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
electors and sending electors back to the states, end quote. in addition, doj investigators in april received phone records of key officials and aides in the trump administration, including his former chief of staff mark meadows. and a key point there, the post reports the doj received phone records in april from key trump officials and aides, signaling the criminal probe could be further along amid criticism the justice department not taking swift enough action. attorney general merrick garland responding to that criticism yesterday, making clear that anyone criminally responsible will be held accountable. the revelations coming as the new york times reports on previously undisclosed emails among trump advisers, admitting their fake electors scheme was indeed fake. they used the word fake. a lot to get to. let s bring in cnn s kara scannell for more on the latest news signaling doj, the scope of doj s investigations. kara, it is one thing to look at people around trump
the justice department goes public as the january 6th committee goes dark. i think that the hearings did an extremely good job of reminding us how important that day was. today congressman adam schiff and claire mccaskill on the merrick garland interview a new reporting that the dark department of is investigating donald trump. plus as pence for president essentially kicks off, can you really agree to disagree after a violent coup attempt? i don t know that the president and i differ on the issues. but we may differ on focus. and new reporting on the fake electoral campaign up on democracy in the republican running for governor who s in the middle of it all. all in starts right now. good evening from new york and chris says. in the past hour we just got a huge bit of breaking news. the department of justice is investigating donald trump. washington post is reporting that the doj is investigating the ex presidents actions as part of its criminal probe on january 6th.
and the school district police chief pete arredondo told dispatchers that they didn t have the firepower to confront the gunman. but at that point there were 11 officers, two with rifles at the school. all of those officers are trained in an active shooter situation. and from the very beginning, everyone the ones that didn t have the ballistic shields, they should have just gone in. that is what their protocol suggests. children were left in a room scared to death, calling 911 and yet no one went in. let s bring in law enforcement analyst jonathan wackrow, former secret service agent to president obama. i want to get your reaction to the new images of officers standing in the school hallway with rifles and ballistic shields, just 19 minutes after the gunman entered. their protocol was to rush and take out that threat and that didn t happen. what is your sense of what happened there? listen, it is actually inexcusable that ever since this incident almost every single thi
republican congressman. we will wear that any members of congress had [inaudible] mr. gates and mr. brooks mr. gates was the first to ask for a pardon. [inaudible] i m sorry. the only reason i know to ask for a pardon is because you think you have committed a crime. the president is getting very agitated and he said, people tell me i should just get rid of both of you and change the leadership, put jeff clarke in, maybe something will finally get done. i thought that it was [inaudible] how does the president even know mr. clark? i said, so suppose i do the, suppose i replace him, replace with [inaudible] jeff clark. what would you do? i said, mr. president, i would rather resign immediately. stephanie ruhle, all here for our special primetime recap of the fifth day of the january 6th hearings. good evening from msnbc headquarters, i m rachel. i am joined here by my beloved colleagues lawrence o donnell, nicole wallace, joy reid, ari melber. and if that s