could, in the end, be meaningless. according to reporting in politico reinhart carefully reviewed signing off and considers the affidavit to be reliable. judge reinhart also notes that donald trump s legal team has not at this point filed anything, anything at all in the legal battle over the affidavit that is despite their public demands that the affidavit be made public in all of their bluster and extreme rhetoric about a supposed lack of transparency from doj. rhetoric that, of course, has led to a surge in threats against doj and the fbi. team trump s total silence on the issue in court raises even more questions about what politico terms the throw everything against the wall response to the search itself. they write this. trump and his team have not yet settled on a single approach about what may come, in. trump has often used litigation to delay and has loathed to go on offense particularly when he s likely to lose. while it is unclear whether the former president or an
investigating the january 6 capitol riot will unveil new evidence of how donald trump tried to get the justice department to help overturn the 2020 election. and keep him in power. despite the fact that he lost. three former top doj officials are slated to testify. also a slew of new information and evidence has forced the committee to postpone two future hearings. and the latest from the senate, which is set to pass the first major new gun legislation in years. we ll get the latest when senator tim kaine joins us and jerome powell heads to the house for testimony as the administration continues to battle inflation. we ll play for you the warning one democratic senator had for him. please don t drive this economy off a cliff. willie. we want to begin with the fifth and final june hearing of the january 6 house select committee set to get underway in a few hours now. today s focus, former president trump s pressure campaign on the department of justice. the house committee w
there can be no doubt there was a coordinated, multi staff effort to overturn the election overseen and directed by donald trump. there could be no chance that he commanded a mob, a mob he knew was heavily armed, violent, and angry, to march on the capitol to try to stop the peaceful transfer of power. this sunday, the clearest picture yet of trump s true print plan on january six. on thursday, it is eight hearing, the second on prime time. then, the january six committee laid out an excruciating detail the 187 minutes between trump leaving the rally at the ellipse after exhorting his followers to march on the capitol, and finally telling the mob to go home. we now know that trump knew within 15 minutes of leaving the stage that the capital was under attack. rather than stay in the oval office or enter the situation room, they then commander in chief hunkered down in his private dining room off the oval, to watch the violence unfold on fox news. he barred the omnipresent
and if so, when? we are not going to stop what we are doing to share the information that we have gotten so far with the department of justice. tonight, the latest on the back of forth between the 16 committee in the justice department the connection between the coup plotters and the supreme court and the alleged complicity of certain members of congress, including the senator from cancun. then, the republican governor found vacationing in europe while his state deals with historic flooding. and we will talk new mexico, where they are experiencing the rather disturbing we life on the ground consequences of the big lie. i still believe our elections are fraudulent, i believe that we already have enough evidence when all in starts right now. good evening from washington d.c., i m mehdi hasan, in for chris hayes. the attempted coup that took place on january the 6th, 2021, infected all three branches of government. tonight, we are going to talk about how members of e
i m stephanie ruhle. it is a critical question, as important today as it was 50 years ago. what did the president know, and when did he know it? today, and its second public hearing, the january six committee tried to answer that very question. the panel laid out how donald trump embraced election lies, and ignored his own top aides, as they repeatedly debunked his false claims in the days, weeks and even months leading up to the attack. after the election, as of november 7th, in your judgment, what were the chances of president trump winning the election? after that point? yes. none. what they were proposing, that was not. the theory was also completely nuts. if he really believes this stuff, he has lost contact with he s become detached by the hour. when i went into this, and would, you know, tell him how crazy some of these allegations were. there was never an indication of interesting interest with the actual facts. my opinion then in my opinion now is that