does select committee to investigate the january 6 attack on the united states capital will be in order . without objection the chair is authorized to put the committee in resource at any point. the chair announces the committee s approval to release deposition material to today s hearing. good afternoon. in our last hearing we told the story of a schema driven by donaldtrump . pressure on our vice president to illegally overturn the election results . we showed that in the pressure campaign mike pence fulfilled his constitutional obligation donald trump turned a violent mob loose on him. we showed the mob came within roughly 40 feet of the vice president. today, we will show that what happened to mike pence wasn t an isolated part of donald trump s scheme to overturn the election. in fact pressuring public servants into betraying their oath dwas a fundamental part of the playbook and a handful of election officials in several key states stood between donald trump and upend
Pending raids. The california governor firing back. Claudia cowan is where its all going count. Claudia . U. S. Attorney general Jeff Sessions went on the offense this morning sacramento, outlining the many ways in which california and its sanctuary policies, breaking the law. Jerry brown having none of it calling this lawsuit fouled by the department of justice apartment the state a political stunt. The attorney general saying it looked like fox news than Law Enforcement. Sessions said the Justice Department is suing the state because three newlyenacted laws prevent federal Immigration Attorneys from doing their laws and violating the supremacy laws of the constitution. Heres what he said in an exclusive interview with shannon bream. Youre throwing down the gauntlet in california. You letting them know near not a fan of the laws. Theyre making ice agents jobs tougher. It is. We have to challenge it. I dont want to do that. California is a great state. Its an important part of america.
Or Heather Nauert to be the u. S. Ambassador to the United Nation United Nations. Barr served as ag under george h. W. Bush. Nauert has been spokesperson since the early day of the administration. More from the north lawn. A lot of interesting reaction from both people who support barr and people who do not support barr. One thing is for certain, in choosing barr to be the nominee for attorney general to replace Jeff Sessions, Matt Whitaker is right there now on interim basis, the president chose someone with immense experience. Somebody of integrity, who enjoys a tremendous amount of respect and somebody who got a lot of broad bipartisan support. The first time around when he was bush 41s attorney general back in 19911993 as soon it he was leaving the white house this morning, President Trump said he is a big fan of william barr. Listen here. When i went through the process of looking at people, and he was my first choice from day one. Respected by republicans, and respected by democr
dramatic that we ve been waiting before 8:00 a.m., it is still yet to take place but is expected imminently. on the infrastructure bill as well as the rule, the centerpiece of joe biden s agenda. joining me now, arizona congressman andy diggs. thank you for being with us. pelosi has been promising to bring these bills up for weeks. what does it tell you about her leadership in the president s powers of persuasion here? what it tells me is they ve tried to bite off more than they can chew, so i m not sure how strong nancy pelosi is because you do have a progressive caucus that is pulling the strings. you also have the counterbalance of the moderate folks and she s not used to having such a strong progressive caucus kick back as hard as they have done over the last several months and they have done a pretty good job.
trish: pressure building today for a second special counsel. top republicans are demanding an independent probe into allegations that some fbi officials showed bias against president trump and misled the fisa courts to get warrants. will the attorney general answer the call? the republican house judiciary member andy diggs. good to see you. good to see you. trish: you d like to see this investigation happen. we need a second counsel because the first special counsel is not looking into the things you think they should be looking into? right. what members of the judiciary committee have been talking about for months is that everything going back to the hillary clinton investigation has been tainted. you have conflicts of interest going back 10, 12 years, all the way through to the current investigations that are ongoing. that s one problem. the other problem is the misuse