deposition that lasted about two and a half hours. when i get until the committee today? the truth, how about that for start? and where you asked to come in or did you volunteer to come in? i was asked to come in. subpoena or no? i honestly just was asked to come in. were you in concert than it but he in the white house when the type heard of december of january 2020? january 2021? during the time period that they focused on the committee has been focusing on? i haven t talked anybody in the white house in a long time. mulvaney of course served as chief of staff from late 2018 until march 2020. he then became special envoy to northern ireland. he resigned in the aftermath of the insurrection. former secretary of state, mike pompeo, also on the committees list, and today he confirmed that negotiations have been underway. we ve had discussions with them about potentially appearing before them. we are trying to find a way out. and there is this new intrig
stephanie ruhle. in other senior trump white house official has testified before the january six committee. this afternoon, former acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney, appeared for a closed-door deposition that lasted about two and a half hours. when i get until the committee today? the truth, how about that for start? and where you asked to come in or did you volunteer to come in? i was asked to come in. subpoena or no? i honestly just was asked to come in. were you in concert than it but he in the white house when the type heard of december of january 2020? jen way up to 20 2021? during the time period that they focused on the committee has been focusing on? i haven t talked anybody in the white house in a long time. mulvaney of course served as chief of staff from late 2018 until march 2020. he then became special envoy to northern ireland. he resigned in the aftermath of the insurrection. former secretary of state, mike pompeo, also on the committees
be a number more than 2,500 is putting a strain on the department, and that s not counting people who committed crimes outside or people involved in the fake elector scheme or people who were and former president trump. and the pace of information is not slowing down. it s growing. last night a spokesman for the 1/6 committee said they decided to begin sharing transcript interviews with the justice department. 20 at first but there may be more to come. that s because we re seeing more members of former president trump s cabinet meeting with the committee, including steve mnuchin and mick mulvaney. mick mulvaney talked about the questions the committee wanted answered. why did i communicate, why did i say what i said? i sent some tweets and texts on january 6th. they want to talk about that. i was fairly heavily involved in the trump campaign. they want to know about the discussions i had leading up to the election day and the discussions right after the election day and the
trump administration officials. details of that new reporting ahead as well. and later on, we don t have the manpower as the doj s january 6th probe expands, sources telling our team resources are at a breaking point. what we re learning about the most wide-ranging investigation in justice department history coming up as well. i m in for hallie jackson. want to get to ali vitali on capitol hill. what i am hearing as we wrap up this incredibly surprising week to say the least is that there is a procedural vote happening in the next couple minutes. walk us through what you know. reporter: yeah. certainly a week with a lot of twists and turns here between the senate and the house. the house leaving town now, at least for the next week or so, and doing it with a flurry of activity before they get there, setting up this vote, this procedural motion in just a few minutes that s going to be a vote on the rule to get onto the actual vote on an assault weapons ban. in talking to
jon stewart sounding off on senate republicans after they blocked a bipartisan bill aimed at expanding health benefits to veterans exposed to toxins in war zones. the question is, why did 25 republicans who supported a previous version of the bill change their vote to know? stuart, an outspoken advocate for military veterans will join us later this morning. we are following new developments with the january 6th committee. top aides to former president donald trump testifying between closed doors, including one official who resigned the day of the attack. we will tell you who that is. and more text messages from the time of the attack disappear. first from the secret service, now the washington post reporting texts between members of trumps homeland security team are missing as well. good morning, welcome to morning joe. we have the host of way too early and the author of the big lie , jonathan lemaire. gentlemen, good morning. let s start with the texts that have been del