republican tried to ambush and hand fraudulent electors to mike pence on january 6th. those stories and reports are coming up. but after a hearing like today s we begin with something more fundamental than a legal breakdown, and more powerful, perhaps, than meticulously going through the evidence, though that also matters. right now we begin with this. what millions of americans saw and heard today from the top republican leader out of arizona in plain, serious, and stern testimony about the choices officials have to make, the tests that trump posed, tests that, by the way, many republicans have fail bid cowering to a would be autocrat by minimizing threats of violence and coups, by only speak out late, if at all. some have walked back from some of those public humiliations. others just live in them. but today s testimony by this republican here offers a view of what it looks like to stand up. i said, look, you are asking me to do something that is counter to my oath that i
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
so, glenn, i mean, this is just all new territory for me, right. i ve never had this discussion about whether an adviser to the president may or may not have been intoxicated. but talk to me about how this is important to anybody s case. jack smith s case, fani willis s case, rudy giuliani is a named co-defendant in georgia, not in the january 6 case for the moment. tell me more about what you think about this and the thread that jack smith is pulling on. yeah, i think it is relevant evidence. it is not just salacious. it is not just the setup a punchline about rudy giuliani. but first of all, intoxication is a subject of keen interest in most criminal investigations. for example, if you have a defendant who is intoxicated at the time he committed a crime, it might negate his specific intent and it might take a case of a salt with intent to kill down to a case of simple assault because he was too drunk to form
it said on august 25th, 2023, defendant sidney powell also filed a speedy trial demand. the state maintained its position that severance is improper at this juncture and all defendants should be tried together. but at an absolute minimum, the court should set defendant powell s trial and that of any other defendant who may file a speedy trial demand on the same day as defendant chesebro. but the argument that she s making, that the judge is going to have to consider, severance is improper. what is the basis of arguing that severance in a case like this is improper? so, ali, any time we indict a co-defendant case, the prosecutors have a keen interest in keeping all the defendants in the same trial. the defendants ordinary try to
speedy trial and we assume she ll be batched together with ken cheesebro. that is the natural thing to do. batch co-defendants together. fani willis has now said we re ready to go to trial. the speedy trial law is what it is and we are prepared to give all 19 co-defendants a speedy trial and we would like them all set for trial on october 23rd. what i predict, ali, is that that is going to result in a chorus of voices from many of the co-defendants saying not so fast, we re not demanding a speedy trial, in fact, we re prepared to waive our speedy trial rights and we re going to need far more time to prepare. it will be really interesting now to see what judge mcafee does now that fani willis is prepared to give everyone their speedy trial. i m going to work through this with you while you re with me. i m reading from this document.