supposed to protect how can you if you know a vote is fraudulent, right, how can you pass on a fraudulent vote to congress? donald trump justifying the chants of his supporters calling for the death of mike pence. the january 6th committee holds its third public hearing today, focused on the pressure trump put on his vice president to overturn the election. we will tell you what to expect. plus, new reporting that ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, was in communication with trump lawyer john eastman as he tried to overturn the election. and new reporting that pro-trump lawyers hoped the wild scene that trump teased to his supporters ahead of the capitol attack would pressure the supreme court to get involved in their election efforts. and dow futures fall more than 500 points after markets first rallied around the fed decision to hike interest rates.
now, you ll recall, brad raffensperger was on the receiving end of a phone call afrom trump after the election, a phone call in which we all heard, a phone call in which trump hounded raffensperger to change the election results in the state of georgia, to quote, find enough votes in georgia to make it look like trump won there. when in fact he lost there. that call to brad raffensperger and other forms of pressure trump and the trump white house put on other georgia officials, that pressure is already the subject of a criminal investigation in georgia. it s being carried out by fulton county s prosecutor. among other things to know about that criminal investigation, my favorite fact about it is that faunae willis has hired an
investigation, congressman pete aguilar last night, that more than 250 people have already sat for interviews with them. either because these witnesses said yes when they were asked politely, or these witnesses didn t have a choice because they were subpoenaed and you re legally obligated to respond to a subpoena. just tonight, we learned that the latest person to sit for an interview is georgia s republican secretary of state, brad raffensperger. he apparently was questioned by investigators today for more than four hours. now, you ll recall, brad raffensperger was on the receiving end of a phone call from donald trump, a phone call in which trump hounded raffensperger to change the election results in the state of georgia, to quote, find enough votes in georgia to make it look like trump won there, when in fact he had lost there. that call to brad raffensperger and other forms of pressure trump and the trump white house
but there are others who are unnamed who are coming forward, voluntarily. they ish not just sticking their they re not just sticking their thumbs in the eye of the committee. again, some of them may not be coming forward to admit culpability of their own, but they might have some understanding of the president s involvement based on statements they overheard him say or other people heard the president say. hearsay is all going to be admissible in this investigation. and the more people they can get to come in without subpoenas, the better for the investigation and for the understanding of the american people. what is about the january 6 committee reaching out to two former trump department of homeland security officials, to voluntarily speak with the comm committee? what light could they shed with all the pressure trump was putting on the agencies? yeah, that all depends on what the knowledge is and what they are prepared to say. as we know, with more and more reporting every day,