court in d. c., as part of the team but subpoenaed to former vice president mike pence, these hearings focused on whether pence must testify about his dealings with trump, around january the 6th, the lawyers for trump appeared to be at odds with the former vice, nbc news puts, it they argue pence can t testify, because of executive privilege. pence argues he s immune from testifying for legal protection for lawmakers, he says he is acting for president of the senate as part of the electoral vote count, as opposed to part of the executive branch. come on, guys get your excuse straight. , meanwhile in new york, no word from the grand jury in the stormy daniels hush money case. the jury is expected to meet again on monday, but we did hear from alvin bragg s office in the form of a letter to house republicans flatly requesting rejecting any requests for information with hush money case. one house democrat had this reaction for the republican demand. i was astonished actually
lot of mothers of young black men killed by police out there who would love to sit down with the speaker of the house and talk about police reform. so, why don t y all just call the speaker up and ask for a meeting? or is mccarthy only interested in throwing red meat to the part of his base that s sympathetic to the mob? or trying to make amends with them, after he said babbitt s shooting was justified just a few weeks ago? one of the first things marjorie taylor greene said that ashley babbitt was murdered. do you think ashley babbitt was murdered or you do you think the police officer who shot her was doing his job? i think the police officer did his job. for her part, ashley babbitt s mother said she spoke to mccarthy about those comments, specifically. i called thought speaker mccarthy was delightful and i know i would imagine you were upset when he said that the cops who shot your daughter was doing his job. did you discuss that specifically? we did. and wh
goodnight, mehdi hassan in for stephanie ruhle, from all of our colleagues across the networks thank you for staying up, late so you at the end of tomorrow. good evening from washington, i m michael steele in for chris hayes. that so-called law and order republican party is once again siding with lawless insurrectionists mob. today, republican speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy, met with the mother of ashley babbitt, the january six insurrectionists who was killed by capitol police after she tried to break through a doorway leading to the house chamber. and it was clear that mccarthy didn t want to talk about it. mister speaker, why are you ashley babbitt? what do you plan to talk to her? [inaudible] she just asked for a meeting. is that all it takes? because i m sure there are a