chamber. so far the republicans have done no damage in house of representatives. the damage begins as soon as they have control of it, with the speaker. we will be wishing for the good old days when nobody was seated. and, alex, one nice note for history today is that the person who is next in line for the presidency, after the vice president, is, once again, a woman, because patty murray became the president pro tem of the united states senate, and there is no speaker of the house. so, as of now, the next in line for the presidency is a woman in the united states senate. so, you know, we could live with this. we could. they are welcome. have a great show. thank you alex. thank you. in other news, that you should know, that is actually happening in this country while, in a way, nothing is happening in the house of representatives, is that in south carolina today, the south carolina supreme court has ruled that the south carolina constitution provides a right to priv
search warrant served on monday. that s right, victor. we didn t expect attorney general merrick garland to come out today but he is going to be making a statement from the justice department building in downtown washington. they haven t disclosed yet exactly what it is going to be about, but you re right, there has been pressure building in recent days since this search on monday, this unprecedented search of a former president s home, that we are watching to see whether garland may want to make a statement about this. now, this isn t something that the justice department typically would comment on. it is an ongoing investigation. we don t believe that there have been charges brought at this time. we haven t seen any emerge from this. it s also about national security issues. on top of that, garland is not the type of attorney general that makes a lot of public statements, does a lot of press conferences, even whenever there were charges for seditious conspiracy, another u
hung. he thinks mike deserves it. he doesn t think they re doing anything wrong. tonight new testimony from witnesses who were inside the white house with the president when it happened. it was bad and the situation was getting out of hand. we were always in the dining room. it was my understanding he was watching television. i thought the president needed to tweet something. i read that tweet and made a decision to resign. mike pence didn t have the courage to do what should have been done. the chairman of the investigation, bennie thompson, out with covid. joining tonight by video. we will walk through the events of january 6th minute by minute. we ll tell the story of that supreme dereliction by the commander in chief. a supreme dereliction. tonight s january 6th hearing live from washington with nicole wallace, joy reid, chris hays, lawrence o donnell, stephanie rule, alex wagner. all here for msnbc s primetime hearing on the january 6th investigat
here. stick around to see meaningful space speak mode to learn everything you need to know about the artemis 1 launch. then, for decades, the antiabortion movement had most of us convinced we were living in a so-called pro-life country. let s just marketing. a fall, overall americans are learning the truth about abortion. spoiler, alert abortion rights are popular. how we got to where we are and what it means for this year s elections, ahead. velshi starts now. good morning, it is sunday august 29th. i am ali velshi. for about a full year after donald trump left the white house, 184 unique classified documents totaling more than 700 pages of valuable intelligence reflectivity u.s. government was sitting at his palm beach resort in mar-a-lago. that batch was recovered in january of this year. since, then the national archives in the justice department have received even more classified material from trump this state. including, during a search of mar-a-lago three weeks ago. so
search in a statement after the story first broke, writing, in part, after working and cooperating with the relevant government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate. they even broke into my safe. a top republicans are rushing to condemn the move, which was likely approved by the leaders of the justice department, including christopher wray, the fbi director who was appointed by former president trump. now, we ve got this story covered from florida and washington. cnn s gabby orr has more on what led to the warrant and we re going to begin, though, with cnn s leyla santiago near mar-a-lago. so, give us the details, first, of the search of trump s home. reporter: right, well, it s been more than 24 hours now, victor, since that execution of that search warrant by the fbi. right behind me, right at mar-a-lago. the primary residence of the former president, donald trump. so, here s what we know, and there s a lot we don t know, but let s