voting record. i also think it s unrealistic to say this isn t a partisan committee when you look at the fact that the very people who are prosecuting the case and saying that about the election and throwing out electors, there are people on that same committee who voted against vertification. others voted against certification of trump/pence in 2016 when there s no ed of fraud whatsoever in 2016 or 2004. that gives me concerns about a double standard. did president trump embolden vladimir putin? did donald trump embolden vladimir putin? i think you look at the record of what president trump did in actually bombing russian mercenaries and killing them in
commit a crime or fraud and hired john eastman to help furtherance of that crime, to help him try to commit that crime or that fraud. now, eastman has responded in a statement or his attorneys i should say have responded in a statement early this morning. let s put it up on the screen. they hold to his position that communication between the two of them are protected by client confidences and that eastman has a responsibility to protect that. they look forward to responding in due course. now, nbc caught up with bennie thompson a little earlier today and asked specifically are they alleging that donald trump committed a crime here? he did not say specifically whether or not the committee is alleging that. he said he holds that the position in the brief. it could be a back door referral here. kicking it to the justice department, there s no way they wouldn t see that filing or at least have a sense that the committee believes that donald trump committed a crime here or a fraud as part o
it s what we conferred to the president s legal team. i think it s a very dangerous precedent for a committee to ask you to violate a communication privilege between the president and vice president about their personal conversations. i think for many of us, we ve expressed our concerns about what transpired and have been open about what the vice president s position was. he wrote an open let to the letter to the public explaining that position. it does have a very partisan taint. liz cheney is on that committee and she voted with donald trump almost more than any republican in the house. she s one of the most respected republicans, despite her disagreements with donald trump out there. i appreciate it, peter. i m very aware of liz cheney s
these claims and what he told the committee when he testified behind closed doors. right now we want to start with the latest in eastern europe. josh letterman is in brussels at nato headquarters. richard engel is in kyiv. he ll join us in a moment. he just spoke to the ukrainian president, president zelenskyy. at this moment i m joined by general barry mccaffrey, retired four-star general, former gulf war division commander and for our sake fortunately an msnbc military analyst. european and u.s. officials warning the situation in ukraine is going to get a lot worse. the president in the state of the union said there were dark days ahead. what more are you hearing? peter, u.s. and european officials have been so impressed by the surprising resistance that the ukrainians have been able to mount up until now, keeping the russians from being able to take over most of the urban areas in the city, but they are warning that that
cease-fire. it would be a major step forward in favor of the brave ukrainians. stunning to look at those awful pictures from inside ukraine as reporters get a chance to scan that area and see the damage already caused and many fear it only going to get worse. we want to thank all of you. coming up here on this special edition of white house reports , the bomb shell legal filing from the january 6 committee saying for the first time it believes president trump committed crimes after the 2020 election. we re also going to get new reaction from somebody who has already testified before the committee, mike pence s former chief of staff, mark short. he s going to join us live. and the timeline to get president biden s supreme court nominee confirmed as judge ketanji brown jackson meets with more senators as we speak. you are watching white house reports. we re live here on msnbc. hway.