with this reporting, quote, the former president has called witnesses throughout the investigation according to those who spoke anonymously to reveal conversations. they ruled out a number of former officials as the recipient of this latest call highlighted by cheney saying it was not former white house counsel pat cipollone whose deputy patrick philbin, former media officials, matthews or former pascale. the allegations of witness tampering by trump and his associates, though, do add new dimension to the wider scandal that is to overturn the 2020 election results which, as vice chair liz cheney added, trump was, quote, substantially and personally involved in. politico reports on the dual track of the committee s public hearings with this analysis. on the one hand, the committee is focused on filling out the historical record of the attempt to overturn the election and its violent conclusion. on the other, its members are laying out an unmistakable map to a potential crimina
When terrorists dont pay a price for their terror, when dictators dont pay a price for their aggression, they cause more chaos and death. Chaos andh and he calls on congress to fund both wars. We cant let petty, partisan, angry politics get in the way of the responsibilities of a great nation. Now the urgent effort to free more hostages as two americans are released as both conflicts rage on. Will the u. S. Be able to build support for staying in the fight . Ill ask Secretary Of State Antony Blinken and former Vice President mike pence. Plus, house in chaos. A speaker has not been elected. We need to come together and figure out who our speakers going to be. The House Of Representatives remains leaderless as the republican fight over who will become the next speaker drags on. The crazy eights who have led the race. The amount of damage they have done to this party and to this country is insurmountable. Is there a solution to this dysfunction . Will anyone be able to get the gavel . Ill
and you know, nicolle, when you were playing that opening package, i remembered an old bible verse where your treasure is there your heart will be. i think what we re seeing is people who are motivated by their own self-interest, by their own treasure. and whether that was power or proximity to power or career advancement or political advancement, those were the actors around donald trump from the time he came on the stage. and we know that the party leaders refused to reject him in 16, but they also refused to isolate him even as he served, right? the leaders on the hill never had to embrace the trump agenda. they certainly don t do that with the democratic president. they could have acted with relative autonomy and largely ignored some of the president s agenda, but they chose not to. they got into bed with him, and the reason why is obvious, because they would have lost what was important to them, power. which then leads us i think to a real fundamental question, a challenging one,