whatever one thinks of that particular president, the fact does congress does not typically question or subpoena presidents. this ain t england. the legislature does not question the president the way you would see in the sessions they hold with the legislature. but tonight the news is that might change. there s solid reporting that the house is eyeing trump himself as the january 6th committee is meeting behind closed doors, weighing what you see here the certainly costly potential clash over trying to make trump testify as well as pursuing an interview with pence. now, going to trump would surely take a subpoena and then a court battle over it. the wall street journal reporting all this. and trump spent his whole career resisting these kinds of moves. we know that. sometimes he prevails. sometimes he loses. there have been court losses that forced him into the taped deposition see here on your screen. that only came after he was forced into that situation. that was also
condemned trump that day are still working for him. also tonight, democrats were accused of lying about a 10-year-old pregnant rape victim. now that the story is confirmed, what it tells us about the terrifying future of reproductive rights in america. jfk said the torch has been passed. now another generation of young americans is saying loud and clear, pass the torch to us. we begin the reid out tonight with january 6th committee s eighth public hearing. the final chapter for now of a damning and horrifying story about donald trump electrifying a violent mob to block the transfer of power on that fateful day. one must imagine trump is watching or rather hate watching every second of these hearings. i mean, they are about him, after all. now we are learning about trump s attempt to possibly influence witness testimony. this week congresswoman liz cheney revealed that trump called a witness in the panel s investigation after one of the previous hearings. today chairman be
is an onset of even worse legal peril. with extremist election denying message failing the midterms test, it is not just his party standing that is greatly threatening but also that political firewall and red wave of candidates he probably counted on to protect him in congress. politico explains what happens next amid the many criminal investigations closing in on his top pallies, his business dealings and his january 6th culpability. quote, with the midterm elections in the rearview, federal prosecutors are no longer abiding by an unwritten code to avoight politically sensitive investigative steps before voters go to the polls. prosecutors in the justice department s january 6th investigation, for example, quote, are free to take more overt steps to advance their investigation, end quote. let s bring in politico senior legal affairs reporter josh ger steen and asha, former fbi special agent for counterintelligence, now assistant dean at yale jackson
that s ever been put up in america needs to stay up forever and sometimes those debates lose out and keep people distracted from thinking about who are the other people that we want to memorialize. if you have further thoughts about this or the program you can always find me online @arimelber.com if you want to get in touch. keep it locked. the reid out with joy reid starts now. tonight on the reid out it s outstanding that the lack of urgency and the disregard that he had to protect the capitol, protect the national security of this country. capitol police sargeant speaking the cold, hard truth about trump s january 6th culpability and yet just like a cult, many of the people who
this? don t we know that? that focused on the speech he gave and where they went. it was not known for example, he was told they were armed and all this other stuff. you brought it out. you have the question of this was donald trump spending weeks engaged in what some experts call a conspiracy and conspireing for weeks. a trump appointed prosecutor at doj since left, i should note, but began this probe, had had to day. it s unequivocal that trump was the magnet that brought people to d.c. on january 6th. the question, is is he criminally cup possible? we have soccer moms from ohio who were arrested saying, i did this because my president said i had to take back our house. that moves the needle towards that direction. maybe the president is culpable for those actions. that was march on culpability, and again, i don t