Weekly news commentary and features from the editors of the Wall Street Journals editorial page. Weekly news commentary and features from the editors of the Wall Street Journals editorial page. Weekly news commentary and features from the editors of the Wall Street Journals editorial page. Later. Would you say that all of this now can be attributed to the decisions made in washington by the president . I think whats fair to say is that as they move along and move further away from the obama administration, were more than 18 months in, its harder to democrats to make that case. At this point, you see how democrats have talked a lot about other issues, talking a lot about health care, thats their main issue right now, especially as they chug toward the Brett Cavanaugh confirmation. The democrats are talking about health care, talking about russia, talking about issues that arent the economy. Thats something that the republicans have in their back pockest. As long as the economy is moving
some point but this is big. a former vice president of the united states testifying before a federal grand jury probing his former boss, former president donald trump. pence sat before the grand jury here this washington, d.c. for several hours this afternoon, as you mentioned an appeals court late yesterday cleared the way to make that happen. now pence left the court house before appearing before this grand jury, bret, normally a secretive process. this is related to the special counsel probe looking into former president donald trump s potential involvement in trying to overturn the 2020 election. pence said recently he would cooperate with the probe, though he would not discuss his role as president of the senate on january 6th, 2021 itself. here he is just days ago on this very subject. listen. we ll obey the law. we ll tell the truth. and the story that i have been telling the american people all across the country, the story that i wrote in the pages of my
pence, so this will live on forever in the trump/pence dynamic which will carry over into 2024, but the idea that this has so taken root in the republican party is even more stunning in many ways. that s exactly right, john. in all seriousness, pence was receiving advice from a very serious and well-regarded cadre of lawyers, people like greg jacob who actually was under siege with vice president pence when the insurrection happened, but we uncovered in our reporting over the weekend by a group of 75 post reporters that worked on this january 6th project for months that greg jacob had actually written an op-ed that went unpublished detailing some of the constitutional arguments that were being made to convince pens to overturn the vults of the election. pence sat in meetings. he listened to people like john eastman, and even john eastman actually eventually conceded to pence s lawyers that, yes, the 12th amendment was not well drafted. there was some scholarly debate
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