Electoral college results. The times adds that days before the insurrection, they both met with john eastman, the lawyer who insisted that pence had the power to stop certification of the vote. The Washington Post has reported that jacob clashed with eastman and his advice. Maybe it is no surprise, then, that the committee had nine hours of questions for jacob. Here is Committee Chairman Bennie Thompsons take. We are glad that he came. And obviously it is all part of the work that we do. He is a great patriot. He loves this country more so than other people who do not. And this afternoon another Committee Member explained what investigators hoped to learn. Understanding what that pressure was and what plans were in place and what pressure was applied on the former Vice President , to what extent was the former president or the people surrounding him involved in orchestrating and hatching this plan . That is the work of this committee, to get all of those facts and details. Today, donal
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good evening, i m chris jansing, day 378 of the biden administration. the house january 6th investigation is sharpening its focus on efforts to pressure former vice president mike pence to try to overturn the 2020 election. today, the select committee spent nine hours digging with greg jacob, vince s former chief counsel. this comes less than a week after marc short, the former vice presidents chief of staff, testified. the new york times says, quote, mr. short and mr. jacob were both closely involved in mr. pence s consideration of whether to go along with mr. trump s insistence that he try to block the official count of electoral college results. the times adds that days before the insurrection, they both met with john eastman, the lawyer who insisted that pence had the power to stop certification of the vote. the washington post has reported that jacobs clashed with eastman and his advice. maybe it is no surprise, then, that the committee had nine hours of questions for
electoral college results. the times adds that days before the insurrection, they both met with john eastman, the lawyer who insisted that pence had the power to stop certification of the vote. the washington post has reported that jacob clashed with eastman and his advice. maybe it is no surprise, then, that the committee had nine hours of questions for jacob. here is committee chairman bennie thompson s take. we are glad that he came. and obviously it is all part of the work that we do. he is a great patriot. he loves this country more so than other people who do not. and this afternoon another committee member explained what investigators hoped to learn. understanding what that pressure was and what plans were in place and what pressure was applied on the former vice president, to what extent was the former president or the people surrounding him involved in orchestrating and hatching this plan? that is the work of this committee, to get all of those facts and d
do a redo. to check out the piece on our they were very unhappy with the website. quite fascinating. mueller report. that s going to wrap up this no collusion. no obstruction. hour of msnbc live. no nothing. they are very unhappy. andrea mitchell reports starts they are angry about it. right now. they have to get ore their aver thank you. right now power play. anger. wait a minute. they have to get over their donald trump gives the attorney anger and they have to get into general sweeping new authority to declassify closely guarded infrastructure, drug prices and things like that because they want to do a redo like even the secrets about the russia investigation as he accuses fact they are asking bob mueller former fbi officials of treason, to come and testify. a crime punishable by death. he just gave them a 434-page you look at comey, mccabe, report which says no collusion, probably people higher than which leads to absolutely no that. if you look at his lover, lisa obstruction