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about the president s counsel, the vice president s counsel. they all told him it was un-american. in the words of a prosecutor, illegal. even the nation s top prosecutor, the attorney general bill barr, found no evidence to support a play to stay in office. and tonight we have not one but two former attorneys general here both nominated by republican president. and both are going to give us their take on whether the emperor s wardrobe might be traded for prison garb. the former attorney general merrick garland says he is watching closely. but i wonder what his predecessors would think and what they would do. day three has had a theme, pressure, persistent, unyielding pressure, all targeting vice president mike pence. the browbeating all began behind the scenes. but when that didn t work, the bully pulpit was the new soap box. and pence s failure to succumb to it put him in danger. the vp s chief of staff was so worried the president was putting his life at risk, that h ....
joining me is elliott williams. we do not know what was asked or what was said in that room. he testified for five hours. if you were in the room what are the most pressing questions you would ask, what can pence provide? oh, i think the most important question pence can provide, did former president trump ever explicitly say or imply that he knew that he lost the election? because any number of crimes that might be investigated by the special counsel will, you know, sort of hinge on that fact, what was the president s level of knowledge? then if you re asking mike pence questions it s, you know, number one, what pressure did you perceive or feel throughout this period from the president? did he ever try to direct you to take any action on january 6th? what other conversations did you hear? what conversations did you hear with the president and other people? so there s plenty, and i m sure that five hours went by pretty quickly because the amount of matters they had to talk about w ....
Other threats in the public. his ability to the potential to this case is much more limited. for jack smith, he s got two cases. mar-a-lago engineer a sixth. that s all he has to worry about. because of that focus, i think we may see the case move even faster than would have without a special counsel. let s talk about quickly, the ask for former vice president mike pence to testify before the grand jury. i want to read from folks a tweet that he put out their question pence is no brainer for doj. the stuff essential to understand what hamilton him in trump. executive privilege will certainly be outweighed by the significant national interest in the attack on the capitol. subpoena away. we know that pence s officially set, and he said to my colleague, chuck todd that he s weighing whether or not he s gonna testify. we know he writes that no. moving on from the january 6th investigators asking for him to testify to their congressional investigation. what do you make of the possible t ....
Text chain in december? you know, what is going on to hear all of these people around pence, pence s aides talk about the fear they felt, the concerns they felt. but was it true ily a shock? i ll say this. i was not in the white house in december 2020. i kept in touch. i was talking to marc short fairly regularly. i knew without question pence was going to do the right thing and certify the election. i know the senator. i m going to give him a chance to disagree with me after this. i do think mike pence is a hero. i want to take a minute to think about this. had he not certified, we would have been not just in a constitutional crisis. i would argue the republic would be in shambles. you would have a two- to three-week period before biden was sworn in. you would have a lame duck donald trump desperately clinging to you potentialer. you would inevitably have unrest in the street. he would probably lean on the department of defense, where i previously worked, and i would expect you woul ....