they have also released new text messages by hannity. one of them sent the day before the riot, which reads i am very worried about the next 48 hours. joined now by timothy snyder, history professor at yale, extensively about the ways, tyrants and dictators twist the truth. also thorough of tyranny, 20 lessons from the 20th century. professor, thanks for joining us. you said the most distressing thing about american news coverage right now is we don't treat the end of democracy in america as the story. which is obviously an incredibly alarming statement. why do you believe about the -- what do you believe about the end of democracy? >> well, i guess, anderson, we should probably get the alarm part out of the way so we can move on to the serious analysis and the repair because i think being alarmed is a way an excuse say i am shocked by this, what we really mean is we are not prepared to face thing the way we are. we are not prepared to act. most democracies fail. the patterns we have seen in this country, especially in the last four year

sean hannity was right. in every one of sean hannity's texts that have been released by the committee, sean hannity is right. including the first techs. the committee quoted today, written on new year's eve 2020 from sean hannity to donald trump's final white house chief of staff mark meadows. quote, we can't lose the entire white house counsel's office. i do not see january six happening the way he's said it is being told. after the six, he should announce he will lead the nationwide effort to reform voting integrity. go to fl and watch joe messed up daily. stay engaged. when he speaks people listen. reporting by bob woodward and robert costa in their book, peril, and by others indicate that around the time of that text the white house counsel along with most of the top officials in the justice department were threatened to quit if donald trump fired his acting attorney general and replaced him with jeffrey clark. he has been subpoenaed to testify to the committee about jeffrey clark's own ideas about how t

the level of access that hannity had to him. people inside the white house would call hannity and talk about the show. they knew it was a way to effectively get through to the former president, he would respond and see what was on television. that speaks to a level of closeness. we don't have any notion that that has changed. clearly it does show how people even publicly it seems, so close, they have this relationship. they disagreed on what was happening at the time, they disagreed on how trump should be handling that, and trump is saying he disagrees what hannity's advice was to mark meadows. >> bill, i don't normally focus on fox much because i don't think it's like naval gazing, i'm interested in covering news not what some other network is doing but it does stun me the extent to what sean hannity is a mouthpiece, asking jim jordan for pointers he should say on air. it's extraordinary to me. it shouldn't be, but it is. >> it's always been extraordinary with him. remember, he campaigned for trump. he was out publicly campaign

they have the receipts from sean hannity. whatever alarm he felt behind the scenes, he's remained loyal in the lead up to the insurrection. talk to me about the relationship and can they keep this pearl clutching about oh, my gosh, the liberal media whatever, when they are, as you say, they exposed as complete actors? >> reminds me of what i heard several times, which is -- what sources would say is hannity thinks trump is crazy. i remember a very vivid comment about sean, r why are you vaping so much? if you were hearing what i was hearing from trump, you'd be vaping too. that's the conversation you'd hear trump hannity confidantes. and i think trump and hannity need each other. this is a mutually beneficial relationship and that has not ended. trump needs -- >> trump and fox need each other. >> they do. you should not -- no matter what you think about democrats, you shouldn't have television hosts spending all their free time advising the president. they know it and knew it during the presidency. think of all the long-term

sean hannity, now. >> hannity: welcome to "hannity." fox news alert: the 45th president of the united states, donald j. trump, is only moments away. we have a lot of ground to cover. serious crisis at home, serious crisis abroad. aydin's first year at the white house has been an abject failure, and yesterday's train wreck marathon press conference only made everything worse. look at the cover of "the new york post." "he said "what"?" now, we know where they have been hiding him away pretty much every occasion. his press conference wasn't so bad, white house press secretary of propaganda jen psaki had to circle back and was forced to issue not one but two lengthy statements clarifying biden's remarks. "he really meant to say this," including the president's inept comments surrounding ukraine that shocked the world. and between the lying, the rage, and the bizarre whispering and bouts of confusion, joe biden all but gave the green light foe ukraine, so long as it was a "minor incursion." the russians are testing us. joe biden failed that

sean hannity was right. in every one of sean hannity's texts that have been released by the committee, sean hannity is right. >>> and -- and officials in the justice department were threatening to quit if donald trump fired his acting attorney general and replaced him with jeffrey clark who has been subpoenaed to testify to the committee about jeffrey clark's only ideas about how to illegally overturn the results of the election. sean hannity says "i do not see january 6th happening the way that he is being told. we know at that time donald trump was being told the lie that vice president mike pence could reject electoral votes given to any state. sean hannity was telling donald trump go to f.l. we know that in donald trump psyche that was the same as telling him to go to hell. the hell of living in florida as a loser. on january 5th, the night before the trump mob violently attacked the capitol and screamed their hope of killing mike pence, sean hannity texted i am very worried about the next 48 hours. turn

what do you think hannity knows? >> what is leerclear from these texts is sean hannity was right in the mix. he was serving as adviser, interested party, cheerleader really for the president and his administration. i think it makes perfect sense the committee wants to ask sean hannity just that question. what did you mean by this text? what was it base on? who did you speak to? one of the interesting things the committee does in its letter to sean hannity is show him we have the receipts, dozens of texts, and they quote them to sean hannity and make very clear why they are and should be very interested in talking to him. >> hannity texted this to mark meadows december 31st, i quote. we can't lose the entire white house counsel's office. i do not see january 6 happening the way he is being told. after the 6th he should announce we'll leave the nationwide effort to reform voting integrity, go to florida, and watch joe mess up daily, stay engaged. when he speaks people will listen. this seems to suggest that january 6th

they have the receipts from sean hannity. whatever sean hannity felt, he remains loyal to trump. talk to me about their relationship and can they keep this sort of pearl-clutching about oh my gosh, the liberal media when they are as you say whoever said that to you, they are exposed as complete actors. it reminds me as what i heard several times. it was -- he knows and the sources would say hannity thinks trump is crazy. he thinks trump is crazy. i remember a vivid comment about someone saying sean, why are you vaping so much? if you wear what i heard from trump, you would be vaping too. sean was in about it and he knew the truth about trump but he could not or did not ever say it. these text messages bring it into sharp relief. trump and hannity needed each other. this is a beneficial relationship. that relationship has not ended. >> fox news presidency was such a cancer. no matter what you think of democrats are up against, you should not have television host spending all their free time advising the president. it's not the way the world is supposed to work. everybody knew it.

what did hannity know? committee writes quote, it appears from other text messages you may have had a conversation directly with president trump on the evening of january 5th and perhaps other times regarding his planning for january 6th. sean hannity may have been talking to donald trump the night before it happened. what did they discuss? other part made my head turn, hannity may have been talking to members of the cabinet about possibly removing him from office. later on january 6th, you texted to meadows' press coverage relating to potential effort by members of the president's cabinet to remove him under the 20th amendment. secretaries devos and chao resigned as did members of the staff. we would like to question you regarding conversations you had with mr. meadows and others about removing the president under the amendment. let that sink in for a second. was sean hannity having discussions with trump's chief and staff and others about removing trump? boy, you think you know a guy. bad as all that is,

this is from sean hannity. to mr. meadows, who we know turned over some documents before being held in criminal contempt of congress. quote, we can't lose the entire white house counsel's office. i do not see january 6th happening the way he is being told. after the 6th, he should announce he will leave the nationwide effort to reform voting integrity, go to florida and watch joe mess up. stay engaged and when you speaks, people will listen. you've read the letter. your thoughts? >> it is absolutely stunning, nicole. the document displays a number of things, including -- i mean, yes, it is a -- it's a bombshell. i'm sure we've said that a lot of times, but it is literally a bombshell. the committee knows everything that went on in these relationships, and they have sent a clear signal to sean hannity that they have all of his emails and communications with the white house chief of staff, probably because the white house chief of staff turned them over to the committee when he was still cooperating. so, they now know t

sean hannity is a propagandist. there's something so striking in the gap between what he says privately and publicly, and just the journalistic failure of having that kind of scoop, of understanding that the president of the united states is preparing to do something illegal to subvert the election and not telling your audience about it, you know, it's such a sort of betrayal of his role, even if it's a role that we all believe he doesn't take very seriously. >> that's such an incisive point you make, and it dove tails with, again, it's one of these nights we're getting a lot of news, i'm just told in my ear the producers that donald trump was planning this big news conference at mar-a-lago on january 6th trying to seize attention or time or whatever. the news breaking just now as we're on the air that he is canceling that. an ex-president and politician who has sought many ways to seek attention from his blogs to his press appearances backing down, apparently, or canceling that. that's brand new. before we go, i do

hannity had him on. navarro was talking about how the sixth will be one of the biggest is in history, and he likened it to washington crossing in delaware, which if you remember, it was a surprise attack. there's a lot of context, for what hannity may have been hearing off air, that would've given some alarm on why we're seeing these text messages leak out. no >> yeah, that's a good point. the amount of playing with fire that is happy injuring this period, is off the charts. oh gosh, it looks like stuff is burning. desperate techs behind the scenes. and then that, night lighting off the fireworks. barbara, as somebody who has overseen investigations, fact finding, enterprises in the roles as u.s. attorney, what do you think the significance here is in terms of the development of this investigation? >> well, i think documents can be an absolute gold mine, because people will tell you one, thing but the documents will show you what was in their minds, and what was happening at the time. so, looking at thes

. >> hannity: kevin mccarthy, we thank you. joining us live on the phone, author of this brand-new book. i am in to cope new pages of it, which should make it the biggest best-seller of all time. "our journey together: the 45th president of the united states," donald j. trump. the president, thank you for being with us. let's get your thoughts about the nearly two hour press conference with joe biden joe biden yesterday. >> president trump: well, it was a very sad time for our country. forget politics. i want him to do well. he's got to do well. our country is in trouble. what happened in the last year, i don't think we've had anything like it in this country. you look at that horrible situation in afghanistan, the way they got out. getting out was good, but the way they got out -- we could have got with strength and dignity and kept -- one hour away from where they nuclear weapons, and china, we should have kept it. people told us years ago to build. the way we got out, soldiers killed. on top of it, $85 billion worth of equip

the committee investigating the attack is focusing on one text by sean hannity, hannity, an undervalued assistant to trump, was going about handling things behind closed doors. on january 5, he texted mark meadows saying he was very worried about the next 48 hours. because of this and dozens of other texts, the panel has asked hannity to voluntarily cooperate in answering some key questions. whitney wild joining us now. whitney, what more did we learn in these texts? >> we learned the extent that sean hannity was clearly worried that the president was spiraling. here's one example, and really, i think it's important for viewers to understand that the committee is trying to drill down on communications sean hannity had with trump himself, with members of the white house staff, members of trump's inner circle between december 21st and january 20th of 2021. let's go through one text message on december 21st. this is from sean hannity to mark meadows. we can't lose the entire white house counsel's office. i do not see january 6 happening the way he is being told. after the 6th. he should an

sean hannity urged. >> the committee's letter to hannity cites another takes to medals from december 31st 2020, in which kennedy appears to be referring to trump. quote, we can't lose the entire white house counsel's office. i do not see january six happening the way he is being told. after the six, he should announce that he will lead the nation wide effort to reform voting integrity. go to florida and watch joe mess of daily. stained gauged. when he speaks people listen. then, on the night before the insurrection. the committee says hannity set a stream of texas including one that read, quote, i am very worried about the next 48 hours. the committee says he texted mark meadows, quote, pence pressure. white house counsel will lead. the committee also said it appears hannity had a conversation with donald trump on january 10th, ten days before joe biden's inauguration. the panel says hannity also wrote mark meadows and republican congressman, jim jordan, saying quote, guys we have a clear path to land the plane in nine days. he can't mention the election again. ever. i did not have a

sean hannity does on his program as well and we get sort of two side of hannity here. someone who is nervous about what could happen on january 6th. someone who's warning the president against talking about this election going forward, but then somebody who's publicly standing by donald trump's side, promoting the big lie, embracing the big lie, and then more recently, sort of down playing what happened on january 6th. listen, it's no surprise that hannity is working hand in glove with this white house. i think in many ways, donald trump himself is a product of fox news and offered instruction from them and you even see more recently, the idea that he was going to have a press conference on january 6th and talk about what happened on january 6th and talk about the folks who are being prosecuted and in court and probably defend them. he has been advised in some ways by the people on fox, this wasn't a good idea. it is not a surprise to see that hannity is one way in private and another way in public to please donald trump. nor is it any surprise he's trying to advise an

and jon, the committee is asking for hannity to, quote, voluntarily cooperate here. any word tonight whether he will? >> reporter: hannity's lawyer has just put out a statement, saying they are evaluating the request from the committee and saying, quote, we remain very concerned about the constitutional implications, especially as it relates to the first amendment. they say they will respond as appropriate. so, no answer yet from hannity, david. >> jonathan karl with us from washington. thank you, jon. and with the january 6th anniversary on thursday, my interview with the officers who defended the capitol, one year later. what they're asking of their leaders in this country, and the one word that came up repeatedly in this interview. that airs tomorrow night right here on this broadcast and later tomorrow night on "nightline." >>> we turn next here tonight to the court battle involving prince andrew unfolding here in new york. the continuing fallout involving jeffrey epstein. lawyers for prince andrew arguing now for a dismissal of a civil lawsuit accusing of him se

so, no answer yet from hannity, david. >> jonathan karl with us from washington. thank you, jon. >>> and with the january 6th anniversary on thursday, my interview with the officers who defended the capitol, one year later. what they're asking of their leaders in this country, and the one word that came up repeatedly in this interview. that airs tomorrow night right here on this broadcast and later tomorrow night on "nightline." >>> we turn next here tonight to the court battle involving prince andrew unfolding here in new york. the continuing fallout involving jeffrey epstein. lawyers for prince andrew arguing for a dismissal of a civil lawsuit accusing of him sexually assaulting virginia giuffre when she was 17. they claim a 2009 lawsuit between giuffre and epstein alleged that giuffre was sexually exploited. prince andrew's legal team saying the 2009 settlement between her and epstein that ended that lawsuit prevents her from suing the prince because it applied to, quote, potential defendants. her legal team says terms of that settlement do not apply to the pri

we know this is a formal outreach to sean hannity. they are collapsing in on the trump inner circle. for two reasons, brianna. one of them is about the details going on in the white house in this really critical time on january 6th remain very elusive at this point. and the reality is the committee needs to establish the mind-set of the former president. that is why they are reaching out to the people they think may know it best. the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection now wants to talk to former vice president mike pence and fox news host sean hannity. the chairman of the select committee told cnn he wants pence to voluntarily speak with the panel about what he witnessed one year ago tomorrow and the conversations leading up to that day. >> i would hope that he would do the right thing and come forward and voluntarily talk to the committee. >> reporter: he said he certified the election despite risk of the rioters, who heard from days president trump's pressure campaign on his vp to halt the process. >>

to hannity cites another text from december in which hannity is referring to trump. we can't lose the entire white house counsels office. i do not see january 6th happening the way he is being told. after january 6th he should announce he will lead the nationwide effort to reform voting integrity. when he speaks, people will listen. and then on the night before the insurrection, the committee says that hannity said a stream of texts including one that read i am very worried about the next 48 hours. the committee said he texted mark meadows, pence pressure. white house counsel will leave. it appears he had a conversation with donald trump. hannity wrote mark meadows and jim jordan saying guys, we have a clear path to land the plane in nine days. he can't mention the election again, ever. i did not have a good call with him today and worse, i am not sure what is left to do or say and i don't like not knowing if it is truly understood. the members of the january 6th panel want to speak with mike pence who did certify the results of the election despite the intense press

hannity is a fact witness any way you cut this. before these events happened and while january 6th happened. he's an obvious person. any prosecutor, any investigator would go right to that and say that's a person i need to speak with. he's a journalist so there are first amendment concerns, but the distinction here, they don't seem to be looking at anything that has to do with hannity's journalistic capabilities. they're not asking about his sources. they're asking about his communications with the white house. >> you know, dana, this is someone who mr. trump's, one of his biggest defenders in public. how credible is it to see what was going on behind the scenes? he was raising the alarm just ahead of the january 6th attack, urging the then president to stop talking about the election. >> he was one of so many people we know about who had a direct line to the then president, begging him to stop with the lies. what is really fascinating as elie said, in this letter that the committee just sent, they explicitly say that they don't, t

hannity for information and news. he's in the news and the one place you can't find out about it as of last night is on mr. hannity's program. thanks to both of you. a lot of food for thought. >>> coming up, later we will get into the fallout from a trump ally basically admitting the coup prep on live tv. >>> also, there's good news on what science is saying about aspects of omicron. dr. howard dean is here live. ar. i needed him to be here. your heart isn't just yours. protect it with bayer aspirin. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. meet ron. that man is always on. and he's on it with jardiance for type 2 diabetes. his underhand sky serve? on fire. his grilling game? on point. and his a1c? ron is on it. with the once-daily pill, jardiance. jardiance not only lowers a1c... it goes beyond to reduce the risk of cardiovascular death for adults with type 2 diabetes and known heart disease. and jardiance may help you lose some weight. jardiance may cause serious side effects, including ket

keep in mind this is not a subpoena for sean hannity. they are asking him to come forward voluntarily. hannity has not said how he plans to respond. john? >> let's discuss now. with me to share their report and insights are cnn legal analyst, jeff zeleny. does sean hannity have any shield here to not cooperate with the committee? >> here's the deal, john. ultimately he won't. he was not engaged in news gathering. he was acting as an advisor. the problem is i think it will be a lot like we've seen with these bogus claims of executive privilege. he'll go to court over this or he may go to court over this asserting that first amendment privilege, so without being able to just push forward on him without any privileges at all, it may take them a while to get through that litigation and actually sit down and speak with him. >> if you're a fox news viewer or a hannity viewer, you have to deal with the hypocrisy. what he was saying to mark meadows and to trump versus what he was saying on television, using his program to stick with the big lie.

number one, they're asking for voluntary cooperation from sean hannity. so this is not a subpoena to a member of the news media. this is the committee asking for voluntary cooperation. and that's important. the second thing that stands out to me is they say they want to work with his counsel. so this is not a subpoena. this is not a demand. this is the committee asking for his participation in this constitutional process to get to the bottom of the facts. and the third thing that stands out to me in the letter is that they say that they are not interested in information that's related to news gathering. and so for members of the media who are on the receiving end of a request from a government entity, the fact that it's not related to his news gathering activity is also important. >> most trump allies have refused to engage with the committee. ones at this level, like mark meadows or steve bannon. assuming that hannity refuses, and we don't know what he's going to do. i should be clearer with that. most people that the committee has asked to speak to have

unfortunately, for sean hannity and the country, sean hannity was sending a text to the weakest and most criminally inclined of the trump white house chiefs of staff. mark meadows had already engaged in a phone call with donald trump to georgia's secretary of state, a call that was clearly criminal in nature, a violation of state and federal law on election interference. the whole country had already heard the audiotape of that criminal phone call. sean hannity heard the audiotape of that phone call, which is now being investigated by a grand jury in georgia. he heard the audiotape of that phone call to georgia secretary of state and that may be why sean hannity's text to mark meadows are filled with fear that donald trump does not know what he is doing and that mark meadows does not know what he is doing. we know now, thanks to bob woodward and the book "peril" and other reporting, that they already knew that the white house counsel was threatening to quit over donald trump's criminal attempts to change the outcome of the presidential election. on this night, exactly one year ago, sean

hannity texting he was, quote, very worried about the next 48 hours. now, the messages we understand were all sent in the days and weeks leading up to january 6th and in the immediate days of its aftermath. and now, the committee wants to hear from hannity about these conversations. conversations that, obviously, are now key to what trump's white house knew about january 6th. so, according to the committee, the message hannity sent the one that said he was, quote, very worried about the next 48 hours, was one of a number of messages that he exchange ed with trump's inner circle on that evening of january 5th. again, right, just to make it clear, the night before everything happened. to state an obvious and important truth, what we see and what we see in these messages from hannity could very clearly contradict what trump's chief of staff mark meadows has claimed publicly. >> they have been making the argument that it was this preplanned idea that we had, and not only have i said publicly that no one in the west wing had any advanced knowledge that any

j it shows how far hannity has fallen and it also shows how little trump respects hannity. that's one of the through lines here about trump's advisers and friends and allies. they may suck up to him, but he doesn't respect themm. hannity is saying no more stolen election talk, we have to stop it. we have to stop it. we have to land the plane and now a year later trump is doing it every day and hannity is falling in line. >> it's just a joke, and tucker carlson speaking of that, you know, he announced this week he's going back to hungary next week for some, quote, important reporting. or you know, i guess more, i don't know, worshipping at the feet of autocrats and so on. carlson previously did his show from budapest in what sounded like an infomercial for autocrat victor warban, what is going on there? >> it certainly is this right wing fetish fantasy of trying to turn america into something more like hungary. here's how carlson has framed it on his own show. >> what's interesting is that that behavior is such a threat to our foreign policy establishment, hysterical morons

hannity but it the tip of the iceberg. these are pieces of evidence that the 1/6 committee are putting together meticulously that will show the state of mind of a desperate, desperate who was meeting with people, who was trying to orchestrate whatever he possibly could to over throw the will of the american public and so he stoked it for months and months and months and had the help of mr. hannity and many others in terms of the big lie. remember, this wasn't a single day's rally or protest that sent that lies to storm the capitol. this was meticulously if not chaotically planned and exercised over the course of many, many months. these lies that over took the capitol sadly are a threat to our democracy today and so that's why i'm glad i'll be going down to washington this week to make sure that we remember and reflect on what happened january 6th and i call upon every one of us to recommit to our democracy, to the protection and lifting of our precious democracy against the lies against someone like donald trump who only

we know there were the text messages that hannity sent to mark meadows, then chief of staff. can he deliver some remarks, can he ask people to leave the capitol? your reaction now to this appeal to him to cooperate. >> the big question a lot of people are going to want to know is what is sean hannity hiding? what does he know that he's been hiding from his audience? because he has an audience of millions of people who rely on him, trust in him, believe him, even though he's given them many reasons. it's not a subpoena. it's not a situation where we'll be talking about dramatic first amendment debate. it could escalate to that point there could be questions of the responsibility of a media responsibility. this is just a voluntary request. and let's also remember that sean hannity has repeatedly and loudly for the last 11 or 12 years said journalism is dead in america. he says journalism is dead but as soon as there's a request from a legal committee he doesn't like, he wraps himself in the first amendment flag and says this would breach the first amendment. so it really comes

sean hannity knew that mark meadows knew that but at this hour, one year ago, sean hannity was desperately trying to get the weakest white house chief of staff in history to step up to a deranged presidents and do the right thing, say the right thing. it was on this day, when you're ago, that mike pence told donald trump in the oval office that he was not going to violate the law and attempt to reject electoral votes submitted to congress the next day. in that meeting, on this evening, one year ago, in the white house, donald trump told mike pence -- what do you think, mike? trump asked. look, i've read this, and i don't see a way to do it. i've done everything i could and then some to find a way around this. it's not possible. my interpretation is, no. i've met with all of these, people pence said. they are all on the same page. i personally believe these are the limits to what i can do. so, if you have a strategy for the sixth, it really shouldn't involve me because i am just there to open the envelopes. you should be talking to the house and senate. your team should be talking to them a

hannity wrote, very worried about the next 48 hours. now, the pam says his messages show advance knowledge about the planning for january the 6th, and here's what hannity said on fox news one day before the capitol riot. >> a big day tomorrow, big crowds apparently showed up to the point where the west wing could hear the music and the chanting of the people that were there already, and this all kicks off in the morning tomorrow. >> well, the house committee also cited a separate text from december 31st of 2020, when hannity wrote to meadows saying, quote, we can't lose the entire white house counsel's office. i do not see january 6 happening the way he's been told. after the 6th he will announce they will lead a nationwide effort for voter reform integrity. go to florida and watch joe mess up daily. stay engaged. when he speaks, people will listen. >>> well, hannity isn't the only one the committee wants to hear from. they are hoping to speak with former vice president mike pence. cnn's ryan nobles reports for you from washington. >> r

let's deal with hannity first. they've sent him a formal letter asking that he voluntarily appear before the committee because they want to ask him more about his interactions with the white house, the former chief of staff mark meadows, former members and the president him several. they put in their letter to hannity, examples of some of the text messages he sent to meadows, jim jordan, members of congress and others, where he talks about his concerns about the pressure campaign being put on the former vice president mike pence to prevent the certification of the election results. now, it's not clear how hannity is going to respond to that. his lawyer, jay sekulow saying they have first amendment concerns about this request. but the committee is hoping hannity complies. now, hannity is one thing. >>> separately, i had a conversation with bennie thompson, the chairman of the committee. and i asked him how interested he is in talking to the former vice president mike pence. and this is what thompson said. >> the vic

i want to read one of the hannity texts first again. i do think it is very important for the investigation here. and it is very short. he writes on january 5th, i'm very worried about the next 48 hours. so the select committee points out correctly, why? why was this person who was in constant contact with people inside the white house worried about what was about to happen? what did he know about the plans that were in place that were about to happen? it really is a worthy question. >> it is a very worthy question and i can't foresee any scenario where sean hannity isn't compelled to testify before the committee. he's worried in either one direction or the other that he knew that this day was going to get violent and going to be a mar on our american democracy or he was worried as his texts seem to reveal knowing president trump had lost the election. he was not going to win, there was no path for recourse, the results were not going to be overturned and what that would mean for trump, how he would handle it. and i think -- listen, this

that is the prime dishonesty is sean hannity knew this was bad. he knew what was happening on january 6th was a horrific thing, an attack on the capitol, you know, there was a riot that went too far at the very least. at worst it is an insurrection or coup. but in the year since then he has done nothing but down play it, nothing but double down on donald trump who he was trying to talk off the ledge that day and just couldn't get to him. nobody could get to him in time really. and that remains the unanswered question. >> there is a stark difference here between what these hosts are saying on air and what they're saying in these text messages. it is a point that mehdi hasan and i were talking about, how much disdain and contempt they have for their viewers. why are they lying to their viewers saying one thing behind closed doors in private to officials whether it is about january 6th, whether it is about vaccines and covid and then what they're saying on the air to their viewers? >> that is of all of this, i don't use the word lightly, but it is a

sean hannity is kind of in the thick of it. at least, what's the white house chief of staff and apparently with the president himself. they say, quote, they're mr. hannity the select committee now's information indicating that you had advance knowledge regarding president trump and his legal teams planning for january six. it also appears that you were expressing concerns and providing advice to presidential and answered and whiteout staff regarding the planning. you also had relevant communications while the riot was underway and in the days thereafter. these communications make you a fact witness in our investigation. the select committee is in possession of dozens of text messages you sent to and received from white house chief of staff mark meadows. these are related to the 2020 election and trump's effort to contest the outcome of that vote. for example, on december 31st, 2020, you texted mr. meadows the following, quote, we can't lose the entire white house counsel's office. i do not see january six happening the way he i

saying that hannity is more than just a fox host. calling him a confidant of former president trump. he obviously is and was. leanne caldwell is on capitol hill. we've got to be, congressman schiff said yes, this is coming. we should be getting more information shortly. i haven't looked at my phone in the last 30 seconds so i don't know if the e-mail has popped in on that. but the congressman made clear about why they would be interested in hannity. anybody who covered trump knows the two of them are close. they would talk often and it appears that from congressman schiff's comments, that's why theft to hear more from hannity. >> that's right. i'm checking my phone, too, but what we expect is the committee to send a request, not a subpoena, to sean hannity. and the reason is is because as you said, sean hannity is a close confidant of the former president and representative liz cheney, the vice chair of the committee, she said previously that hannity is one of the people who sent a text message to the former president on january 6th

we should point out that everything sean hannity was accurate, not just accurate, it was good. good advice for donald trump would have been to shut up about the november 2020 election. that would have been very helpful for donald trump. it would have been good for republicans. you hear kevin kramer, you hear these other people talk about how somehow donald trump is going to want to do what's good for the republican party, i don't think that's what donald trump is going to do, but the advice hannity was giving was good and his insight is correct, this is a toxic thing to talk about, and we've got to move away from it. he didn't have the kind of influence he thought he once did. >> and let's talk about that because we've gotten this response now through a spokesperson from the former president specifically in response to the texts that donald trump should not talk about election again ever, he says that i disagree with sean on that, and the facts are proving me right. that's not true, but what's this tell us about their relationship now? >> i don't know. i mean, and for goodness

the text, tone, very different from the tv tone that same night when hannity was predicting a, quote, big day to come. cnn's whitney wild has more on the committee's efforts to talk to hannity and pence. >> the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection now wants to talk to former vice president mike pence and fox news host sean hannity. the chairman of the select committee told cnn he wants pence to voluntarily speak to the panel about what he witnessed one year ago tomorrow, and the conversations leading up to that day. >> i would hope that he would do the right thing and come forth and voluntarily talk to the committee. >> reporter: representative bennie thompson said pence certified the election despite the extreme risk from rioters on january 6th, rioters who heard for day then president trump's pressure campaign on his vp to halt the process. >> his life was at risk. the vice president could not leave the capitol of the united states because of the riot. >> hang mike pence! >> reporter: thompson said the risk to pence's life didn't seem to motivate trump t

hannity's attorneys? >> so jay sekulow who's representing sean hannity at this point said that he and his client are reviewing the letter, and they're trying to decide how to respond to it but earlier before he had actually seen the letter itself he said that he is concerned there are some first amendment issues with this request. the committee makes it very clear that they're not interested in hannity's television program or his work as a television commentator, they're much more interested in his role as a political adviser to the former president and they want to know what role he played in the decisions that were made around that time and if he can offer any insight into how the president and those connected to him conducted themselves during that period of time. >> if you read the text messages that were released it seems like he may have spoken to the white house counsel, he was certainly having communications with other people certainly a lot in the white house and on capitol hill. i understand you

and the committee thinks that sean hannity could have some real insight and we'll see what sean hannity does and other interesting news, too. that is that the committee wants to speak to someone even more directly tied to this, which is the former vice president. we know that some of the former vice presidents top aides have been, at least engaging with the committee including chief of staff mark short. so, that could be a big target for the committee, too. we'll see how it plays out. >> i was curious about that. i saw what benny thompson said about wanting to hear from mike pence and what he was hearing from his detail and it made me wonder, is there, is there any way for the january 6th committee to speak with secret service agents that were in and around both the vice president and the president during the critical period that the insurrection took place or is that off limits? >> that's an excellent question. i was wondering that, too. i don't know the answer to that. but those are people that are the committee probably would not publicize that they are speaking to either, if those c

hannity it was not about anything he said on the air. and he's not going to be in trouble for any view political viewpoint he's taken. that, of course, would trouble me a lot. this is about what he knew about plans to attack the peaceful transfer of power on january 6. he has to testify like everybody else does. >> it does seem from the text messages attributed to mr. hannity that were released by the information tonight it is advancing the story for us a little bit. it had previously been described to the senate actually, by witnesses testifying to the senate, that the white house counsel had threatened to resign on january 3rd, in reaction to trump some plan by which he would have the justice department, essentially act to falsify the election results. and again previously had been described publicly in that testimony that the white house counsel was going to resign over that. hannity's text messages suggest there were a couple of instances in which the white house counsel was threatening to resign. one on january -- described on new y

discussing their new text revealed the even more concerning influence that fox news show host, sean hannity, had on the previous administration. we are going to break it down with our sunday night panel. i'm ayman mohyeldin, let's get started. get started. so with every day that has passed since the january 6th attack, it has become more and more clear just how damaged we ours a country are. the insurrection expose but the deepening fault lines in the population. and cracks in the very structure of our democracy. it opened a wound marion knee of us want to heal from but find ourselves very honestly, quite unable to. a sentiment that president joe biden reiterated on thursday, on the anniversary of the attack. watch. >> the way we have to heal, you have to recognize the extent of the moon. you cannot pretend. this is serious stuff. you have to face it. that is what great nations do. they face the truth. deal with it and move on. >> president biden is right here. how can we heal when our cries for justice and accountability have largely gone on answered? when the people in the party who stood

sean hannity among them, but he's not alone. republican members of congress who seem to be aware of what the plan was, to straight-up reject the electoral votes from swing states. we're a year later. why no consequences legally for those people? >> well, it's a great question, jim. it's one i'm going to be thinking about when we watch the attorney general give his speech later today. by the way, i'll tell you four hours in advance what merrick garland is going to say. he will say we will follow the facts and the law and pursue it as high as it may good. that's good. he should say that. those words are fine, but i have not seen it yet in merrick garland and doj's actions. i'm much more interested in actions than words. first of all, they prosecuted 700-plus people who stormed the capitol. all people who physically stormed the capitol, but four different federal judges have criticized the doj for being too lenient, giving misdemeanor when they should be felonies. the chief judge in d.c. said doj has been schizophrenic and baffling

we know hannity is a close trump ally. what might he reveal? >> the committee wants to know specifically what conversations he might have had with either the former president or even his closest advisers in and around the events leading up to and on january 6th. and we know that the committee already knows about some of those interactions because it was part of their contempt report against the former white house chief of staff mark meadows where hannity was sending texts to meadows begging him to convince the former president to urge his supporters to leave the capitol. so we know that hannity and donald trump have a very close relationship. some have described them as being a shadow chief of staff. those communications he had with the former president, the role he may have played, whether it be spreading the big lie or even plans around these rallies and the certification of the election results on january 6th are all of high interest to the committee. now at this point, jake, they are not forcing him to come before them. this is not a legal

hannity knew on january 5. that made him text to the white house i am very worried about the next 48 hours. what did he know about what was going to happen? they made him tell the white house he was worried. we shall see. but tonight we have something else new. the publication of a book today. by a member of the january 6 investigation. who was also the lead impeachment manager appointed by house speaker nancy pelosi. to prosecute the case against former president trump. in the second impeachment. the impeachment for inciting the attack on the capitol. this time last year. as you will recall, it feels like it's been five minutes and also 50 years. this time last year the house in fact voted to impeach trump. that was the vote was january 13. one month later, a majority of the u.s. senate 57 senators also voted to convict the former president. that was the largest bipartisan vote for an impeachment in american history. a 57 vote majority is not enough to secure a conviction in the senate. to get a conviction you

why was hannity afraid? >>> plus, how many americans believe biden legitimately won the election and how many are concerned about the future of our democracy? the one and only steve kornacki will be here at the big board to break down some of the most shocking findings from new polling next. polling next silverado. check out this multi-flex tailgate. multi-flex, huh? wow. it becomes a step. mom, dad's flexing again. that's not all. you can extend the bed for longer stuff. is he still... still flexing. that's right! and, it becomes a workspace... you can put your laptop here. i'm sending an imaginay email. hey dad, dinner! hey! look who stopped by daddy's office. wait, you work here? the chevy silverado with the available multi-flex tailgate. find new flexibility. find new roads. chevrolet. if you wake up thinking about the market and want to make the right moves fast... get decision tech. for insights on when to buy and sell. and proactive alerts on market events. that's decision tech. only from fidelity. th

hannity writing the memos, january 5ing, i'm very worried about the next 48 hours. a few days later reporting meadows and gop congressman jim jordan about an apparent call with trump writing he can't mention the election again ever. i had a great call with him. >> it was a great deal that should be shared with the american people about planning before the 6th about conversations or text messages on the 6th about things after the 6th of january. >> reporter: hannity never shared his concerns with viewers on the night of the insurrection although, he did condemn the violence, he continued to sow doubts about the election. >> the president was right, our election, frankly, was a train wreck. >> reporter: jay sekulow responding, in part, we remain very concerned about the constitutional implication especially as it relates to the first amendment. the committee chairman saying they want to reach deeper into trump's circle, urging mike pence, the target of threatening chants that day. >> his life was in danger. i would hope that he would do the right thing and come forwar

why lawmakers want to interview sean hannity. >>> breaking overnight, classes canceled in chicago. public school goes remote in the nation's third-largest school district. what teachers are demanding for themselves and 350,000 students. >>> traffic nightmare. an update on a snowstorm that left drivers stranded in freezing temperatures including a former vice presidential candidate. >>> well, good morning, and good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of the deadly assault on the u.s. capitol. capitol police say they are now better prepared to handle an attack, and there are no credible threats suggesting that another one is imminent. meanwhile, the h house select committee investigating the january 6th riot wants to interview fox news host sean hannity about his communication with the trump administration leading up to that day. laura podesta is in washington, d.c., with more on this. laura, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. this is the first request by the committee to a member of the media, and it shows how it's broadeni