investigation which other people have been subpoenaed. in this letter to the cable news host, they released a series of his texts. his communications with trump white house chief of staff mark meadows. the reason they are e leased those texts it appears is to make the case both to him and the public. that he is an important fact witness for the investigation. and they need to ask him asks about what he knows. he may know stuff other people don t. now the tv host in question is a man named sean hannitity. a prime time weeknight host on fox. regardless of whether or not you have heard of him or seen his show or commentary about january 6 or about trump more broadly, it does appear from the investigation released tonight that mr. hannity was kind of in the thick of it. with the white house chief of staff and apparently with the president himself. they say quote, the select committee now has information in
levels, who had very little understanding of how elections are run in the united states. so i really think that the most significant effort that was made to overturn the election had to have been made in the states. it had to be made with local and state officials. with whom was the responsibility for a certified election in their state. and to a men and women, this pretty much help. they refused to falsify the results of the election. i think that speaks well. the american people are not as dishonest as donald trump would like them to be. i want to play an example of that. michigan republican, a man by the name of ban came under enormous pressure to not certify in michigan. and it did. i want to play what he said on november 23rd, 2020. because it sort of embodies this kind of spur that ended up i think saving the day.
thank you for being here. thank you for having me. so i have to ask you, reading the book and knowing you a little bit and having talked to you over the course of the last few years. you are incredibly articulate. about your choice to stay public to kp working and write this book in the middle of the grief and challenge. now that you are putting it out to the world, and able to talk about it, does it still feel like the right thing to do? does it feel like you had to do it? well, tommy was a young man. he was a boy who was filled with extraordinary moral and political passion. and i think if feels right because of who he was and what he wanted for the world. tommy was in his second year at harvard law school. when we lost him.
preserve his communications related to the january 6th attack on the capital, including his communications with former president trump, and others at the trump white house. they are asking him to come in for a transcribed interview, asking him to commit a transcri interviewed. they are not subpoenaing him, nor are they raising that prospect, of course, that kind of prospect looms in an investigation in which lots of other people have been subpoenaed. in this letter to the cable news host, they released a series of his texts. his communications with trump white house chief of staff mark meadows in particular. the reason they have released those texts it appears is to make the case both to him and the public. that he is an important fact witness for the investigation. and they need to ask him asks about what he knows. he may know stuff other people don t. now the tv host in question is a man named sean hannitity. he s a prime time week night host at the fox news channel.
water and fuel and in some cases medicine, waiting in freezing conditions for emergency rescue teams to respond. among those stranded were virginia u.s. senator tim kaine who had been on his way back to washington after the winter break. it s usually a two-hour drive. one of nbc s congressional reporters julie tsirkin took this photo of a very road weary tim kaine arriving at the capitol after 26 hours in his car, the senator selling julie, it was 26 hours and the only thing i ate was one orange and the only liquid i had was one 16-ounce dr pepper. virginia governor ralph northam writes all vehicles have been removed from i-95 and the interstate will open shortly but still telling people to avoid the road. hopefully by now all of the stranded drivers have been able to get themselves a warm meal and perhaps something a little stiff tore drink than a 16-ounce dr pepper. man. epper. man.