of personnel news dimension right off the top, it s good news. ownership say congratulations to alex wagner. who is going to take over the slot that is now msnbc prime. this is just announced today by msnbc. it is great news. in terms of me, nothing about what i m doing is changing. i am gonna be doing monday nights, from here on out, plus, i will be here for big news events, like i have been, things like a genuine 60 rings, and the big supreme court decision on friday on roe v. wade. nothing that i am doing is changing at all, but it is great news that starting late this summer, starting mid august, it s gonna be alex wagner in the chair here tuesday through friday, at 9:00 eastern. so, congratulations to alex. everybody here thinks this is great news, myself included. again, you re still stuck with me for all the same things that have been stuck with me on in recent weeks and months, that won t change. but alex is taking over that msnbc prime spot. great news. great to kn
i m going to be doing monday nights from here on out. plus i ll be here for big news events like i have been. things like the january 6th hearings. the big supreme court decision by down roe v. wade. nothing that i m doing is changing at all. but it is great news that starting late this summer, starting may august, 20 alice wagner in the chair here tuesday through friday night at 9:00 eastern. so congratulations to alex, everybody thinks this is great news, myself included. again, you re still stuck with me for all the same things you ve been stuck with me on. in recent weeks and months. that will change. but alex will be taking over that prime spot is great news. it s great that the certainty, great to know that it s her, just want to mention that right off the bat. but hey, speaking of the january 6th hearings. i need to tell you i was wrong. we were all wrong. or at least things change to make a strong after the fact. you will remember that we have the two blockbuster hear
outfront tonight, new evidence, january 6th committee abruptly scheduling a hearing for tomorrow. last week, said no additional hearings until next month and then suddenly a hearing scheduled for tomorrow as the committee released only a brief statement, including quote, recently obtained evidence and witness testimony. this is a very sudden reversal for the committee and it comes at an important context. we just learned federal agents seized the phone of trump s election attorney, john eastman, man who presented trump a road map for overturning the election. someone who was right there, front and center, in trump s ear in the days and weeks ahead of the deadly insurrection. and someone who was working the phones for trump. so his phone is now seized. here s just some of the testimony we ve heard so far about the importance of john eastman. and what it, dr. eastman want you to do? that we would in fact vote, take a vote, to overthrow, or i shouldn t say overthrow that w
the georgia electors from joe biden, and show them. the observations about how this dark world of republican so-called legal scholarship works, and way that eastman letter, how it all moved from eastman to the justice department to the white house. i was thinking about that wall squinting today at the visual exhibit that the committee released as part of the hearing, when they talked about the man that they had put at the justice department working with jeff clarke, getting the eastman plan effectuated, making it look like it was the justice department s work, and that was circulated among some congressional staffers, but also some very famous names from republican legal circles on that email, talking about the man on the inside, and what he was going to get done, and how they could brief the white they ve been talking about that for a very long time in terms of how the network works. we re going to get to that, thank you rachel, not legally available, that s what donal
and stolen. that view was wrong then and it is wrong today. that comes as the justice department is ramping up its criminal investigation into the fake electors scheme that was concocted by trump and his allies with federal agents delivering grand jury subpoenas to at least four people yesterday. this is at a scale that we had not seen before from doj. it raises questions about how deep they are in to the fake elector scheme with their investigations. we will have much more on that in just a moment. that is the justice department branch of all of this. the congressional side of the investigation picks up in a few hours with a new hearing focused on the former president s pressure campaign to get the department of justice to intervene in the 2020 election. joining me now ellie honig former federal prosecutor. we can tell a lot by this witness list today. we can, john. let s set the scene. mid-december 2020 now it s about a month and change after the election, we are a few