and that is what was his intention shown by both his action and reactions to what his daughter was saying. so this is important testimony if they can get it. they also say, john, that trump s attacks on pence riled up that mob. they want to know what was going on inside the white house when he tweeted that mike pence didn t have the courage to do what should have been done to overturn the election. what doubts are they looking to connect here, do you think? well, i think they re looking to connect how hard the president pressed trump or pressed his vice president. we know we have from other sources that it was a pretty hard press. and they d like to hear from ivanka what she thought of all that. it was very unseemly. how unconstitutional did she know it was? i think that was implicit in the letter also they have a lot of information on what was discussed in the office, the issue of whether the white house counsel had told the president
the committee. we fought for investigations into every part of the election we could. again, no shame. they just say it right out in the open. and whatever happens under a lot of scrutiny, well that s for sure. a former trump campaign staffer saying, quote, it was rudy and these misfit characters who started calling the shots. the campaign was throwing enough s-h-i-t at the wall to see what would stick. and then there s the january 6th committee for the first time asking a member of the president s family to talk to them voluntarily. they believe that ivanka trump is a first-hand witness to her father s efforts to pressure mike pence to refuse to certify the election. and they have testimony from keith kellog, pence s national security advisor, that the white house staff thought ivanka could be the only one to convince her
former president s family to talk to them voluntarily. they believe that ivanka trump is a first-hand witness to her father s efforts to pressure mike pence to refuse to certify the election. and they have testimony from keith kellog, pence s national security advisor, that the white house staff thought ivanka could be the only one to convince her father to act as the riot at the capitol raged. quote, did you think that she could help get him to a place where he would make a statement to try to stop this? yes. so you thought that ivanka could get her father to do something about it, to take a course of action? he didn t say yes to mark meadows or cayly mcenany or keith kellog but might say yes to his daughter. exactly right. they want to ask about the video filmed in the road garden and why it took multiple takes to get him to tell the rioters to leave the capitol. go home.
would write for you and the first thing you would say is leave the capitol. but apparently, i guess, he was ad-libbing and, you know i mean, don, how often have we ever seen this president take advice from lawyers, from staff members, from anyone else. it doesn t surprise me they were just like, oh, gosh, hit record and let s see what happens. i m sure there were a number of stumbling outtakes there. it s important to point out the committee knows their chances of getting ivanka to come and testify voluntarily are slim to none. what they re doing with this letter is laying out an absolute iron clad case why she should come in. so if shoo she doesn t come in, you can bet this will be a point in their final report indicating she say a direct fact witness, she had access to all this information and she refused to come in and provide it. that was my next question to you do you think it will actually happen. but since you answered that i ll ask you another one. trump campaign official
i mean, don, how often have we ever seen this president take advice from lawyers, from staff members, from anyone else. it doesn t surprise me they were just like, oh, gosh, hit record and let s see what happens. i m sure there were a number of stumbling outtakes there. it s important to point out the committee knows their chances of getting ivanka to come and testify voluntarily are slim to none. what they re doing with this letter is laying out an absolute iron clad case why she should come in. so if shoo she doesn t come in, you can bet this will be a point in their final report indicating she say a direct fact witness, she had access to all this information and she refused to come in and provide it. that was my next question to you do you think it will actually happen. but since you answered that i ll ask you another one. trump campaign officials led by rudy giuliani they oversaw efforts in 2020 to put forward fake electors from seven states