oath keepers. so january 6th committee members have made claims that they can link members of trump s inner circle to the oath keepers. and new this morning the justice department firing back at steve bannon s sudden about face that he s willing to testify before the january 6th committee just days before his contempt trial begins. trump is waiving executive privilege as he said as bannon has said and waiving should certainly be used loosely here, perhaps in quotation marks so that bannon can testify, but the doj says that doesn t matter even one bit. more on that in a moment. experts obviously believe that never applied in the first place. we do begin with sunlen serfaty who is on capitol hill with more on tomorrow s big hearing. what are we expecting? reporter: certainly a big week up here on capitol hill with two big hearings from the january 6th committee starting with tomorrow. now, tomorrow s hearing will be largely focused on the mob who participated, how did
that the panel having accumulated a veritable treasure trove of juicy details on the trump coup plot, that trove growing by the day, as more and more witnesses testify before the committee. tomorrow investigators will hear from a prominent stop the steal conspiracy theorist with deep pockets and that would be the overstock guy in the words of former white house counsel pat cipollone and his name is patrick byrne and the former ceo of overstock.com. the former furniture industry executive joined lawyer sydney powell and rudy giuliani as well as former national security adviser in the oval on december 18, 2020, days after the electoral college certified that joe biden had won the presidential election. while many of trump s legal advisors had accepted that he had lost the election, byrne and others were pushing an idea that the president could use the national guard to seize voting machines. byrne s oval office access appeared to agitate those staffers hoping to redirect trump
It is good to be back with you for this second hour of Chris Jansing reports. Todays testimony in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial turned to some of the most Critical Evidence yet, the invoices, vouchers and checks at the heart of the criminal case against the former president. While it may not have had the same shock value as, for example, Stormy Daniels testimony, it is setting up the jury for whats expected on monday, testimony from the most highly anticipated witness in this case. Donald trumps former fixer, Michael Cohen, the man who says he paid off the adult film star at trumps direction. The prosecution revealing today that they expect to call one other witness besides cohen. Its entirely possible that they rest by the end of next week. I want to bring in nbcs Yasmin Vossoughian whos reporting from outside the courthouse in lower manhattan, also with us, former u. S. Attorney and msnbc legal analyst, Chuck Rosenberg. In studio, jessica roth, a former federal prosecutor for the so
picking a high-profile democratic person, hillary clinton, to attack on issues that were obviously front and center during the 2016 race. that s really not going to come into play in the courtroom, right? i think in terms of strategy in the courtroom, i think what you re going to see from the trump team is a plan to try to get evidence suppressed that supports the indictment. they re going to look at the affidavit of probable cause that went into the that supported the raid and the warrant for the raid on mar-a-lago. and they re going to try to attack that affidavit of probable cause. they re going to look at the testimony of trump s lawyers and they re going to, you know, look at that carefully and try to poke holes in the idea that the crime fraud exception applied to the attorney/client privilege because obviously he had privilege with his lawyers. they re going to try to say, look, the court went too far in allowing that testimony and the written documentation that came
this case goes forward? a tremendous amount, wolf. because federal judges at the trial level have a tremendous amount of discretion over what comes into court and rulings that she might issue before trial. so, case in point, this all started with the search warrant of trump s property. the defense can file what s called a motion to suppress the evidence that came from that search warrant. it s essentially asking to have everything thrown out from the search warrant. that s the judge s domain and her decision as to what to do with that evidence. if she makes a ruling on that, that gets appealed, it could take months for the appeals court to decide. this question of what happens with the testimony of trump s lawyer, which is somewhat, i don t want to say controversial legally, but a rare decision. you don t see these decisions where attorneys testimonies will come into court. she could rule on that, that could get appealed and that could slow the whole thing down. jury selection, what