good evening from new york. i m in for chris hayes. we are still waiting for the january 6th committee s report on donald trump s attempted coup. but today, ahead of the final product, the committee has released a brand-new batch of transcripts from its closed-door interviews. those transcripts providing new insight into the inner workings of the trump administration, both in the days leading up to january 6th and as trump s inner circle scrambled to respond to the committee, the committee s investigation. in fact, among the new transcripts is an interview the committee conducted with the former trump secretary of defense, this man, mark esper, who answered questions surrounding the ex president s desire to use the military to quell domestic disputes. in an interview with former deputy press secretary sarah matthews, who said she heard trump seemed to privately admit that he lost the 2020 election. quote, alyssa fara, the former communication director said to me that behind
down claims by trump s attorney that this was a case about records that belonged to trump saying that the documents were not his to have. for her part, judge kennan is at times inclined to order a review of documents into a a special master. quote, justice department attorneys repeatedly pleaded with cannon not to interrupt their ongoing criminal probe that the search warrant excused on august 8th was clearly valid and authorized to obtain evidence of three significant federal crimes. cannon said she was concerned about a couple of instances in which the investigative team had flagged potentially privileged material that was not screened out during the initial review of records. that s the team that was assigned to prevent such occurrences. judge cannon did say that she would unseal a more detailed list by agents at mar-a-lago meaning that we could learn a whole lot more about that extraordinary search. while we await, it is important to put it in broader context. new york
to give sworn testimony rebutting hutchinson s story. dana: also being called into question those hutchison note she wrote impression of her former staff was part of a presidential statement will former white house lawyer eric harshman says such a not write it out all and that it was in fact written by him. high asia. high there good morning to you both look bottom line here is to proceed with caution has even some committee members are saying that some of hutchinson s testimony was hearsay so let s start first with hutchinson s dramatic secondhand account about former president trump president trump lunging towards the steering wheel inside his armored vehicle on january 6 when he was told he could not go to the capital so she testified yesterday that she was told by agent tony arnaldo that trump got into a physical altercation with the agents inside fox news now confirmed that those agents, including age and the lead agent bobby angola are now disputing hutchinson sto
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year. quote, no, no, no, no, no. we don t want to go there. we don t want to talk about that, and quote. it seems like passantino was pressuring hutchinson not to talk about a lot of things. again, according to hutchinson, quote, passantino said, we want to get you in, get you out, we will downplay your role. hutchinson also said that passantino told her, quote, the less you remember, the better. i don t think you should be filling in any calendars or anything. we are not building a timeline. unless you remember a very specific day with a very specific event, i don t recall is your answer. if you don t 100% recall something, even if you don t recall a date or someone who may or may not have been in the room, that s an entirely fine answer, and we want you to use that response as much as you deem necessary. and quote.