playbook. go to cnn zachary cohen. who is helping provide this cover for the former president during these hearings? i suppose it tells you everything you need to know about trump s hold on this party right now? reporter: really does, jim. you mentioned, kevin mccarthy secured trump s endorsement but not secured it for house speaker yet if republicans retake the house. maybe still a chip on the table and encouraging mccarthy there. in addition to mccarthy, we expect at least stefanik to be a key player. she oversees messaging for the gop conference and one of the loudest in the impeachment proceedings and expected to be intimately involved how to push back in realtime. what trump wants. daehlie counterprogramming in realtime. the other is, expected to be involved, jim banks, jim jordan. both supposed to be on the january 6th committee before kevin mccarthy decided he wouldn t let anybody from his party be on the panel. now we re here. all waiting to see what this push looks
test evidence, it s pretty apparent that at some point president trump knew what was going on. obviously. right? having meetings within the white house, having individuals that you re paying out there doing lawsuits, the 64, 65 lawsuits, if you re pushing this libel on twitter and social media, important and the committee will concentrate. look what s happening and the message pushed by president trump himself on social yomedia and other individuals, it s a pipeline that s damaging and pushing things like stop the steal. trump is announcing a counteroffensive expecting his diehards on capitol hill to defend his honor by writing off the hearings as a partisan witch-hunt. joining me now, former white house press secretary during the trump presidency, stephanie grisham. thanks for being with us. just last month you testified for a second time, i believe, in front of the january 6 committee. did their questions give any clues as to what these new revelations might be that are