very, very important witness. of course, not all important witnesses have been coming forward to the committee. a large number of people in trump s circle have refused to cooperate with the investigation. including, interestingly, his chief of staff, mark meadows. today, nbc news had some really super interesting reporting that might help explain why meadows is no longer cooperating. yo might remember, the january 6th investigation in congress got up and running this summer, on july 1st. that s when the house voted to set up the investigation into the attack on the capitol into trump s attempts to overturn the election, july 1st. well, nbc s jonathan allen is now reporting that on july 26th, 3 1/2 weeks after the committee got set up, after the investigation got started. july 26th, donald trump s political pac donated $1 million to the conservative nonprofit where his chief of staff mark meadow currently works. that s the most money trump s pac donated to any of his
0 so that is the only reason i am home. other than me trying to do this myself while having absolutely no skills as an audio engineer, a lighting engineer, and makeup artist, or camera operator, other than that, everything art operator, other than that, everything should be fine. ahem. forgive me for everything that may go wrong. i m happy to be here. thank you for being here. we ve got a lot to get to tonight. so, he was a late hire in the trump administration. they didn t hire him until year four in the trump administration. he hired him in march 20. the administration hired a new lawyer to work in vice president pence s office. en a man named gregory jacob. now, this was not gregory is jacob s first stint in the federal government, he had worked before in the george w. bush administration. he was a lawyer who worked on labor arabs in the george w. bush administration. but when he came back in march 2020, he came back for a big time job, as vice president pence s chief legal counsel.