you know, drink to a little bit done. great assignment, don have fun this morning continues right now. mike pence, headed to the witness stand and the boj s january 6th investigation. this would be the first time that a former vice president testifies about his former boss and criminal investigation. do you think that there will be more than he can shed light on, particularly when it comes to his conversations with the former president, having the vice president of united states with a special counsel under oath, i think adds enormous value. take our support for the people of taiwan seriously, the white house has tried to downplay the historic nature of the meeting, trying not to overreact, threatening to fight back of violation of its sovereignty. the speaker of the house, there is no place that china is going to tell me where i can go or who i can speak to. concern is mounting in the middle east after israeli police and palestinians clashed at one of islam s holiest sites d
be the most consequential one because he had the one on one conversations with trump. but its mark meadows, it s all of these other top trump officials that they tried to get them from testifying, but they ve lost those battles. as we reported earlier this week, striking it didn t get a lot of attention. trump wasn t quite that day, but it it could be very significant for jack smith s investigation. it is striking, and it would be actually a little bit surprising if they appeal on that, because then potentially there going to have another loss, right and there i mean, it s clear where that is going given what you just said, with the mark mellows and others that they have lost with on the executive privilege grounds, but this is a huge development that mike pence is going to be talking to jackson smith and the prosecutors, potentially a grand jury about his conversations with trump and what, what it does. is it helps prosecutors, investigators understand trump s state of mind to and eff
they start by quoting senator leaves techs to mark mellows. quote, please tell me what i should be saying. text messages show senator mike lee assisting trump efforts to over see the 2020 election. text messages show really knew of scheme to send alternate electors to congress, nearly a month earlier than he claimed. that sort of thing, of course, is a brutal headline for a senator to wake up to in his hometown paper. but it s getting worse for him, just today the salt lake tribune has released a new editorial under this headline, saturdays used tossed a republican convention would be a great place for mike lee to come clean. quote, it s past time for my colleague to start fessing up to all he knows about the plot to satisfied the results of an honest and fair election, in order to keep donald trump in power. we know utah senior senator had a much greater role now plot than he is previously acknowledged. his constituents deserve a much more detailed accounting of what went on, and the
what he represented about how outside this process he was, is just plainly not true. the text messages, further, show that senator lee continue to work on and promote that scheme privately, behind the scenes, all the way up until two days before the january 6th attack. he would claim later to know absolutely nothing about it, but he was working behind the scenes trying to get states to effectuate this plan, of standing in the fake electors, and thereby overturning the election. like i said, cnn obtained these text messages after they were, we assume, obtained by the january six investigation. that means investigation has them, cnn has made the public. this is now coming back to bite senator mike lee, in a way that he might not have seen coming, i m not sure i didn t either. here, for example, is the headline from the salt lake tribune, which is of course the paper of record in mike lee s home state of utah. they start by quoting senator leaves techs to mark mellows. quote, please tel