meanwhile, in the federal election case, special counsel jack smith is pushing back against trump s attempt to push the trial to april 2026. and a new court filing, smith writes that with the 90 public its right to a speedy trial. both sides were said to me here on the issue next monday. also following the latest on another key figure in trump s legal battles. abc news reports that his former chief of staff mark meadows told jack smith and is investigators that he could not recall trump ever discussing the classifying broad sense of classified materials before leaving the white house. former vice president mike pence also told abc that he was not aware of any broad based effort to declassify documents. comments from pence and mark meadows underlines trump s main defense in the classified documents case. if there were such an order, it s impossible to imagine that neither his chief of staff nor his vice president would know about it. one of them, if not all of them would cer
democracy, the kind where you participate. no, your job is to trust the experts and their conclusions and obey them. covid kind of blew that up. if there s one thing that we learned from that dis-sasser is that public policy experts often had no clue what they were talking about. your hippy aunt knew more about how to beat a flu virus than your virologist on cnn. exercise, sunlight, fresh air, stop eating junk food, turn off your computer, spend time with other people. be healthy. that advice worked. the experts by contrast made you get the vaccine and that did not work. so by march of 2021, people are starting to figure this out. anyone who was paying attention in america understood that the experts, many of them were full of it. it was exactly at that moment that the atlantic magazine in washington published a piece pushing back against a growing consensus. that story was called following your gut isn t the right way to go. hard to think of a funnier headline because it s s
chairwoman betty thompson said, quote, unless something else develops, at this point, this hearing is the final hearing. just last, night committee vice chair liz cheney told a crowd at the texas tribune festival that she doesn t think this week s hearing will in fact be the last. she shared new information about what the committee obtained from the secret service around the time of the insurrection. we have received very significant production of information, material from the secret service. not just texts. the text messages themselves, in many cases, are gone. interesting. but there are other forms of investigation, like teams messages and emails, other forms of communications. we have received probably about 800,000 pages, at least, of material. now, the hearing comes just after the committee secured one of its most high-profile interviews yet, ginni thomas, wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas is expected to sit down with the panel in the coming week
bipartisan panel is set to return for a blockbuster presentation this wednesday at 1 pm eastern. we ve been telling the big story, which is this was a unorganized, premeditated, deliberated against the vice president and the congress to overthrow the 2020 presidential election and i think the public understands the basic elements of the story what we re going to do on wednesday spill in those details that have come to the attention of the committee over the last five or six weeks. earlier this week, chairman bennie thompson said, quote, unless something else develops, at this point, this hearing is the final hearing. just last, night committee vice chair liz cheney told a crowd at the texas tribune festival that she doesn t think this week s hearing will in fact be the last. she shared new information about what the committee obtained from the secret service around the time of the insurrection. we have received very significant production of information, material from t