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to the committee s probe and it s the first conviction of anyone for the defying the committee. they guilty verdicts are now putting the spotlight on others who have to find the committee subpoenas, including secret service agents who have lawyered up with private counsel. as the probe into the text messages. which are potential evidence turned into a criminal inquiry. all of that is making a blockbuster week for the january six committee. it used a second primetime hearing to show it excruciating detail that trump consistently and repeatedly resisted pleas to condemn that maga mob that was the filing the capitol. the mob was accomplishing president trump s purpose, so of course he did not intervene. here is what will be clear by the end of the hearing, president trump did not fail to act during the 187 minutes between leaving the ellipse and telling the mob to go home. he chose not to act. joining me, now charles clemente union at msnbc legal analyst and civil righ ....
attempts. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this thursday, july 21st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for joining us. we begin with tonight s eighth hearing from the house january 6th committee investigating the attack on the capitol. it is set for 8:00 p.m. eastern and is expected to last about two hours. the committee says it is likely to be the final of this round of hearings. but more are likely to be scheduled around the release of two reports later this year. the committee chair bennie thompson will lead the hearing and he will do so remotely after testing positive for covid on tuesday. the hearing will focus on what the committee calls a former president trump s dereliction of duty. and a minute by minute account of what happened inside the white house between trump s rally at the ellipse and his tweet finally telling the capitol rioters to go home. the washington post is reporting this morning that the public could see outtakes from trump s janu ....
raided and occupied by a large group of fbiiearge agents trump wrote , nothing like this has ever happened tota a president of the united states before. trump said the raid, whichte wa unannounced, amounts to, quote, prosecutorial misconduct, weaponization of the justice system and an attack by the l radical left democrats who desperately do not want me to run for president d in 2020 four, especially based on recent polls. trump said agents also broke into his safe. former president donald trump concluded his statement, noting that hillary clinton, quote, was allowed to delete an acid wash three thousand emails after they were subpoenaed by congress. but the doj did nothing about that. the new yorkin times is reportig tonight that the search is ,se quote, focused on material thatn mr. trump had brought with himr- to magalog. it waste private clubnc and residence after he leftes the white house. those boxes allegedly contained many pages of classified documents, accordin ....
justices. activist groups on the left are now offering bounties for information on the locations of the conservative members of the high court so they can physically confront them in public and it is already started. leadership at today s hearing opened with this. the overturning roe supreme court has unleashed a healthcare crisis across america. make no mistake. women s health and in some cases their lives are at risk. regardless of views on this issue we should all respect the role of the impartial judiciary seeking to intimidate or attack the court or undermine its credibility because of an outcome that you don t agree with is dangerous and that s not an answer. harris: let s remind everybody of the assassination attempt on the life of conservative supreme court justice brett kavanaugh. that s the back drop to all of this. yet the white house continues to defend protests. the president has always been honest about what needs to be done and what he believes ne ....
accountable, and the legislation that might serve you, it all goes away. joining me now is current florida congresswoman and candidate for u.s. senate, congresswoman val demings. she is a former impeachment manager and trump s first impeachment trial. we are both in the beautiful city of new orleans celebrating before we get into, that i want to ask you, because you served as a house impeachment manager, i have been riveted by the testimony each week but something else more shocking happens every week. i want to hear your, thoughts you ve more intimate view, what was the most shocking thing you heard out of the january 6th hearings so far? tiffany, it s great to be back with you. let me just say, during the first impeachment trial, there was no doubt in my mind that the president used his power to try to coerce a foreign power. it isn t interesting that it s ukraine to interfere in the united states election? i knew that we would be at this point, because i knew num ....