specific request the department has made for bennie thompson, the chair. our reporters and d.o.j. experts will tell us what, if anything, we should read into that. we also know today that former trump strategist steve bannon will go on trial next week for his contempt of congress case for refusing to answer the committee s question. his legal team lost a second team to delay his trial over publicity of the trial s hearings and as the man who tried to get trump in office prepares to go before a judge, there is also news today about what that man, the one he helped get into the office, is doing in 2024. donald trump telling new york magazine he s already made the decision about whether he will run again for president and that, quote, i feel very confident that if i decide to run, i ll win. it doesn t quite match up to the new york times reporting on how the republican party feels about him but i digress. joining us now is ryan reilly, a justice reporter for us here at nbc new
january 6th committee zeroing in on what could be a key phone call. a source telling nbc news the call was made from from her president trump to a support staffer, it may be rando but the aid is in talk with the select committee. the backdrop to all of it, 2024, with a new interview out today with the former president, saying he s made up his mind about whether or not to try again for the white house and that announcement may be sooner than you think. one of the reporters behind this group is here live. the abortion law that indiana is asking them to put back on the books and who the state is investigating for performing the procedure there, even though it s legal. we ve got a lot of news on this thursday afternoon. we will start here in washington with senior national political reporter, cofounder of the punch bowl news and jake sherman and former u.s. attorney and msnbc contributor chuck rosen. do we start talking about this deal on the electoral count app, is it going
but i didn t wait. they told their doctors. and found out they had. atrial fibrillation. a condition which makes it about five times more likely to have a stroke. if you have one or more of these symptoms irregular heartbeat, heart racing, chest pain, shortness of breath, fatigue or lightheadedness, contact your doctor. this is no time to wait. we are coming on the air with congress getting close to making it harder for a january 6th repeat, with new reporting this hour that senators are getting ready to drop their bill to overhaul how we count electoral votes with a big change coming to the vps role and in the house you got the
at support people can see for themselves what politicians are saying. laura: she wasn t the only one. why do democrats spend most of the hearing begging for restrictions on speech? it got better. you will tell you more of that tomorrow. shannon bream and fox news at night takes it from here. shannon: thank you. we begin with a fox news alert. no reaction from a republican leader among those who insisted on getting a look at another closed-door democrat led deposition. those g.o.p. members are being accused of trying to intimidate witnesses and up at democracy. congressman joins us live to respond to the critics. plus, president trump with the cease-fire in syria is permanent. a top general thanking the president as opponents of the movement syria say he s handed russia and iran a big win. marc short, the vice president s chief of staff joins us live. talking about the vps role