affecting tens of millions of americans or the hurricanes or the drought, this is the new normal. this is a climate emergency. reporter: in st. louis the floodwaters are receding, but scientists say the chances of this happening again are only going up. omar jimenez, cnn. thanks for joining us. ac ac360 start now. we begin with breaking news. the attorney general called the highest reaching appropriation. there s new reporting in the washington post this evening citing four familiar with the investigation. the headline, justice department investigating trump s actions in january 6 criminal probe. the prosecutors have asked hours of detailed questions about meetings trump led in december
federal prosecutors were questioning witnesses before the grand jury announced hours of detailed questions about troubleshoot in december 20, 20 and 2021. to pressure campaign on pence to overturn the election would instructions trump gave his lawyers and advisor 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 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 out for the first time since the january six committee wrapped its final committee hearing for the summer until they return in september. i am going to play for you his exclusive interview with nbc reporter lester holt.
john fetterman and senators. bill, bunch great tabby. what we will watch the author of a new book coming out which i ve heard a lot of really excellent things about it, kind of the big issues of our time, very anxious to read, it s called after the ivory tower falls, how college broke the american dream and blew up our politics and how to fix it. which is released next thursday. well, congratulate on winning the. but thanks for joining us. like thank you for the kind where. it s appreciated chris. all right that is all in on this tuesday night, i know my own show s name, msnbc prime starts right now with betty hassan and good evening that. it s all in. i remember think of it every day can t forget those words. some memorable. thank you so much, have a great rest of your night. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we ve got breaking news to get to tonight. the washington post just out with his brand-new reporting. justice department investigating trump s actions in janu
president donald trump s actions it s part of its criminal probe in two efforts to overturn the 2020 election efforts, according to four people courting with that. the washington post broke that story tonight, just hours after attorney general merrick garland did an interview with nbc s lester holt and said the justice department would quote, bring justice to everybody who was criminally responsible for interfering with the peaceful transfer of power. and hours after lester holt s interview with merrick garland as with our guest carol leonnig, the washington post broke the news historic news under the headline, justice department investigating trump s actions in january six criminal probe. that headline will now mark the moment in history when we learned that a former president of the united states is being
most prominent witnesses that we know of that off testified as part of the department of justice s criminal investigation before a criminal grand jury they were both present for key meetings when donald trump tried to allied to pressure pans into halting the electoral votes for january six. today we got the stunning report from the new york times publishing previously undisclosed emails that shed new light on the ex presidents scheme. this is really something else. quote, the dozens of emails among people connected to the trump campaign outside advisers, close associates to mr. trump, show a particular focus on assembling lists of people who would claim,, with no basis to be electoral college electors on his behalf in battleground states that he had lost. he authored some of those emails and an arizona lawyer repeatedly called those very repeatedly called those electors fake, that is the word he used. he fully understood what they