developments and changes overnight on capitol hill. this afternoon, the committee investigating the january 6 insurrection will call a special witness in this surprise public hearing. that is former white house chief of staff mark meadows aide, former aide, cassidy hutchinson. she s expected to testify starting at 1:00 eastern today. last week in videotaped testimony, she revealed the names of several republican lawmakers who sought blanket pardons. so, let s begin with that, with our own correspondent jessica schneider. jess, there wasn t going to be a hearing this week at all. then when one was announced, didn t know who the witness would be. very similar in the leadup. why? yeah, last-minute announcement, possibly, poppy, to try to keep things secret because of concerns about security. the committee concerned about the security of cassidy hutchinson and other possible witnesses. that may be why it was kept under wraps to this point. cassidy hutchinson in her hearing tod
joining us this hour. happy to have you here. quick personnel news, good news, i want to say congratulations to alex wagner, who is going to take over the slot that is now msnbc prime, this is just announced today by msnbc, it is great news, in terms of me, nothing about what i m doing is changing, i m going to be doing monday nights from here on out and here for big news events like i have been, things like the january 6th hearing and the supreme court decision friday on roe v. wade, nothing that i m doing is changing at all. but it is great news that starting late this summer, starting mid august, it is going to be alex wagner in the chair here tuesday through friday night at 9:00 eastern. so congratulations to alex. everybody here thinks this is great news. myself included. again, you re still stuck with me for all of the same things you ve been stuck with me on in recent weeks and months. that won t change. but alex is taking over that msnbc prime spot, it is great news.
hour. the announcement comes after five hearings this month that were chock full of really juicy, previously unknown details and lots and lots of brand new evidence on the lengths that trump and trump officials and trump advisors and trump allies went to try and secure a second trump term illegally. the committee s chairman, bennie thompson had said more hearings were set for next month as the committee absorbs a mountain of new information from documents from the trump white house and tips from the public as well as new witnesses coming forward. politico reported this about the work of the committee in recent day, quote, the select panel has maintained its investigative work even as it ramped up its pace of hearings. documentary filmmaker alex holder who had extensive access to the trump family met with investigators last thursday morning after getting subpoenaed for his select panel for his recordings and his testimony. the panel also sent a letter to virginia tom a thomas,
situation tomorrow. a surprise witness or witnesses who apparently we re not going to know the identity of until this last-minute surprise january 6th hearing kicks off at 1:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow, something urgent enough about the new evidence, the investigators have obtained over this witness testimony they re allowed to show us tomorrow that required them to up end their whole schedule and rush the hearing out on zero notice, what should we know about that? what should we know about investigators and the prosecutors think about things like this. what is the timing tell us? is the rush here likely to be about evidence where one piece of witness testimony comes out before another? i mean the department of justice appears to have coordinated a one-day surprise snowstorm of subpoenas and search warrants for people allegedly involved in parts of trump s scheme to stay in power. now, we ve got the surprise public hearing being announced less than a week after the justice department took
developments and changes overnight on capitol hill. this afternoon, the committee investigating the january 6 insurrection will call a special witness in this surprise public hearing. that is former white house chief of staff mark meadows aide, former aide, cassidy hutchinson. she s expected to testify starting at 1:00 eastern today. last week in videotaped testimony, she revealed the names of several republican lawmakers who sought blanket pardons. so, let s begin with that, with our own correspondent jessica schneider. jess, there wasn t going to be a hearing this week at all. then when one was announced, didn t know who the witness would be. very similar in the leadup. why? yeah, last-minute announcement, possibly, poppy, to try to keep things secret because of concerns about security. the committee concerned about the security of cassidy hutchinson and other possible witnesses. that may be why it was kept