politics reporter at the washington post. also the co-author of the book his name is george floyd. so happy to have all of you on. why don t i start with you. good evening to everyone. to the trump pressure campaign. last week the committee focussed on the intense pressure on pence and how much danger that put him in. this week it is the pressure on state officials to overturn the election. remember this call that trump made to georgia secretary of state? here it is. so, look, all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state. so what do you think it is going to mean to hear publically from these election officials? well, this is part of a methodical approach by this committee to lay out what happened after the election. it included not only former president trump when they went into court but after they were thrown out of court for all these failed legal efforts, they put pressure on these state lawm
eastern time. the committee saying tomorrow s hearings will focus on former president trump pressuring state officials to overturn election results and pushing to advance phony slates of electors. a lot to discuss with doug jones, charlie dent, a former republican congressman, and political analyst, the national politics reporter at the washington post. also the co-author of the book his name is george floyd. so happy to have all of you on. why don t i start with you. good evening to everyone. to the trump pressure campaign. last week the committee focussed on the intense pressure on pence and how much danger that put him in. this week it is the pressure on state officials to overturn the election. remember this call that trump made to georgia secretary of state? here it is. so, look, all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state. so what do you think it is going to mean to hear publically from thes
them talking to investigators, so it s a different situation. there is more potential things that could go wrong. it s more serious. obviously, it s serious if you come in and are interviewed by anyone in an investigation, but it just shows that they don t really care. it makes you wonder he s not president anymore! it makes you wonder how much the mueller team did care and other investigations that went on at the justice department, the michael cohen investigation, other things that came up. they certainly acted different then than they did now. to me, that s an interesting contrast. joyce, it s hard to exert executive privilege if you re not the chief executive anymore. joe biden is not going to exert a sensitive privilege here, so worth you see the legal argument going here given the pence subpoena, jared and ivanka, mark meadows? so the first thing that is important to understand about
the mueller team did care and other investigations that went on at the justice department, the michael cohen investigation, other things that came up. they certainly acted different then than they did now. to me, that s an interesting contrast. joyce, it s hard to exert executive privilege if you re not the chief executive anymore. joe biden is not going to exert a sensitive privilege here, so worth you see the legal argument going here given the pence subpoena, jared and ivanka, mark meadows? so the first thing that is important to understand about privileges is just because there is a privilege people in the president or senate, let s say theoretically, that that exists, it does not cover everything that that person does. just because you have that status does not mean, for instance, that you can go off and planned a murder and not have to testify about. i think the first hurdle that all of these folks will face is showing that the conversations that jack smith wants to have
“Never before in American history has a vice president been summoned to appear in court to testify against the president with whom they serve," he said.