buddies and allies to overturn the 2020 election. as we reported on this program at this hour yesterday, mark short, he s of course the former chief of staff to former vice president mike pence, testified before a d.c. grand jury last week. now according to new multiple reports, we also know that a second senior pence aide also testified. that would be greg jacob, pence s legal counsel. both men, of course, had a front row seat to the extraordinary pressure campaign on mike pence by trump and his allies, people like john eastman, to get pence to stop the certification of president joe biden s election victory on january 6th. wall street journal reports these stunning details about their testimony. quote, one area of interest to prosecutors was a january 4th, 2021, oval office meeting where conservative lawyer john eastman pushed pence in trump s presence to either reject the electoral votes outright or suspend the proceedings and asked several state legislatures to re-examine
townsend seek communications relating to any effort, plan, or attempt to serve as an elector in favor of the then president and then vice president. the documents released monday cast a wide net for any communications that fann and townsend may have had with any member of the executive or legislative branch of the federal government, any representative or agent of trump or his campaign or trump boosters, jenna ellis, bernie caric, rudy giuliani, boris epstein among others. and then there is this a bomb shell piece of reporting breaking in the last couple of hours in the new york times. the inner workings on the scheme they knew was illegal from the trump campaign and lawyers. it shows that the campaign knew that the slates of fake trump electors were just that, totally bogus, totally fake, meritless. quote, that story says this. in emails reviewed by the new york times and authenticated by people who had worked with the trump campaign at the time, one