recorded testimony by former pence chief of staff mark short who was with vice president pence an january 6th. was a firsthand witness to trump s pressure campaign in the days leading up to it. we re told house investigators will try to make the case that the pressure on pence directly distributed to the insurrection at the capitol and the continuing ongoing threat to the rule of law and democracy in the united states. many aides are promising new information about what the vice president was doing during the riot, and where he was hiding as that mob chanted, hang mike pence, hang mike pence. the panel also will focus on the role of conservative lawyer john eastman in pushing the bo fgus unconstitutional theory that pence has the power to invalidate legal, lawful e electoral votes. let s go to ryan nobles on capitol hill right now. ryan, the chairman of the select committee congressman bennie thompson of mississippi just chaired a block buster new information about a potentia
stepian s recorded deposition to try to establish key facts about today s theme, the big lie, that donald trump knew he lost election, but continued anyway to rally his supporters around the false claim that he had won. we re also moments away from the supreme court releasing new decisions possibly on the key mississippi abortion case. we ll bring you any of the big cases as we learn about them. let s start with today s hearing because this missing stepian throws a wrench into the committee s plans after laying out how this would play out during the first prime time hearing last week. indeed, it does. because as we ve seen before, in-person testimony is so much more powerful even than the clips they showed of ivanka trump, for instance, on thursday night as we were showing on friday in the hearings. so the appearance in person would have been much more impactful. of course we re excited for them and his wife and their impending new baby, but that is the reality of what ha
interviewed the witnesses, it was not true. mr. pak, after you left the us attorney s office on january 24th, 2021, did the next u.s. attorney there, i think mr. trump s personal pick, bobby christine, did he investigate any remaining claims of fraud and if so did he find any evidence that supported the president s claims of voter fraud? it is my understanding that mr. christine continued any investigations that were pending at the time of my departure, but he was unable to find any evidence of fraud that affected the outcome of the election. so after investigating the president s and mr. giuliani s claims about voter fraud in georgia, is it your view today that there was no evidence of widespread fraud sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome of the election in georgia? that is correct. thank you, mr. pak. i want to thank you also for the service that you ve given to our
take a look. real insurance that ukraine had against invasion is that putin has to take his energy, his natural gas in pipelines that go through ukraine. once he builds nord stream 2. he no longer has to worry about those pipelines. in 2019 i authored sanctions, bipartisan sanctions in congress they passed with overwhelming bipartisan majorities. president trump signed my sanctions legislation into law. and putin stopped building the pipe line the day president trump signed those sanctions. that pipeline was dead for over a year until joe biden became president and putin began building that pipeline again on january 24th, 2021. four days after biden was sworn into office. joe biden becoming president is the best thing that ever happened, tragically, for vladimir putin. rachel: we re going to talk a little bit about that later. energy policy is national security policy.
putin stopped construction of the pipeline. it lay dormant for over a year until joe biden got elected. harris: why would he do that? because they want to make nice to germany. the biden foreign policy team you just showed jake sullivan. i have joked their foreign policy team sleeps with votive candles of angela merkel under their beds and merkel wants this pipeline. but the timing is stunning. biden was sworn into office on january 20th, 2021. putin began rebuilding began building the pipeline again on january 24th, 2021. four days after biden was sworn into office. biden waived the sanctions that i had authored and we had imposed on nord stream 2. at the time he waived it this summer both ukraine and poland said publicly by waiving the