buddies and allies to overturn the 2020 election. as we reported on this program at this hour yesterday, mark short, he s of course the former chief of staff to former vice president mike pence, testified before a d.c. grand jury last week. now according to new multiple reports, we also know that a second senior pence aide also testified. that would be greg jacob, pence s legal counsel. both men, of course, had a front row seat to the extraordinary pressure campaign on mike pence by trump and his allies, people like john eastman, to get pence to stop the certification of president joe biden s election victory on january 6th. wall street journal reports these stunning details about their testimony. quote, one area of interest to prosecutors was a january 4th, 2021, oval office meeting where conservative lawyer john eastman pushed pence in trump s presence to either reject the electoral votes outright or suspend the proceedings and asked several state legislatures to re-examine
here is what s interesting, i would say. there is a theme. we have seen several races in which the conservative media, the republican establishment, others folks, even donald trump, have come in and tried to take out a candidate or persuade their voters not to go down a certain road. we saw it with certain attacks on kathy barnette who had a late surge in that race and pennsylvania. she still in it but not ahead as of now. we saw a bit with mastriano. it has followed on deaf ears. donald trump endorsed him over the weekend and, he now appears to be the winner. there s no real, i don t think there s a theory here yet about what does and doesn t work when you re trying to get manga era republican voters to turn against a candidate. but that is a thing that a lot of paid professional politicos are trying to do and it s used for powerful power to have if you re working for mitch mcconnell and want to steer things in your direction. the thing i m looking forward to that i don t
Briefly, but hes not staying for the dinner. Jerry bernard, great to have you do for that and thank you all so much for joining us. Cnn news, node starts right now Donald Trumps pitch to black voters versus the real story thats tonight on these value good evening. Im abby phillip in new york and tonight, the former president goes home. He was right here in new york rallying a crowd of thousands, promising a new york turnaround ive seen new york through good times and bad through boom times and crime waves through Market Crashes and terrorist attacks but ive never seen it quite like this right now. You dont have public spaces. Theyre occupied by migrants, intense that happened in the bronx. What is historically the most democratic burrow in the city, and lead us to say it is an unlikely spot for a republican to Campaign Obama won by 81, 91 let the vote here in 2012, biden won nearly 84 in 2020. But trump sees an opportunity and opening with black and hispanic voters. Even as he makes a
everyone, happy father s day to all. welcome to sunday morning futures. i m maria bartiromo. thanks so much forhaom joining e this morning. todak yoy expanding the base. president trump meeting with black voters, congressionalt republicans, businestrs leaders. all to unite around his agenda. ripping through blue states as blacks, hispanics and young people pivot to trump., while joe biden fund raises and hobnobs with hollywood thisfu weekend. wit all of this as senate republicans fight back againstae what they call biden s weaponized government.ck vowing to block any biden nominees until after the election. coming up, texas senator ted cruz holding ag merrick garland intion contempt of congress. missouri senator eric schmitt oo joe biden s doj, and its moves to take down joe s number one political enemy, donald trump. florida congresswoman annaa on paulina luna on president biden makes it to the election or will he pushed to withdraw after more gaffs on the world stage in i
no, that was up to seven. i think that was seven. it might be my souvlaki talking, but yes. so it s a big debate with all of the parties who are fielding candidates in the election being represented. and as a result of that, what you have is of course, the sort of battle royale going on between labour and the tories, but you have an opportunity to hear from a much broader rainbow of political opinion. yeah, it means on the one hand it s less focused than when it was starmer versus sunak on tuesday, and it sjust two people going head to head on a range of issues. it becomes a bit more sprawling, but equally it feels more like britain because you re hearing about wales and hearing about scotland. sure. and it s a reflection also of the fact that there are lots of different kinds of political races in lots of different kinds of constituencies. there are races that are between the snp and the tories in some parts of more rural scotland they tend to be. there are of course that ar