republican tried to ambush and hand fraudulent electors to mike pence on january 6th. those stories and reports are coming up. but after a hearing like today s we begin with something more fundamental than a legal breakdown, and more powerful, perhaps, than meticulously going through the evidence, though that also matters. right now we begin with this. what millions of americans saw and heard today from the top republican leader out of arizona in plain, serious, and stern testimony about the choices officials have to make, the tests that trump posed, tests that, by the way, many republicans have fail bid cowering to a would be autocrat by minimizing threats of violence and coups, by only speak out late, if at all. some have walked back from some of those public humiliations. others just live in them. but today s testimony by this republican here offers a view of what it looks like to stand up. i said, look, you are asking me to do something that is counter to my oath that i
senator johnson was still through an aide trying to ambush him with what would appear to be a fraudulent document for the purposes, michael, of submitting that for a government proceeding regarding an election. i m speaking this way deliberately, because mr. johnson has the freedom to lie in public. he even has the freedom to lie on the senate floor if he chooses. but when you start submitting false documents to the goth government, you tend to cross a legal line. i m glad to be with you both. clearly senator johnson is one to evoke those freedoms as we ve seen over the past year. any time you create a document, try to submit a forged document especially in furtherance of a conspiracy to undermine a federal election, you ve got problems. and that s essentially where we are. and to whether we talk about it from the state investigations that may occur or whether we
it s another legal problem for the president. and it s a fairly big one. from my per spect i have it s a good week in ethics in goth government. we haven t had a lot of those lately in government. in one of the three cases this is involving the state of maryland and the district of columbia. with help from a citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington. defended against a motion from the government to dismiss the case. they initially survived one when the government claimed they lack standing. here the government was saying they the definition of incredibly narrow. the government had a bizarre read on it. they said it only prohibits you from receiving outside gifts or payments from a foreign government that are specifically for your government services. so if the president wanted to take an outside job as a
literally two or three weeks ago as this yemen operation was beginning. but their most reliable partners are the other sunni states, the egyptians egyptians, gulf states, uae are all there with them. we need to be there as well. frankly, i think this is a case where the iranians are overreaching. i think they re causing a great deal of trouble in yemen. this is a place the president called a success story a few months ago and now we ve had to leave with our tail between our legs. i think checking iranian aggression is the right thing to do work with our allies. frankly, i hope we continue our aggressive posture. although represent cole is kind of arguing the president s case here a little bit, how do you see this as an aggressive posture, congressman schiff? the houthis are running all over yemen. whether or not the iranians are supporting them with arms we don t even know. we haven t heard what gives you that intelligence in goth government. how does the u.s. look strong in yemen ri