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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...

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 pressur...

Toxic effect on our politics, and that's one of the reasons we should be going ahead. but there is no avoiding that whole set of concerns that goldschmidt summarizes as what is in the national interest. probably no avoiding even having biden weigh in on the decision. doesn't make sense to just pretend this is a work a day decision once they check the boxes that's all that's going on here. much more is going on here. >> abc new poll out conducted after three public january 6th hearings, january 6th committee hearings. shows 6 in 10 americans believe former president trump should be prosecuted. ...

Republican party obviously the former president did something that if they come to this, right, if they do decide there is enough evidence that the former president should be prosecuted to say that, well, we don't want to do it or we shouldn't do it or there is a possibility that, you know, that what happens in the next election and the fringes are going to be upset and they will try to prosecute a democratic president, i don't know. should that -- why is that taking to -- >> i don't think that -- good point. and i don't think that's the big risk. no. i think the big risk is our polarized poli...

Cvs. healthier happens together. so the attorney general of the united states say he and his deputies are following the hearings closely, but it is unclear what action he will take when the house investigation wraps up. and there appears to be a disagreement within the committee and referring any possible criminal activity to the doj. one former justice department official. his name is jock goldsmith wrote this in today's new york times. and i quote, the evidence gathered by the january 6th committee and in some of the