messages that could shed important light on the plot to overturn the election. john wood who is a senior investigator for the january 6th committee joins me. plus, it s not just disney, ron desantis is stepping up his fight against so-called woke companies which stands to benefit the companies that help him out politically. we begin tonight with a republican party gone off the rails. what was once a self-described grand ole party advocating small government and national security now seems to be actively rallying against the very issues that just 5, 10, 20 years ago were their top priorities. first, you have the majority of republicans voting yesterday against the bipartisan chips bill that would create high-tech jobs and make the u.s. more competitive against china who republicans keep telling us is the big threat to america s future. republicans also in the main are declining to support the respect for marriage act. okay, family values party, or the inflation reduction act o
president biden s very controversial meeting with the saudi crown prince accused of ordering the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. we begin tonight with new questions for the secret service from the january 6th committee. now of the many wild revelations surrounding the january 6th attack, three of them involve the united states secret service, so, first, there was the alleged altercation in an suv after the former president s speech that day recounted by former white house aide cassidy hutchinson. described him as being irate. the president said something to the effect i m the f ing president. take me up to the capitol now. the president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. mr. engel grabbed his arm and said, circumstances you need to take your hand off the steering wheel. we re going back to the west wing. there s also incident involving former vice president mike pence. shortly after he was escorted out of the capitol by secr
capitol on his behalf. here were witnesses including jared kushner on what was behind that statement. i sat and spoke to miller about putting together for draft remarks for jan 7 that we were going to present to the president that we felt we had to call for further de-escalation. from what i understood at the time and from the reports coming in there s a large concern of 25th amendment potentially being invoked and there were concerns about would happen in the senate if the 25th was invoked so the primary reason that i had heard other than, you know, we did not do enough on the 6th and we need a stronger message to get out there otherwise this will be the legacy and think about what might happen in the final 15 days of your presidency if we don t do this. there are already talks about invoking the 25th amendment. so to be clear according to jared kushner and cassidy hutchinson, sworn testimony, it was concerns about the president s cabinet finally after years of talking
Missouri and your opponent is kept greatens. who do you think about in? is he beatable in the state of missouri? it is very conservative. he s very beatable. it looks like someone who is an extremist whether it s eric greatens or somebody else and while missouri is a generally conservative republican state and i am a common sense conservative and lifelong republican, i better represent the views of most missourians and while i m conservative i m within the mainstream and i also believe in defending our constitution and our democracy, and the republican candidates mostly seem like they want to overturn the 2020 presidential election. there s nothing in our constitution or our democracy in that. john dan fort is a big supporter of yours. is your strategy to run as a third party to give basically republicans an alternate
January 6th committee helping build their case publicly and privately including the disgraced ex-president s pressured campaign against his vp and a self-described life-long republican and they served the republican committee vice chair liz cheney and served as senior counsel. today he s running as an independent for his own race to prevent what he describes as a dangerous republican candidate from winning office. the gun-wielding eric greatens who released the disturbing ad, so awful, we didn t play it here, suggesting people hunt their republican opponents. joining us now is john wood. thank you very much for being here. i ve seen you on with my colleagues and i had guest envy and now you re our guest and it s great to see you. thank you. i want to ask you, i know your service on the committee is over. as you said you re running for office now and i wonder if we can dive right back here where it left off and ask you of what