according to the post, prosecutors have 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 advisers about fake electors and sending electors back to the states. two sources also tell the paper that the justice department has had in its possession since april the phone records of key officials and aides in the trump administration, including former chief of staff, mark meadows. the investigation is on two tracks, the post reports. one centered on the types of charges already filed against those who stormed the capitol, like seditious conspiracy and the other track, potential fraud, connected to the elector scheme and the pressure trump put on doj officials and others to go along with the big lie. a spokesman for trump did not immediately respond to the
pointing to his own words on his podcast the day before. all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. reporter: former president trump and bannon first claiming executive privilege, even though bannon was a private citizen that day, having left the administration in 2017. in a letter obtained by abc news, bannon s attorney writing, while mr. bannon has been steadfast in his convictions, circumstances have now changed. those circumstances, trump informing bannon he s waiving his objections because i watched how unfairly you and others have been treated. the committee, of course, has not yet had a chance to discuss it, but i expect we will be hearing from him and there are many questions we have for him. reporter: banning bannon s reversal comes a day after former trump white house counsel pat cipollone testified behind closed doors for roughly eight hours. in a recorded interview, the committee asked cipollone detailed questions about pardons, false election fraud claims, and the
of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff, which i told the president was bull shit. how did that affect your perspective of the election? it affected my perspective. i respect attorney general barr. so i accepted what he was saying. yimd being i didn t mind being categorized. there were two groups. we called them my team and rudy s team. i didn t mind being categorized as part of team normal. i thought, boy, if he really believes this stuff, he has lost contact he s become detached from reality if he really believes this stuff. there was the intense pressure trump and his team put on vice president mike pence to overturn the election results. as i was dropping off the note, my memory, i remember hearing the word wimp, either he called him a wimp, i don t remember if he said you are a wimp, you ll be a wimp, wimp is
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
he s a father so i ll get to call him and wish him happy father s day. oh, good. so many grandkids do you have? two. well i may have your son call my son. i need some grandkids. i m getting too old here. all right, gene, thank you so much. it is now just past the top of hour. 9:00 a.m. in the east, 6:00 a.m. on the west coast. we have jonathan lemire and katty kay with us and willie. what are we starting the hour with. let s begin with the key moments from yesterday s january 6 hearing. they are striking. the committee building the case that former president trump was, quote, pouring gasoline on the fire during at tack on the capitol. and how close to danger vice president pence was that day. the panel detailed the pressure trump sanz his allies put on pence to unlawfully over turn the 2020 election results. and showing new footage of rioters outside of the capitol