Today on Velsche, the January 6th committee is speeding ahead with its investigation into the Capitol insurrection.

We're going to have the very latest on who among the twice-impeached ex-presidents' inner circle is talking, who's negotiating, and who's counting down to a criminal referral.

Plus, as Democrats continue to fight it out over the Biden agenda and Joe Manchin

escalates his public feud with Bernie Sanders, I'll ask one of the key house negotiators

who's pledged that Dems will get it done just how they're going to do that. Then the state law

that has teachers worried that they'll be punished for having books in their classrooms. This is not

a dispatch from a dystopian. This is not a dispatch from a

dystopian novel. It's a dispatch from the state of Texas. The details are shocking. The stakes

could not be higher. And the story behind the secret of hedge fund that might be coming after

your local newspaper. Velshi starts now.

And good morning to you. Today is Saturday, October the 16th. I'm Ali Valshi. We've got a lot of

new developments in the investigations into the deadly January 6th Capitol attack. So let's

get right to it. First, a veteran U.S. Capitol police officer officers been arrested for allegedly encouraging a suspected

insurrectionist to hide evidence of their involvement in the violent riot.

A grand jury indictment has charged Officer Michael Angelo Riley with obstruction of justice

for repeatedly telling the man to wipe any social media posts that would prove that he

entered the building that day.

According to the indictment, in a direct message on Facebook, Riley said, quote,

I am a capital police officer who agrees with your political stance. Take down the part about

being in the building. They are correctly investigating, and everyone who was in the building is going to be charged, just looking out, end quote.

That officer has been placed on leave as the Capitol Police conduct their own administrative investigation.

Meanwhile, the ball is back in Steve Bannon's court as the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th attack on our nation's capital

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