Released of kate, the princess of wales. Im kate bolduan, ms sarah cider, and john berman. This is seen a new central we are standing by for a historymaking arrival at a federal prison in miami. Any moment, Donald Trumps former white house adviser, Peter Navarro, is expected to show up in what he does. He will become the first former white house official ever jailed for Contempt Of Congress in a manner of speaking, he is going to prison for donald trump navarro refused to comply with the subpoena for testimony and documents from the january 6 committee. Navarro publicly bragged about his work to contest in there for delay the count from key swings after the 2020 election he called it the green base sweep, but he would not testify about it or even take the fifth and that hes getting him an extended stay in miami. Cnns randy k is live outside the prison this morning. How will this go down today . Randy . Well, john, we expect Peter Navarro to show up here shortly. Hes actually going to h
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
eastman i don t remember why he called me, or he texted me or called me, wanted to talk with me. and he said he couldn t reach others. and he started to ask me about something dealing with georgia preserving something, potentially for appeal. and i said to him are you out of your f-ing mind? i said i only want the hear two words coming out of your mouth from now on. orderly transition. i don t want to hear any other f-ing words coming out of your mouth no matter what other than orderly transition. repeat those words to me. what did he say? eventually he said orderly transition. i said good, john. now i m going to give you the best free legal advice you re ever getting in your life. get a great f-ing criminal defense lawyer. you re going to need it. and i hung up on him. in just a moment, we ll be joined by maryland democratic chairman jamie raskin who serves on the committee. right now we want the take a closer look at another key item the committee highlighted
be groundless and i think if we add on top of that the fact that this whole green base sweep as co-conspirator peter navarro, i would argue that he s part of this had made very, very clear was an outright effort and attempt to get fake electors and now we have the emails to show donald trump s own attorneys called them fake, at least one of them. yeah. and then made a joke about using a different word. all of that, all of that speaks to intent, and it speaks to intent as part of a conspiracy and a solicitation for others to conspire to defraud the united states government. you also think about greg jacob being before a grand jury. i want to show some more of what greg jacob, mike pence s most senior lawyer said before the 1/6 committee. a january 5th meeting with
money, and he didn t want to it stop. and you could see even from the report you just made, that money continued to go to different members in his political entourage, including mark meadows and others who were still supporting the trump political network. but, you know, eastman really was the final card that they played, the so-called base sweep. essentially to deny and overthrow the electoral college majority that joe biden had assembled. and to overthrow that required vice president pence to step outside of his proper constitutional role and function and declare unilateral lawless powers to nullify electoral college votes that had been certified by the governors of the states and sent in. and then they thought that either trump could be declared