good evening, i m mehdi hasan, tomorrow morning the house select committee investigating the january 6th attack on our capitol. will hold its second public hearing, if it s anything at all at the first hearing, it s set to be explosive. tomorrow the panel will zero in on trump s lies, his efforts to spread debunked claims about the 2020 election, witnesses include b.j. pak, former u.s. attorney for the northern district of georgia fire him for not backing his election lies. i ll schmidt, the republican city commissioner of philadelphia, that there wasn t fraud in his city. and bill stepien, and trump s 2020 campaign manager, in thursday s hearing and everybody seen video interviews, we learned the former president s inner circle as well where the big lie was just that. alive. attorney general bill barr revealed that he told his boss, allegations of election fraud
main street where conference is very high they re looking for workers all sign businesses i do think, you know, trade is an issue. i actually see these discussions with china is very encourageing thing. congressman brady reffing to cease-fire own any tariffs that u.s. and china agree to after a the g20 summit. but a few days later president trump tweeted on tuesday, quote, i am a tariff man dow dropped 799 point that day. john. and arrest of that chinese tech executive jeff, what s the impact that that s having? yeah, the arrest of huawei meng happened while the tell come executive tariffing flights in vancouver, canada saying that head stricked financial institutions into making transactions with iran which violates u.s. sanctions. but national economic counsel director larry kudlow says that was a law enforcement matter,
let him leave on own materials the president still has clear respect for john kelly he offered him words of praise saying he s a great guy he appreciates his service and credited with bringing a lot of order to the white house. now, his influence has waned over the past couple of months. reportedly he and the president have been at a sort of stalemate not on speaking terms. and even though republicans on capitol hill really like john kelly and trust him, they ve also argument it makes sense to have someone 2020 politically salve ji as president trump s right hand man. a busy week for in the news of business. congressional reporter for the hill. thank you. thanks for having me. well chief of staff john kelly departure is not only staff shake up coming to the white house trump with a new attorney general as well as nominating next u.n. ambassador, jillian turner with more in washington with all of that. yesterday president trump announced a pair of new appointments via twitter fi
right before the election. and he says in has testimony, quote, in fact, peter struck helped it draft my letters to congress on october 28th, that hillary clinton blames for her defeat. so it is hard for me to see how he was upon team clinton secretly at that point in time. and he also was one of the handful people in the entire world who knew we were investigating four americans remember we talked about this earlier four americans who had had some connection to mr. trump during the summer of 2016, and he didn t tell a soul. so on one hand, the former fbi director is very critical of struck and page for the anti-trump bias or political bias that shown. but he also doesn t throw them under the bus in the sense that he says here that peter struck was one of the only people who knew about the investigation involving trump campaign he did it not leak that information. and he also helped draft the that letter that went to congress that reopened the e-mail case on the eve of the election as
offenses. so you know, these are two felonies that this guy pled guilty to with the president directing it. and cohen filings there s a retches to political synergy despite that reference president trump personal outside rudely is insisting to fox news that cohen acted on his own here. john. barr beer thank you. and following up on allison s reporting new details emerge from robert mueller s court filings, federal prosecutors recommending former trump attorney michael cohen receive substantial time in prison meantime special counsel team believes former trump campaign paul manafort lied about having contact with trump administration official. we have fox news team coverage garrett is in washington, but we begin in our new york city newsroom with jackie. jackie. what these documents don t contain are accusations of collusion between president trump s campaign and russia s medaling in the election. but they do give us a window into what the special counsel is