Persistent rain couldn’t dampen the high spirits of Mamalilikulla First Nation members and their guests on a dark day in May. As lowering clouds played hide-and-seek with soaring mountains, the Nation shared lunch and performed traditional songs and dances in their remote territory on British Columbia’s Central Coast, some 350 kilometers (220 miles) north of […]
fourth person in that room was mark short, and he can tell us, he can tell the committee what happened in that room. i do think you can get towards the truth here. all right, charlie, elie, thank you very much, sirs. see you soon. obviously from our previous conversation, the warning lights are blinking red for our democracy, and time is running out to make sure the next election is truly secure. if january 6th was a trial run, will they succeed next time? and he gets one-on-one coaching when he needs it. so ben is feeling pretty zen. that s the planning effect from fidelity man: what s my safelite story? my truck.is my livelihood. so when my windshield cracked. the experts at safelite autoglass came right to me. with service i could trust. right, girl? singers: safelite repair, safelite replace.
absolutely believe that short is doing this with the blessing of the vice president, whether the vice president will admit that or not, we ll probably never know. obsequious is the perfect word for pence s relationship with trump. that was actually a perfect definition or description there. listen, charlie, we know pence s aspirations, right, to run for president. most people just they want to be president, they want to be vice president, it s good, look at the current president now. a report that points the finger to trump and his allies something that he could be anticipating? yeah, rook, i think if you had to run against donald trump for president, especially if you re vice president pence, you have to draw a hard contrast, and i don t think anybody wants to be a mini trump, if they re running. they have to actually draw a hard contrast and say why they re different. and this is one case where the vice president was very different from the president. they were on completely op
this committee? well, don, mark short and witnesses like him may be the committee s most realistic chance to get a firsthand full and truthful account of what was happening in those key days and meetings leading up to january 6th and what was happening on january 6th, what it was like to be side by side with mike pence when he was getting ushered out of the senate chamber as that mob attacked. so i think mark short is going to be a crucial witness here. the committee has put a lot of focus on its battles with bannon and jeffrey clark and soon probably michael flynn and roger stone, but let s be realistic here. those people are never going to testify fully and truthfully. it s going to have to fall to people like mark short to tell us the real story here. charlie short is a key figure working with the committee. there are so many others who are stone walling, exerting executive privilege or pleeadin the fifth. how important do you think this testimony will be in getting to the truth
exactly. that s exactly what i would do, looking at this from a prosecutorial angle or investigative angle. you have to look at really two questions. does the person have access, and when you look at mark short, he was literally in the room on key occasions. and then the second thing was what s the motivation here? clearly mark short and other people around mike pence, their loyalty is to mike pence, and it seems at least some of them, the loyalty is to telling the true story of what happened as opposed to the true die hard maga types who are going to go down in flames or do whatever they have to do to protect donald trump. so there s a key distinction there, and i think the committee is absolutely right to focus on that and try to get whatever information they can out of that rift. charlie, i almost called you mark, charlie. i got more hair. good one. do you think short would be cooperating if he didn t get the go ahead from pence? you said you think he s doing it with his b