a curb and ran into a number of people in midtown manhattan. athena jones is here with us. what can eye tell us? victor, this is just breaking, 12:59 p.m., a taxi jumped a curb and struck three people. three of them critically injured. they were sent to a local hospital according to the nypd. it appears this is just an accident. this is being investigated by the detectives on the scene and the taxicab driver remained on the scene. four people struck, three people critically injured and taken to the hospital after a taxicab jumped the curb and hit the people walking on the sidewalk. we don t know the condition of the driver, although we know the driver is still on the scene. this happened around broadway and 29th street. for people who have any sense of manhattan, this is a few hours south of the empire state building. you can imagine how many people were on the sidewalk on a day like today, when it happened just before 1:00 p.m. as of right now, it s being investigated as a
election. specifically, they re looking at the state of georgia where he asked raffensperger, we remember, this to quote, find him enough votes to win, and in that now infamous phone call. we will be hearing from raffensperger and his deputy, gabriel sterling, a name we know well as well. focusing on the pressure trump put on the former vice president, mike pence, to not certify the election. now one member of the january 6th committee praised pence this morning for resisting trump s pressure. in a time of the scandalous betrayal of people in office and crimes being committed all over the place. somebody who does their job will stand out as a hero on the day. i think on that day he was a hero for resisting all of the pressure campaigns and the course of efforts to get him to play along with this continuation of the big lie. this big joke that he could somehow call off all the proceedings himself. all the public hearing so far, they ve shown the former president is this re
defense plan to set up appeals to the supreme court on the key issue of jurisdiction? he will try. the problem for him is the state court action continues. as the judge in the district court said, you know what? you have to show up at arraignments because i might not have my decision until then. his game plan, mark meadows he should have taken this is to ultimately get the case dismissed on the grounds that he had immunity, because he was acting as a federal officer doing his chief of staff duties. the evidence belies that. even his testimony. he wants people to believe he was just merely present, non-active participant, basically a personal secretary. the testimony from the georgia secretary of state and the evidence the allegations in the indictment of text messages he sent, including one offering trump campaign financing if they would hurry up the signature process, belies that he was just
office, only to have secretary of state brad raffensperger then, a republican, immediately contradict his testimony. joining me now, blayne alexander in atlanta, and catherine christian, former manhattan assistant district attorney. blayne, bring us up to speed on the testimony of raffensperger. there was a clear division on how he and mark meadows described the phone call from donald trump. meadows was on the call looking for more votes. reporter: they described it completely differently. what we heard from mark meadows during his nearly four hours on the stand, he laid out his duties as the chief of staff and said it was customary to set up phone calls between the former president and anybody else. he said he thought it was basically his way of kind of trying to settle some outstanding legal issues in the least litigious way possible. that was mark meadows. when we heard from
gravity of the situation. it s not necessarily he is going to try to rush his ruling on this. he said it is possible that it could go beyond september 6, which is when arraignment is. he says if he is not issued a ruling by then, mark meadows would have to basically show up for arraignment. he said the state proceedings can keep going in the meantime. from the fulton county side, the question is, what can the arraignments look like? one defendant has basically waived appearance, entered a not guilty plea. it s likely that we will see that from others to come. they would waive their appearance. we have been told at some point virtual appearances were on the table. they could come in person. a number of ways they could appear. there s a long runway between now and next wednesday. thank you very much, blayne. catherine, your reaction to mark meadows taking the stand for nearly five hours, actually. could that hurt that testimony hurt him later in this