6th hearing, i have to say, i am struck by the enormously fruitful fact finding, that the committee has done so far, and continues to do. each day, there is new information, learning new things. so, most recently, the committee met with former overstocks eo, patrick byrne, that s the overstock guy, about the now infamous december 2020 white house meeting. he attended a, or a group of outside trump advisers tried to sell the president on the coup. that s just today, getting testimony from him. today, they got testimony from a former white house aide, named garrett ziegler. never heard of him before. who, reportedly, let the ragtag group of coup plotters, into the white house, for that crazy coup plotting december meeting. still, a year and a half after this happened, the committee, the new testimony, learning new things. additionally, the committee is also pulling on, another, i think, important threat. you may have seen things about this, we ve covered it a bit in the news to
good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, as we approach thursday s primetime, january 6th hearing, i have to say, i am struck by the enormously fruitful fact finding, that the committee has done so far, and continues to do. each day, there is new information, learning new things. so, most recently, the committee met with former overstocks eo, patrick byrne, that s the overstock guy, about the now infamous december 2020 white house meeting. he attended a, or a group of outside trump advisers tried to sell the president on the coup. that s just today, getting testimony from him. today, they got testimony from a former white house aide, named garrett ziegler. never heard of him before. who, reportedly, let the ragtag group of coup plotters, into the white house, for that crazy coup plotting december meeting. still, a year and a half after this happened, the committee, the new testimony, learning new things. additionally, the committee is also pulling on, another, i think,
service agents to just decide to preserve documents, they thought were relevant. shockingly, it looks like none did. a lot, for an organization that insists, it has nothing to hide. congresswoman zoloft, one democrat of california, sits on the january six committee, which will hold its public hearing on thursday. joining me now. congresswoman, what is your response, reaction, to them coming back, pursuing the subpoena, and saying, sorry there is nothing there? well, we have a concern. the letter that was sent to the committee, i think, is going to be released shortly by the staff. i won t go into it. as stephanie murphy said earlier today, six committee chairmen, from the committees jurisdictions, before the january six committee existed. homeland security sent a committee on the 16th of
every employee of the justice department that it is still in effect. this garland memo reaffirmed suspicions and concerns of a lot of people. up to and including, clearly, members of the january six committee, that the select committee is essentially the only game in town. it may weigh well be the only entity approaching the investigation into what happened on january 6th with the kind of durable ferocity needed to save american democracy. and many are worried, and this is been a recurring might ve critique from adam schiff and others, understandably so, that will continue to be the case in the foreseeable future. certainly between now and when americans make their very faithful decision in the midterms. asha rangappa is a former fbi special agent also an editor of the justice security block. asha, first, i want to get your thoughts on the memo. and it s important or significant. yeah, so, chris, i think merrick garland is basically
statement to the jury. it almost had a civics class feel to it. which i think was appropriate. because she needed to explain to the jurors, they don t all necessarily know how congress functions. what s the house of representatives is, what committees are, what s the j six house select committee is. how they do their business. with their mission in mandate. is what congressional subpoenas are all about. and then she dove into the heart of it. she said, steve bannon had critically important information about what happened on january 6th at the capitol. and the committee needed, it wanted it and had every lawful right to it. so they subpoenaed him. and then he intentionally defied the subpoena. it wasn t a mistake, it wasn t an accident, he simply decided that he doesn t live by the same rules and laws that his fellow citizens lived by. and i thought it was a really effective opening statement. not so much for the defense got