appearance. the sudden scheduling of the hearing suggests she will tell more than during her previous four taped depositions, clips of which were played last week, including the revelation that after the riot, a number of republican congress members had sought pardons from the white house. s had sought pardons from the white house. her boss, mark meadows, appears to be a central figure for the committee s investigation. first turning over his text messages, including the ones he received during the january 6 insurrection from top republican lawmakers, media figures and trump family members, like donald trump junior, marjorie taylor greene and a text chain between top trump white house officials including jared kushner. earlier this month, the department of justice declined to charge meadows on a context referral from the full house. it was made in december on the grounds that meadows abruptly changed course and refused to cooperate with the committee. andrea, this is a surp
Of new evidence and they have live witness testimony and they raised issues about security. possible security involving this witness, of course. what does that tell you, if anything? what can you infer from that, joyce? i think, frankly, andrea, we will have to wait and see what direction her testimony goes. it s difficult to see what the committee could have suddenly found to be urgent, if what she s going to testify to today is part of the ground she had previously covered with them. i heard chuck make a really smart point earlier in the show, which is that as a prosecutor, of course, these folks aren t prosecutors in their role today, but they are acting in an analogous way. you go back to witnesses for more detail, to discrepancies, you learn more and details that to that witness might not have seemed important as they tell more of their story to you, can become very
can you describe for us mr. arnado s responsibilities as the deputy chief of staff? the deputy chief of staph position is arguably one of the most important positions that someone can hold. they are in charge of all security protocol for the campus, the first family, and anything that requires security for any individual that has presidential protection. so the chief of staff, the national security advisor, to t would oversee all of that and he was the conduit between the white house and the secret service. you described a brief meeting about the potential for violence. the meeting was on january 4th, they were talking about the potential for violence on january 6th. let s listen to a clip of that
Not seem to be significant evidence and reaching out to legislatures about that s pretty much the way the white house is handling the post election period. they felt there could be dangerous repercussions in terms of precedents set for elections, for our democracy, for the 6th. they were hoping we would concede. now we re going to turn to certain information that was available before january 4th. and what the trump administration and the president knew about the potential for violence before january 6th. on the screen you will see an e-mail received by acting deputy attorney general donahue on january 4th from the national security division of the department of justice. he testified in our hearings last week. the e-mail identifies apparent planning by those coming to washington on jan 6th to occupy federal buildings and
Member of the fbi, what are you thinking? a great question. because she is now outside the parameters, we believe, of an fbi and doj investigation in terms of protective umbrella. she s attached herself to the committee. we don t know if the committee is talking to law enforcement, capitol police. that would make sense for a congressional witness. who really is protecting her? i have seen reports this morning that she went and acquired security. is it being paid for by the committee? who is doing that? who is the security? lots of questions around this. if it switches over to a doj investigation, she becomes a witness for them, the fbi, doj, the marshalls will have to start thinking about how to secure her. like joyce, like chuck, very concerned about why it s happening today. i m concerned about why it had