people up in washington will give us the various latest on that. the big question about january 6th is, who is going to stop it from happening again? who will stop it from happening again? is it you? is it the committee? maybe it s the republicans? who will stop it from happening again? who will stand up and the next time defend our free and fair election. to defend democracy from the lies that can take it all down? what we are hearing from the january 6th committee, the testimony from eyewitnesses who were shocked by what they saw and heard behind closed doors in the trump white house, who were pressured by the president determined to hold under pressure no matter what it took the fake electors. the wild conspiracy theories. the mob that stormed the capitol. none of that is about the past. it s about, what could happen the next time. if nobody stands up to stop it? should have put the media in that. the media, journalist? that s why it matters for the committee to follow the
let me just take a break and relax. oh, no, don t pay attention. it is all just nonsense. don t get caught up, this too shall pass. are you even woke? oh, god, so much yelling, so much fighting. this is where woke goes to die getting critical race theory out of our schools is a matter of national survival. aren t things bad enough, do we have to fight about this word? woke. are you woke? critical race theory is bigoted and it is a lie and every bit as racist as a klansman in white sheets. okay, i m going to try to explain, woke. all right. open my eyes. take a deep breath. oh, no, i m in arizona. all right this is where we are at in america everybody. we have a new enemy and it is, woke. maybe also the word but maybe mostly the word? he is woke. i want florida be known as the brick wall against all things woke. you heard him, wokeness, some actually said off a three, the wokearadi, i will keep working on it. this is an elite driven phenomenon.
the witness did not pick up when trump called. committee members say it raises concerns this was not someone trump would routinely communicate with and the attempted call came after cassidy hutchinson s explosive testimony. the alarmed witness contacted an attorney. january 6th committee member lorraine la rei can t says the panel is taking this seriously. we take very seriously the safety of any witnesses, anyone that comes forward to the committee and likewise, you know, their privacy in this case, any speculation about who this person might have been and a lot of people trying to tie it together, the committee will just say that we want to protect this witness, but we also want to hold people accountable who have potentially broken the law. katelyn polantz and legal analyst and former special counsel to house democrats in the first trump impeachment norm eisen. caitlin, first to you. this reporting, white house staff support member. that s indeed right, john and br
oath keepers. so january 6th committee members have made claims that they can link members of trump s inner circle to the oath keepers. and new this morning the justice department firing back at steve bannon s sudden about face that he s willing to testify before the january 6th committee just days before his contempt trial begins. trump is waiving executive privilege as he said as bannon has said and waiving should certainly be used loosely here, perhaps in quotation marks so that bannon can testify, but the doj says that doesn t matter even one bit. more on that in a moment. experts obviously believe that never applied in the first place. we do begin with sunlen serfaty who is on capitol hill with more on tomorrow s big hearing. what are we expecting? reporter: certainly a big week up here on capitol hill with two big hearings from the january 6th committee starting with tomorrow. now, tomorrow s hearing will be largely focused on the mob who participated, how did
23 people are dead, including three children. plus, a dead wife, a dead son, a botched hit, an alleged fraud scheme. murder charges have now been filed against a once prominent south carolina attorney in this case that has more twists than a country road. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. president biden s first trip to the middle east being overshadowed in a controversial sit-down that s not yet even happened. president biden stood side by side with israeli prime minister and promised iran will never get a nuclear weapon. how to go about that? that s where they public disagreed. i continue to believe that diploma city is the best way to achieve them. words will not stop them. diplomacy will not stop them. he was pressed by reporters as to whether or not he ll bring up the murder of the journalist with leaders in saudi arabia. the leaders responsible for his murder. at we report from jerusalem, president biden stopped way short of making any such commitment. r