thank you, laura, see you friday. this is don lemon tonight, on the eve of the first public hearing by the committee investigating what happened on one of the darkest days of our history, we have audio of what the republicans were saying after, comes from their book this will not pass, going to talk to them on this program, don t want to miss this. but hear kevin mccarthy describing what happened when he was evacuated from office and how he called the president so tell him to call off the rioters. i made a phone call to the president telling him what was going on, asking him to tell these people to stop. to make a video and go out. and i was very intense and loud about it. he did put a tweet out, later he did put a video out. i told him i didn t like the video but wished that video was first. what they said then, what they re saying now. and then goes on, kevin mccarthy calls for bipartisan commission to investigate the circumstances around the attack and to insist, i
Plus the president s latest hard right turn to try and sell trumpcare 2. 0. Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated. And from selling your Internet Browser history what the heck are you thinking . To rolling back protections for women. How trumps america is taking shape faster than you know. Would you like to make a change, folks . When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Amid a steady drip of news about trump worlds connections to russia and under the shadow of an unprecedented federal probe into possible collusion between a foreign adversary and the sitting president s campaign, the white house and the gop is in full change the subject mode. The scandal is not what we know, its how we know it. In a throw back to the benghazi days, theyve got a familiar scapegoat. Former National Security adviser
susan rice. I believe susan rice abused the system, and she did it for political purposes. She needs to be brought in and questioned under oath.
It gave no means of tracing this back to the source, but it had a lot of information in it about things that had been happening in trump tower. And it appeared to be from somebody inside the transition or inside trump tower who was concerned about what this person was seeing. And a lot of whats written or conveyed in this letter has sort of come become true over time. Its taken a while for a lot of this stuff to surface, including this detail about this discussion over a back channel or a private channel of communications with moscow. Again i just want to im trying to sort of bend over to read this as charitably as possible. So i mean is it possible that they were setting up lots of different back channels with lots of different foreign leaders . Well, we dont i mean i suppose its possible. Clearly they were in communication and meeting with a lot of leaders, a lot of foreign leaders. Most of them, as you point out,
were coming through the front door, not the back door. The behavior he
Election fallacy, and separated themselves. she and her husband both testified apparently on video for some portion of it to the select committee. there s reports they may show videotaped portions on the day. ivanka trump according to reporting was back and forth up and down the stairs, repeatedly asked by meadows, chief of staff, to go into trump and ask him to call off his supporters. as we know he didn t, recorded a video saying we love you. she hasn t spoken publicly about this. you have new reporting, upcoming book with your husband and new york times correspondent peter baker on the final days of the election, including what they were doing. reporting about kushner from peter s piece in today s
Insurrection committee. congresswoman, thank you so much for being with us. i know you re limited how much you can tell us about kushner s testimony, but how crucial was it? well, as you noted, we can t go into the testimony unless there s been a vote of the committee to release the information which has not occurred in this case. but you can imagine if the interview went on all day long which it did, that there was information exchanged and we appreciate that mr. kushner came in, and we re hoping to hear from his wife, the president s daughter, as you know, we sent her a letter asking, and we hope that she will follow the path taken by mr. kushner. and was jared kushner combative? was he cooperatedive? i know you can t get into the detail of what he said, but for