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with this reporting, quote, the former president has called witnesses throughout the investigation according to those who spoke anonymously to reveal conversations. they ruled out a number of former officials as the recipient of this latest call highlighted by cheney saying it was not former white house counsel pat cipollone whose deputy patrick philbin, former media officials, matthews or former pascale. the allegations of witness tampering by trump and his associates, though, do add new dimension to the wider scandal that is to overturn the 2020 election results which, as vice chair liz cheney added, trump was, quote, substantially and personally involved in. politico reports on the dual track of the committee s public hearings with this analysis. on the one hand, the committee is focused on filling out the historical record of the attempt to overturn the election and its violent conclusion. on the other, its members are laying out an unmistakable map to a potential c ....
mike pence was set to lose the governor s race in 2016 before he was plucked up and his political career salvaged. now despite desperate to chase his lost relevance, pence is parachuting into races hoping someone is paying attention. it is a remarkable public split and spat between a president, former president and former vice president, who served together for four years. we should note that. our correspondents and analysts standing by to break down all the headlines. let s begin with kristen holmes in atlanta. kristen, it is a lot of races in georgia that are key, the outcome is key and you might call them bellwethers to some degree. break it all down for us. reporter: good morning, jim and erica. that s right. the big one we re watching is the one you just mentioned, this is the gubernatorial republican primary, which has become a proxy war. on one side, the maga trump election denying faction of the republican party and on the other you have that republican esta ....
The fake electors were invited and tweeted about it and taunted on twitter by trump. a meeting convened by trump. he s at the center of everything that happens. that s absolutely right, nicole. he is absolutely at the center of every action because as you and i have talked about for many months, he s almost like the wizard behind the green curtain pulling every one of those levers. increasingly more desperately as the week goes on from the election up until the certification of the vote on know. jan 6th because each lever he tries to pull doesn t result in the payoff that he s hoping for. you know, first it s let s just get georgia to tell people that the election was fraudulent and needs to be investigated. let s get my acting attorney general to just say that it was corrupt and i ll take it from there. let s get an executive order rolling so we ll seize voting ....
Downside of humoring him for a little bit of time? no one seriously thinks the results will change. except donald trump. but it is the people who decided to humor him, people who stayed quiet, let him cry it out as his rhetoric escalated, his lies escalated and the dangerous people he tapped in to organize, they re the reason we re all here today. take former white house counsel pat cipollone whose testimony to the january 6th select committee we heard for the very first time yesterday. there was a real question in my mind and a real concern, you know, particularly after the attorney general had reached the conclusion that there wasn t sufficient election fraud to change the outcome of the election. when other people kept suggesting that there was, the answer is what is the end. at some point you have to put up or shut up. that was my view. there was never any fraud. ....
If the republicans who knew better and were privately texting their friends and calling their friends and then telling reporters to come out and distance themselves from him, that would have been potentially the tipping point where he would have been a one-term president who retired and went off into obscurity, but that s not what they did. there was about 72 hours where it looked like that might happen. lindsey graham on the senate floor, kevin mccarthy was very angry, and then kevin mccarthy goes to mar-a-lago, poses for that photo with trump, lindsey graham begins golfing with him, and everything is the same as it ever was despite there being a deadly insurrection on the u.s. capitol. and david jolly, i guess the tragedy is they could still do it. we are living as a country with a nearly unprecedented threat of domestic violence extremism tied to the grievance and this ongoing belief that the election was stolen from donald trump, which we know it was not, as kim ....