The former Vice President talking about trumps indictment now. January 6th was a tragedy. Ive spoken and written about it extensively. I have nothing to hide. By gods grace i believe we did our duty that day. Fulfilled the oath that id taken to the constitution and to the American People. The constitution is quite clear about the role of the Vice President in the counting of electoral votes. It essentially says the Vice President presides over a Joint Session Of Congress where the electoral votes that are certified by the states shall be opened and shall be counted. And irrespective of the indictment i want the American People to know that i had no right to overturn the election. And that on that day President Trump asked me to put him over the constitution but i chose the constitution. And i always will. And i really do believe that anyone who puts themself over the constitution should never be president of the United States. And anyone who asks themselves to put themselves over the c
counsel jack smith s other big investigation into former president trump as federal grand jurors hear more testimony that could possibly lead to new indictments. good day. i m garrett haake in washington. andrea is traveling to lithuania to cover the nato summit where russia s invasion of ukraine will continue to dominate the conversation for our allies. united states has made it clear going into this summit that a fast track for ukraine s entry into the alliance is off the table for now as the president and his diplomatic team work to sell turkey on agreeing to allow sweden to become the next nato member. the president may have to cruise use some of the nato meetings about his decision to provide ukraine with the deadly cluster munitions that his own administration has denounced. mr. biden spent the first leg of his trip solidifying the relationship betweening first with the british prime minister when traveling to windsor castle to meet with king charles where they met with
the door at all to criticizing the former president for his role. and perhaps you might see desantis change his approach. at the moment desantis is taking a purely legal procedural approach to dealing with the january 6th indictment. he s not come out swinging at all against the president. stephanie, there s been a sameness to the republican party s reaction to various charges, indictments against trump. with the manhattan d.a., well, he s just a manhattan d.a., democratic state, you know, find yourself a special counsel. with the classified documents you heard, well, this is too small bore, what about what pence and biden did. now you have a special counsel focused on what even republicans or you ll hear some in the conservative media say was a consequential day, january 6th. and by the way, the president did lose the election and should not have, you know, claimed to have won it. and yet personally i was surprised by how broad-based the dismissal of this latest
shot. you re seeing desantis change his strategy a bit. where he said he might not join the gop debate in august if trump did it. now he s saying he will because he realizes he s at risk of losing relevancy. he holds a juggernaut of a campaign. well financed, orchestrated, digital, mail, door knocking campaign. he s doing all the things right. but what will it take? a change to donald trump s status that we have not seen. so you have to look to only one thing right now. if donald trump has to go to trial before the gop nomination is secured in say march, maybe that impacts it but short of a trial, there is nothing that is in donald trump s way right now and that includes ron desantis. it s interesting because that seems to be the strategy of a lot of these candidates maybe kind of say the right things but hope the doj does their work for them and somehow gets trump out of the way but chris christie