president jared kushner. reporting tonight that kushner and trump have been subpoenaed by special counsel jack smith as part of his investigation into former president trump s role in the january 6th attack. if you watch the house january 6th committee hearings last mirror, you might remember that one of the sing a piece of video that the committee played featuring ivanka trump, with a big question trying to answer being how much people in the white house believed the lie that they were pushing, the election had been stolen. it mattered when the committee asked trump s opinion of attorney general bill barr s statement which was made on december 1st of 2020, where there was no widespread fraud in the election. it mattered that this was how the president responded. how did that affect your perspective about the election, when general barr made that same shipment? it affected my perspective. i respect his opinion, and so i expected what he said. the former president s da
three new reasons to smile tonight. and kentucky democrat cassie chambers armstrong went a special election last night for states and its seat with 77% of the vote. she outperformed president biden, who won the district in 2020 with 65% of the vote. in new hampshire, another democrat exceeded recent party performance as well. democrat chuck grassley, not to be confused with republican chuck grassley, won a special election with a state, and in virginia, this was the front page of the richmond times dispatch this morning. mcclellan makes history. democrat jennifer mcclelland won a special election last night and will become the first black woman to represent the commonwealth of virginia in the u.s. congress. mclelland s historic verdant victory underscored political change and social progress in the old dominion, just for
someone very much general in the culture wars. how should voters outside of virginia think of that state, in your mind? i think while we are often looked at is a battleground state at the end of the day people are looking for elected officials that are going to solve problems and focus on kitchen able issues and are hungry for someone who is just going to look at government as a force for helping people and not a force for political theater. when you look at the state, who do you think of as your constituents? i would love if you could get as specific as possible, because depending on where you are in virginia, and a different group of people. i ll just called everyone s attention, the new york times reporting on virginia in 2019. once the heart of the confederacy, virginia is now the land of indian grocery stores, korean churches, and dolley festivals. the state population has boomed,
generations ago my clones great-grandfather, an emancipated slave, had to take a literacy test to find three white people who would vote for him so that he could register to vote. both her grandfather into her father had to pay a poll tax in order to cast their ballots. and mclelland s own mother, now 90, did not vote until after the passing of the voting rights act of 1965. it is with that history behind her that mcclellan has turned a new page for the state of virginia. and by the way, she defeated her republican opponent by a staggering margin of nearly 50 points. joining us now, is congresswoman-elect jennifer mcclelland of virginia s fourth electoral district. congratulations on historic victory. i m so happy that i can say congresswoman-elect this time. last time it was not yet that. that s right. thank you. so great to be here. and i am just thrilled. i m sure you are. it was a trouncing of your