happen at some point in the coming weeks. donald trump jr., of course, is at least a third member of trump s family who is going to voluntarily appear before the select committee, and it just shows the extent to which trump world resistance to this panel is pretty rapidly melting away. six months ago i would ve been surprised if you told me the donald junior was going to cooperate, but based on all the reporting, he is. we ve recently learned specifically about him is that he was way in during the january 6th attack, directly to chief of staff mark meadows, based on these released tax showing that he texted meadows during the attack, saying that a tweet that trump issued calling for the people attacking the capitol to, quote, remain peaceful, or stay peaceful, was not enough. don junior basically told meadows that trump needed to do more, needed to take stronger steps to try to quell the violence. he is in a really interesting spot because he was never an administration official, but i
i am, unfortunately, i don t know specifically why he chose to respond voluntarily. i do midst same reasons that ivanka trump and jared kushner did, they don t want to get subpoenaed. i know that you ve reported on one of the latest targets for the committee. in part, writing, quote, in recent weeks, they ve learned even more from several high-profile witnesses who were in the oval office while trump rated pence for refusing to overturn the election. one crucial fact remains, top tens aides say the former vice president was in his residence when the call came in. he then left the room, and was out of earshot for about 15 to 20 minutes. critical timeline, there, betsy. what is the committee hoping to learn from that phone call? what they want to know is more about the level of pressure that trump put on pants, and then the ways that pence grappled with that episode. we ve reported in this piece that some of the longtime trump aides who were in the room, listening just to trump side
junior here for the moment, he has appeared to be, from what we ve learned so far from the reporting out there, a linchpin to a lot of the communication that was taking place around that day, and his dad s position in office, and mark meadows. what do we know about this potential meeting between donald trump jr., and the january six committee? when are they keying on trying to piece together. we expect the meeting to happen at some point in the coming weeks. donald trump jr., of course, is at least a third member of trump s family who is going to voluntarily appear before the select committee, and it just shows the extent to which trump world resistance to this panel is pretty rapidly melting away. six months ago i would ve been surprised if you told me the donald junior was going to cooperate, but based on all the reporting, he is. we ve recently learned specifically about him is that he was way in during the january 6th attack, directly to chief of staff mark meadows,
voter fraud, to the state house oversight committee. you might remember this woman. melissa, who testified that giuliani, that day. take a watch. the pole book is completely off. completely off. off by 30,000? i would say that paul book is off by over 100,000. how many registered voters are on there? do you even know the answer to that? i m trying to get to the bottom of this. there is zero. so, my question, then, is weight, guess weight. what about the turnout rate? 120%? we aren t seeing the pull book off by 30,000 votes. why did you guys do? take it into something crazy to it? of course, there was no fraud. trump lost in michigan, and all the claims you heard there that
president was in his residence when the call came in. he then left the room, and was out of earshot for about 15 to 20 minutes. critical timeline, there, betsy. what is the committee hoping to learn from that phone call? what they want to know is more about the level of pressure that trump put on pants, and then the ways that pence grappled with that episode. we ve reported in this piece that some of the longtime trump aides who were in the room, listening just to trump side of the conversation, were shocked when they realized that pence, for the first time that they ve ever experienced, was actually putting his foot down, and was actually putting back against president trump, for the entirety of the trump administration pence was seen as somebody who is pretty much always on board with everything. and that phone call, at least for some of the listeners in the room with trump, was the first time they ever really heard him push back, it was an extraordinary moment for him. that said,