week. so everything for you to put in your calendars, six weeks from tonight, it is june 9th, that is a thursday. that is apparently when they are going to start. as many as eight hearings now? eight is the number at this point. and we are moving forward. are you going to start at the beginning of the month? at this point, the first hearing is june 9th. and the idea with those public hearings might look like? well, they will be a combination of exhibits, staff testimony. and outside witnesses. that s kind of a combination. will any of those outside witnesses be people who have testified some of them will be people [inaudible] and i think their testimony will be on point as to whether this investigation will [inaudible] some of them will be people we have not heard from before. their testimony will be on point as to why the testimony is so important. that s a chairman of the january 6th investigation, confirming to reporters tonight, confirming how investig
people, people not heard from, i think the testimony will be on point as to why there is an investigation. some of them will be people wein have not heard from before their testimony will be on point as to why this investigation was so important. that s the chairman of the januaryso 6th investigation, congressman bennie thompson confirming to reporters tonight how the january 6th investigators are going to tell us, tell the public, what they have found. and start the 9th, thursday, june 9th, we don t know exactly what the format is going to be or the length of each of these public hearings, how they re going to do it, but they are planning initially to have eight hearings and we think they will all happen during thehe calenda month of june, at least that s what appears to be the plan now and they are saying they will start june 9th. we shall see it. is interesting though, having that time line does give us a little bit more information about where they u are in the process,
and the best he or she can say is: the senator has not done anything illegal. that used to be considered very bad. that used to be considered oh no [laughs] you can t. you re not going to out there and say you can t do anything illegal! that doesn t help them. for mike lee, maybe that s the standard in utah. for senator romney [laughs] it is kind and diplomatic to say listen, everybody who participated for that definitely committed a mistake. that was wrong, and i have always said that. what mike did, it might not have been illegal. [laughs] it s just like oh man. to the point, having that politics reporter, from the salt lake tribune here. saying maybe none of this will hurt him you in utah. i think is a fair assessment, he s in a good position to know. but boy did mike lee tell the public something that was not true about what he was really doing in private. i would like to say this, and wet my friend rachel maddow, she hasn t done anything illegal. i just want to
that used to be considered very bad. that used to be considered oh no [laughs] you can t. you re not going to out there and say you can t do anything illegal! that doesn t help them. for mike lee, maybe that s the standard in utah. for senator romney [laughs] it is kind and diplomatic to say listen, everybody who participated for that definitely committed a mistake. that was wrong, and i have always said that. what mike did, it might not have been illegal. [laughs] it s just like oh man. to the point, having that politics reporter, from the salt lake tribune here. saying maybe none of this will hurt him you in utah. i think is a fair assessment, he s in a good position to know. but boy did mike lee tell the public something that was not true about what he was really doing in private. i would like to say this, and what my friend rachel maddow, she hasn t done anything illegal. i just want to know you re going to start rumors about us lawrence. all right disregard t
it s not only that he was involved in some of the key disputes that we ve heard about within the administration, apparently, but also that is decision to testify saw something about the privilege claims of other people off that they wouldn t. that is a very good point. and he appears and scenes and robert costa s book about this period in the very dramatic scenes and the white house. that the committee already knows about. they ve already read the book, they rarely spoken to other people who are in and around those moments. and so, a lot of this could just be confirming information. but also, a certain amount of this testimony could be trying to make sure that he is not included on the suspect list of people who are committing crimes at the time. yeah, i mean, it s one thing to have anonymous sources or third-party source, or an anonymous narrator in your book describe your behavior in a confrontation over whether or not a crime could be committed, right? it s another