the more this committee finds with text messages, it is almost like a cloud that won t go away over the gop. gloria, the former president cancelled this i don t know if it was going to be a press conference. whatever. a night, a steak event like he has had in the past at mar-a-lago on january 6th. i guess the reporting had been there was advice from lindsey graham, laura ingraham had been reported to convince him not to do that. i don t know if that s the case. but why do you think he cancelled and why do you think he would want to have a sort of campaign-style event? well, first of all, he loves the attention, but i think he cancelled because he thought he wasn t going to get enough of it. he was going to be embarrassed because i was told today by a republican source with knowledge that the president when he heard that the networks weren t going to take it live, that cable networks weren t going to take it live, sort of said, wait a minute, i m not going to get the attention
that there is information there that s important? i don t know, and i m deeply concerned about it. there s certainly indications, for example, of people using encrypted apps like signal to make sure that their you know, their conversations were confidential. did that also mean that those text conversations were not turned over to the archives? i don t know. there were voluminous, apparently, records and messages on personal e-mails, you know, notwithstanding the fact many of these same people viciously attacked secretary clinton for much the same thing. so that is a very prevalent concern of mine and i think other committee members, and we re determined to get to the bottom of it. congressman schiff, i appreciate your time. thank you. thank you. joining us, chief political
analyst gloria borsher. bob woodward, you heard congressman schiff and attorney general guarland today. i wonder what your reaction is to how it is playing out? i think this january 6th committee is being aggressive and very thorough, but you can t measure it by the number of interviews. the question is are there firsthand witnesses and participants who are going to explain what happened? let s also deal with the political reality here. it is a divided nation, not just about trump or the election but about january 6th. there are lots of people who think, oh, this was fine. in my view, having done this for decades, what happened on january 6th was a crime against
the constitution. so are they going to find witnesses or evidence that will get people to look more clearly and understand the nature of that crime? i mean they ve you know, just trying to overturn an election is, as you point out, an attack on democracy and its central premise. gloria, chairman bennie thompson yesterday called on vice president pence voluntarily to speak to the committee. right. you have been talking to sources. is that really a possibility? i mean obviously we ve been there s been reporting by you and others, jimmy king and others about mark short and others around the vice president speaking. right, who are talking to the committee, who are cooperating with the committee, numbers of staff and also people who are protected, the vice president, don t forget were witnesses
director mueller delivering the final report. i am comfortable that the decisions that were made are going to be reviewed, you know, either through the various means we have, but right now, you know, the investigation is i think close to being completed and i hope that we can get the report from director mueller as soon as possible. anderson, i am fluent in english. i have been speaking english since i, you know, practically learned to talk. i have no idea what those words mean. i just, you know, gloria you re spa smarter than i am. help yourself. i m also sort of good add english. did he mean the decisions need to be reviewed? i m confident they re going to be reviewed. what does that mean? does it mean he disagreed with some. some of the decisions that were made? i have words in my head, and i can stream them together, and