many are still missing good morning, welcome to way too early, speculation is swirling after the abrupt announcement from the january 6th committee that it plans to hold its sixth public hearing today. the only thing the committee has revealed is the hearing will quote present senior committee staff have been kept out of the loop. three people tell the post that the secrecy is due in part to a credible threat against the witness. the committee announced last week that it was taking a break until the middle of july and yesterday gave just 24 hours notice about the hearing that is scheduled for 1:00 this afternoon. and to add to the fact that congress is in the midst of a two-week recess. key water gls gate figure john dean tweeted, quote, better be a big deal. there was only one surprise witness during the senate watergate committee hearings on july 16, 1973, an announced witness appeared, alex butterfield, who testified to nixon s secret taping system, forever changing hi
right now, two weeks of seismic supreme court decision starting with a reversal a federal abortion rights have left america s political fault lines even deeper. on one side of the divide are blue states racing to codify abortion rights and offer safe haven to women who may now have to cross state lines for the procedure on the other side. on the other side are mostly red states that have already seized upon this moment to ban abortion with some conservative lawmakers in those states contemplating punishment for those that seek the procedure elsewhere. if not just an outright national ban. of course, rose reversal was just one ruling of the court s conservative majority. it has also issued a full slate of decisions on guns, the environment and voting rights. that illustrate just how conservative the supreme court usually is. by all accounts will be for sometime. is america being remade by the rulings? that is the big question on politicsnation. and another big question, just h
for hallie jackson. we ll start with the affidavit news. joining me justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian and former fbi general counsel senior member of the mueller team and an msnbc legal analyst andrew wisen. thanks for being with us. ken, let s start with what judge is doing. the judge has that redacted version from the doj of the affidavit. what are some scenarios of what could play out next? good afternoon, lindsey. well one scenario is that the justice department convinces the judge that so much of this affidavit needs to be redacted, that there s no point in releasing it. if a judge agrees with that, and he raised that possibility in his written ruling that we could end up here with is meaningless gibberish, if he concludes that he may decide there s no point in releasing it. the second possibility, a judge disagrees with some of the proposed redactions from the justice department and in that case he said he would allow them to appeal but it would be u
right now, two weeks of seismic supreme court decisions, starting with the reversal of federal abortion rights, have left americas political fault lines even deeper. on the one side of the divide, our blue states, racing to codify the abortion rights. and offer safe haven to women who may now have to cross the state lines for the procedure on the other side. on the other side is mostly red states, that have already seized upon this moment to ban abortions, with some conservative lawmakers in those states contemplating punishments for those that seek the procedure elsewhere. it s not just an outright national ban. of course roe v. wade s reversal was just one overruling of the by the court s conservative majority. guns, the environment, and voting rights, that illustrate just how conservative the supreme court truly is. by all accounts, will be for sometime. is america being remade by these rulings? that s the big question tonight on politicsnation. and another big question.
screaming reading that. pretty much sums it up. there are a lot of shiny object being dangled in front of a slightly by the democrats. and a few of those diminutive never trumpers i m here to tell you that none of them will have any measurable effect on the midterms or really changed the public s realization that under democrat leadership, america is just going down the tubes. the first attempt at distraction or shiny object, a former aide to mark meadows. cassidy hutchinson was flooded into what was billed as a special superduper special session of the january 6 committee today. and i spoke with some former white house staffers, three, four of them and they knew her well. and not one person had anything good to say about her performance today. especially the second hand claims supposedly from tony granato another trump aid that was supposedly one of their big blockbusters. that somehow trump was desperate to get to the capitol by any means necessary. thought that there wer