today on inside politics, exclusive new cnn reporting about an immunity deal for a fake bear of electors. new details that make clear the trump special counsel s january 6th investigation is picking up speed. plus, joe biden hardly ever says it, donald trump wants to steer clear of it. mike pence wants to put every single republican on record about it. one year after dobbs erased roe, abortion is front and center in the 2024 campaign. and damning if true, accusations against the justice department. irs whistleblowers bullet point how they say the do j block ed the hunter biden investigation at every turn. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. up first, jack smith plays hardball. cnn s new exclusive reporting breaking right now. it takes us inside the special counsel s investigation into the insurrection. the big takeaway tromwhat cnn is learning, federal investigators are getting important questions answered about the trump plot to overturn the 2020 elec
Whats happening, he knows what roger knows about him, how much negotiation is there going to go on right now with sentencing coming, the type of prison, whether its allenwood, lewisberg, something much less pleasant, where they dont have a tennis court, where theres white collar criminals or sleaze balls, how much negotiation is the president capable of right now . In terms of where roger stone is sentenced, if hes sentenced to prison, thats not up to anyone other than the bureau of prisons. Didnt barr get involved with Manafo Manafort . The bureau of prisons does report to the attorney general. But in almost every case ive heard of, its a designation based on risk and how much time
is to be served. A second point, i also think roger stone has rendered himself absolutely useless. He has lied almost every time hes opened his mouth. It would be very hard for prosecutors to turn to him now to get Additional Information that they could use against others. Roger stone is useless. Hes a conv
Doing their business. This might actually start on time. Mike pompeo doesnt get enough attention. There is two scenarios, he was helping to orchestrate the off book Political Campaign run by donald trump and Rudy Giuliani, or he was oblivious to what was being done to all of his employees. He was asked repeatedly to defend her, and we have on the record in testimony a call from the State Department to yovanovitch at 1 00 in the morning where they say we need to get you out on the next plane. What did he do . I think the fact pattern is just as par real for mike cpompeo as trump. We know that mike pompeo was listening in on the phone call of which donald trump said of that former ambassador. That bad woman, bad things are going to happen to her and her former boss, secretary pompeo didnt do anything. Lisa, you work at the State Department for a republican administration. What impact does this have on the state Department Today and in the future. I agree with nicole that i think pompeo w
in addition to that, the whistleblowers produced what they say is a hunter biden whatsapp message saying i m sitting here with my father, joe biden, and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. i will make certain between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. i m sitting here waiting for the call with my father. that looks very damning. i should also note the date there, july 20th, 2017. and what hunter biden has said over and over again is that at that time, he had a very serious crack addiction. he did have a very serious drug problem. and 2017 also matters because joe biden is no longer vice president. he s also not running. at this point, it s believed he is out of politics. everything indicates he s done with politics. so the question is, you know, what does this mean really for the republican accusations that this means joe biden was corrupt
were cooperating with that operation. this was the subject of a july 20th, 2017, letter sent by senator grassley to then-deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. the letter raised concerns about the activities of alexander chalupa, a contractor for the national democratic committee who worked with ukrainian embassy officials to spread dirt on the trump campaign. as senator grassley wrote, chalupa s actions appear to show that she was simultaneously working on behalf of a foreign government, ukraine, and on behalf of the dnc and the clinton campaign in an effort to influence not only the u.s. voting population but u.s. government officials, unquote. after touting the steele dossier and defending the fbi s russia investigation, which are now being investigated by inspector