insurrection. the select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capitol will be in order. without objection, the chair has authorized to declare the committee in races at any point. pursuant to house deposition authority deposition the chair announces the committees approval to announce the good afternoon. in our previous hearings, the select committee showed that then president trump applied pressure at every level of government. of local election workers, up to his own vice president. opened hoping public servants would give into that pressure and help him steal an election he actually lost. today, we will tell the story of how the pressure campaign also targeted the federal agency, charged with enforcement of our laws, the department of justice. we have already covered part of mr. trump s effort. we heard from attorney general bill barr, tell the story and the committee about the baseless claims mr. trump wanted the justice departm
that the messages were missing back in february the ig didn t push the department on why the texts were deleted nor did he try to retrieve those messages. these missing records are just a part of a mountain of missing pieces of the puzzle related to january 6th that pose a challenge for the january 6th select committee as well as the justice department s probe into the insurrection. that poses a to investigate the actions of the inner circle. a spokesperson for the select committee telling nbc news that the panel is sharing 20 witness interview transcripts with the department of justice. that news was first reported by politico which adds this, quote, the committee did not indicate which transcripts would be part of the initial tranche provided to the justice department, however prosecutors recently deposed two top aides to former vp mike pence, mark short and greg jacob who both had previously interviewed with the committee and it would be of high interest to investigators
per perhaps marjorie taylor greene. what should happened to them? should they be censured? should they be removed from committees? what do you think? well, i guess that s a decision for colleagues, right? i mean, my job is to put evidence out there. as i said at the end of that, it s like, i only know of one reason to seek a pardon. because you re worried that you re guilty, that you committed a crime. this is something they have to answer to their constituents. you know, i can t enforce rules of the house or do certain things unilaterally. but i think the bigger point is, listen, america, do you really want your members of congress out there trying to bend or break the law so that they can maintain political power? that is like, anafma to everything we ever learned in history class whether you re in third grade or whether you re a senior. and that s got to stop. it s interesting because you had three trump loyalists, rose and donahue and engel, testifying today. these ar
two republicans on the committee. his questions about some of the most damning revelations so far during this hearing. congress and kinzinger said the former president told him cummaquid, just say that the president was corrupt, leave the rest to me and the republican cupboard and. a short time ago i spoke with congress and kinzinger about today s hearing, whether he thinks the former president directed the justice department to break the law. members of congress leading up to generate six? this is about trump s attempted weapon is the justice department, but it ended with the panel revealing the names of republican members of congress, who, witnesses say saw preemptive pardons from president trump, they include congressman mo brooks, matt gates, andy biggs, louis gomer, scott berry, perhaps marjorie taylor, these are sitting members of as a preventative, should they be censured? should they be removed from committees? what do you think? i think that is i guess, a dec
good evening, i m mehdi hasan, tomorrow morning the house select committee investigating the january 6th attack on our capitol. will hold its second public hearing, if it s anything at all at the first hearing, it s set to be explosive. tomorrow the panel will zero in on trump s lies, his efforts to spread debunked claims about the 2020 election, witnesses include b.j. pak, former u.s. attorney for the northern district of georgia fire him for not backing his election lies. i ll schmidt, the republican city commissioner of philadelphia, that there wasn t fraud in his city. and bill stepien, and trump s 2020 campaign manager, in thursday s hearing and everybody seen video interviews, we learned the former president s inner circle as well where the big lie was just that. alive. attorney general bill barr revealed that he told his boss, allegations of election fraud were quote, bs. trump s own daughter of rank agreed with that assessment. putting the committee that she respect