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CNN CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta February 5, 2022 20:04:00

trump for what happened on january 6th, who knows where we would be, perhaps in the same place. one has to think it would be a little bit better. the fact that he chose to do this at the federalist society, the highly influential group o. repu of the republican party, what does that tell you. you know pence's inner circle, that inner circle which has for years tried to position pence for running in 2024 thought now would be a good time to do it. for some reason now is the time to do it. what do you suppose that is? >> one, it was the perfect opportunity in response to trump's recent statements, right, he was directly attacking mike pence again, and so i think that was part of the calculus into this, and also the fact that mark short, the former vice president's chief of staff and his former counsel, gary jacob did testify and are cooperating with the january 6th committee. so all of that combined, but i would say in addition to that,

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