that same judge issued a landmark ruling earlier this year finding it was more likely than not that trump and a conservative lawyer committed a crime and strikeategizing to overturn the election. trump is not charged with a crime and denied any wrongdoing. he continues to down play his involvement and bashing the committee s work as another quote witch hunt. january 6th. what a lot of crap, it s another con job like russia. reporter: committee members say trump was decar on his duty and republicans pleaded for trump to intervene and text messages to his white house chief of staff. i think mark meadows is the ms mvp for the committee. reporter: denver helped decode meadow s text among the 2300 messages obtained by cnn. donald trump junior texting he s got to condemn this shit asap. meadows responding, i am pushing it hard. i agree. it took trump over three hours to release this recorded video. so go home, we love you. you re very special. look at the totality of th
landmark ruling earlier this year finding it was more likely than not that trump and a conservative lawyer committed a crime and strategizing to overturn the election. trump is not charged with a crime and denied any wrongdoing. he continues to down play his involvement and bashing the committee s work as another quote witch hunt. january 6th. what a lot of crap, it s another con job like russia. reporter: committee members say trump was car on his duty and republicans pleaded for trump to intervene and text messages to his white house chief of staff. i think mark meadows is the mvp for the committee. reporter: denver helped decode meadow s text among the 2300 messages obtained by cnn. donald trump junior texting he s got to condemn this shit asap. meadows responding, i am pushing it hard. i agree. it took trump over three hours to release this recorded video. so go home, we love you. you re very special. look at the totality of the evidence, it s pretty apparent
and to, quote, connect the dots between the former president s election lies and the violence that unfolded that day. images are still so shocking. tonight is expected to include never before seen video leading up to the capitol attack and as it unfolded, as well as clips of taped interviews with trump administration officials and family members, their testimony. we also expect to hear live witness testimony from two people who had an upclose view of the rioters. and this is just the first round. more hearings are scheduled over the several weeks coming with the committee releasing a final report in september, that, of course, a couple of months before the midterms. let s begin with lauren fox on capitol hill. so, lauren, walk us through what we expect on the first day of these hearings tonight. reporter: well, this is the first opportunity for this committee to come back after months of work behind closed doors. we expect all of this is going to kick off with an opening
on complicated comprehensive negotiations before. and some laughs but also tough questions. president biden sat down with jimmy kimmel. he was met with hard questions and why he won t do more on guns, on abortion access and climate change. the most high stakes, the january 6th committee restarts the public presentation of the facts on prime time. they gathered evidence. tonight a first glimpse at the work, including previously unseen video testimony that includes trump campaign officials and members of the former president s family. the committee promises a jarring reminder of what happened on insurrection day. a mob tried to up end american democracy and tried to help donald trump steal the presidency. we begin our coverage on capitol hill. ryan, set the stage. there s no doubt the committee understands the challenge they have in front of them. it s been almost a year and a half since the violence and chaos on january 6th. they need to reintroduce that to the america
utah senator mike lee joins us in studio live to discuss what happens now. plus, protests out west tonight with president biden in los angeles for the summit of the americas, and as his motorcade passes by, well, we will show you the incident if we can get our tape working tonight but we are going to begin with protest outside supreme court justice home, the same day an armed man was arrested there after allegedly telling authorities he wanted to kill the justice. white house correspondent kevin corke is tracking the very latest details tonight. good evening, kevin. good evening, shannon. a criminal complaint accuses nicholas roske of attempt to kidnap or murder or threaten to assault, kidnap, or murder a u.s. judge, justice of the united state supreme court come among the items, roske is accused of bringing to justice kavanaugh s neighborhood black tactical chest rig and knife, glock 17, ammo, pepper spray, zip tie, hammer, nail punch, crowbar, pistol light, duct tape, ev