ex-president very clear publicly known efforts and plot to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election. a series of court battles over the last few weeks have largely gone in special counsel jack smith s favor, resulted if a whole slew of new trump officials and allies now being ordered to testify. some big names, none of them bigger than the one, vice president mike pence, news broke on tuesday that a federal judge had ordered him to answer questions under oath regarding conversations that may involve illegality on donald trump s part. here s what mike pence told nbc news about all of that this morning. i ll be in washington, d.c., later the week. i ll be meeting with my counsel that week and we ll determine the best way forward. again, i have nothing to hide. i believe we did our duty under the constitution on january 6th. nothing to hide, but that response begs the question, if that s the case, and frankly the fact that he wrote the book about it, why hasn t he testified
you ve convinced them that trump will win, if you don t have conclusive evidence at that scale it s a cruel thing to say. he keeps saying what she s doing is cruel and reckless. i want to understand why that s been release tdz and why that single communication for tucker to powell is part of the legal case. does it matter that he uses that word. absolutely. the standard we have pub lig figure and fox news is being treated as a public figure as well as the broadcasters named in the suit, the standard is something called actual malice, that s not what we mean in english when we say actual
know when the week began. well, on the irs scandal i learned to file for c-4 tax status you can just assert it. they are behaving like they have and nobody has challenged it. so all the groups that have been challenged are saps. they didn t have to file. and steve miller said it was his idea to have her ask someone in an audience, to ask her the question. he thought it was a good way to get ahead of the story. now if that s what they know about pub lig relations and media, it tells you how they perform in a lot of areas. first, i was surprised at the
for u.s., the stakes are very high. if there s a collapse of the north korean regime and millions of refugees flowing into china that s the nightmare scenario. it puts a damper on their economic performance. that s the economic piece. china is concerned about the economics because the party has legitimacy only as lock as the economy performs. the second part of it is, nuclear proliferation, the thought of japan, even beginning a did cushion or south korea. is a nightmare scenario for the chinese. here s some polls, new cnn, that just came out today, we asked the american pub lig, do you think north korea is an immediate threat to the united states. right now of the american
won t support deep cuts without increases in taxes. if you are trying to get to 2.4 trillion without any revenue, then you are effectively gutting a whole bunch of domestic spending that is going to be too burdensome and not something that i would support. david gergen is the cnn political analyst. there was a time when john boehner and president obama both talked of doing something big to change america s unsustainable economic path. what do you think? do that you think that opportunity is lost? well, a week is a long time in politics. it can be a lifetime, as you know. i think the big deal, the grand deal, the grand bargain of $4 trillion over four years is dead, it s gone. i think the chances of getting a deal at 2.5 are 2. the middle double deal, very unlikely, because the president does not want to go that high without tax increases and republicans are not going to do it. here s the question that is coming out. and that s. the house republicans are now pushing a ve