Former Vice President mike pence will join the organization as a distinguished Visiting Fellow Pt what exactly is that job . What exactly is he going to do there . Its kind of beside the point. But heritage is very excited to have him. Working together with the former Vice President , heritage will continue to support and defend our Policy Accomplishments while also fighting back against a socialist agenda pushed by those on the left. Thats what mike pence is going to be doing. Hes going to be fighting socialists. Full timish. On a visiting basis. Congratulations, mr. Pence. Heres an unexpectedly awkward thing, though. The Heritage Foundation in this announcement today repeatedly describes their new hire as the former Vice President and, indeed, mr. Pence yesterday unveiled new letterhead proclaiming that he has opened an office now which he is calling the office of the former Vice President. The reason that is surprisingly awkward right now is that no matter what he does with his post
Former Vice President , heritage will continue to support and defend our Policy Accomplishments while also fighting back against a socialist agenda pushed by those on the left. Thats what mike pence is going to be doing. Hes going to be fighting socialists. Full timeish. On a visiting basis. Congratulations, mr. Pence. Heres an unexpectedly awkward thing, though. The Heritage Foundation in this announcement today repeatedly describes their new hire as the former Vice President and, indeed, mr. Pence yesterday unveiled new letterhead proclaiming that he has opened an office now which he is calling the office of the former Vice President. The reason that is surprisingly awkward right now is that no matter what he does with his postwhite house life, it is going to be hard for former Vice President to mike pence to assert that he ever served in the administration of former President Donald Trump because apparently were not supposed to admit there is such a thing as former President Donald
Charged with any crime. Will they be or there they flip on him . The testimony of former Vice President mike pence proving to be a key part of this historic indictment. Sara is off today. Im john berman with kate bolduan. This is cnn news central. Great to have you back, first of all. Thank you. Quite a day it is. This morning donald trump has been charged with trying to obstruct the peaceful transfer of power. It is unprecedented. It is historic. And it puts the nation in truly uncharted territory. Two monumental almost foundational forces directly at odds. On the one hand as peter baker of the New York Times writes, can a sitting president spread lies about an election and try to employ the authority of the government to overturn the will of the voters without consequence . On the other hand the wall street Journal Editorial Board suggests it, quote, potentially criminalizes many kinds of actions and statements by a president that a prosecutor deems to be false. We will explain how S
cheated. they are normalizing the completely false idea that american elections are rigged. and it is not just laura engroom. now, turning to joe biden and what we are hearing from voters on the ground in iowa. about a third of iowa republicans say joe biden was legitimately elected president. but almost half, almost double that i should say, double that amount say he was not, and next up we have the integrity of our elections. and up next moving on, no facts checks necessary. if you thought joe biden was not legitimately elected as president, you re in good company. multiple times steve kornacki mentioned two thirds of election goers, and fox moved onto the next thing, no mention that belief defies reality. after the attack on the capitol january 6th there was a moment it really felt like republicans might finally ditch donald trump. fox news owner rupert murdoch said he wanted to make trump a nonperson, which sounds severe. kevin mccarthy discussed removing trump from o
it for us tonight. we ll see you again tomorrow. time for the last word. my friend jonathan capehart, in for lawrence tonight. good evening, john. good evening, ali. thank you very much have a good evening. thank you. last night on this program, a large breaking news that special counsel jack smith and his team had handed over the first batch of evidence in the classified documents case. today, we, along with donald trump and his legal team are getting a better idea of what that evidence actually is. according to the filing of special counsel smith and his prosecutors, that evidence includes quote, interviews of defendant trump conducted by non government entities recorded with his consent and obtained by the special counsel s office during the investigation of this case, including the july 21st, 2021 reported interview defending trump providing to a publisher and writer quoted in part in the indictment. now, we cannot say for sure whether that line refers to more priv