congressional correspondent ryan nobles. what have you learned about this with the january 6th committee? reporter: we know it s starting to happen, anderson. this was, of course, a big roadblock to the department of justice s investigation as it expanded into areas beyond the rioters that breached the capitol on that day and started looking into more of the efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. they were very interested in many of the interviews of the january 6 select committee had already conducted, but the committee was reluctant to hand over those transcribed interviews to the department of justice because they considered it their work, their property and they wanted to be able to make sure that they had it in their possession as their investigation moved forward. this became somewhat of a standoff between doj and the january 6th select committee, but now they re starting to find areas of common ground and the select committee chairman bennie thompson telling
what is going on? let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, will merrick garland indict donald trump? tonight, a major clue into what investigators are focusing on, that is the fake electors, those fake electors from contested states. bennie thompson, the chairman of the january 6th committee, saying his committee is providing the doj with witness transcripts to put up the fraj la fraudulentelectors. they ve included testimony from the chairwoman of the republican national committee, describing a call that she received from the former president and his attorney, john eastman. he turned the call over to mr. eastman, who then proceeded to talk about the importance of the rnc helping the campaign gather these contingent electors in case any of the legal challenges that were ongoing changed the result did you receive a call from andy y biggs of arizona on the morning of january 6th? i did. he asked if i would sign on both to a letter that
detected in space. every fraction of a second they recorded a boom, boom, boom. that heartbeat similar to what happens when stars run out of fuel and collapse. what about real heartbeats in space? the new james webb telescope might change our most fundamental understanding. already it s picked up water vapor on a jupiter type crater. that star is only 1,000 light years away. water vapor. just imagine what that could mean? ac 360 starts now. good evening. a day after the seventh public hearing by the january 6th committee, we have new information about a separate justice department investigation and how it ties in about the effort to overturn the elections, specifically that scheme to install fake electors. we want to start with that tonight on capitol hill with cnn