he was the target of a lot of this violence on january 6th, as you just pointed out. so they need to talk to him. so, jamie, you have a lot of reporting on this. what are you hearing about whether pence will cooperate and in what form? so, you know, the conventional wisdom has seemed to be that mike pence that it would be very unlikely that he would cooperate. but to gloria s point, i think the door is still open. and there s some evidence of that, and that is that mike pence s top aides, his closest, his former chief of staff, his former counsel, they are cooperating with the committee. liz cheney put that on the record today. my understanding is the relationship is very good. i think that what she said today, and as gloria said that they re calling him a hero, one other source said to me today the committee keeps talking about how, quote, pence played a crucial role in upholding
to her keep doing it, you re doing the right thing. but those statements from murkowski and romney, they re very nice statements. but where were they today? can you imagine that dick cheney returns to the house of representatives and he is warmly welcomed by democrats. the absence of any other republicans today was just it couldn t have been any more striking. john, here s what we actually heard from republicans today on camera. here s ron desantis. i think it s going to end up being just a politicized charlie foxtrot today. i don t expect anything good to come out of anything that pelosi and the gang are doing. i don t expect anything from the corporate press to be enlightening. i think it s going to be nauseating, quite frankly. and ron desantis is now standard bearer for the gop, john. yeah. and you know what s nauseating
of this country has ever, ever done. he refused to accept the results of an election and the will of the american people. while some courageous men and women in the republican party are standing against it, trying to uphold the principle of that party, too many others are transforming that party into something else. they seem no longer to want to be the party, the party of lincoln, eisenhower, reagan, the bushes. sara murray is outfront. i m ron hanks, and i approve this message. reporter: u.s. senate hopeful ron hanks is shooting at fake dominion voting machines and calling for an audit in colorado, a state joe biden won in 2020 by more than 13 points. in liberal washington state, a local republican party is knocking on doors, trying to uncover voter fraud. we re canvassing now in about a dozen counties. reporter: in minnesota, a bright red downy in a state that s gone blue since 1976, residents of pressing the board
francis o. willard behind me, a suffragist. there s so much history here but it s very much like the pictures are in our head, right? the images of the insurrectionists coming through here, defiling it, destroying it, all in service to this big lie. it is incredible. but that history, it s so powerful. jake, i think that reference to statutary hall, they were there. it is pretty stunning and i can t wait obviously we re just a few moments away and we ll see jake and anderson then. thanks so much, jake. see you in a few. thank you, erin. next, it s tennis champs rafael nadal versus novak djokovic. this is not a story actually about tennis, this is a story about vaccines. plus the stand-off over returning to school. chicago making a decision about tomorrow.