inquiries is one of the probes edging closer to the former president. you note a lot of investigations are under way. grand jury investigation by a local prosecutor in fulton county, a civil inquiry by the new york attorney general. what dangers do those investigations pose to the former president? sure. well, the fulton county investigation in particular has been surging forward and, you know, there s been subpoenas issued for some of the very people we just talked about. john eastman, rudy giuliani, mitchell, other attorneys in the president s orbit trying to facilitate what he was trying to do, which is to stay in power. for a long time while the doj probe was clearly under way, and devlin s reporting showed us, as much as we re learning about what was happening, this probe was under way probably for months before now. and i think what we saw more publicly was happening in fulton county, which was this tightening ring around the president s inner circle. and that probe in some way
police yet democrats in washington still want to go after cops. house majority leader told reporters that they will vote on the bill as soon as he thinks they have reached a compromise that will pass. john: so members of congress who had to be dragged into the house to vote on new security for supreme court justices now get ten grand and then how much a month? 150 bucks. 150 a month. $10,000 will buy you quite a security system. not a bad system at all. there you go, all right. thank you, rich. sandra. sandra: thank you very much. attorney general merrick garland is under pressure from both political parties as they conduct a high profile investigation of hunter biden, and another d.o.j. probe is reportedly focussing on former president trump. david spunt is live from the justice department. attorney general seems to be talking more about a potential
mike pence have asked in recent days about conversations with ump from, his lawyers and others in his inner circle who sought to substitute trump allies for certified electors from some states joe biden won. that s according to two people familiar with the matter, both spoke anonymously. prosecutors asked hours of detailed questions about meetings trump led in december 2020 and january 2021. his pressure campaign on pence to overturn the election and what instructions trump gave his lawyers and advisors about fake electors and sending electors back to the states. some of the questions focused directly on the extent of trump s involvement in this fake electorate effort led by outside lawyers including eastman and rudy giuliani and yet another sign of just how far the doj probe has advanced, the post is also reporting that prosecutors have their hands on the phone records of some key trump officials and aides including those of former white house chief of staff mark meadows.
trial recorded short and his attorney leaving the federal courthouse last friday. just showing up. and short and jacob are the highest ranking trump administration officials known to have cooperated with the doj probe. both gave testimony to the january 6 committee and jacob, you will recall, was a live witness during a key hearing last month. meanwhile, member of the january 6 select committee congresswoman elaine luria revealed new testimony showing how former president trump edited a speech that was meant to condemn the insurrection. she tweeted this. it took more than 24 hours for president trump to address the nation again after his rose garden video on january 6 in which he affectionately told his followers to go home in peace. there were more things he was unwilling to say. here is some of the video testimony. i m not sure when those conversations began because they could have started early the next morning but i believe they
there were two legally viable arguments as to authorities that the vice president could exercise two days later on january 6th. the expansion of the doj probe comes as there are more signs the house select committee is not slowing down. they promised to bring in members of the trump cabinet and campaign, while at the same time taking a hard look at the role of secret service and their missing text messages. i don t really buy that for one minute. for one thing, isn t it a little odd that all of the texts would vanish for january 6th and january 5th? you know, of all the days, what an odd coincidence that is. that probe is now complicated by new questions raised about the homeland security inspector general who first raised concerns about the deleted texts. the house oversight and homeland security committees sending joseph cuffari a letter asking him to recuse himself into any