trump critic is booted in an overwhelming primary defeat, but congresswoman liz cheney says she will continue to challenge the former president s hold on republicans and may even face him in the next presidential election in 2024. and mike pence, is he a potential star witness? the former vice president says he would consider testifying in front of the january 6th committee if asked. take a listen. if there was an invitation to participate, i would consider it. any invitation that would be directed to me, i would have to reflect on the unique role that i was serving in as vice president. it would be unprecedented innist hadry for a vice president to be summoned to testify on. ka tol capitol hill. i don t want to prejudge. we begin with rudy giuliani s appearance before a grand jury in georgia. sara murray is outside that courthouse in atlanta. rudy giuliani is a target of this investigation. there has been speculation he could take the fifth amendment today. what do we
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january 6th, 2021. joining me now is congressman bennie thompson of mississippi, former chair of the january 6th select committee. chairman thomson, thank you for being here. your opening was one of the things that stayed with me the most, i have to be honest, after the whole thing, after all of those hearings. i love the fact you held to the history of it. what do you make of the fact that donald trump s lawyers are attempting to state that the oath he took as president differs from the oath you described which you took and every other member of congress took? they re trying to say the oath he took absolves him of responsibility for the insurrection. well, thank you very much for having me, joy. you know, when you are in a dispute and you have lawyers, sometimes lawyers take positions that don t make sense. that is clearly a position taken by donald trump s lawyers. they don t make sense.
participated in the insurrection. here s what house democrats wrote to justice thomas, askic him to recuse. this time, we must urge you to recuse yourself because your impartiality is questioned by substantial numbers of fair minded members of the public who believe your wife, ginni thomas, of substantial involvement in the events leading up to the january 6th insurrection and the financial incentive it presents for your household if president trump is re-elected are disqualifying. do you question whether this court might feel it owes donald trump and the conservatives might rule in his favor for that reason? well, i have to say, if you re skeptical about this court, there s good reason to be skeptical. they have shown they re not a conservative court, not a court that feels bound by precedent. they re a reactionary court, a partisan court. here one of the justices in particular, justice thomas, has
but in the absence of any real fact, you just make something up. and just make it as if, well, the law doesn t apply to donald trump. his oath is different from everyone else s. and i think the work of our committee on this third anniversary speaks for itself. we identified the causes and circumstances that made january 6th happen. we identified the individuals, donald trump specifically and some others, who did promote, orchestrate that day. and in the end, we shared the body of that information with various authorities in the jurisdiction, but we held true to our challenge of getting to the facts and circumstances first. and that s what we did. 18 months we worked night, day, weekends, until we got it done.