wildfires rage in spain, a stunning case of climate reality in the uk. it has halted flights in and out of our f, because the runway has melted. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. this week, the committee investigating the january 6th insurrection will hold its second primetime hearing, only second time they ve done that. and in advance of that big hearing, which will be aired here, thursday night, the committee is still uncovering new facts, day by day by day, and hearing testimony from people they haven t talked to before, including details pertaining to that bonkers meeting that took place in the oval office on december 18th, 2020, with the ex president donald trump. now, remember that meeting initially didn t include a single member of the white house staff. it was just a group of people that wealth in the white house, met with trump. it included a rock tack group of coup plotters, people like sydney powell, michael flyn
do something violent himself. he told the fbi his father was planning to, quote, do some serious damage. that was christmas eve 2020 when that young man submitted that tip to the fbi. he didn t hear back initially. it took a couple of weeks. it took until after the january 6th, 2021, attack on the u.s. capitol building. then the fbi decided maybe that tip deserved some follow-up. by the time the fbi got in touch with the son,th the son s fathe had not only traveled from texas to washington, d.c., to take part in the january 6th attack on the capitol, he had come back home to texas afterwards and showed his staged kids c stad kids video of the attack. he told his kids in texas, that, yes, he participated in the attack, and yes, he definitely hadat a loaded gun with him durg the entire thing. he also threatened to kill his kids if they told anyone. he told his 18-year-old son and his 16-year-old daughter, quote, if you turn me in, you re a traitor and traitors get shot. it wa
reznikov, thank you very much for sharing some time with, us we really appreciate it. thanks so much, appreciate it. that is all in on this monday night, the rachel maddow show starts right now, good evening rachel. e rachel maddo show thanks to you at home for joining us tonight. happy to have you here. so his son was 18. his daughter was 16. and on christmas eve 2020, that s, like, a month and a half after the 2020 election was for joe biden. on christmas eve 2020, his 18-year-old son went online to the fbi website totm tips.fbi.g, and he submitted a tip to the fbi aboute his dad. he told them his dad was planning to do something violent, that his dad was not onlyt calling for there to be violence against officials. he told the fbi that he believed his dad was actually planning to
they did seem to proceed with alacrity with those breaking into the capitol, but with respect to all these pressures with the fake elector plot, any number of other efforts which many, like judge carter in california believed violated the law, why it appears only now that is given a sense of urgency, i will say this to add onto what andrew weissman was saying. it is a bit rich to be citing bill barr for anything that has to do with the independence of the justice department considering how badly he disrupted the independence of that office. yes, we re glad bill barr finally found a line he wouldn t cross, but he crossed a lot of lines before he got there. and i agree, that s not the precedent i would cite. finally, rachel, i agree with the assessment, whether it s based on this memo or otherwise,