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.
the washington post. the post reporting the justice department is investigating former president trump s actions in its criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election. the paper reports, quote, prosecutors who were questioning witnesses before a grand jury, including two top aides to vice president mike pence, have asked in recent days about conversations with trump, his lawyers, and others in his inner circle who sought to substitute trump allies for certified electors for some states to that joe biden won. in addition, justice department investigators back in april received phone records of key officials at aides in the trump administration including his former chief of staff, mark meadows. earlier tonight, our friends carol leonnig broke down some of a reporting and describes what federal prosecutors wanted to know. what we learned is that they are asking most of their questions at least so far, about donald trump. the questions are overwhelmingly are, what did
tonight, congressman adam schiff and claire mccaskill on the merrick garland interview a new reporting that the dark department of justice 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 issues. but we may differ on focus. and new reporting on the fake electoral campaign to up end 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, i m chris hayes. 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 president s actions as part of its criminal probe on january 6th. sources telling the post of federal prosecutors were questioning witnesses before the grand jury announced hours of detailed questions about troubleshoot in dec
american realizes the truth of what happened january 6th. i think this is an important part that we not downgrade or suppress how important that day was. i think the hearings did an extremely good job of reminding us and people who didn t know in the first place telling us how important that day was, what a risk emit for our democracy. is a committee offering you anything of an informal roadmap? did you learn any things you didn t know? the justice department has been doing the most wide ranging investigation in its history and the committee is doing and enormously wide ranging investigation as well. it s inevitable that there will be things that they find before we have found them and it s inevitable that there will be things that we find that they
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. sources telling the post of federal prosecutors were questioning witnesses before the grand jury announced hours of detailed questions about trump in chan s pressure campaign on pence to overturn the election and what instructions trump gave his lawyers and advisers about fake electors and sending electors back to the states. some of the questions focused on the extent of trump s involvement in the fake elector accent effort, led by john eastman and rudy giuliani. of course at some level i think we all thought something like this was happening. but there hadn t been any concrete reporting on this until now. this major news comes tonight as attorney general merrick garland speaking at for the first time since the january six committee wrapped its final