machines ethan started musing about using the department of homeland security, we will have much more on that and it is day 377 of the biden administration. the january 6th committee has now heard from a key witness and its investigation. mark sure, the former vice president mike pence s former chief of staff quietly testified before the house camila committee last wednesday. short was with pence at the capitol on the day of the insurrection as a pro trump mob stormed the building calling for pence to be hanged. shorts testimony follows a subpoena and an earlier engagement with the january six committee and this latest development comes as donald trump is amplifying the false claim that mike pence had the authority to overturn the 2020 election. late sunday, trump s that down a statement slamming the bipartisan effort to update the electoral count act suggesting that the law as written quote, mike pence did have the right to change the outcome and they
that the law as written quote, mike pence did have the right to change the outcome and they now want to take that right away. unfortunately, he did not exercise that power, he could ve overturn the election and quote and that followed his speech at a rally in texas on saturday where he fluted pardons for those charged in the capitol riot if he is reelected. he also attacked prosecutors investigating him in new york and georgia. if these radicals are vicious racist prosecutors do anything wrong or illegal i hope we are going to have in this country the biggest protest we have ever had in washington, d. c., in new york, in atlanta and elsewhere. new york attorney general letitia james and manhattan da elton brag looking at trump s businesses while atlanta area da fani willis is investigating possible election interference. willis has now asked the fbi to conduct a risk assessment of the county courthouse and downtown, atlanta. meanwhile, capitol hill is gearing up for challenging wee
and what did the president of the united states do on this day when some of the particulars on the russia attacks on our election were revealed in a 37-page indictment by the special prosecutor? nothing. absolutely nothing. this is the first president of the united states who has had to deal with the aftermath of a direct attack on the united states by russia and because donald trump is the weakest president in history and because donald trump lives either in fear of russia or in service to russia, or both, donald trump continues to do absolutely nothing in response to the russian attacks. the white house issued a press release falsely claiming that the indictment indicates that there was no collusion between the trump campaign and russia and that the outcome of the election was not changed or affected. the press release includes a quoted statement by the president, which was obviously written for the president by staff, and in that staff-written quote, attributed to the president, it
donald trump lives either in fear of russia or in service to russia, or both, donald trump continues to do absolutely nothing in response to the russian attacks. the white house issued a press release falsely claiming that the indictment indicates that there was no collusion between the trump campaign and russia and that the outcome of the election was not changed or affected. the press release includes a quoted statement by the president, which was obviously written for the president by staff, and in that staff-written quote, attributed to the president, it condemns the attacks. not the attacks by russia. the president wouldn t dare say something about the attacks by russia. the president s written statement says it s time we stop the outlandish partisan attacks. the president couldn t bring himself to say it s time to stop the outlandish attacks on our democracy. why has donald trump who has always been so concerned with appearing to be the strong man so willing to play the role of t
the white house issued a press release falsely claiming that the indictment indicates that there was no collusion between the trump campaign and russia and that the outcome of the election was not changed or affected. the press release includes a quoted statement by the president, which was obviously written for the president by staff, and in that staff-written quote, attributed to the president, it condemns the attacks. not the attacks by russia. the president wouldn t dare say something about the attacks by russia. the president s written statement says it s time we stop the outlandish partisan attacks. the president couldn t bring himself to say it s time to stop the outlandish attacks on our democracy. why has donald trump who has always been so concerned with appearing to be the strong man so willing to play the role of