count act. the first official legislative response to donald trump s attempt to overturn the legal and legitimate win. reporter: this is the law that governs how that happens on the day of congressional certification when donald trump tried to pressure mike pence to disregard state certified electoral results. something that constitutional experts would be illegal but there s am big ewety in the law and senators are saying they re close to change how the law actually governs that process on that day. one of the issues they agreed on is to make it crystal clear the vice president s role is ceremonial. he cannot disregard the state s election results but there are other issues in discussion, including making it harder to make it senators and house members to object and force votes how to disregard the results come out, all of which there s fresh optimism after the discussions that s have gone on for months that the deal could happen and announced in the senate next week. ther
the focus to be on biden and on inflation and gas prices and instead, it looks like the focus will be donald trump running for reelection and how republicans think that 10-year- old rape victims shouldn t be able to terminate their pregnancies. no doubt, jake. senator mcconnell, many other established republicans the first things you listed, inflation, gas prices they would love that to be the issue. for that to be on the ballot. that s not going to dissuade the former president. he loves to be the number one topic and out there. i would imagine he thinks he s going to benefit republicans up and down the ballot. but we ll have to see. we ll have to see if he decides to throw a wrench in the midterm. does trump announcing before the midterms help republicans or hurt republicans or is it a wash? i would look at history and it would be a liability
do you ever talk to people like kevin mccarthy or steve scalize? the house republican leaders that have done so much destruction to the belief and integrity of elections by publicly backing donald trump s lies about this? no, i don t talk to them. i really don t know those people. i don t know that i would get very far. it s become a political style now and it exists predominantly in my party but also on the left of just being extreme us against them or at war. count the number of times the word fight or fighter is used in politics these days. everybody wants to be a fighter as though what we need is disruption in washington. i mean, how do you disrupt
votes how to disregard the results come out, all of which there s fresh optimism after the discussions that s have gone on for months that the deal could happen and announced in the senate next week. there s a good chance it could potentially pass the senate this year and also the house, which it would make it the first response to donald trump s efforts to overturn the election. a federal judge today denied former trump adviser steve bannon s request. he argued he can t get an impartial jury because of publicity he s getting from a cnn documentary. sarah murray joins us live. what is his argument here and what happens next for him? reporter: his argument has been basically do everything you can do delay the trial. in this case he s saying the cnn documentary set to air sunday night is going to
staffer. i think that s really interesting how, and that may compel the hearings to last longer. new information keeps coming out. you re referring to sources tell cnn former president trump tried to call a white house support staffer talking to the january 6th committee. the staffer didn t take the call. told his attorney about it and one other point on the secret service is after cassidy hutchison s stunning testimony, she turned by a secret service agent and there s been this whispering campaign that he doesn t back her story, but this stuff from the secret service gets fishy and murky. it does and they re not under oath. the whisper campaign can go on as long as they want. until they have the guts to come before the committee and actually refute what she s saying, i think we take it with a grain of salt.