public outreach to state officials to try to get them to overturn their election results. the gop electors are on the governor s certificate. i m not going to get into a political debate. reporter: the investigation also discovered a nearly 23-minute phone call between someone at the white house and john eastman on the same day the conservative attorney wrote a now infamous memo laying out how pence could block the certification of the electoral college vote. state election officials ignored or violated state law in order to put vice president biden over the finish line. we know there was fraud. reporter: the call came after eastman emailed a trump assistant that he wanted to talk to trump to update him on our overall strategic thinking. trump latched onto this theory and used it to press his reluctant vice president in the days leading up to january 6th. mike pence is going to have to come through for us. reporter: the committee is also calling for lawyers
cnn newsroom starts right now. good morning, it s saturday, december 24th. merry christmas eve. i m whitney wild in for amara walker. and i m martin savidge in for boris sanchez. and you re in the cnn newsroom. we begin with a frustrating start to a holiday weekend. more than 200 americans are under winter alert with an arctic blast with heavy snow and ice. the storm has placed enormous strains on america s energy infrastructure. this morning where more than 500,000 homes and businesses are without power. and authorities in tennessee have ordered 15-minute rolling blackouts to manage demands. now, officials in states are blaming the winter storm for 15 deaths. they re reminding drivers, if you don t need to travel, stay off the road. across the country, snow, ice and powerful winds have caused multivehicle crashes and left drivers stranded on roads and highways. many spent hours in freezing conditions but it is not just the snow and ice. in new jersey, in several co
A former her prosecutor for the manhattan das office. While we watch for these Defense Motions to play out heres one of the things going on. Roshan is saying of Susan Necklace yintercept, you wouldnt have object to the mention of a condom . I dont understand this is because Susan Nechele less said that it was a dogwhistle to mention that donald trump had sex with a Stormy Daniels allegedly, although he disputes it without a condom, a dog whistle for rape some of the headlines coming in from the courtroom right now is the judge discusses this motion for mistrial. The judge said and going back to the very Opening Statements, mr. Blanche the defense attorney, and your Opening Statement you denied there was ever a sexual encounter between Stormy Daniels and the defendant, and that is the point that hes raising their of paula reid and jeremy. Is that you didnt by denying it, you put her credibility at issue and by doing that, you open the door for the prosecution to ask her to tell the stor
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