whom may be holding the party back. e holding th good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, july 12th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for joining us. the next hearing into the january 6 attack is this afternoon at 1:00. with a focus on the violent mob. the committee says it will examine how former president trump summoned his supporters to the capitol to threaten the certification of the election when he tweeted, big protest in dc on january 6th. be there, will be wild. the committee says that tweet was the quote siren call for extremist groups such as the proud boys and the oathkeepers whose top members have been charged by the justice department with seditious conspiracy for their roles in the riot. an aide on the committee says it will also present evidence of ties between these groups and trump associates like roger stone and michael flynn. as far as witnesses, a source close to the investigation says we will hear from former oathkeeper spokesman jason
times, this is a relatively new development that was triggered by cassidy hutchinson s testimony last month. the times says a number of hutchinson s key assertion, including the idea that trump knew his supporters were armed and wanted to lead them to the capital, were new to investigators. quote, in conversations at the department the day after ms. hutchinson s appearance, some of which included deputy attorney general lisa monaco, officials talked about the pressure that the testimony created to scrutinize mr. trump s potential criminal liability and whether he intended to break the law. ms. hutchinson s disclosure seemed to have opened a path to broaching the most sensitive topic of all, mr. trump s own actions ahead of the attack. exploring the link between the former president and the extremists who traveled to d.c. on the 6th. axios has learned the committee has evidence that some pro trump groups were planning to come closer to the date of the inauguration but chang
prepares to reconvene for its seventh hearing into the attack on the capitol today. focusing on the extremist groups that led the attack. how the committee plans to tie the far right militias to the trump white house. boy, mika, as we look at the united states capitol, which, of course so beautiful. was besieged by terrorists on january 6th. if you call people who try to take something over and brutalize cops and try to destroy american democracy terrorists, i guess it s all a definitional thing. you re really starting to see the impact of these investigations, not just the january 6th investigation, but we re going to be talking this morning about what s going on in georgia. lindsey graham has tried to escape a subpoena because the secretary of state in georgia said they re republicans. secretary of state said his fellow republican lindsey graham called and tried to get him to throw out legal ballots. graham is trying to get out of that. of course he wants to esc
the end of the month. mccarthy, caught on tape talking about kicking trump out of office ran to mar-a-lago weeks later. chairman bennie thompson writing, you declined voluntary cooperation, and we re left with no choice but to issue thank you subpoena. in a letter sent asking for his cooperation in january, the committee said they wanted to talk to mccarthy about his, quote, conversations with president trump before, during, and after the violent january 6th attacks. mccarthy today slamming the committee s probe. look, my view on the committee has not changed. they re not conducting a legitimate investigation. it seems as though they just want to go after their political opponents. congressman scott perry having a similar thing today. the fact that they sent it to the press before they sent it to the members proves it s all about headlines. bennie thompson saying today he hopes they all comply, and so far there have not been conversations about contempt if they don t.
Game. So well see how it all turns out, but again i say president ial immunity, very powerful president ial immunity is imperative or you practically wont have a country anymore. An ominous warning about donald trump following pivotal arguments on president ial immunity. Well play key moments from the justices and what theyre now poised to do as they learn of trumps actions. Plus what we learned of david pecker during had hush money trial as well as Instrumental Role in payments to kill stories about trump ahead of the 2016 election. And new ads to court nikki haley supporters. Well discuss the swing state where he plans to make his appeal and why. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this friday, april 26th. Im ali vitally in for jonathan lemire. And we begin this morning with yesterdays historic morning at Supreme Court where the justices heard Oral Arguments regarding Donald Trumps claim that hes immune from prosecution from his official acts while president. Nbc senior Lega