richard haass. and nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard. also with us, the founder of the conservative website, charlie. liz cheney, one of two republicans serving on the committee, went on fox news yesterday to defend the committee s work. here s how she responded to a question about why capitol police weren t better prepared for the attack. it s an entire focus of the investigation. you will see in our report. you ll likely see in upcoming hearings, so it is certainly something we re going to be focused on. but what we aren t going to do, brett, is blame the capitol police, blame those in law enforcement for donald trump s armed mob that he sent to the capitol. kevin mccarthy decided not to participate in the committee, that, somehow, the house of representatives cannot investigate the single worst attack on the capitol since the war in 1812. cheney discussed the committee s interest in interviewing ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas.
difficult meeting tomorrow? as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. there are major developments in the january 6th investigation tonight. according to a letter obtained by nbc news, the secret service erased, i m gonna say it again, erased text messages from january 6th, 2021, and from the previous day. the letter to house committees from homeland security watchdog says, those messages were deleted, after being requested as part of an investigation into the capitol riot. that inspector general says he was told, many of the messages have been erased as quote, part of a device replacement program. tonight, the secret service issued a statement, saying this. that insinuation the secret service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false. in january 2021, before any inspection was opened, the secret service began to reset its mobile phones to factually settings, as part of a preplanned, three
the missouri center defending himself after being mocked over the now infamous video of him fleeing from the trump mob, and the roundup himself on january 6th. you will not believe his trusted voice for democrats yeah good saturday morning to, you i am katie fang. breaking overnight, former president donald trump attacking the work of the january six committee. and finally responding to those explosive accusations from former white house aide, cassidy hutchinson. speaking at a rally in arizona, trump denied that he tried to grab the steering wheel. of the presidential vehicle and launch of the senate security after he was told that he could not go to the capitol on january six. trump also saying that his opponents up weaponized law enforcement against him. that is amid new fallout from thursday summer finale of the 16 hearings with the committee accusing donald trump of duty for failing to call off the attack on the capitol. for more on, this return to nbc news corresponden
hello, i m victor blackwell, welcome to cnn newsroom. alisyn is off today. right now, british prime minister boris johnson is fighting for his political life. his conservative party is holding a no confidence vote right now, with results expected soon. now, if a majority of votes come in against him, he s out as the party leader, out as the prime minister. johnson has been under intense scrutiny for his behavior in the height of the pandemic when he disobeyed his own covid rules and held a party while the rest of the country was under mandatory lockdown. and at the queen s platinum jubilee celebrations this weekend, he was met with boos, watch. [ crowd booing ] in a letter making his case to lawmakers today, the prime minister insisted britain s will never forgive him in he s ousted. a snap poll show 6 in 10 want him gone. bianca nobilo joins me now. reporter: the mood is extremely strange. it s fraught and it s groan more and more grim, and despondent as the day has gone
he would maybe be the best person to have. i mean, how mad can you get that joe biden? and a remarkable scene inside the capital, warehouse members protested senators on their way to vote down a federal right to abortion. all in starts right now. good evening everyone, i m ayman mohyeldin, in new york, in for chris hayes. the ex president knew the conclusion he wanted. he wanted to overturn the results of a free and fair election. he wanted to install himself as the winner. he just needed to manufacture a way to get there. and that is where john eastman comes into the picture. eastman, of course, is a lawyer, and a die hard trump ally who was the architect behind much of the attempted coup and in fact he even spoke at trump s january 6th rally at the lips, the one where trump incited the insurrection. all we are demanding of vice president pence is an afternoon at 1:00, we are in he let the legislatures of the states look into this, so that we get to the bottom of it, a