0 the administrative state and i don t thinkve s it s going to sp here, will , i m afraid that they might try to indict trump with a rigged grandbe jury befoe the midterms. i think it ll be watching that . i appreciate you jumping on here at the end of the show.. i appreciate you watching me tonight. filling in for tucker carlson. going away. not obviously you ll have excellent coverage starting right now with sean hannity, keith olbermann and welcome to hannity. and tonight we start with a foxw newsit alert. eric trump will joinin us in a moment live. tas he was with his dad all day today. he ll give us an inside scoop first. a dark day for our republic, the department of justice, the rule of law, what looks to be potentially a shocking overreach. we ll find out innl time thaton will have serious ramifications potentiallys for many, many years to come. biden s politically charged have already chronicled all this. doj is now being i used as a weapon against biden s top political rival.
if harry thanks for coming on. these deletions keep getting normalized as bureaucracy or bad records management. but it is actually illegal to destroy federal records is it not? whether intentionally or by mistake? look i think it s beginning to and the coincidence that you alluded to with the wild quote that we could put a bigger turn on it because all three of them are people who are likely to have important evidence about january 5th and sixth, most recently cuccinelli trump was calling up and badgering to seize voting machines. so those tax ought to be really probitive and yes at this point a mystery would be putting it kindly. we are almost at the dog ate it phase and it s not passing the smell test but it s simple in this fact mehdi. we ve got this going on and
would be a huge, huge scandal. there would be public calls for people to go to prison over this. but with these guys it s more like who s next? accountability may not be dodged forever though. trump white house counsel pat cipollone was subpoenaed by the department of justice before a federal grand jury conducting an investigation into january 6th. this made cipollone the highest trump official to go before federal investigators. harry litman is a former u. s. attorney for the western district of pennsylvania. he served as deputy assistant general in the department of justice. he joins me now. harry, thanks for coming on. these deletions keep getting normalized as bureaucracy or bad records management. but it is actually illegal to destroy federal records is it not? whether intentionally or by mistake? look, i think it s beginning to and the coincidence that you
the pentagon reportedly wiped cell phones of top leaders. according to court records published by the watchdog group american oversight then reviewed by the washington post the phones of high profile figures inclauding then acting defense secretary christopher miller and ryan macarthur were scrubbed in the aftermath of the attack. the deletions were done in accordance with their policies for departing employees even after freedom of information act requests for filed for the data reportedly less than a week after the insurrection. this comes, of course, as the house january 6th committee looks to obtain key communications from that day. the secret service and department of homeland security have previously said their messages from january 6th were also deleted. this story line not going away. meanwhile, a federal judge has ruled that three civil cases against former president trump related to the insurrection can
dr. kavita patel and ken dilanian, thank you both for being with us this morning. appreciate that. just in the last 45 minutes, nbc has now confirmed based on sources familiar that a federal grand jury has subpoenaed former white house attorney pat cipollone. the doj has no comment. and there s a new twist in the january 6th investigation. first, it was missing secret service text messages. then text messages from top dhs leaders. now, the washington post reports that according to legal filings, the pentagon erased a potential trove of material related to the january 6th attack from the phones of senior defense officials in the trump administration. a defense official speaking on the condition of anonymity to the post, because of the sensitivity of the issue, said the deletions were just standard process. joining us now, the washington post s jacqueline alemany, who is behind this reporting, she is also an msnbc contributor.