and members of his inner-most circle. we re talking about the slates of fake electors set up in battleground states. they set up as the spark for the rest of the plan as conceived by john eastman. from the very beginning from when the plan was first conceived days after the november election, attorneys for the trump campaign were well aware of the fact that their plan for slates of fake electors was how should we put it fake. the new york times reported on emails from trump lawyers that say this, quote, we would just be sending in fake electoral votes to pence so someone in congress can make an objection when they start counting votes and start arguing that the they need to be counted. he wrote that on december 8, 2020 in an email to boris epshteyn, an advisor for the trump campaign. in a followup email, the same guy, mr. will len chick wrote that alternative votes is probably a better term, a better word than fake votes. he added a smiley face emoji. the plan quickly g
tax officials for more than a decade. now the new york attorney general wants the business dissolved. trump is also running out of options into the ongoing investigation of classified documents seized from his mar-a-lago estate. they ruled the doj can resume looking over those classified records. it no longer needs to submit items to the special master, rejecting arguments from trump s legal team. two of the judges on the panel were appoint bid trump. let s begin with kaitlyn polantz following the story. kaitlyn, it s a big win for the doj. what does this mean specific lip for their on going investigation of those classified documents, how they were held, why they were held and any criminal consequences? jim and poppy, the justice department now gets to do exactly what they wanted to be doing all along which is reviewing those 100 or so records taken out of mar-a-lago that have classified markings on them, and the federal appeals court that ruled last night, the major thi
launches a probe. i signed an order appointing robert hur as special counsel. how will this investigation change biden s presidency. and top priority, house republicans launch their own probes into the biden administration. i am concerned about ethics and transparency in the federal government. does that apply to both sides of the aisle? i ll speak to the chair of the house oversight and accountability committee, republican james comer and then the committee s top democrat, jamie raskin, ahead. hitting the limit. house republicans make plans to try to handle the fallout if they carry out on the threat to only raise the debt ceiling accompanied by spending cuts. we ve got to change the way we re spending money wastefully in this country. is the u.d. headed for fiscal catastrophe? hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is classified. president biden is in atlanta focusing on the legacy of the late reverend martin luther king jr. here i
happening now. new evidence connecting the capitol riot directly to former-president trump and his pressure campaign against his vice president. insiders swearing under oath that trump knew his scheme to get mike pence to overturn the presidential election was illegal but trump plowed ihead, anyway. the january 6th select committee also documenting pence s escape from that mob that was threatening his life with rioters at one point only 40 feet away. we are breaking down all the testimony, and where the insurrection investigation goes from here. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states, and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room . let s get right to the new testimony and evidence presented by the january-6th select committee during today s hearing. it ended just a couple hours or so ago. our congressional correspondent, ryan nobles, has been following it all up on capitol hill. mike pence is going to have to come through for us.
The whistleblower made falseht statements, the whistleblower got caught with chairman schiff. Remember chairman schiff, the person that the democrats instead of the House Judicial Committee which has spent a full week on this, thats not who has been in charge. They put in charge was the person that got caught with the whistleblower. Have you spoken directly with the whistleblower . No, we have not. Wed like to. That wasnt true. The person that said he had evidence of the first fake impeachment scam, collusion with russia, had evidence of that collusion and didnt have it. The person who in the course of that read into the record the steele dossier because the people needed to know what happened about the truth of what happened. We heard about the truth of what happened with the steele dossier this week when the Inspector General said it was all garbage, rubbish, all made up. Yeah, thatad chairman schiff. And now he got caught not being truthful about a whistleblower who, as i told you t