of personnel news dimension right off the top, it s good news. ownership say congratulations to alex wagner. who is going to take over the slot that is now msnbc prime. this is just announced today by msnbc. it is great news. in terms of me, nothing about what i m doing is changing. i am gonna be doing monday nights, from here on out, plus, i will be here for big news events, like i have been, things like a genuine 60 rings, and the big supreme court decision on friday on roe v. wade. nothing that i am doing is changing at all, but it is great news that starting late this summer, starting mid august, it s gonna be alex wagner in the chair here tuesday through friday, at 9:00 eastern. so, congratulations to alex. everybody here thinks this is great news, myself included. again, you re still stuck with me for all the same things that have been stuck with me on in recent weeks and months, that won t change. but alex is taking over that msnbc prime spot. great news. great to kn
i m going to be doing monday nights from here on out. plus i ll be here for big news events like i have been. things like the january 6th hearings. the big supreme court decision by down roe v. wade. nothing that i m doing is changing at all. but it is great news that starting late this summer, starting may august, 20 alice wagner in the chair here tuesday through friday night at 9:00 eastern. so congratulations to alex, everybody thinks this is great news, myself included. again, you re still stuck with me for all the same things you ve been stuck with me on. in recent weeks and months. that will change. but alex will be taking over that prime spot is great news. it s great that the certainty, great to know that it s her, just want to mention that right off the bat. but hey, speaking of the january 6th hearings. i need to tell you i was wrong. we were all wrong. or at least things change to make a strong after the fact. you will remember that we have the two blockbuster hear
the heroic job they had done just two days earlier in the bill s case when his wife went into labor, these are pretty professional people. and so, that delay struck me as a bit odd, and we find out that last wednesday was this day when there was a barrage of search warrants, grand jury subpoenas going out, and was only the next day the justice department day happened before the january six hearing. it does seem like there is a coordination, now that we ve got this hurry up hearing tomorrow, all of a sudden, it s suggest that they re trying to beat something. what that is, i don t know, whether they re concerned about a leak or that this person might get cold feet, maybe that s what it. is but it does seem that the doj investigation, and the committees investigation have now become inter related. in terms of that rush, i know that a federal criminal trial environment for example, a district court trial in a federal section, these things need to be worked out through the judge, everybo
on zero notice. what should we know about that, what should we know about how investigators, thinking about things like this, what is the timing tell us is the rush here likely to be about preserving evidence, making sure one piece of witness testimony comes out before another. the department of justice appears to have coordinated a one day surprise snowstorm, of subpoenas and search warrants for people allegedly involved in parts of trump s scheme stay in power. now we ve got the surprise public hearing being announce less than a week after the justice department took those dramatic steps last week. are those things connected, what s going on here, what can we discern from what we ve been allowed to see that far. joining us now, is barbara mckay, she is now professor the university of michigan law school, barbara, great to see you thank you for taking time to be our. tonight thanks for having me, rachel. so, let me ask if i m asking questions that make sense, obviously we don t
federal grand jury subpoena to people involved in one part of the presidents blocked, this fake electors thing. and, we ve got this investigation that s happening in congress, rushing now, not just to speak with a new witness, not just to get a deposition from someone, but rushing for some reason, to get public televised testimony from that person tomorrow. someone that for whom they re keeping their identity a secret, apparently, right up until the start of the hearing. and i say they re keeping it secret, and i mean it. there is no such thing as a secret in washington, most of the time. but with this one, there really aren t leaks about it at all. there s a lot of speculation, a lot of trolling going on as to who might be, but there aren t leaks from the committee. nobody really knows. there isn t any informed