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accusations of as secret service cover-up. then, new details on the new trump guy, now cooperating with the justice department. plus, >> this is not a big, ten this is a christian movement. full. stop >> the republican government for pennsylvania finally responses to the antisemitic comments. >> we dont people who are atheist, we dont want people who are jewish. >> when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, im chris hayes. well, there are even more missing texts. the was...

top of a brand-new hour on "cnn newsroom." im victor blackwell. >> im alisyn camerota. the house committee investigating the january 6th attack is questioning donald trumps former cabinet members. sources tell cnn the committee has a particular interest in conversations that trump officials may have had about re removing him from office in the aftermath of the capitol siege. a source says the committee is speaking with former chief of staff nick mulvaney this afternoon. >> its possible...

Investigation expressed varying degrees of worry about whether the resources doj has allocated the effort are sufficient forces such a vast criminal investigation. you were u.s. attorney. what do you think about that concern? >> the resource concerns are very real. on the one hand, you have to look at this case. and its sort of like, what you tell your kids and when i would tell my prosecutors, how do you eat an elephant? one bite at the time, right? its probably the biggest most complicated cas...

Learned from chairman vinny thompson that the committee will release a report on the national guard as early as august, and more on doj and the secret service. weve learned that of course the former president has said that he called tens of thousands of guards members to go to the capitol. we heard from the former acting defense secretary that he never received that call. fit that piece into the larger picture that we will learn next month, more about that element of the investigation. >> well, ...

After. he didnt stop them going into the capitol even when they were already in there. he didnt stop the violence because he wanted it to happen because he thought it could actually stop the electoral college count. thats the case doj will use if they bring a case. >> thank you. this just in to cnn, the house has passed a bill to boost u.s. semiconductor production. this legislation will now head to president bidens desk. >> it aims to address the global chip shortage and increase american com...

The trump white house or trump advisers and the violent extremists that showed up like the proud boys and the oath keepers? and is the seizing of john eastmans phone records tied to that, do you think, or something different? >> its hard to say. i think one of the gaps left in what weve seen from the committee so far has been these links, the potential connections between the white house and the campaign and the violent extremists. i dont know that john eastman was really in that piece of the co...

The justice department releasing a legal opinion today supporting the treasury secretarys refusal to turn over six years of president trumps tax returns to the house ways and means committee. lets talk about this now with evan perez and elie honig. so good to have both of you on. evan, im going to start with you. so we had this legal opinion. what is the doj arguing here? >> well, don, the justice department is arguing that richard neal, the chairman of the house and ways and means committee and...

To be a legitimate legislative purpose, guess who thats up to? thats up to congress. its not for doj to say we dont believe you. if thats the case doj will take over the legislative function from congress. i think congress is going to prevail if they take this to court. >> elie, another question, the office of legal counsel, their argument is 33 pages, okay, but then you look at the tax code, at least on this, is written, and its very plainly written, upon written request from the chairman of th...

No one could reasonably believe that the committee seeks six years of the presidents tax returns because of newly discovered interest in legislating on the presidential audit process." they -- steve engle goes on to mention that comments made by neal as well as speaker pelosi seems to indicate that what they really want to do is release the presidents taxes publicly and thats the reason why theyre asking for it. >> elie, democrats will no doubt take this to court. will they win is the question? ...

Congress is lying, that the democrats are lying. that what they want to do is release these taxes publicly which they say is not a legitimate purpose. i think the quarcourts are goin decide and elie is right this is very likely to turn out the way of the democrats arguing. >> elie, can we go back to something you were saying. i want to dig deeper. you said this is william barrs justice department doing what he wants them to do, which is what the president wants him to do. william barrs acting mo...