up next. hey, joy. how are you doing? thank you so much for covering that very, very important story. have a great evening. good evening, everyone. we begin the reidout with explosive news into the investigation of january 6th. in a bold and necessary move today, the house select committee requested testimony from a second house republican. congressman jim jordan of ohio. it s a sign that even sitting members of congress cannot evade scrutiny for their role in trump s attempted coup. and for jordan, that scrutiny is long over due. in a letter today the committee expressed interest in jordan s phone calls with donald trump on january 6th saying we would like to discuss each such communication with you in detail. of course, jordan has been almost comically evasive on the details. here is a look back at some of his explanations. did you talk to the former president that day? i ve talked to the former president up teen times thousands not thousands but countless tim
with him that day after. i think after. i don t know if i spoke with him in the morning or not. i just don t know. he just doesn t know. the committee is about to find out the facts. we don t know if jordan will comply with this request. they can issue a subpoena if he stonewalls. jordan also admitted sending a message to trump s chief of staff, mark meadows, on january 5th offering a legal theory on how trump could block biden s win. joining me now, former federal prosecutor joyce vance, juanita tolliver. trump is deeply unnerved by the january 6th committee. i wonder what you are now reporting given this jim jordan news? yeah, we reported early in the week that trump was reagitated by the amount of communications and documents that meadows had turned over to the select committee. i can only imagine that the former president is even more unnerved now because it appears that the committee is going to go after his biggest allies in congress, including jim jordan, who the c
Your final thoughts, seth? ultimately, the numbers of people held in i.c.e. detention go up and down depending on who the president is or what is happening around immigration policy but the fact is that i.c.e. detention, detaining immigrants seeking protection in the u.s. or fighting deportation remains a central part of the american immigration policy. it remains a central part of how we deal with immigration and that s a choice that the federal government makes. nearly nobody who is detained has to be detained as a matter of law. it s at the discretion of the federal government and that was true during the pandemic in the early days. it s true now for many tens of thousands of people who remain held in i.c.e. detention around the country. very grateful for your work and your reporting and for your time with us tonight. thank you so much. you can watch seth s film. it s called the facility part of the holiday marathon beginning sunday at 2:00 p.m. eastern. that does it for me.