planning to talk to ahead of the fall. also scheduled to get an update on the president s covid diagnosis from the white house. the doctors saying the symptoms are almost totally gone. i want to bring in nbc white house correspondent mike memoli and correspondent shaq brewster with where america is at with abortion access with indiana being really the focus at this moment. talk about vice president harris trip there and what it means. reporter: we have seen the vice president do the event in indiana multiple times, speaking with democratic lawmakers where republicans control the levers of power and abortion access is under assault and today with the visit to indiana is we have the indiana legislature considering what would be a total ban on abortion and we have of course a case that the president highlighted. the 10-year-old girl from indiana the victim of rape traveling to get the kind of health access she needed. this is part of what the vice president s message is t
capitol on his behalf. here were witnesses including jared kushner on what was behind that statement. i sat and spoke to miller about putting together for draft remarks for jan 7 that we were going to present to the president that we felt we had to call for further de-escalation. from what i understood at the time and from the reports coming in there s a large concern of 25th amendment potentially being invoked and there were concerns about would happen in the senate if the 25th was invoked so the primary reason that i had heard other than, you know, we did not do enough on the 6th and we need a stronger message to get out there otherwise this will be the legacy and think about what might happen in the final 15 days of your presidency if we don t do this. there are already talks about invoking the 25th amendment. so to be clear according to jared kushner and cassidy hutchinson, sworn testimony, it was concerns about the president s cabinet finally after years of talking
the source wouldn t discuss details of the testimony an indication that the department of justice for january 6th his expanded from those in the so-called fake elector schemes. so maybe a brick in the wall against claire and andrew s pessimism? look, it would certainly be a sign that the justice department investigation being led by thomas wyndham is looking at and trying to talk to individuals at that closest wrung around the president. that has sort of been the biggest question to this point is that why is it that people like mark short had not been talked to, but they had talked to the committee. so this would certainly be a sign that the department is honing its focus directly in on those individuals and trying to get information from them. it s important to remember what short was there for. he was there for the efforts by
against the ex-president as liz cheney always describes him the person who summoned the mob, riled up the mob and when it was clear his own vice president s life was in danger and capitol police officers were being maimed and injured didn t do nothing. kicked the photographers out of the dining room, watched television, called rudy giuliani, and it sounds like one of the active threads of the investigation is still pursuing the other contacts and communications he had during the insurrection. so, you know, in term of the moral and ethical responsibility, clearly that falls on president trump. what happened on january 6th was an absolute tragedy and we have to make sure it never happens again and the hearings have shown that the president s actions led to what happened on january 6th and at the most recent hearing, not only did the president fail to act, he refiezed to act when his staff was coming to come asking him to
office. i m going to take a contrarian view. i don t think it s matters. what matters is the committee has revealed sean hannity and laura ingraham are laughing their asses off. what they texted to mark meadows is make it stop. here s adam kinzinger making that point. the state of our party is a disaster. i have people that tell me, hey, my dad was addicted to fox news. never thought anything wrong with donald trump. now he hates him because of these hearings. i hear anecdotal things like that. i think in the long term donald trump will be persona nongrada in this country.