now he s just making stuff up because he can t handle that the american people rose in large numbers and fired him. o donnell: and major garrett joins us with breaking news, i understand, on the january 6th investigation? reporter: yes, house select committee members have obtained testimony from mark short, vice president pence s chief of staff to speak on how much pressure the president applied on the former vice president because mr. trump said he didn t want pence to investigate or chloe things down, he wanted him to overturn the 2020 election. o donnell: thank you. the f.b.i. tonight is investigating bomb threats at at least half a dozen historically black colleges. no bombs were found. at least one university closed for the day, similar threats were made to several black universities earlier this month. it s not clear in the threats are related to the latest wave but the white house is looking into it as well. the report isn t the end of the troubles for u.k. prime ministe
from members of congress and people and then president trump s inner circle. what more are you hearing? reporter: well, this all comes in a court filing, allie alexander challenging a list of things about the select committee, namely their effort to try to get his phone records directly from his telecommunications provider. what this filing shows is that he passed along communications that he says are from representative mo brooks. he also says that he testified in front of house select committee investigators last week for several hours in which he discussed phone communications he had with another member of congress, specifically paul gosar. further, pamly, said he had a conversation with kimberly guilfoyle. this shows that the house select committee members have a wealth of information they re getting directly from the source, directly from the people who they subpoenaed who they think were at the central effort of the rallies that eventually preceded the violence at the