the justice department goes public as the january 6th committee goes dark. i think that the hearings did an extremely good job of reminding us how important that day was. today congressman adam schiff and claire mccaskill on the merrick garland interview a new reporting that the dark department of is investigating donald trump. plus as pence for president essentially kicks off, can you really agree to disagree after a violent coup attempt? i don t know that the president and i differ on the issues. but we may differ on focus. and new reporting on the fake electoral campaign up on democracy in the republican running for governor who s in the middle of it all. all in starts right now. good evening from new york and chris says. in the past hour we just got a huge bit of breaking news. the department of justice is investigating donald trump. washington post is reporting that the doj is investigating the ex presidents actions as part of its criminal probe on january 6th.
tonight, congressman adam schiff and claire mccaskill on the merrick garland interview a new reporting that the dark department of justice is investigating donald trump. plus as pence for president essentially kicks off, can you really agree to disagree after a violent coup attempt? i don t know that the president and i differ on issues. but we may differ on focus. and new reporting on the fake electoral campaign to up end democracy in the republican running for governor who s in the middle of it all. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. in the past hour we just got a huge bit of breaking news. the department of justice is investigating donald trump. washington post is reporting that the doj is investigating the ex president s actions as part of its criminal probe on january 6th. sources telling the post of federal prosecutors were questioning witnesses before the grand jury announced hours of detailed questions about troubleshoot in dec
shop and watch football on the same feed. good luck. thanks for joining me. i m max foster. cnn this morning starts right now. good morning, everyone. we re glad you re with us. we begin with breaking news out of israel. right now, a temporary truce is underway between israel and hamas. hours from now, the first round of hostages will be released. at 9:00 a.m. the eastern time, hamas is expected to start freeing 13 hostages abducted during the october 7th terror attacks. it s six hours since fighting was paused in gaza. the truce appears to be holding. a column of tanks and armored vehicles was seen heading away from the gaza strip. drone video shows families walking the streets in southern gaza this morning after the truce began. you can see the destruction from the airstrikes. part of the hostage deal was allowing desperately needed humanitarian aid into gaza. we have been seeing those lines of trucks crossing in from egypt. an egyptian official says 200 trucks fu
investigating donald trump. washington post is reporting that the doj is investigating the ex presidents actions as part of its criminal probe on january 6th. sources telling the post of federal prosecutors were questioning witnesses before the grand jury announced hours of detailed questions about trump in chan s pressure campaign on pence to overturn the election and what instructions trump gave his lawyers and advisers about fake electors and sending electors back to the states. some of the questions focused on the extent of trump s involvement in the fake elector accent effort, led by john eastman and rudy giuliani. of course at some level i think we all thought something like this was happening. but there hadn t been any concrete reporting on this until now. this major news comes tonight as attorney general merrick garland speaking at for the first time since the january six committee wrapped its final
federal prosecutors were questioning witnesses before the grand jury announced hours of detailed questions about troubleshoot in december 20, 20 and 2021. to pressure campaign on pence to overturn the election would instructions trump gave his lawyers and advisor about fake electors and sending electors back to the states. some of the questions focused on the extent of trump s involvement in the fake elector effort, led by john eastman and rudy giuliani. of course at some level i think we all thought something like this was happening. but there hadn t been any concrete reporting on this until now. this major news comes tonight as attorney general merrick garland speaking out for the first time since the january six committee wrapped its final committee hearing for the summer until they return in september. i am going to play for you his exclusive interview with nbc reporter lester holt.