attempts. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this thursday, july 21st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for joining us. we begin with tonight s eighth hearing from the house january 6th committee investigating the attack on the capitol. it is set for 8:00 p.m. eastern and is expected to last about two hours. the committee says it is likely to be the final of this round of hearings. but more are likely to be scheduled around the release of two reports later this year. the committee chair bennie thompson will lead the hearing and he will do so remotely after testing positive for covid on tuesday. the hearing will focus on what the committee calls a former president trump s dereliction of duty. and a minute by minute account of what happened inside the white house between trump s rally at the ellipse and his tweet finally telling the capitol rioters to go home. the washington post is reporting this morning that the public could see outtakes from trump s january 7t
never-before-seen video. plus, attorney general merrick garland is pressed about the justice department s response to the attack on the capitol. we ll show you his response to a question about prosecuting former president trump. and concerns about the next election have the senate taking rare, bipartisan action. there is promising progress on a bill to prevent future coup attempts. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, july 21st. big night tonight. with joe and me, we have the host of way too early and white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former chairman of the republican national committee, michael steele. good to have you both. we begin with a new development surrounding those deleted texts from the secret service from the day before and the day of the january 6th attack on the capitol. a senior secret service official tells nbc news that employees received at least three emails, including one before the insurrection wow.
as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday nights. good evening once again i m stephanie ruhle. today, as its seventh hearing on the january 6th committee laid out its case, to donald trump summoned its mob to the capitol? on a december 19th, 2020 tweet promising that that they would be wild. this tweet served as a call to action and as some cases as a call to arms, for many of donald president trump s most loyal supporters. donald trump s 1:42 am tweet electrify to galvanize supporters especially the dangerous extremists and the oath keepers, proud keepers and other white nationalist groups. there were many revelations about the days that led up to january 6th. after joe biden had officially been declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, we learned that trump was considering announcing a march ahead of his rally. the committee has obtained this draft, an dated tweet from the national archives. and includes a step saying president has seen. the draft
good evening once again i m stephanie ruhle. today, as its seventh hearing on the january 6th committee laid out its case, that donald trump summoned its mob to the capitol? with the now ominous december 19th, 2020 tweet promising that that they would be wild. this tweet served as a call to action and as some cases as a call to arms, for many of donald president trump s most loyal supporters. donald trump s 1:42 am tweet electrified and galvanized supporters especially the dangerous extremists and the oath keepers, proud keepers and other white nationalist groups. there were many revelations about the days that led up to january 6th after joe biden had officially been declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, we learned that trump was considering announcing a march ahead of his january 6th rally. the committee has obtained this draft, an dated tweet from the national archives. and includes a stamp saying president has seen. the draft tweet reads, i will b
and google searches local information another data could now be used as evidence of a crime in states that are banning abortion i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. let s begin with the news that dropped in the dead of night from the january six committee. chairman bennie thompson has issued a subpoena to the secret service, requesting text messages and other records related to the capitol insurrection. , that subpoena, issued days after the committee learned that the secret service might have erased texts, from the january 5th, and january 6th, of 2021. now, after those messages were requested by the department of homeland security s inspector general. the secret service, claiming the messages were lost in a data migration but the agency has for decades, now been accused of destroying evidence, and evading congressional investigations. we will have more on that in, just a moment. but news of the subpoena, following a jaw-dropping hearing from the committee, early