4:00 in new york. today, monumental breakthrough in the sometimes frustrating pursuit and pace of accountability and justice. the aftermath of the deadly attack on the u.s. capitol. in the 785 days since the insurrection he incited, donald trump has managed to squirm his way through an impeachment, wiggle past the bipartisan congressional investigation, stretching presidential immunity to great effect so far. now the justice department says in a brand-new court filing, such immunity should not shield donald trump from multiple civil suits brought by police officers and members of congress. in that new filing, in the course of urging an appeals court to reject trump s immunity claim, the justice department was very careful to avoid taking a position on whether trump is actually liable for causing the riot. the new action does open new doors of potential accountability for him. doj s essentially telling the court it does not believe trump can use immunity to avoid civil litigat
of big news, joe, on capitol hill. what a significant day. and i will tell you, i was away from the tv for a good part of the day, and started getting breaking news alerts about the hearings, started following some i had to come back, rewatch the entire hearing all over again. it really, yesterday, about as compelling of any hearing we ve seen on capitol hill since the days of watergate. i was young when the watergate hearings were on. i was upset because we had only had four channels then, and i wanted to see the flintstones and mr. ed, but my parents were sitting front, watching watergate. like everybody. and it was so compelling. and you see those clips, and it s history and you don t think you re ever going to see anything like that again. like a movie. but actually, willie, we did see something and we keep seeing, every one of these january 6th hearings. you re looking at history, you understand it, because, again, it drives home the point that maybe we ve
the january 6th hearing today. our continuing coverage along with our panel of parts, who i m going bring in in a moment. but what s going on today is another set of break-throughs in this set of hearings, include people naming names. we re learning which specific republican lawmakers were literally asking for last-minute pardons for their own conduct. the focus today is how the committee laid out this new evidence of donald trump s efforts to get people installed and promoted within the department of justice to carry out a coup. three doj officials testifying about what they did, including a tense oval office meeting with resignations with that coup plot moved forward. this was happening in the hairy days before january 6th and drew on testimony both live and in these video taped depositions like you see here. jeffrey clark, more on his liam problems in a moment, was the one that was going to be bodying up to take over the justice department for the explicit purpose of layin
nicolle wallace. with the stroke of a pen and just a handful of words, a former president of the united states once again under a gag order, intended to curb the damaging effects of his rhetoric. the court of appeals in new york has attempted to remove that gag order in the $250 million civil fraud trial gwens him, his family and his business, the trump organization. the according to rejecting the argument put forward by his attorneys that the gag order was unconstitutional. that means donald trump and his attorneys ared prohibited from making public statements about the staff of judge arthur engoron. the decision by the appeals court had come in while court wasession. the judge let trump attorneys know the gag order was back in effect and said, o quote, i intd to enforce the gag orders rigorously and vigorously, and i want to make sure the counsel informs their client the fact that the stay was vacated. according to abc news, chris kise replied. we re aware. it s a tragic da
i want to ask you a legal question. we have been covering the filings in the fox news dominion voting system defamation suit. and some of what is viewed as strong evidence and i welcome you to disagree if you disagree is the knowing and willful lying to the viewers, they were in receipt of 3,682 communications from dominion before, during and after the lies were broadcast. how do those pieces of sound factor into the strength of their case, mr. donahue, the deputy acting attorney general saying i investigated it, which again is wholly inappropriate and unethical for doj to do that in the first place, but that said, doj investigated trump s lunatic claims and found zero evidence, brad raffensperger too, he found zero evidence and communicated that to trump and rudy. how did that strengthen their case. it may strengthen it, it may