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here. from all of our colleagues across the networks of msnbc news, thank you for staying up late and i will see all of you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow now it is a top of the hour. we are looking at live images of the cannon caucus room at the u.s. capitol. members of the january six investigation are about to enter the room and take their seats. in terms of what we are expecting, here betty thompson is expected to gavel the hearing in the session. as i was mentioning we expect opening statements both from chairman thompson, and from the republican vice chair liz cheney. we also...

tonight, the january 6th hearings. good evening. thank you so much for being here with us tonight. we know that you have a lot of options for where to watch and how to watch tonight's hearing. it makes us all the more grateful that you have chosen to be here with us on msnbc. i'm rachel maddo with joy reid. tonight is a big night for us. a big night for american democracy. we have had a few other instances in our modern history of big, public hearings. all the networks scuttling their schedules to air the proceedings live, but none of us have ever covered something quite like this be...

Had much been accomplished in his four years. i think he was proud to have stayed beside the president for all that had been done. but i think he ultimately knew that his fidelity of the constitution was first and foremost oath. and that's what he articulated publicly, and i think that's what he felt. >> his fidelity to the constitution was more important to his fidelity to president trump and his? >> the oath that he took. >> yes. >> you also hear about a lawyer named john eastman. mr. eastman was deeply involved in president trump's plans. you will hear from former fourth circuit federal jud...

Mr. jacobs said this to mr. eastman. >> thanks to your bullshit, we are under siege. you will also see evidence that john eastman did not actually believe the legal position that he was taking. in fact a month before the 2020 election, eastman took exactly the opposite view on the same legal issues. in the course of the select committee's work to obtain information from mr. eastman, we have had occasion to present evidence to a federal judge. the judge evaluated the facts, and he reached the conclusion that president trump's efforts to pressure vice president pence to act illegally by refusing...

This is testimony from the vice presidents chief of staff. >> i think the vice president was proud of his four years of service and he fought like an had much been accomplished in his four years. i think he was proud to have stayed beside the president for all that had been done. but i think he ultimately knew that his fidelity of the constitution was first and foremost oath. and that's what he articulated publicly, and i think that's what he felt. his fidelity to the constitution was more important to his fidelity to president trump and his? >> the oath that he took. >> yes? >> you also hear ...