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and emmy—nominated journalist caroline modarressy—tehrani. in washington, new house speaker kevin mccarthy is about to preside over his first order of business. the new republican—led congress will sit in the next hour to vote on the rules package. now that might sound a bit in the weeds — but it is the nearest thing to a formal contract, setting out everything the speaker gave away last week, as he fought to secure the support of those on the hard right. it includes a rule change that will meanjust one member can bring a motion to throw him out. there are also concerns among...

getting up "way too early" ton friday morning and all weekend long. "morning joe" starts now. aides found classified documents inside his delaware home. he has had them for a while because a lot of them have to do with the louisiana purchase. >> the justice department is taking this seriously. today the attorney general appointed a special counsel to investigate biden's handling of the documents. i'm not saying biden is getting worried, but he just texted rudy giuliani, so you go, wow, that's not good. that's not good. >> all right. republicans get the special counsel they have bee...

that's the time between his speech to supporters outside the white house, to the moment he asked the rioters — who he called "very special" — to leave the capitol and go home. the committee has said it may hold additional hearings, but tonight will deliver the main argument that the president could have called off the assault, but chose not to do so. let's head straight to capitol hill, and our correspondent nomia iqbal. give us a sense of who we are going to hear tonight. who are the key witnesses? 50. the key witnesses? so, the committee _ the key witnesses? so, the committee h...

under five. is desantis more interested in catching political points then protecting children's whole? all of this coming up and more. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> a good saturday morning to you. i am katie fang. with just three hearings province and it's this far, it feels like we have so much to digest, including shocking testimony and surprising new evidence showing how close our democracy came to a constitutional crisis on january 6th. the committee has two more hearings coming up next week. we have allie raffa, live on capitol hill for a closer look. ali? >> katie, since the january 6th commi...

to a committee member, jamie raskin, in his first interview since the hearing. there was never before seen testimony from trump's inner circle, including attorney general bill barr. and the former president's daughter and senior adviser at funky trump. there was also disturbing new footage of the violent attack that took place on the capitol. the committee made out exactly how the hearings will show that this was a culmination of an attempted coup and they say the former president was at the absolute epicenter of it all. here is just some of what we saw. >> donald trump, the presiden...