jacob s boss, mike pence and the chief of staff, a lawyer friendly to him and lawyer named john eastman. john eastman was apparent eyely there at that january 4th meeting to tell vice president pence that he had to act, he had to do something on january 6th, when congress was set to meet to certify the election. eastman, reportedly at that meeting told vice president pence and his staff that the vice president should refuse to certify the election. and if he refused to certify the election then the results could be overturned in trump s favor. that was the meeting oval office, january 4th. gregory jacob was there for that meeting at the vice president s side. the very next day, january 5th, they did it again. that same trumpy lawyer, john eastman reportedly cornered gregory jacob, the vice president s top lawyer. cornered him in another office
place on college campuses or anywhere on this nation. joining us congresswoman alma adams. she s founder and chair of the hbcu caucus in congress. congresswoman, thank you for being here? thank you, rachel, for having me today, the first day of black history month when we should be celebrating and not dealing with these kind of things. i listened to the president talk about the threat on his campus, but when you look at the threats across this country, they are acts of terror, hate crimes, and yes, indeed, they must be fully investigated and prosecuted. and clearly, that s what we have asked to have done. i m the product of an hbcu, i taught 40 years on a campus. i have a grandson at howell. i talked to him today as well. we re very concerned, and the threats are really concerning to all of us, so our federal and state law enforcement agencies must get involved. i believe they will.
very, very important witness. of course, not all important witnesses have been coming forward to the committee. a large number of people in trump s circle have refused to cooperate with the investigation. including, interestingly, his chief of staff, mark meadows. today, nbc news had some really super interesting reporting that might help explain why meadows is no longer cooperating. yo might remember, the january 6th investigation in congress got up and running this summer, on july 1st. that s when the house voted to set up the investigation into the attack on the capitol into trump s attempts to overturn the election, july 1st. well, nbc s jonathan allen is now reporting that on july 26th, 3 1/2 weeks after the committee got set up, after the investigation got started. july 26th, donald trump s political pac donated $1 million to the conservative nonprofit where his chief of staff mark meadow currently works. that s the most money trump s pac donated to any of his
what trump allies were thinking and arguing for in realtime while the attack was in its final planning stages and while it was under way. even while the physical attack on the capitol was still under way, they were still pushing vice president pence to overturn the election. even when it was over, they were pushing vice president pence to overturn the election. and apparently, gregory jacob has a paper trail to back all of this up, having taken contemporaneous notes on what the trump side was telling and what they were telling vice president pence to do. interesting witness, right, if they can get him. well, today here was gregory jacob on his way to provide testimony to the january 6th investigators in congress. he testified to investigators for almost nine hours today. really. which is a very long time. part of the reason we know that, part of the reason that was confirmed tonight is because of comments from the chairman of the january 6th investigation.
it. because terrorism and racism have no place on college campuses. you know, education is the powerful thing. and as our students need to be educated. and their education doesn t need to be disrupted in this way and that s exactly what s happening right now. we re doing what i think we need to do. we re all pulling together and being support to make sure we re getting into this. congresswoman alma adams is the founder and co-hair of the hbcu caucus in congress. congresswoman, thank you so much for your time tonight. i am sorry that this is happening. i m glad to hear that you feel the resources are in the rooting place and going in the right directions. let s hope for arrests soon. thank you. thank you. thank you rachel, thank you for having me. have a good night. we ll be right back. stay with us. we ll be right bak stay with us