think it s gonna happen. all i can say is strap in. steve bannon is found guilty of contempt of congress. plus, new research suggesting the january 6th hearings may be sinking in with trump supporters. new details on the criminal investigation of the secret service. former senator al franken on josh hawley s sprint to safety. george conway on the doj indicting steve bannon. when this extended special edition of all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. happy friday. hope you are relaxing somewhere as you settle just tonight. the january six committee has completed its summer hearings. and the material that the committee presented was split into roughly two categories last night. there was new information, like, donald trump, for instance, who never met a camera way, shooing the way the white house photographer on the sixth, so he could be in private, undocumented, doing, god knows what, in the white house january, calling senators, appare
what was it? [ sighs ] i can t remember. top of the hour on cnn newsroom. good to have you along. i m victor blackwell. we re starting this hour with the questions of potential legal jeopardy for former president donald trump and his attorney john eastman. the january 6th committee made its most forceful case yet that trump was responsible for the capitol insurrection. this was their third hearing and the committee revealed evidence that trump and eastman knew that their plot to push then vice president mike pence to delay the certification of the election results was not legal but kept unrelenting pressure on pence anyway, with trump berating and cursing at him on the phone. listen to former trump white house lawyer eric herschmann on his conversation with john eastman. i said are you out of your effing mind, and that was pretty blunt. i said, you re completely crazy. you re going to cause riots in the streets. and he said words to the effect of there s been violence in
buried in his hometown of san angelo, texas. all of this as a bipartisan group of senators tries to finish writing a bill aimed at reducing gun violence. with us to talk about this, sam brock in vestavia hills, alabama, capitol hill correspondent ali vitali. sam, how are people in that community processing what happened last night? i think it s very telling, jose next to this church behind me, there is an assisted living facility who said we are just disappointed at the world. we cannot process how it is possible we re talking about another shooting, another church shooting. right now investigators are going to be updating us within the next hour or so, jose. we re waiting on some details because we know that around dinner time last night the gunman, according to police, walked into the church and started firing, killing two people, one person is wounded and in a hospital. it s not clear what their condition is right now. you re talking about a neighborhood, jose, about ten
and wife karen who s closing the curtains. according to abc the photo was taken after the attackers had already left the capitol chanting hang mike pence. this is set to focus on mr. pence a few hours after they weighed in on whether some in the january 6th crowd were aided by tours they got from republican house members. the information these were reconnaissance tours were not substantiated. today they released a video of a tour that barry loudermilk gave on the 5th of january. he was taking photos of staircases and hallways that are not typical of interests to tourists. this comes two days after the chief of capitol police said and i m quoting from the letter, we do not consider any of the activities we observed as suspicious. congressman loud erloudermilk to it. there is nothing there. there is nothing suspicious. when visitors come, they take pictures. in just a moment we ll be joined by a former police officer who was badly injured in the january 6th attack. first off,
further inflamed the rioters as they were raging through the capitol hunting down the vice president and shouting, hang mike pence. in a preview video released this week, you saw liz cheney referencing a federal judge s ruling back in march that the former president probably violated federal statutes throughout that pressure campaign. a campaign conceived, in part, by lawyer john eastman, a character you will meet today. a big player inside that circle of election deniers working around the clock to try to keep donald trump in power. this hour, we will expand that inner circle with a look at ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas. bennie thompson saying that it is time for the committee to hear from thomas, quote, soon. this is a change in the committee s position and it comes after new bombshell reporting from the washington post on the emails between thomas and john eastman about overturning the election. we are going to talk about the new foc