playbook. go to cnn zachary cohen. who is helping provide this cover for the former president during these hearings? i suppose it tells you everything you need to know about trump s hold on this party right now? reporter: really does, jim. you mentioned, kevin mccarthy secured trump s endorsement but not secured it for house speaker yet if republicans retake the house. maybe still a chip on the table and encouraging mccarthy there. in addition to mccarthy, we expect at least stefanik to be a key player. she oversees messaging for the gop conference and one of the loudest in the impeachment proceedings and expected to be intimately involved how to push back in realtime. what trump wants. daehlie counterprogramming in realtime. the other is, expected to be involved, jim banks, jim jordan. both supposed to be on the january 6th committee before kevin mccarthy decided he wouldn t let anybody from his party be on the panel. now we re here. all waiting to see what this push looks
test evidence, it s pretty apparent that at some point president trump knew what was going on. obviously. right? having meetings within the white house, having individuals that you re paying out there doing lawsuits, the 64, 65 lawsuits, if you re pushing this libel on twitter and social media, important and the committee will concentrate. look what s happening and the message pushed by president trump himself on social yomedia and other individuals, it s a pipeline that s damaging and pushing things like stop the steal. trump is announcing a counteroffensive expecting his diehards on capitol hill to defend his honor by writing off the hearings as a partisan witch-hunt. joining me now, former white house press secretary during the trump presidency, stephanie grisham. thanks for being with us. just last month you testified for a second time, i believe, in front of the january 6 committee. did their questions give any clues as to what these new revelations might be that are
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Mentioned about him maybe offering a job running the u. S. Army to a Bank President who approved these loans for him. Thats the only other reference to the Trump Campaign in the trial thus far. But two days ago, Out Of The Blue on crossexamination, the manafort Defense Lawyer asks rick gates, hey, did muellers prosecutors talk to you about your time working on the Trump Campaign . Did you talk to them about that . Prosecutor from the Special Counsels office gets up and objects. The judge summons both lawyers to come to the bench. He flips on the White Noise Machine which is a real thing so the jury and spectators hear the sound of like crashing waves instead of the conversation. The jury, the reporters in the room, spectators none of them can hear whats being said at the bench. The lawyers on both side stay up there and they have this long prust communication. We know its long because we know it takes six pages to trans
about a year after that brett kavanaugh was confirmed to a federal appeals court to, the dc circuit court, is the washington post and npr reported brett kavanaugh had actually been personally involved in one very significant white house discussion on that very issue. it was part of what he dealt with when he worked in the george w. bush white house. now, this has a whoa bunch of consequences. number one, had brett cab anyhow admitted in his confirmation hearings he had in fact taken part in white house policy discussions about enemy combatants and other so-called detainee issues after 9/11, it s quite possible had he admitted that, that he would have been expected once he was on the dc circuit court to recuse himself from being a judge in any case that touched on those issues. that s not a the hypothetical. the d.c. circuit court is the court that handles those issues in the federal system. that s the court that has exclusive jurisdiction for cases under the detainee treatment act an
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