of course, there were multiple meetings at the oval office in early january, before january six, all of those things that mike pence details in his book are now fair game for prosecutors to ask questions about it, and those are things that mike pence and his team were fully aware of before the book was published so you can bet that prosecutors want a lot more but because mike pence is represented by emmitt flood, one of the well known lawyers here in washington, who is a hawk on this issue of executive privilege we expect that that issue is going to come up. we ll see whether that means that there are certain questions that he will refuse to answer and then what the justice department does about the. does it go continuing fighting for additional answers, or the reason to bring forth. thank you, very much, evan perez. my panel is with me right now.
order to be him or whoever else comes in the field. i was thinking about this and ordering would have been better for this to come sooner? i wonder also why it took so long, but politically, this is actually a great moment, he is clearly trying to be the savior of democracy, i was the one who had to get it done, so this timing, again, the justice department is requiring and to do this, so now he can come to what is the legal obligation is and come out and say that this is why i still have trump policies, but i did what the justice department needed me to do, and now i am running for president because i saved democracy. that will make sense, but ryan, not that he s been subpoenaed, he could just be
have copies of these cup plan at the event? the advisor said, yes, we do. what he s referring to, you ve seen him over the course of the last few days, holding up a two page pamphlet that details that specific provision of senator scott s rescue plan for america that he introduced last year, and in that plan, he wanted it on every single seat of the audience at the event today. keep in mind, this is a partisan audience, democrats and biden supporters, yet he thinks the words themselves are so critical that he wanted it out there. this is not a new thing. one adviser told me that late last summer, going into the midterm elections, he was driving this idea of you need to post these words. you need to get these words and paper copies that you can hand to people because when they read the words, they will recognize that in his view, this is an extreme issue. extremism to see something that the president focused throughout the midterm election campaign and will likely in a reelection campai
but it may not be, or understanding from classified briefing, have been aware of the specific balloon. yeah, not only that she was not aware of the specific balloon that the senior leadership of deliberation army and communist party were not aware. the officials from the u.s. side also believe that the chinese side themselves are still trying to figure out how all this happened, so it really shows that this could ve been a lack of communication internally, which some experts have been telling me from the start. yeah which does not look good for shipping either. thank you very much, appreciate it, selina. thank you to all of you for joining. cnn tonight with alison camerota is next. i was always the competitive one in our family. til my sister signed up for united healthcare medicare advantage. wow, uh-huh now she s got a whole team to help her get the most out of her plan.
smith, but this happened before the appointment. the attorney general made a point last week, when he was announcing the special counsel, that this was not going to be delaying anything in the investigation. the process of getting pence s testimony will take a long time. pence is being represented in this by emmitt flood, he is a veteran washington attorney. he actually worked in the trump white house as the lead lawyer dealing with the mueller investigation. he now represents a bunch of different former white house officials caught up in these trump investigations. and he is pence s new lawyer. hasn t he said recently, i believe, i think it was in an interview with chuck todd, former vice president pence has said that he believes that the d.o.j. was overstepping, when they were investigating the documents being held at mar-a-lago, that he thought there were other ways to get documents back, even though