counsel investigating donald trump could finally get testimony from former vice president mike pence. that could be incredibly significant. you know, it s a month of pushback, and now pence, it appears, is going to finally testifying. the special counsel s investigation into trump and his actions on january. six. a spokesman for the former vice president says he will not appeal a judge s ruling in order that he must appear before the grand jury that s investigating the insurrection and trump s efforts to overturn the election. that means pence could testify about the one on one conversations he had with trump leading up to that day, including what we know is a heated phone call that happened the morning of the riot when pence, refused trump s efforts to get him to try to block the certification of president biden s win, plus a cnn exclusive this morning as cnn sources are telling cnn that former national security officials have testified that trump was repeatedly warned he di
sponsorships, npr membership fees. joining us now is cnn media analyst and access media reporter sarah fisher. sarah, i don t when npr first saw this label they thought it was just a mistake by twitter. it s not yeah. no it s not a mistake. i heard from their spokesperson tuesday night when this first showed up, and they said they were completely blindsided by it. they reached out to twitter, but they never really got a response. but this represents is a broader effort by elon musk to go after certain media companies that he wants to target, so if you talk about state owned media , we actually do have a state funded media arm in the us west america, but they don t have a label, whereas npr has a label. and then you also have pbs, the public broadcaster with a very similar funding. mom that doesn t have a label. so this is clearly an effort by elon musk and twitter to go after npr. so he s so this is happening. and then you also have, um elon musk . removing the new york times blue chec
the broader public or a broader , bigger audience than just people who agree with him? and perhaps even trolls? i think so . and i think the biggest risk is if you go after certain media outlets without a set of parameters, you can lose a lot of trust in the platform, especially because people leverage twitter in emergency situations. you know if there s a flood in your town and natural disaster, if there s a major political situation, you want to be able to go on the platform and know that the stuff that you re seeing is authoritative. if you want. musk is going to sort of cherry pick which outlets get amplified, which ones have labels. can you risk people not being able to trust twitter at critical times, and that s where twitter does it. it s working great gets his most engagement. and you see elon musk also into her weighing in on the decisions he s making, like this one npr but you know they re what twitter s policy is , is that state affiliated media outlet where the state the go
code. don t wait code now and get the permanent solution protected by the bosley. guarantee. i m jessica dean on capitol hill. and this is cnn. this morning. npr says it is disturbed by twitter s decision to label the public broadcaster as state affiliate affiliated media. elon musk social media platform is now grouping npr and with foreign propaganda outlets like the russian government owned and run rt and sputnik and the chinese communist party s people s daily newspaper. the ceo of npr is calling the decision unacceptable, adding quote npr and our member stations are supported by millions of listeners who depend on us for the independent fact based journalism that we provide . npr says it receives less than 1% of its annual funding from federal sources. the vast majority of comes from comes from sources like corporate
indirect political pressures and or control over production? that s obviously not npr, npr. his great journalism. they cover the white house. they cover the hill. they cover everything they do great work. and so this idea that twitter is doing this to them. do they leave twitter? what are npr s options here? i don t think npr s gonna leave twitter and i ll tell you why. a couple of days ago i strolled through twitter for hours katelyn polantz every single news outlet that s still running on twitter. i found almost a dozen mainstream news outlets, including the athletic, which is owned by the new york times, days after elon musk remove their verified checkmark, and so i think media outlets are in this really difficult position where they of course feel frustrated by being singled out or their peers being singled out. but twitter continues to be a huge platform for them to reach new audiences and to promote new products. i don t think most reporters and outlets are going to unilaterally