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everyone. i am ayman mohyeldin in for stephanie ruhle. there was an unexpected twist today, the january six committee switching up its playbook, suddenly adding a new surprise hearing for tomorrow afternoon at 1 pm eastern. so, the public can hear from a secret witness. just last week, the panel said remaining public hearings would actually be pushed into july. but late this afternoon, the committee said this new hearing will focus on quote, recently obtained evidence and received witness testimony. who and what we ll hear tomorrow, remains a mystery at this hour. but the short notice of this unexpected hearing has speculation running wild. we also learned today the justice department has been focusing on john eastman. he is, of course, the trump allied lawyer who has become a central figure in the january six committee s investigation. in a court filing, eastman says that a federal agent executed a search warrant, and seized his iphone in new mexico last week. witness ....
January six hearings indicated that eastman was instrumental in pushing pence to overturn the election. and in creating those slates of fake electors in several states that joe biden legitimately won. federal agents took eastman s phone on the same day that they raided the home of former doj official jeffrey clark. of course, you may recall, he was central to trump s efforts to coerce justice officials into backing false claims of election fraud. meanwhile, the nation is still reacting to the supreme court s decision friday, to end constitutional protections for abortion. protests were held across the nation all weekend long, even as more restrictions on the procedure go in effect. as of tonight, as of right now, abortion is now banned in at least seven states. this morning, mississippi s attorney general, officially certified that his states trigger law, making abortion ....
Point in the process? that it s maturing, that they ve developed serious information. and that there is a kind of a kinetic quality between what congress is doing, what katie talked about moments ago, but also, what s the u.s. justice department is doing. so, the u.s. justice department, you know, dawn raid on jeffrey clark s home. that s the assistant attorney general who tried to maneuver to become the acting attorney general, until trump what you want to hear about election fraud, bring bogus lawsuits and the like. but also, today, john eastman, trump s lawyer, stone was seized. it turned out, it was ceased last week. all of this, to me, ayman, in addition, there is a real kind of a step up and both sides of the investigation, congress and the justice department. and they may not be working directly together, but they re obviously sharing some information. there are some disputes about how much information should be shared. but these two different axes, ....
Pursuing an investigation, against, if not donald trump, personally, that hasn t been confirmed yet. certainly, donald trump s, you know, coconspirators of his jeffrey clark, john eastman, and the like. so, the committee is starting to circle. the justice department is starting to circle. katie, what more do we know about the eastman phone seizure, if anything? as well as this raid on jeffrey clark s home, how could this all factor into the justice department s criminal investigation of january 6th? as my colleagues reported, this actually seems more directly related to the inspector general s investigation of what happened at the justice department in the final days of the trump administration. so, we reported, i think the new york times first reported the very first story about jeffrey clark, in the fight over who would run the justice department, in order to with a plan to overturn the election. and the thought to take over. ....