trump s efforts to steal the election a year ago today. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. the congressional select committee investigating the conspiracy to overthrow american self governance and the attack on the capital, have just made another huge move tonight. releasing private text messages sent from a fox news personality to the chief of staff of the former president of united states and others in the day before and during the january 6th insurrection. the texts were released in a letter to sean hannity asking that he cooperate with their investigation. you will probably remember this is not the first time hannity was featured in the investigation surrounding january six. much of that is thanks to donald trump s former chief of staff, mark meadows. back in november, meadows turned over a trove about 9000 documents. a combination of texts and emails. things that he said were not privileged. and then right before it was time to app
Mind that you re in when you wrote that text on january six. we have more hannity techs. he was more than a fox host, he was also the confident advisor, campaigner for former president. new messages from sean hannity weren t released by the january six committee. new questions about exactly what he knew about trump s plans. quote, can he make a statement. ask people to leave the capitol. sean hannity urged. tonight, as the committee officially asked kennedy to cooperate. congressman adam schiff joins me on that. so, what are we going to do here? i only need 11,000 votes. fellas, i need 11,000 votes. give me a break. from threatening state officials to interfering with congress. and i hope mike pence comes through for us. i have to tell you. what we now know about