republican tried to ambush and hand fraudulent electors to mike pence on january 6th. those stories and reports are coming up. but after a hearing like today s we begin with something more fundamental than a legal breakdown, and more powerful, perhaps, than meticulously going through the evidence, though that also matters. right now we begin with this. what millions of americans saw and heard today from the top republican leader out of arizona in plain, serious, and stern testimony about the choices officials have to make, the tests that trump posed, tests that, by the way, many republicans have fail bid cowering to a would be autocrat by minimizing threats of violence and coups, by only speak out late, if at all. some have walked back from some of those public humiliations. others just live in them. but today s testimony by this republican here offers a view of what it looks like to stand up. i said, look, you are asking me to do something that is counter to my oath that i
attorney john eastman and others, presented a clear and dangerous threat to american democracy. listen to this. had vice president pence obeyed the orders from his president, and the president of the united states of america, that declaration of donald trump as the next president would have plunged america into what i believe would have been tantamount to a revolution within a constitutional crisis. revolution within a constitutional crisis. the committee also revealing just how close to serious danger mike pence was on during the day of the insurrection. rioters coming within 40 feet of the former vice president. as the committee prepares to hold more hearings next week, it is also trying to speak to ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court court justice clarence thomas about her role in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election. let s take you to capitol hill and lauren fox is there for us. what were the main takeaways from thursday s hearings? reporter: well
come off as a bit impartial, the d.o.j. related to all the trump stuff. clearly there is something to look at with the biden family, all of the burisma payoffs, all of the stuff. so it is good to see something happening here but maybe this is just a show so it seems impartial and who legaly knows. dana: how did hunter biden get the money that then led to him having this tax violation? if you are following the story and concerned that d.o.j. hasn t been moving fast enough on this, i think it would be one of the questions, wait, he had the tax violation because he had all this money and where did the money come from? that s the point, right? the guy was consulting for a ukrainian energy company and no expertise. he was a drug addict at the time. no right to have that job. it was clearly because of his dad s connection. it doesn t take a true private
get no jail guilty pleas. and you can t really compare that to the very serious offenses that donald trump is accused, innocent in proven guilty in the mar-a-lago classified documents mishandling case. you know it would be wrong if prosecutors treated hunter biden better than anybody else. but it s also wrong for them to treat him worse than anybody else. here it appears that he s being treated the same way. yeah, that s right. it should be equal, right. so, here we are talking about, these are tax charges. this is a gun charge. just because the doj hasn t found anything legal in terms of hunter biden s business dealings with foreign with entities in foreign countries like ukraine, like china, at least so far, they haven t found anything, we should be clear about that. that doesn t mean that his business dealings were ethical,
they have had this information for a while and doj hasn t done anything with it. when james comer investigation heats up, hunter s team demands an update from the doj. is that assessment by me accurate? jonathan: it is, there is not a clear picture why they are demanding these thing. i can t tell if they are parading outrage, so the narrative can go through and this will dwindle away, that is a possibility or if they are not getting information for some reason and want to demand it to start formulating a narrative, i can t tell which that is, after reading e-mails if people get a chance to go read the story that your producer sent me as i was doing research about chris