thank you. great pleasure to be here. an honor to be speaking about tina this morning. i know john feels the same way. thanks, gentlemen. cnn this morning continues right now. sorry about that. we have got so many people here that i think we are we are kind of melting the servers, which is a good sign. is it? i don t want to jinx this. we played it on air all three hours this morning we still have an hour to go. look, that is about how ron desantis launched his campaign. good morning. presidential candidate ron desantis pushing the reset button on his presidential campaign. he just announced a new campaign kickoff in iowa after his much hyped launch on twitter with elon musk was derailed by technical difficulties. lawmakers going on recess as time is running out to reach a deal on the debt limit and prevent an economic disaster. a new warning about what can happen in the days to come. leader and members of oath keepers are about to learn their fates.
ginnie thomas, conservative activist and wife of supreme court justice played a much bigger role than we previously knew in pushing the election results. virginia ginnie thomas pressed arizona lawmakers after the 2020 election to set aside joe biden s popular vote victory and choose, quote, a clean slate of electors, that s according to emails obtained by the washington post. that email sent by thomas to lawmakers in 2020 argued that legislators needed to intervene because the vote had been marred by fraud. though she did not mention either candidate by name, the context was clear. thomas urged lawmakers to stand strong in the face of political and media pressure. she told lawmakers the chance to have lawmakers was yours and yours alone and had the power to fight back against fraud. that push by thomas in battle ground states ultimately culminated of alternate slate of trump electors being sent. the states are now under investigation by the justice department and they form
the committee will meet in a public hearing reporter: the texas house general investigating committee, a panel that looks into corruption with the power to initiate impeachment proceedings, saying, quote, the house is conducting an investigation related to your request for $3.3 million of public money to pay a settlement resolving litigation between your agency and terminated whistleblowers. each was fired after reporting general paxton to law enforcement. reporter: the public hearing wednesday lasted more than three hours. and you said of nearly every single person that your team interviewed is part of this process, that nearly every single person expressed fear and concern about retaliation from ken paxton? reporter: the testimony by a group of attorneys stunning. that is absolutely accurate. thank you. reporter: describing paxton s el alleged misconduct related to a
likes of laura ingraham and others? it was really jarring, first of all, and i m not sure that we were in the minority. there are plenty of detailees, career government employees inside the nsc and the white house and others that did their jobs silently and professionally. i think we were publicly outed and that s why we became public figures and politicized, despite our desires and best efforts. but it was hard to watch, and it was frankly ridiculous. i sat in the hearing, the public hearing, and i recall one member of the house claimed that alex had some affinity for ukraine because he spoke the language, and you know, interestingly enough, we grew up speaking russian. we didn t speak ukrainian.
president? i think so. unfortunately you saw it yesterday. only two democrats had the courage to really look at the facts here and say listen, we ve got to stop trying to impeach this guy and get on with the business of the american people. unfortunately the democrats are lining up behind their leadership but at the end of the day the truth will defend itself. again, when we have a public hearing of this there is nothing to this. and the american people will see that. donald trump is not the guilty one. bill: two more things. mike mccaul said the whistleblower was complicit with adam schiff. if that is true, can you prove it in a public hearing? we can if we can access to either sworn testimony of the whistleblower or chairman schiff and his staff. again, what the people need to understand is that this impeachment process didn t start by a whistleblower going to the inspector general of the