again we are still attempting to try to figure out and nail down exactly who this testimony is. don, they have been so careful to not release this information. even high-level staffers, people that have very close relationships with the actual members of the committee themselves, have not been looped in on this because they want to keep this information as quiet as possible. we are working to get it confirmed. when we do, you will be one of the first to know. i was joking around with you about you know something. we are always reporting. you know that. you are always on top of it. ryan, thank you, sir. appreciate it. we are now just hours away from that surprise hearing, january 6th committee has slated for tomorrow. cnn s senior legal analyst and former u.s. attorney doug jones. good evening, senator. i don t know why i said attorney. you are an attorney, aren t you? both. i was going so say. absolutely. both. i was right. i shouldn t have corrected myself. t
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
nation is officially in a recession. something many experts have predicted was coming. john roberts in washington. happy monday to you. sandra: i heard booming thunder here in new york city as a storm rolls in. welcome, everyone. i m sandra smith in new york, this is america reports. it has now been four days since the president s positive covid test. his doctors say he s doing well and symptoms are almost completely gone. all of this as the white house and president biden s team prepares for another fight. an efforts to redefine what actually constitutes a recession. john: treasury secretary janet yellen says a second quarter of negative growth in the g.d.p. will not indicate recession but does admit the economy is slowing. josh is here on this, and more noise about biden s 2024 candidacy, that s coming up in moments. sandra: peter doocy at the white house, what do officials expect from this week? are we in a recession or not? peter: sounds like, sandra, they are
meanwhile, quite a scary seen as you can see. the attack has been turned into a rallying cry for reform after the suspect was released under new york state law as congressman zeldin predicted. other big stories, president biden continuing his recovery at the white house after his covid diagnosis and the world health organization sounding the alarm over the monkeypox outbreak declaring the global emergency. we have live team coverage. christina coleman has more on this. we will start with alexis mcadams who has the latest. reporter: breaking moments ago the man who attacked leaves eldon is facing federal charges for assault after he spent a few hours in handcuffs and didn t post bail in new york even though the entire thing was caught on camera. what is he doing? reporter: you hear people shocked wondering what was going on. he is republican candidate for new york governor was on stage in rochester when a man tried to stab him, pulled out a sharp object. zeldin says he h
and a letter to colleague, speaker of the house nancyhe pelosi gushedsi over what wasen happening, saying we ve been moved by how many have channeled their righteous anger into meaningful actionn. they even got support from the white house. these activists posted a map with the home addresses of supreme court justices.is is that the kind of thingp the president wants to help your side make their point? look, they think the president s viewiew is that there s a lot of passion. deputyf white house press secretary andrew bates tried to kind of clean that upea earlier today tweeting psaki never encouraged people to protest outside p justice s homt and providing a transcript in which he highlights psakidinl saying protests have been t peaceful to date, but he didn t include the whole part. so i knowwpart that there s an outrage right now, i guess,ue about protests that have been peaceful to date and wey certainly continue to encourage that outside judge s home one angle recogni