unregistered foreign agent i believe was the charge. but this is another solicitation from hunter biden, and he refers to the bidens, plural, and they are best at doing what the chairman wants. i think that s very concerning to our committee because this is a chinese communist party owned entity. this is of concern to our national security, and i did not know, in closing, if you had any information with respect to that, there appeared with respect to those messages, it was something we needed to follow up on, and that was one of the major deviations, that investigators asked to follow to take some investigative steps to review vet, and it just was not supported. further delving into what that means, i simply cannot do. i can promise you we are not going to stop until we understand what he fully meant by a bad message to a chinese communist party official. can i say something about that? thank you for that question. there was a long what that message contained in that th
arraignment expected to be met with crowds outside of the courthouse. law enforcement declaring they re ready if protests take a turn for the worse. inside trump s legal strategy. the possible defense plans his team could use. could this all end up at the supreme court? all coming in to cnn news central. that is the miami federal court, where in just a few hours, former president donald trump will surrender himself to the custody of federal marshals. we just learned intriguing, new information to the extent that trump seems to be keeping the other individual indicted, walt nauta, as close as he possibly can. he flew with him to florida and ate dinner with him last night. at this moment, trump is at his resort in doral, a few miles from the court. cnn has exclusive video of the president last night greeting supporters there. later, the former president will be taken by car to the court. it is expected he will drive under the building. his appearance is scheduled for 3:00 p
former president suggested to his attorney that he falsely tell the fbi and the grand jury that they didn t have any documents, and they go through chapter and verse of his conversations with evan corcoran, who is identified here as attorney number one. they also say that the former president directed his valet, his assistant, his aide, walt nauta, to move boxes back and forth to conceal them from evan corcoran before corcoran did a search, and then was able to tell the justice department there were fewer documents than there really were at mar-a-lago. again, the justice department saying these are some of the things that the former president did to try to get his attorney to hide or destroy documents. he said that they they say he provided the fbi with just only some of the documents that had been demanded under a grand jury subpoena. and he s also caused a certification to be submitted to the fbi saying they were producing all the documents, when, as you know, when the fb
something, tucker, i have never seen before or heard of, an electronic sniffing dog and they took all of the electronics from my house. new fallout this morning from revelation that is six republican lawmakers sought preemptive pardons from former president trump before and after the attack on the capitol. that is according to emails and testimony revealed by the january 6th committee. was representative gaetz requesting a pardon? i believe so. a pardon that he was discussing, requesting, was as broad as you could describe. mr. biggs did, mr. jordan talked about congressional pardons but he never asked me for one. mr. gohmert asked for one as well. mr. perry asked for a pardon, too. did marjory taylor green contact you? no, she didn t contact me about t i heard that she had asked white house office counsel for a pardon. so what were the roles of the pardon seekers in january 6? let s bring in tom foreman to walk us through that. tom? if you look at all sifolks
then i ll tell you this. it s not gonna happen like you think it s gonna happen. all i can say is strap in. steve bannon is found guilty of contempt of congress. plus, new research suggesting the january 6th hearings may be sinking in with trump supporters. new details on the criminal investigation the secret service. former senator al franken on josh hawley s sprint to safety. george conway the doj steve bannon, and this extended special edition of all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. happy friday. hope you are relaxing somewhere as you settle just tonight. the january six committee has completed its summer hearings. and the material that the committee presented was split into roughly two categories last night. there was new information, like, donald trump, for instance, who never met a camera he didn t like, showing the way the white house photographer on the sixth, so he could be in private, undocumented, doing, god knows wh