testimony to special counsel jack smith as his probe into january 6th zooms ahead. exclusive reporting from nbc news s julia ainsley says this, quote, about half a dozen secret service agents have testified before the grand jury that will decide whether or not to indict former president donald trump for his alleged role in the january 6th 2021 riot at the capitol, and efforts to interfere in the peaceful transfer of the presidency. that s according to two sources familiar with their testimony. roughly five or six acts have appeared in compliance with subpoenas they received. while it s unclear what testimony they provided, we do know that trump s secret service agents are very much in a position to corroborate some of the most stunning testimony of the star witness of the january 6th select committee. the meadows aide who pulled back the curtain on the inner workings and private conversations of the trump-directed coup plot. we are talking about cassidy hutchinson. hear is s
without them obviously the russian defenses are going to be somewhat weakened especially around bakhmut. but i think the most important thing now is to deal with the information warfare and propaganda because, i mean, the king is naked. stark naked. and we can see it now. i think one of the biggest conclusions i can make from this clown coup is the fact that the russian general population doesn t care one way or the other. they don t support prigozhin en masse. at the same time most of them don t support putin either. so they re incredibly passive. and therefore, if we can get the elites to clash i think the regime change is becoming tangible. and i think we re now seeing the countdown for putin s demise. and igor, is it i think one of the things maybe we get wrong here is that the greater threats would be from the dissidents, from the left, the people we support, people like navalny.
honestly just drank so much of the cool aid that they believe trump really won, that is why subpoenaing 14 people is huge. this is this could be the thread that starts to unravel the entire clown coup sweater. and i want to dig into this with you because one of the things that i like about you as a legal analyst is you know the law, but i find you speaking english and i try to speak english and i want to discuss this coup plot in english. it was a near miss. we know that near misses are less scary than when you have a full blown accident. i go running, i i ve been running where i didn t look enough and the car came fast by me i realized, gosh, that was close and it makes me a more careful runner. but it is not the same as getting hit by a car. and as bad as the insurrection was and we covered it we did not get to the point where it was january 21st and a criminal