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
is the justice department signaling the seriousness of the case. you need to make a legal showing to get these warrants. in terms of the unlocking of the warrant, i ve looked at the information, and the warrant actually provided for the phones to be unlocked. so that was pursuant to the warrant. so to me, what it signals is this was a coup, not with guns and bullets, with lawbooks and statutes. you have two of the lawyers who were in deep trouble. that points to the client, donald trump. and gloria, to this point, this seizing of john eastman s cell phone comes on the same day that the fbi raided the actual home of jeffrey clark, the doj lawyer. what a coincidence. right, randomly on the same day. so, you know, you take those two data points, how close is this all getting to trump himself? well, these are people who were very much in his orbit, and as norm was pointing out, these were the people who were talking
shouldn t say overthrow that we would decertified the electors. what did the president say when he called you? essentially, turned the calling over to mr. eastman who proceeded to talk about the importance of the rnc helping the campaign gather these contingent electors. all right, i want to begin our coverage tonight on capitol hill with melanie zenona, m melanie, what more are you learning of the abruptly scheduled hearing, it wasn t nothing until july suddenly something so important and new they re going to do it tomorrow? reporter: right, this was a complete sprurprise, not planni on hearings until mid july, really wanted to take the next few week to see go through evidence, new documentary film footage obtained and congress is on a recess now which means most lawmakers are not even here in washington so the collect committee must have uncovered
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
right, i guess if you hold it in front of him, it s facial recognition, you can, whether you were willing or not may not matter. caitlin, thank you so much for your reporting. i want to bring in now gloria, our chief political analyst along with eizen, former council to house democrats you remember from the first impeachment trial, norm, half a dozen him a restaurant, gain access to emails using the face unlock which i guess there s now a question whether they sort of held it up without him agreeing or not, you know, you heard caitlin reporting it there, unclear, how significant is this? erin, thanks for having me back. it s very significant, because what we ve seen with the search warrants on trump s outside coup lawyer, john eastman, last week, on his inside council who advised this coup, jeff clark,