Guilfoyle has also testified and all had noted a behind-the-scenes presence on the morning of the january 6th insurrection as trump and his alies riled up a crowd of supporters, many of whom would breach the capitol. politico elaborates in reporting today on what he may know about his father s push to subvert the results of the 2020 election. quote, the committee has highlighted a text message trump jr. sent to then white house chief of staff mark meadows as a mob overtook the capitol on january 6th, 2021. in that message, he urged his father to make a more forceful statement to condemn the violence. quote, he s got to condemn this bleep, asap. the capitol police tweet is not enough, trump jr. texted meadows and comes on the heels of previous reporting from cnn that donald trump jr. texted white house chief of staff mark meadows ideas for overturning
Him threatening to support primary challengers, essentially saying that republicans took the careers into their own hands unless they were on board with the president s efforts. very much part of this rhetorical effort to level as much pressure as possible against republican members of congress. these are all things that are core to this select committee s investigation. the fact that don junior cooperated sol tarly just shows the extent to which in the final weeks of the investigative process this committee has had a series of major breakthroughs and have major bursts of momentum that most of us i think couldn t have imagined last year when the committee first started its work. i mean, also draws a bright line between ivanka and jared kushner and donald trump jr., does it have any ramifications on those obstructive acts by
Course, they would love meadows and bannon, but they re getting more than i think anyone imagined that they would. the most significant breakthrough and momentum, that s such an important analysis of what these interviews taken together represent. miles taylor, i wonder if in your view mike pence is someone who makes anything other than a calculation that has at its center becoming president in the republican party primary process, is mike pence someone who can look at what the president s own children decided to do and say, well, they can talk, i can t or is mike pence too singularly focused on his own political prospects? what does mike pence do in your view? what would mike pence do is a question that usually ends in something you said earlier, nicolle, which is the path of least resistance. i think you can count on one thing and one thing only when it comes to pence and i say this having seen him from the floor of the house of representatives alt the way to his time as vice pre
Always count on pence to do is the least courageous thing so, look, if he thinks it s going to save his skin, he ll voluntarily cooperate. if he thinks it s going to be better red meat on the stump out on a political campaign, he ll obstruct the investigation and refuse to meet with them but i do think what we are seeing is very interesting is that the people who declared executive privilege so righteously are now kind of left twisting in the wind as many people who hang on for too long in donald trump land ultimately are because the folks closest to him have said forget it. we ll just voluntarily cooperate. i think that s very, very telling. it signals where other folks like pence who are going to speak to investigators are likely to go but there s another thing here that i think is sort of overlooked, there are some unsung heroes in the january 6th investigation so far and i ve nodded towards them before and it s the folks who have been doing the digital forensics here, there was lar
Reversal, something changes his mind more than the politics because donald trump isn t any more popular on the day that mccarthy goes to mar-a-lago than he is on election day. it s static and it s so static that you and i spent the last hour talking about his handpicked politicians in republican primaries are ascendant in the gop. his grip is a steady line at the highest rate of any republican out there in the land. so why doesn t anyone want to know what kevin mccarthy learned at mar-a-lago when he decided that trump must stay? well, i have to add, nicolle, i m neither a lawyer or a prosecutor but the operative questions here are what did they know and when did they know it, because a crime happened here. this was a crime scene. this is a scheme screen against democracy, kevin mccarthy is a witness to one of the biggest political crimes perpetrated against this country, genuinely,