hearings in, and yes, 20 months away from january 6th. but we are still finding out new information as of tonight. and the information is raising even more questions, interestingly enough, the questions about the trump white house s involvement in the attempt to overthrow our democracy. that s really what the whole thing is about, the heart of what the committee has been trying to get to the bottom of according to what they have said time and time again for about nine hearings and for more than a year. so, will we see anything new, or will this just be a kind of summation? well, we ve been told to expect new footage we haven t yet seen before and new witness testimony according to the committee s chairman. and remember those missing secret service text messages, we re apparently going to hear more about those and the agents who have allegedly been uncooperative with the panel. there were secret service agents who were playing a hugely important and very courageous role, and
you are a communication strategist. what advice would you give if this were your client? there s another court and it s the court of public opinion. right, right. as david highlighted, brett favre doesn t have a god, i said it correctly, thank god doesn t have a great cooperating with pros. he s got a smart team around him aside from a legal team to determine what s true, what s not true, what he s able to say, and what he s not able to say. he hasn t talked yet. at some point he isn t going to have to. this isn t just an nfl investigation. we re talking about criminal statutes now. he s going to have to get a story and stick to it and hopefully if not win in the courtroom win some kind of public opinion court. if you put in the big umbrella of allegations of fraud, just last week there were conversations involving covid-19 fund as appropriatiated. this is not what brett favre is accused of having done at all. these are civil allegations at the very least.
over the centuries, but even today. there are parliamentary forms of democracy, presidential democracy, the kind that we have. and in the ancient world you had direct democracy. we have representative democracy. we have a system of constitutional democracy that s assigns to the states the responsibilities for cut conducting and organizing elections that seem fit. biden wants to alter these arrangements but this is an argument within democracy. what kind of democracy we want do vice president it s not an argument as to whether democracy is at stake so he s making it sound like the debates about national holiday or what is the early voting per, he s making it sound like those kinds of debates, which there could be some reasonable accommodation if people are willing to sit down with republicans and find middle ground but that s the point he isn t. laura: here s what i don t get. jason, when biden says this is jim crow 2.0, isn t that getting
secret communications channel with russia using their facilities as a way to bypass detection by u.s. intelligence. but as an explanation said it was so he and then nsa nominee flynn could discuss military strategy in syria among other topics. the white house is pushing back, calling the reports false and unverified claims. i think secretary kelly and general mcmaster have both discussed that in general terms, back channels are an appropriate part of diplomacy. and the president s son-in-law may be his top advisor, but jared kushner has plenty of other white house duties, including middle east peace and streamlining government. even with all that s going on dealing with the russia investigation and extra scrutiny, a source familiar with kushner s role said at this point he isn t giving up any part ofportfolio. outfront now, democratic congressman eric swalwell. good to have you with me again,
diplomacy. reporter: now the president s son-in-law is one of his most trusted advisers, but jared kushner has plenty of white house duties as well, including middle east peace and streamlining government and, wolf, a source familiar with kushner s role says that at this point he isn t giving up any part of that vast portfolio. he s there, and he s working. diane gallagher, thanks very, very much. the white house tried to change the subject today touting the president s overseas trip and his agenda, but he can t escape the president s russia troubles. let s gets to senior white house correspondent jim acosta. things got sort of heated today at the briefing. reporter: it certainly did, wolf. the white house held an on-camera briefing or steering clear of the cameras on the president s foreign trip. white house press secretary sean spicer didn t offer much information to reporters refusing to say much about jared kushner being swept up in the russia investigation and is insisting