possibly still to come. we are actually helping the american people instead of just playing political games. and the political payoff for doing the right thing. i ve been very clear, i think he s guilty of the most serious dereliction of duty of any president in our nation s history. reports of a quiet republican effort to try to save this chinese seat, will it work? plus, the julia podcaster from texas and his performative outrage. and a 50 million dollar judgment against alex jones for his sandy hook lies. when all in starts right now. good evening from washington, d.c., i am mehdi hassan in for chris hayes. so, it is friday morning, the first friday of the month of august, and you are producer of fox the country is awaiting the july jobs report. and even the white house has admitted that the numbers are going to be bad. of course, this is the store you go big. on the jobs report is going to be lousy. joe biden s economy is in the gutter. the white house is al
months in jail. at least 884 people have been charged in connection with january the 6th. and a big one may be on the horizon. usa today reports that lawyers for donald trump, quote, have been in contact with justice department officials in an apparent attempt to block access the conversations with his former top aides. trump was also reportedly ignored advice to cut off contact with his former white house chief of staff, mark meadows, after aids tomatoes cassidy hutchinson provided stunning testimony to the january six committee, potentially singling out meadows as a key witness in the probe. quinta jurecic he s a senior editor of the lawfare blog, where she wrote today about the lessons and limits of the january 6th committee. quinta, thanks for coming on the show. the committee and the doj are running almost in parallel, certainly at times are intercepting in tracks. which investigation do you think ultimately will have the biggest impact? i think it s a question of
everyone else, he reads the news, his lawyers probably have heard what is going on and, as lawyers do, they are taking steps to try to defend their client. last quick question if we do get more public hearings out of the 16 committee, what would you want to hear from them? what would you want to prioritize? so, we are expecting to hear more from them in september. they have promised that. i think they have left a great deal open. they had an enormous amount in sort of sketching out the broad strokes on what happened on january 6th. and trump s personal culpability. i still think that one of the big, open questions that we have has to do with whether or not there was any knowledge or coordination between the trump campaign the white house, and the folks on the ground on january 6th. like, the oath keepers and the proud boys. that strikes me is something that, if the committee brings to light any new evidence in that, that that could be potentially very groundbreaking. in the, it