investigation which other people have been subpoenaed. in this letter to the cable news host, they released a series of his texts. his communications with trump white house chief of staff mark meadows. the reason they are e leased those texts it appears is to make the case both to him and the public. that he is an important fact witness for the investigation. and they need to ask him asks about what he knows. he may know stuff other people don t. now the tv host in question is a man named sean hannitity. a prime time weeknight host on fox. regardless of whether or not you have heard of him or seen his show or commentary about january 6 or about trump more broadly, it does appear from the investigation released tonight that mr. hannity was kind of in the thick of it. with the white house chief of staff and apparently with the president himself. they say quote, the select committee now has information in its possession indicating you had a advanced knowledge regarding president
the capitol, sean hannity urged. tonight as the committee officially asks hannity to cooperate, congressman adam schiff joins me on that. then i only need 11,000 votes. fellows, i need 11,000 votes, give me a break. from threatening state officials to interfering with congress. and i hope mike pence comes through for us, i have to tell you. what we now know about trump s efforts to steal the election a year ago today. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, the congressional select committee investigating the conspiracy to overthrow self-governance and attack on the capitol has released text messages from fox news personality to the president of the united states and others in the days before and during january 6th insurrection. released in letter to sean hannity, asking he cooperate with their investigation. it s not first time hannity has been featured in the investigation surrounding january 6th. thanks to donald trump s former c
house press secretary announced this decision for a diplomatic boycott, which is different from a full boycott of the winter olympics, which is coming up in a couple months. talk to us about the reasoning. there s a few things the white house has laid out here. reporter: exactly, keyword diplomatic in terms of this boycott. the athletes will still be participaing in the games, but the u.s. won t be sending any government officials. in the past we have seen first ladies attend, other cabinet success tears, normally it s something that s really done with quite a lot of fanfare and that s precisely why white house press secretary said they didn t want to do this. they didn t the to contribute to that. and this is something that dozen send a strong message. we know the president had been thinking about this move for a matter of weeks. he confirmed to nbc news he was considering it. we know he had also bye-bye talking to allies and we can maybe expect other countries to take a s
york. john, hello to you. john: hello to you, sandra. i am john roberts in washington. this is america reports. president biden and speaker mccarthy are working to nail down a deal. mccarthy says that could be any day now. despite both sides struggling to find common ground. sandra: the stakes couldn t be higher. rating agency putting the country s aaa rating on negative watch now as we approach the deadline. house majority leader steve scalise takes us inside the negotiations when he joins us live next h hour. let s go to the hill. what s the mood there? hey there, we are closer and closer to a deal, probably won t happen today according to folks that are close into the meetings and negotiations. this is all about leverage. and we are seeing clearly now that democrats don t really have much of it. a progressive chair woman a mill a eye a pal wouldn t admit to tanking a supposed bad deal if presented by the white house, and that is a huge take away because we are talk
i m katie phang. we start today s show with more new evidence from the january 6th committee. they ve released more transcripts today, including interviews with critical players like donald trump s son don junior and top adviser stephen miller. miller admitted being told of a march to the capitol, telling the committee, quote, i think there might be, like, a plan for there to be a, you know, a peaceful walk to the capitol. the transcripts also revealing don junior was perturbed by the capitol insurrection. the committee questioning him about a text he wrote to meadows advise them to consemithis s stuff, don junior saying he was referring to the violence that s going on. even noting the hypocrisy of it all, saying, i spent the last 18 months call out violence and looting. but the committee alleges trump knew about the violence and didn t want to stop it. remember this critical testimony from former white house aide cassidy hutchinson. i overheard the president say somethin