was pretty explicit in his boo and wrote about pretty extensively. there should be any secret there for people anxious t know what it is he would testify to if one has read his book, i one read that op-ed that h wrote, if one were a impeachment manageand hear the testimony, you have a good sense of it. what is your sense of what mik pence can do here that we don already know mike pence can show tha donald trump s intent was to overturn the will of the voters and he was seeking to do tha in every way he was seeking to use pants as a tool that would obstruct the counting of electoral votes in the congress, that he woul also, through his rhetoric donald trump would fire up the mob, inspire the mob, incite the mob, and send them to th capital as another means o stopping the count again, the good news here, despite encountered everything we have seen in the past was o trump where he s been able t
150 police officers, were on last in, iowa lost a finger, one loss to life that day, a few others would die by suicid days later the muscle has been covere very strongly by law enforcement. the hustle, donald trump, rudy giuliani, the others who spu up and aimed the mob at th capital, they have not yet bee held accountable so this is a move it signals that they are also intereste in glowing at going after th haster hostile barbara talk to me abou what that means, that they got mike pence s into th conversation because as we described, as we introduce to you, there s lots of evidence about the othe side of the conversation fro people who are reliabl witnesses, including ivank trump. what do you think jack smith doesn t know, or does you know what was on the other side and this will just now corroborated? it s very important that yo put all the witnesses into the grand jury might who might hav information who might be aligned with the target.
part of the reason is, you wan to know all the facts, and maybe there is some informatio you don t know but chances are you actually d know, most of not all of the facts, already what s really important is t lock mike into a story whatever it is, good, bad, o ugly, lock him into the stor because when you can t hav happen is to indict donald trump without having talked to mike pence and then a year fro now, when the case goes to trial, having donald trump cal mike pence as a witness who no comes up with some story tha we have never heard before tha is somehow exonerating for donald trump so this is, checking a box, very important box, by putting mike pence in the grand jury exploring the depth of his knowledge, and locking him int that story congressman, i want to play for you mike pence s chief o staff marc short on newsnation today when he was asked what h thought the former vic president said about donal trump. listen to this you think for any of your audiences curious to know ab
you have a good night, and w will see you tomorrow. thanks, alex breaking news, life comes at you fast, and sodas jack smith s subpoena, if you r mike pence we reported last night of th top of the show that donal trump lost his bid to stop mik pence from testifying, and today, special prosecutor jack smith had vice president mik pence before a federal grand jury, investigating donald trump and his role in januar six. that was fast. pence testified for more tha five hours political reports pence closed-door appearance rocke an extraordinary flash point i jack smith s probe pence s appearance was accompanied by a frenzy of security activity in the federal courthouse in washington d.c., where u.s. marshals and other securit personnel conducted sweeps o the building before pence wa whisked inside without being spotted by cameras at th courthouse as main entrances ages former vice president did not comment on the appeals court s decision or pence appearance, but previously indicated pence
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