hello and welcome to inside politics. i m abby phillip in for john king in washington. still no motive minutes ago on cnn, nashville s police chief shares some new details about the shooter who murdered six people, plus the special counsel investigating donald trump wins a courtroom fight to force mike pence to go under oath. and chris christie says hard written , spoken extensively about that day will evaluate the best way forward and make our intentions now have nothing to hide. i believe we did our duty and the constitution on january 6th. chris christie says never again to donald trump and tells new hampshire voters that he s the one who can go toe to toe with the former president. better have somebody on that stage. into to him what i did to market do you have to be fearless? because he will come back. and right at you. but up first we have new information on the nashville shooting straight from the police chief himself moments ago, right here on cnn chief john drake run
pence in this time around january 6th. at some point it started off. as a calmer tone and everything and then became heated. the conversation was was pretty heated. remember hearing the word wimp like being you re not tough enough to make the call. remember what she said her father called him. the p word. but it s striking that while that is salacious and got a lot of headlines, what the special counsel wants to know is about the crimes. what would mike pence know about that? and even those things like wimp and the salacious stuff might be evidence of crimes if they were threats, or in some way, masked the former president s knowledge that he lost the election or touched on the president s intention to obstruct or interfere or impede acts of congress. these are all things touching on obstruction of justice or conspiracy or threats that the former president might be involved. and big picture. evan uh, this has actually coming in a string of winds. yeah for the special counsel again. the