buddies and allies to overturn the 2020 election. as we reported on this program at this hour yesterday, mark short, he s of course the former chief of staff to former vice president mike pence, testified before a d.c. grand jury last week. now according to new multiple reports, we also know that a second senior pence aide also testified. that would be greg jacob, pence s legal counsel. both men, of course, had a front row seat to the extraordinary pressure campaign on mike pence by trump and his allies, people like john eastman, to get pence to stop the certification of president joe biden s election victory on january 6th. wall street journal reports these stunning details about their testimony. quote, one area of interest to prosecutors was a january 4th, 2021, oval office meeting where conservative lawyer john eastman pushed pence in trump s presence to either reject the electoral votes outright or suspend the proceedings and asked several state legislatures to re-examine
Cut deep anywhere in the world, but it cuts deeper here in israel. October 7th, which was sacred, a Sacred Jewish Holiday became the deadliest day for the jewish people since the holocaust. It has brought to the surface painful memories and scars left by millennia antisemitism and the genocide of the jewish people. The world watched then. It knew, and the world did nothing. We will not stand by and do nothing again, not today, not tomorrow, not ever. President joe bidens trip was more than what you saw, a powerful, tangible, reaffirmation of the strength and durability of the u. S. israeli alliance. It was also a pblem solving diplomatic endeavor, one that has already yielded actual tangible results. The president announced earlier that the u. S. Would provide 100 million in humanitarian assistance for palestinians in gaza and the west bank, that money goes towards things like clean water, food, hygiene support, medical care, thats according to the white house. For israels part, Prime
know what questions were put before this witness in front of the grand jury, but you ve got the corrupt intent. they knew there was no fraud, and you ve got knowledge that the plot was both illegal and unconstitutional and that this very conservative supreme court would vote 9-0 against the eastman coup blueprint. yeah, and if you look at those two subpoenas, which my colleagues, devlin barrett and yvette sanchez posted online on the washington post website, the subpoenas that went to these republican state lawmakers, they re very interesting and they provide further guidance and suggest the direction that the department of justice is going in. they specifically ask for any communications with any members of the legislative and executive branch that these people were having in order to try to implement the fake elector plan, and so i imagine that jacob and
pence to murder american democracy by ignore the will of voters an handing the election to donald trump. he s been presented his coup blueprint. john eastman tried to pressure pencing into doing it at that january 6th rally where trump inkrigted the insurrection. the. he can decide on the validity of these crooked ballots or he can send it back to legislatures. if we re right, a lot of them will go to jail. so let s have trial by combat. all we re demanding of vice president pence is this afternoon at 1:00 he let the legislatures of the state look into this so we get to the bottom of it and the american people know whether we have control of the direction of our
so you can stay ahead. get started with a great offer and ask how you can add comcast business securityedge. plus for a limited time, ask how to get a $500 prepaid card when you upgrade. so the people most responsible call today. for the attempted coup in 2020 escape, nearly all consequences are hoping to quietly re-enter society. one of them is a man we ve talked about before, and he is important. john eastman, he is a right-wing legal scholar academic, who worked for the conservative think tank the claremont institute. he is probably best known for lying himself with donald trump s attempts to overturn the 2020 election. you may remember him as the man behind this memo, a step by step guide for vice president mike pence to, murder american democracy by ignoring the will of voters. and instead handing the election to donald. trump he has been presented his coup blueprint to pence in the oval office two days before the