hello and welcome to inside politics, i m john king. new information about a january 6th mystery. cnn identifies the man on the receiving end of a nine-second call from the white house switchboard in the middle of the insurrection. plus, john fetterman and the finance question. republican mehmet oz says his senate rival needs to release his medical records. democrat fetterman shows voters his recovery is on track. president biden for closing bethlehem steel. 27 years ago. and i m the one that had a stroke. we begin, though, with florida bracing for hurricane ian. it s already rapidly intensifying. wind speeds have jumped 35 miles per hour in just the last day. it may turn into a category 3 or higher storm in the next 24 hours. people in the tampa area throwing sandbags as the storm churns in the caribbean. lines long to stock up on supplies, and florida governor ron desantis declaring an emergency for the entire state including activating the national guard. carlos suar
the january 6th committee has uncovered how far this went. the fact that the coup failed doesn t mean that criminal laws weren t broken and the fact that they did this in the open doesn t mean the criminal laws weren t broken so we look forward again to the public hearings that the january 6th committee will be putting out and the final work product and i think there is going to be a lot for the department of justice to look into. will we wind up seeing the injustice for any crimes committed having to come from the states? we have a grand jury that s been seated in the state of georgia to look into the attempts to steal that state for donald trump. is that what we re going to wind up looking to see testimony compelled, people like raffensperger having to testify because of the subpoena by a grand jury. do we have to look there because it doesn t seem like the doj is doing any active investigations in that realm, even the january 6th committee haven t subpoenaed william barr but talke
days hoping to swallow an independent country whole via violent force. earier today john kirby announced that president biden has approved a request from lloyd austin to place 8500 u.s. base troops on high alert for potential deployment to eastern europe. i don t think anybody wants to see another war on the european continent and no reason that has to occur. this could be solved easily by the russians deescalating and moving forces away. which they haven t done. and so nato, as a defensive alliance and it is a defensive alliance has a responsibility to its members to make sure that they re able to defend themselves if needed. if deploy the troops would be folded into an existing nato led response force, which would decide where they go and what they do, no troops are intended