writing that they lacked evidence at the outset of collusion between the trump campaign and russia. this stands at odds with the 2019 justice department inspector generals conclusion, that there was adequate basis for opening the inquiry. we ll talk shortly with andrew mccabe, who is at the fbi at the time. he joins us. he s long invested the investigation. the former president has seized on the report and claiming indication, though it certainly does not as he once claimed it would, reveal, quote, the crime of the century. for more on what s actually in today s report, we re joined by cnn s evan perez. so what stands out to you in this? anderson, the lack of any new prosecutions. that stands out because we were expecting, certainly we were led to believe by th e former president, by the former administration, that this investigation was going to find crimes. they were going to find conspiracy by the deep state, to go after donald trump. john durham concludes here is that
tonight. former vice president mike pence testified today before the federal grand jury, investigating the former presidents actions surrounding the january six riot and an attempts to overturn the 2020 election election. i am john berman in for anderson. just pause and listen to that again. a former vice president just testified in an investigation about whether a president, his running mate, illegally tried to overturn an election. so much has happened in the last few years, it s easy to get numb to the mind bending is historical explosions taking place. it s the first time in modern history a vice president has been compelled to testify about the president he served beside, and add to that, he might run against trump in 2024. it s also the first time that this vice president has testified under oath about the today we are rioters were seen yelling, hang mike pence at the capitol, as well as personal interactions with trump and the events leading up to that day. he previous
is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more tha we have. fellas, i need 11,000 votes. give me a break. then president trump georgia secretary of state - in order to overturn the election result in that state. the phone call remains shocking, no matter how many times you hear it. but the call was over an hour-long. and there are other parts of that call that prosecutors may now be taking a closer look at for instance, there is thi part so, it did people voted and i think the number is clos to 5000 people and they went to obituaries. they went to all sorts o methods to come up with an accurate number. and a minimum is close to abou 5000 voters. that was president trum insisting, again, to the georgia secretary of state that thousands of dead peopl voted in georgia during th 2020 election. today, the washington post reports that one day befor that infamous phone call, report commissioned by donal trump s own campaign had found that nowhere near 5000 dea
uncovered in multiple federa and state investigations had it s the most damning piece of evidence against donald trum and his ongoing legal battles, remains this phone call. so, look, all i want to d is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more tha we have. fellas, i need 11,000 votes. give me a break. then president trump, pressuring georgia secretary o state, to find him 11,000 vote in order to overturn the election result in that state. the phone call remains shocking, no matter how many times you hear it. but the call was over an hour-long. and there are other parts of that call that prosecutors may now be taking a closer look at for instance, there is thi part so, dead people voted and i think the number is clos to 5000 people and they went to obituaries. they went to all sorts o methods to come up with an accurate number. and a minimum is close to abou 5000 voters. that was president trum insisting, again, to the georgia secretary of state that t
we have lots of news to, cover and lots of questions to answer, so let s get started. the u.s. military shoots a mystery object out of the sky for the second time in less than a week. now the races on to figure out exactly what was in the sky over alaska. what we know so far, plus new details about what that chinese spy balloon was truly capable of. plus, trump s legal team reportedly hands over additional items with classified markings and a laptop. it comes as an fbi search of mike pence s home turns out another classified document, and pence himself faces a subpoena in the january six special counsel probe. when all of these developments tell us about where these investigations are headed. and later, michael cohen, trump s former personal attorney, meets with the manhattan district attorney for the 15th time, will join us live this morning to discuss that and everything else circling around trump world as these probes heat up. all of that more is coming up. good satu