more testimony from the indicted leader of the oath keepers jason rhodes. we begin tonight with trump summoning the mob, a memorable line from liz cheney laid out exactly what happened. president trump assembled the mob and lit the flame of this abeing at all. today s hearing spelled out exactly how the mob was summoned that day and as with most things donald trump can be traced back to a tweet. in this case on december 19, 2020. as the committee showed it s important to note what happened in the frantic final weeks of the trump administration leading up to that tweet. today s hearing filled in those blanks focusing on everything that happened after december 14th, the critical date when the electors meet and the election is finally over. in fact, here s what mitch mcconnell said the very next morning. yesterday electors met in all 50 states, so as of this morning our country has officially a president-elect and a vice president-elect. many millions of us had hoped the pre
january 6th just disappear? plus, with the midterms, 102 days away, how is the apparent republicans charge of obstruction and extremism working out? and, in a big lead for the biden administration, we will get into the, winds and the challenges, and the controversial comments of one supreme court justice, with one of our favorite historians, as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. and we have got breaking news just out tonight from the washington post. the paper reporting the homeland security inspector general, the watchdog, stopped a plan to locate those missing secret service text messages from january six. writing this, quote, homeland security s chief watchdog scrapped its investigative teams effort to collect agency phones to try to recover deleted secret service text this year. according to for people with knowledge of the decision, and internal records reviewed by the washington post. the inspector general an
get into the, winds and the challenges, and the controversial comments of one supreme court justice, with one of our favorite historians, as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. and we have got breaking news just out tonight from the washington post. the paper reporting the homeland security inspector general, the watchdog, stopped a plan to locate those missing secret service text messages from january six. writing this, quote, homeland security s chief watchdog scrapped its investigative teams effort to collect agency phones to try to recover deleted secret service text this year. according to for people with knowledge of the decision, and internal records reviewed by the washington post. the inspector general and his tufted not respond to repeated requests on this reporting. the report was coauthored by carol leonnig, she will be joining us in just a moment. last, night caroline her colleague reported there are ev
appear voluntarily and answer a whole variety of questions. he did not contradict the testimony of other witnesses, and i think we did learn a few things, which we will be rolling out in hearings to come. during pivotal moments, cipollone was in the know and very much in the room, including the oval office on january 3rd shooting down trump s plan to replace the acting attorney general with an election denying doj lawyer. and two sources say he was with trump during the riot itself watching it unfold on television. with me now is former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york elie honig who is also a cnn senior legal analyst. elie, let s be honest here. neither of us were in the room for all eight hours, which would have been great for news, but less good for actual having a life. that said, we have gotten bits and pieces from our reporting from our team at cnn about what pat cipollone was asked about when he may have said. what s your biggest takeaway
very good week for president biden with some major victories in congress while republicans were doing the usual, like voting against veterans and american technology. plus, the republican embrace of christian nationalism proves they do not know their history. we ve seen this story before and it doesn t end well. and trump is playing host to the big saudi golf tournament this weekend insulting 9/11 families in the process. trump actually defended the saudis saying, quote, nobody s gotten to the bottom of 9/11. seriously. we begin tonight with a major development in the duelling january 6th investigations. the house select committee has agreed to a formal path to share evidence and witness transcripts with the justice department as it escalates its own investigation. first reported by politico chairman bennie thompson confirmed the agreement on a template for evidence and witness transcript sharing. it is a major step at the extent of the justice department s investigation