cell phone, this is one permitting them to look at the contents of the cell phone. eastman is the one who cooked up the dubious rationale for overturning the election. also cassidy hutchinson, former white house aide to mark meadows, is cooperating with the department of justice. that s according to a source with knowledge of the discussions. and it comes with a caveat. we don t yet know the extent of her cooperation. we re learning, though, that she s not alone. this morning, an acquaintance of hers, alyssa farah griffin, said she is, quote, aware of other white house officials who is been reached out to by the department and are planning to cooperate, end quote. she was more specific when asked about it this afternoon. there was someone else in the broader network who i would consider mid level that could support what they re looking into specifically around similar questions to what short was asked about, which is the pressure campaign on mike pence in the days leading u
trump alibi from trump tv. and the new project that gives me genuine hope in these insane times, when all in starts right now. w. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. all of the sudden there is a lot happening in the department of justice investigation into the january 6th insurrection. in just the last few days, there have been a bunch of developments, some of which we are going to get to in a moment. but before we do, it s worth stepping back and looking at the bigger picture, because i think the significance here is, a large. for seven years now, we have been covering donald trump and he has basically been always enmeshed in controversy and scandal. he has always been surrounded by investigations and also allegations of criminality. serious ones. that is how he has lived his entire life. right on the edge of the law, both before entering politics and after. and there has always been this perpetual sense that trump manages to wriggle his way out of every jam. partl
pbs, rick stengel, an msnbc political analyst and gordon chang, newsweek columnist. yammish, what do we know about this call between president biden and president xi jinping? we know the president for a long time has called china the u.s. s main competitor and said there is this really tug of war between democracy and autocracy this is really a high-stakes call and also a call president biden is welcoming because he has said diplomacy is the thing america should be known for. he s said over and over again that america is back. there s a lot going on there. we should also note that hanging over this call is the potential trip between house speaker nancy pelosi and taiwan. there s a lot of criticism coming from china, based on reporting, that says she should not take this trip and it could set off a sort of crisis. others are saying, if she cancels that trip, the u.s. would look week, including to nations like japan. there s a lot going on the domestic front and the nationa
they continue to push towards their january, excuse me, there september hearing. joining me now cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles, and karen cordero, and cnn global affairs global analysis susan glasser. good evening one and all, first, rhino both. cnn reported earlier today that marc short, greg jacobs testimony shows how the investigation inside the trump white house. but the post tonight going even further with that, ryan, give me some details on conversations with trump. how does this all fit together, sir? well, you know, don, for a long time there has been at least some criticism of merrick garland and the attorney generals office that they have not done enough to specifically linked the events of january six to donald trump. but their actions over the past two weeks or so show that garland s investigation is getting increasingly closer to trump itself. and the post reporting tonight, coupled with what we have reported about the grand jury testimony and the
overturn the election. that, according to the washington post. sources telling the posts that prosecutors have been questioning witnesses for hours before a grand jury about conversations with trump and others in his inner circle related to the fake electors scheme, and his pressure campaign on mike pence to overturn the election. we will have much more on that tonight, so make sure you stay tuned. when it comes, attorney general merrick garland says this. say again, that we will hold accountable anyone who is criminally responsible for attempting to interfere with the transfer, legitimate, lawful, transfer from one administration to the next. and you ve got to sit back and pay attention to this, right? because the gall, the nerve, everything that we have learned from this investigation, everything that we have seen and heard with these hearings, the president whose election lies set all of this into motion, he was back in to washington for the first time today. and what