joining us this hour. happy to have you here. quick personnel news, good news, i want to say congratulations to alex wagner, who is going to take over the slot that is now msnbc prime, this is just announced today by msnbc, it is great news, in terms of me, nothing about what i m doing is changing, i m going to be doing monday nights from here on out and here for big news events like i have been, things like the january 6th hearing and the supreme court decision friday on roe v. wade, nothing that i m doing is changing at all. but it is great news that starting late this summer, starting mid august, it is going to be alex wagner in the chair here tuesday through friday night at 9:00 eastern. so congratulations to alex. everybody here thinks this is great news. myself included. again, you re still stuck with me for all of the same things you ve been stuck with me on in recent weeks and months. that won t change. but alex is taking over that msnbc prime spot, it is great news.
Effectuate the same outcome. we have those two really big, really dramatic, really just compelling hearings last week. and then after those two hearings last week, i said, we said, we all said, that that would be it for a while. that the january 6th verse was not going to convene any further hearings until at least mid july. turns out that was wrong. today, we got a legit surprise announcement from the january 6th investigate. they are convening a surprise hearing on short notice tomorrow. for all of the other hearings thus far, we ve had a week s notice if not more. this one we got less than 24 hours notice. and we really don t know why. we do not know the subject of this hearing that they have suddenly called for tomorrow. we do not know the witness is going to be or the witnesses are going to be. most intriguingly we don t know what it is about the evidence and the witness testimony they re going to present tomorrow that requires such urgency.
And voters? and speaking of protecting our democracy, congressman jamie raskin says the public will be surprised by some of the new information uncovered by the house committee investigating the january 6th insurrection. that s what citizens in the world s greatest multi-racial, multi-religious, multi-cultural, constitutional democracy need to know, what are the weaknesses that these reactionary alt-right neo fascist forces conspired to take advantage of, because they did. and they will be, i think, both agonizing and riveting for the country to see, how close we came to losing it all. and certainly as close to fascism as i ever want to come in my life. joining us now, lynn kirchner, former federal prosecutor and adviser to the democratic national committee. glen, i ll start with you on the january 6th verse. the committee interviewed