descent into assism. and a major effort to free brittney griner and paul whelan from captivity in red sox and i ll be joined by olivia juliana, an amazing young woman who turned a disgusting attack by matt gaetz into an opportunity to raise money for abortion services across the country. we begin with the new signs that the justice department is moving the ball in its investigation into the january 6th news. the house january 6th committee has spent the summer laying out its laser-focused investigation into the former president s actions leading up to the attack on the capitol, and while these hearings have been block birth and widely watched, if you found yourself frustrated asking where is the accountability you were not alone, but it s important to just keep in your mind alongside your work worries or where your kids socks are or what date your credit card is due and all the real things rattling around there, the state of democracy and whether or not the state owns your b
we should get to the bottom of that. people defending democracy from the inside. i was ready to fight. i saw a lot of bleep. i was not going to die bleep on the floor of the house of representatives. a key member of the committee investigating the coup. the hearings will tell a story that will really blow the roof off the house. and the republican congressman who wore a bulletproof vest on january 6th joins me live. he always brings up we ve got to rescind the election, you ve got to take a biden out and put me in. now he still says that? yes. a special two hour edition of all in, the an american coup, starts now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. in 24 hours, the first public hearings on the january 6th insurrection will finally begin. and while the story has been fairly front and center for a year and a half, the true horror of that day, the terrifying threat, the violence directed at members of congress and the police at the capitol, the vice p
tonight on a special addition of all in. one year, five months and three days ago, was a protest that spun out of control, with the violent culmination of an attempt to steal the presidency. this week, for the first time, the nation will hear the evidence live in primetime. tonight, we will talk to the people on the frontlines against the mob. it was an attack carried out on january 6th. and a hitman sent them. we should get to the bottom of that. people defending democracy from the inside. i was ready to fight. i saw a lot of back in my day i was not going to die bleep on the floor of the house of representatives. a key member of the committee investigating the coup. the hearings will tell a story that will really blow the roof off the house. and the republican congressman who wore a bulletproof vest on january 6th joins me live. he always brings up, we ve got to rescind the election, you ve got to take biden out and put me in. now he still says that? yes
to corrupt the justice department. quite a lot of what we ve heard in these public committee hearings is starting to converge with the doj investigation, for example, greg jake okay former chief counsel to pence testified to the committee last month that coup memo lawyer john eastman s proposals to have pence overthrow the election likely violated the electoral count act and multiple reports indicated that jacobs testified before a grand jury recently. meanwhile today, the justice department on taped a new search warrant to access the contents of john eastman s phone which was seized by the fbi last month. not long after federal agents also searched the home of former assistant attorney general jeffrey clark also involved with encouraging those alternate owe electors. the justice department s scrutiny of the former president is for now not a criminal investigation of trump itself, it sure does raise the prospect
meadows, told colleagues that trump said something to the effect of, maybe pence should be hanged. hopefully, we will learn more about all of this during the public committee hearings. there is a lot more i want to know. marc short is expected to be called to testify. chief counsel for mike pence, greg jacob, will reportedly testify next week. as pence waited in that underground garage, and members of congress hide or fled from the mob descending on the capitol, fearing for their lives, trump chief of staff, mark meadows, was being bombarded with frantic, harried messages from people trying to get through to trump, telling him he needed to do or say something, anything, to stop the violent insurrection taking place on live tv. and texting from the president s own son, apparently unable to get through to his dad don jr. wrote, quote, he s got to condemn this asap. the capitol police tweet isn t enough.