? i think everybody was watching the tv. do you know whether he was watching tv in the dining room when you talked to him on january 6th? umm, it s my understanding he was watching television. when you were in the dining room during these discussions [ inaudible ] yes. one woman you saw is molly michaels. she was trump s executive assistant. we
steve bannon to testify publicly on the eve of his federal criminal contempt trial for refusing to honor the committee s subpoenas. among those scheduled tomorrow, a former spokesman for the oath keepers which played a central role in the coordination and execution of the capitol insurrection. just moments ago, president biden was joined by gun safety advocates at a white house event celebrating bipartisan legislation signed last month. while the administration is struggling with the grim reality, on the cover of today s new york times about how many in the president s own party as well as independents are souring on him. and hundreds of firefighters in california are in a desperate battle to protect 3,000-year-old historic sequoia trees from the wildfires. we begin with the january 6th insurrection. joining me now ali vitali, jeremy peters. and tim miller, author of why we did it. ali, take us through what we can expect this week from the hearings and how they might