middle east as this horrible attack on the capitol is taking place. he returned home just about to get in the shower that afternoon when he receives frantic, panic phone call from kevin mccarthy, the house minority leader who was radically changed his story from what it was on january 6th. he pleads with jared kushner to help, once again, intervening with his father-in-law but kushner quickly concludes there s really nothing he can do. your reporting shows lot of people in trump s orbit did not believe the election was stolen. one key player in the kwhous leading up to january 6th was trump s chief of staff mark meadows and you reported on his strategy in the final days of the trump administration. what did you learn about meadow and what might the committee know? meadows has been, for someone who has not been up there testifying, has been a key witness. he turned over thousands of text
months and months of investigation and you have to tell the story in a coherent, compelling fashion. jamie already hit on two of the main points that i would be trying to make to the american public if i was putting the hearings on. was donald trump warned in a compelling way that there could be violence. if so, i think that is a gacme changer. what did donald trump do during the key moments. we know he sat there doing nothing but he also set this whole thing in motion. he lit the spark and did nothing while the fire burned. the question is what was he doing inside the kwhous during the key hours. if they can answer those questions then that will advance the knowledge we have here. what are you hearing about who will be called to testify? has anyone been notified? the committee is still finalizing the witness list. no one has received a formal invitation yet. que
secret. paula reed is joining us. the committee expected some key testimony today. what s the latest? what are you hearing? a steady stream of top trump white house officials appearing before the house select committee investigating january 6th this week, today two of trump s top lawyers were expected to meet informally with investigators. he was one of the leading voices inside the kwhous pushing back on the campaign to pressure then vice president mike pence to overturn the election results while presiding over the electoral college certification on january 6th. hannity suggested white house counsel would leave in pence continued to be pressured.
you must test negative to be anywhere around the same room as the president. tested negative but then over theo over the weekend developed symptoms and tested positive later. in every workplace in america. everyone seems to know someone testing positive. no exception at the white house. but for now the president testing negative as of yesterday and scheduled to get another test tomorrow. jeff zeleny at the kwhous for us thank you. sure. omicron is spreading so fat that new modelling from the cdc says we will see higher case rates than previous peaks, despite higher rates of vaccination. the u.s. has also now confirmed its first known death from the omicron variant. an unvaccinated texas man with underlying health issues died after contracting the virus a second time. cnn s athena jones has more. we ve already not seen anything like this before. it s not looking good. it s a perfect storm,
mark meadow, former chief of staff many the kwhous, your thoughts? good. during the russia investigation and the impeachment investigation, mark meadows took as many shovels out of the shed that he could find to try and bury evidence to help donald trump. he never once spoke up. he was another one where privately he would want the talk the you and joke with you. he would come and put his hand on my back when the cams weren t looking. when he had to sing for his supper for donald trump, he would sing at the top of his lungs and he s one that knew better but played to fans. to me in washington, that s worse than somebody who believes in it. it s something that wants power and fame.