taylor budovich served in all incompassing role, how, he s ahead of the trump-aligned super pac maga inc. so what did jack smith s team want from him? he testified for about an hour, a source familiar told nbc news that among the questions he was asked was one about a past public statement on behalf of donald trump. that the former president did not retain classified documents, the source tells us jack smith s team wanted to know how he knew that. in other words, did someone tell him that, misleading him. and if so, who was that, or was he guessing. for his part, budowich tried to frame the questions react tifl publicly right after he appeared privately. we ll tell you what he said in a moment. the question we have now is that it? budowich with that decision. and hurt from mark. meadows and testimony from 24 secret service agents. joining me nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian and in florida, nbc legal analyst lisa aruba. lisa, let s start in florida.
so those are two huge liabilities for those candidates. in terms, hey, if pence has a strategy, a thought, an inkling how he can pull this out, it has everything to do with where he was today and sounds like where he s basically camped out for the next six months. that is iowa. iowa is a caucus state. and a state where the republican electorate is dominated by evangelical christians. in the 2016, they made up 3 out of every 10 republican voters. ted cruz beat down north carolina. he won the evangelicals. rick santorum won in 2012, evangelicals. mike huckabee won indiana state, he won the evangelicals. the thought for pence, he may have a natural constituency there. he has a long-standing tie, a cultural christian conservative, long-standing ties to the