Including some of the winds that come from losing. Like getting Joe Biden the nominee to adopt ideas that she impressed upon him. Somewhat against his well during the president ial debates, for example. Yeah, and also in the case of Elizabeth Warren, Turning Out to be maybe the most influential member of the Democratic Party in washington in terms of getting personnel into key roles in the biden administration. I mean, you look at people have been associated with Elizabeth Warren who have worked for her, who have worked with her, who have been protegees of her, who have been partners of her that have ended up in key positions inside the biden administration. Im not sure Theres Anyone else in the Democratic Party who is exerted that much influence, if you think of personnel as policy. She is a force in the biden administration from her perch and the senate. I also learned today on Social Media that she gives her Dog Bailey a burrito every year for his birthday and now that means i cant
increasingly dilutioned with the idea of voluntarily cooperation. he told aides that the committee has taken a sharp partisan turn by openly considering the potential for criminal referrals to the justice department about mr. trump and others. the times adds he is annoyed that they have secured a greater degree of cooperation from his top aides than it actually has. something he sees as part of the pattern of democrats trying to turn him against former president trump. here is what one member of the committee said about that very report just a few hours ago. we would just like him to share with us what he knows. he knows what s right for the country. he knows what happened in the election. he knows the pressure campaign he was under. and he knows he could do a service to the country by talking about it, but he also knows that there is a political cost that will come with that. i hope he makes the right decision. the vice president has very material testimony and we hope he
were pressured and intimidated after the last presidential election that they should, effectively, falsified the results of that states election. it was a year ago, january 3rd, last year, when the washington post published this shocking audio reporting of an extraordinary hour-long phone call that then president trump made personally to georgia s top elections officials telling him that he needed to find exactly the number of votes in the state that would allow trump to falsely be declared the winner there. now, in georgia as in every state in the country, pressuring election officials to interfere with the lawful administration of an election, pressuring election officials to change election results, that of course, is a crime. the state prosecutors office in fulton county georgia opened that investigation under georgia state law. pressuring or intimidating election officials is a georgia state crime. it s a crime in every state in the country and of course it s also a fede
the bipartisan committee investigating january 6th, the republican from ohio has signaled that he will refuse to speak to the committee after it requested his testimony last month. quote, the american people are tired of democrats nonstop investigations and partisan witch hunts. this request is for outside the bounds of any legislative inquiry. violated poor constitution principles and would served to for the road legislative norms. jordan, i should know, served as the top republican on the oversight committee on the benghazi investigation. one of the many committees that was part of the nonstop, you might even called, partisan witch hunt that ran for more than two years. but this letter marks a very different position for jim jordan. who said multiple times last year that he had nothing to hide from the committee. including during a hearing of the house rules committee last october. are you willing to tell the select committee what you know about events leading up to here
of an election, pressuring election officials to change election results, that, of course, is a crime. this state prosecutor s office in fulton county, georgia, opened that investigation under georgia state law, pressuring or intimidating election officials is a georgia state crime. it s a crime in, everych state the tacountry, and, of course, it s also a federal crime. but while u.s. attorney general merrick garland has made sort of vague patriotic statements about no one being above the law and t federal prosecutors following the evidence wherever it leads, so far there is no evidence that federal prosecutors are investigating that call or any other reported instances of pressure that the president personally put on georgia election officials about the conduct of their official duties.re so far the only known criminal investigation into his efforts to falsify the election results anywhere in the country, the aty only known criminal investigation is that georgia e state inve