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recorded testimony by former pence chief of staff mark short who was with vice president pence an january 6th. was a firsthand witness to trumps pressure campaign in the days leading up to it. were told house investigators will try to make the case that the pressure on pence directly distributed to the insurrection at the capitol and the continuing ongoing threat to the rule of law and democracy in the united states. many aides are promising new information about what the vice presiden...

not a science guy blaming a pickup truck for extreme weather. these are not people who are speaking in good faith, theyre not trying to solve problems, they are not even interested in what actually happened. they are lying, they are unscrew bills, and they will say anything if they think it will make them more powerful so best to ignore them. on the other hand, and this is also true, over time it is possible to draw legitimate connections between decisions that politicians make in the ...

before the 6th. pence pushing back every time. >> was it your impression that the vice president had directly conveyed his position on these issues to the president, not just to the world through a dear colleague letter, but directly to president trump? >> many times. >> and he had been consistent in conveying his position to the president? >> very consistent. >> and then the new memos show ing pences legal and political advisers spending weeks whether pence could block or delay the el...

releasing damning new testimony from an attorney in trumps white house. in a tease of sorts for next weeks hearing watch this -- >> in our next hearing on thursday, the select committee will examine president trumps relentless effort on january 6th and in the days beforehand to pressure vice president pence to refuse to count lawful electoral votes. as a federal judge has indicated, this likely violated to federal criminal statutes. >> to. and thats heating up the comment, the committe...

growing cancer on our nation. right wing extremists now targeting the lbgtq community, and not just in idaho where 31 of them were unpacked from a u-haul and arrested, and the first polls are close right now in a south carolina primary as trump seeks revenge against two incumbent republicans. steve kornacki will join us from the big board. and first one of the big misconceptions from the trump presidency, that there were no adults in the room. thats not true. there were plenty of adu...

bear market territory. the federal reserve could boost interest rates by .75 point to try to time inflation that has the cost of everything rising. gas is still hovering above $5.00 a gallon nationwide, getting close to $7.00 out west in california. an estimate from moodys shows american households are spending about $460 more per month on necessities than they were one year ago. that means more families are having to make tough decisions just to get by. >> theres no way. its cheaper t...

this nation, democrat and republican. allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of our democracy. >> president biden last week addressing thursdays primetime hearing of the january 6th committee investigating the attack on the capitol. and were hours away from the committees second public hearing. at 10:00 a.m. eastern, the house panel will lay out how the big lie got started. also ahead, a compromise on capitol hill. senators from both sides of the aisle agree to what could be th...

the biggest white house scandal in a century broke wide open today. the presidents white house legal counsel john dean has been fired. reportedly dean is implicated in efforts to cover up the watergate scandal. >> watergate is the largest political scandal in american history. >> five men apparently caught in the act of burglarizing and bugging democratic headquarters in washington. >> many have tried to dissect the events of watergate. i lived them. >> this room and the next contain m...

contain my archives. its magazines, newspaper articles, depositions, documents. everything relating to watergate. >> i was 31 when i went to the nixon white house to work. >> i have no intention of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do. >> the job forever changed the trajectory of my life. >> were not on the road to fascism. but were dangerously close to it. >> these are the events that are going to follow me to my grave. >> i told the president that there was...

and then once it did happen, why did authorities lied to the country for months and tell us that officer of brian sicknick had been murdered by the mob when in fact the medical examiner determined he died of a stroke hours later. just tonight on "cbs news," we were informed just a moment ago, as norah odonnell stared on like it was true, that five police officers were murdered by the mob. on january 6th. really? we know of one killing on january 6th, and that killing was committed by o...