oval office. on january 6th. that was a lead investigator for the january 6th committee describing the latest witness to appear before the federal granary hearing evidence about the january 6th insurrection. and all of trump s attempts to overturn the 2020 election. william russell testified yesterday, he is a longtime aide to the former president who was reportedly by trump s side for most of the day on january 6th 2021. although he has previously testified before the grand jury. russell s level of cooperation is unclear. since he still works for the trump campaign. we did get a possible hint as to why prosecutors are questioning him in a bizarre scene that played out during an unrelated court proceeding. in the same building where russell was being questioned, his lawyer showed up late for
i reported kushner was one of seven people who approached his father-in-law, about conceding the election. kushner had been in the middle east, and just returned to the u.s. for a day of the capitol attack. he later told the january six congressional committee, he was at home, when he got an urgent call from kevin mccarthy. i heard my phone ringing, turn the shower off. so i hear mccarthy, he had a good relationship, he told me it s getting really ugly at the capitol. he said please, anything you can do to help. i would appreciate it. i do not recall specific asks, just anything you can do. again, i got the sense, they were scared. also tonight, i have confirmed hope pitts is also spoken to that same granary. obviously, she was incredibly close to the ex president, as his longtime host aide and connotations director. i m joined tonight by harry lippman, and former chief assistant district attorney, from manhattan d. a. office, karen friedman. thank you both for being here, karen wh
election if not before the primaries. that being said, there s a new nbc analysis today showing dozens of witnesses have testified before january 6th focused granary. they ve indicated they are focused on the fake electorate scheme in a total of 84 fake electors signed documents falsely declaring trump the winner, eric. i know you ve been writing about talks with rudy giuliani s team. what is your sense of where the investigation is now? it s much broader than the mar-a-lago investigation which from the beginning was centered on donald trump and when they were indicted. there have been months of ominous foreboding that lead people to understand that that could be an outcome. the january 6th investigation is so wide ranging that it is sort of challenging to get a real sense as to what the underlying theory is. clearly, fake electors are a big part of it. there will be fundraising off the quote unquote big lie.
it should be a clear leading reading, all the coverage of this. the rows of the justice department are strict. they re talking around grand jury proceedings they are not allowed to do, which so everything we see is going to be people coming into the granary proceedings, that is what we see in d.c., but in the case of florida, it was amazing how the entire incident move states, moves several hundred miles south and, we didn t even know about it until a few days before dawn trump was indicted. it was going on to go behind closed doors, and testifying to grand jury hearing that we see, what exactly will come out of that. the january 6th grand jury is not a shorthand necessarily, for it. remember, the special counsel is investigating not just january 6th, but any efforts to stop the peaceful transfer of power. that s broader than just january 6th. it s not just the riot itself.
courtroom, minnesota had a flat back, they did it here, it worked, and it should work here again. ryan, you will be covering this trial, so you need to want it televised. whether it is, or it isn t, what are you watching for? you ve been covering january six for months and months. i m curious what is going to happen with this january 6th grand jury. we re seeing what s happening with this grand jury this week, and with the so-called fake electors who came in, and testified. we have been getting these bits and pieces. i think that it s incredible to think, ten days ago, we were all wondering what the deal was with this miami thing. it was just kind of coming out, and that is how a lot of this has come out. it s clear, a lot of this has been coming from defensive tierney s. it should be a clear leading reading, all the coverage of this. the rows of the justice department are strict. they re talking around grand jury proceedings they are not allowed to do, which so everything we see i