mike pence have asked in recent days about conversations with ump from, his lawyers and others in his inner circle who sought to substitute trump allies for certified electors from some states joe biden won. that s according to two people familiar with the matter, both spoke anonymously. prosecutors asked hours of detailed questions about meetings trump led in december 2020 and january 2021. his pressure campaign on pence to overturn the election and what instructions trump gave his lawyers and advisors about fake electors and sending electors back to the states. some of the questions focused directly on the extent of trump s involvement in this fake electorate effort led by outside lawyers including eastman and rudy giuliani and yet another sign of just how far the doj probe has advanced, the post is also reporting that prosecutors have their hands on the phone records of some key trump officials and aides including those of former white house chief of staff mark meadows. of
hire yet another lawyer, and it just speaks to the pervasive kind of criminality in this trump white house. you know, by contrast in obama s administration, i don t know of a single person i ever heard of who had a lawyer. i mean, for these folks you got to have multiple and the lawyers themselves have to have lawyers. and the lawyers lawyer up. that is a bad sign. betsy, i want to come back to this question about the military. if you take milley s testimony that meadows first concern was in fixing the narrative immediately that pence had been in charge as the insurrection went on and milley s refusal to do, so what are sort of for you the lines of inquiry around what went on at the pentagon? so much of what happened at the senior level within the pentagon on january 6th remains to be in a black box. it s actually one of the biggest gaffes thus far in the narrative that the committee itself has laid out regarding january 6th.
on the supreme court case. what happened is fairly typical when you as a lawyer, investigator, prosecutor write a request for documents you write it broadly and that is what the committee did here. apparently some of their requests were drafted broadly enough that they reached beyond documents that would have reflected events on january 6th in connection with the insurrection and the over running of the capitol building and some of these documents stumbled into national security territory. and, chris, you can imagine this pretty readily when you request documents for instance from the pentagon on january 6th there were other event besides the insurrection occurring. some could have involved the intelligence community, the military, and national security events. now the biden white house is simply saying your requests are a little overbroad. let s not dip into national security. we re also getting more detailed information about the progress of the january 6
significant. won t have impact for instance on the supreme court case. what happened is fairly typical when you as a lawyer, investigator, prosecutor write a request for documents you write it broadly and that is what the committee did here. apparently some of their requests were drafted broadly enough that they reached beyond documents that would have reflected events on january 6th in connection with the insurrection and the over running of the capitol building and some of these documents stumbled into national security territory. and, chris, you can imagine this pretty readily when you request documents for instance from the pentagon on january 6th there were other event besides the insurrection occurring. some could have involved the intelligence community, the military, and national security events. now the biden white house is simply saying your requests are a little overbroad. let s not dip into national
0 legislative skills far from the spotlight. during his time in the senate he pushed through the passage of obamacare as well as the sweeping economic stimulus after the great recession and new rules governing wall street. a one-time amateur boxer he could bob and weave on the political stage as well. and tonight the current majority leader chuck schumer wrote this. harry reid was one of the most amazing individuals i ve ever met. he never forgot where he came from and used those boxing instincts to fearlessly fight those who were hurting the poor and middle class. schumer has ordered flags at the capitol lowered to half staff. we ll have more on harry reid s legacy just ahead. our other big story tonight continues to be omicron. the latest variant converging with the delta strain to drive covid infections to a new record in this country today. the latest cdc data showing the seven day average of new cases topping 250,000 per day. as of this afternoon shattering the previous high of