tonight, brand-new januar 6th committee transcripts, jus in, as we analyze the full report, and where all of the investigations go from here. then, from dangerous weather to tripledemic illness on th rise what you need to know, heading into this holiday weekend. looking back at this consequential week, and th focus on fighting for democracy, and freedom, both here, an abroad our favorite historians, her to put it all in perspective as a special, extra earl addition of the 11th hour is underway, on this friday night good evening once again i am stephanie ruhle nearly 24 hours after its fina report was made public, tonight, the january 6th committe released a new batch of witnes transcripts. they are from interviews wit key people in trump administration, including, bil barr, pat cipollone, kayleig mcenany, hope hicks, and his daughter, and senior adviser ivanka trump we will break down what we are learning in just a moment, but first, the committee s repor is wrapping up
house took a big step in tha direction, passing the 1.7 trillion dollar omnibus fundin bill one part of it modernizes th electoral count act, making it a whole lot harder for someone to try, what trump tried to do in 2020. joining me now to discuss is linda gallon, aka th internet s very popular an informative politics girl. and former florida republica congressman, carlos curbelo, now an msnbc political analyst carlos, can explain how th update of the electoral coun act is gonna work? well, steph, what i ll tell you is what i think is mos important. so, we know what donald trum thought the weak spot was. he thought that he could convince mike pence to just ge up there on that speakers rush room in the house, and just do whatever he wanted, cancel votes, declare certain votes invalid. so, the most important thing people have to understand abou this electoral count act refor is that it makes it very clear