stumping in arizona warning voters that conspiracy theorists and election deniers are putting democracy on the brink, the former president using a heckler to make his case. watch this. this is part of what happens in our politics these days. we get distracted. we got one person yelling and suddenly everybody s yelling. you get one tweet that s stupid and suddenly everybody s obsessed with the tweet. we can t fall for that. we have to stay focused. obama is not the only former president on the campaign trail. form are president trump is also set to hold a rally in sioux city, iowa. he s not the only potential republican candidate in the state. mike pence, nikki haley, mike p pompeo have made appearances, maybe even testing the waters for themselves. jeff, a lot of airplane traffic that is happening there. reporter: there certainly is. iowa is not the hottest 2022 battleground but it s the opening bell of the 2024 presidential race. this republican wave of optimism is swe
for sure by comments like that and anybody else s, they went from initially saying that this committee was nothing but a sideshow, something nobody was interested in, to all of a sudden, oh, yeah, i want to testify publicly in front of it. kinzinger also confirmed another major piece of the investigation saying that former white house counsel pat cipollone did not contradict testimony from former white house aide cassidy hutchinson who provided explosive details from the final days of the trump administration. the house investigation is not the only one zeroing in on trump and his inner circle. sarah murray has the latest. reporter: in battleground states across the country gop activists, republican party chairs and even a state senate president i am the senate president of arizona, and it is our job to make sure we have fair and accurate elections. reporter: are getting hit with subpoenas. as early as this week some republicans tied to the plan to put forward fake
mean to step on you. it a huge component. zoe said a couple little things, they re playing it cupkind of c because they will have a hearing next week but i expect in fact, they ve got some real combustible stuff that is going to break big when they do it and she s being kind of coy about it. so i think you can expect some fairly big bombshells. well, let s bring you in here, ron. you re not meant to be coy. i know you re not. you re a straight shooter. cipollone defended trump in the first impeachment hearing. he s no never trumper by any stretch of the imagination. the fact he s from trump s inner circle, the fact he wasn t like jump champing at the bit to come in and testify, he was not witness number one. he s just coming in. how important is it that this is the person, this is the guy that is coming to testify now? how important is this to the overall committee s ability to make the case to the american electret about what happened and led up to it? you know, i m not
i think you can expect some fairly big bombshells. let s bring you in here ron, you are not meant to be coy, i know you are not. a straight shooter. cipollone defended trump in the first impeachment hearing, the fact that he is from trump s inner circle, he was not like chomping at the bit to testify. he was not witness number one he is just coming in. how important is it that this is the first, this is the guy that is coming to testify now? how important is this to the overall committee s ability to make the case to the american electorite. i am not a lawyer but as a journalist you go to the sources on the outside, you get information and you go closer and closer to the central. given the accounts that we heard in cipollone s presence at so many critical moments, the attempt to replace the leadership of the justice department, he is there. the conversation with mark meadows on jan 6 where mark meadows through hutchinson s testimony says he does not think he is doing anyt
next public hearing. the perspective could be a game changer in the quest to learn more about former president trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. sworn testimony from previous hearings puts him at the center of pivotal events including in the oval office on january 3rd shooting down the plan to replace the acting attorney general. on january 6th, two sources say he was with trump, watching the riot unfold on television. the next day tried in vain to get trump to call for the prosecution of the rioters. marshall, obviously critical testimony on capitol hill, what more are we learning about what happened in those eight hours behind closed doors. eight hours. it s almost miraculous that this even happened, right, phil. a year and a half has gone on since january 6th. the committee interviewed a thousand witnesses. but they couldn t get cipollone. now they did. and they got him on tape, on video, and hopefully in the coming days we ll finally start to see some of th