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closed captioning, brought to you by mesobook.com. this is just in to cnn. the source come from the federal grand jury investigating january 6th has subpoenaed the former white house counsel, pallone. abc news was first to report that. cnn has now confirmed that, as well. abby phillip, david axelrod, all back with me here. thanks so much for joining. this is big news. what say you, david? i think we have seen, over the last couple of weeks, this escalation in this grand jury process. that is separate and apart from all of the doj investigations and prosecutions into those that actually stormed the capitol and broke into the capitol. this is now has been and we have seen as aids were called in, what have you, the inter-sanctum. we don t get more inner sanctum than the white house counsel. right. we know, through testimony given to the january 6th committee, running down the hall to the oval office to try and stop meetings from progressing, who was trying to g ....
before, zoe lofgren leading that second hearing and pete auilar talking about the pressure campaign on mike pence. this will focus on the pressure campaign at the state level. they re going to use, as you mentioned, lawmakers from georgia to make that point. of course, that s one of the key states that we know that former president trump was pressuring election officials to overturn the election results or at least, in his words, find the overrule 11,000 votes that he would need in order to win georgia, which he actually lost. they re also likely to delve deeper into the idea of fake slates of electors. that s something that john eastman was pressuring former vice president mike pence on. we heard about that last week. but now we may hear a little bit more about the plots at the state level beyond just georgia that the white house and his allies were using at the time to try to find any way to keep the former president in power. and vaughan, former vice president mike ....
overturn the 2020 election. the star witness tomorrow georgia republican secretary of state brad raffensperger who resisted trump s demand getting one more vote from joe biden in georgia. a new abc ipso poll shows 6 in 10 americans want donald trump to face criminal charges for his role in the plot. a georgia grand jury is already investigating. on friday, trump doubled down on comments from the attack. promising pardons from the rioters if he s re-electeded and slamming vice president percent for certifying the re-election. on the biggest issue facing the biden white house, the economy, treasury secretary janet yellen insisting that a recession is not inevitable. in the fight against covid, the moment millions of parents have been waiting for. beginning tomorrow, children as young as six months can get vaccinated. but will parents sign up? and juneteenth is being celebrated in many states in the nation s capital. we ll have a full report. this hour, i ll speak to c ....
that s your why. it s your purpose, and we will work with you every step of the way to achieve it. at pnc private bank, we ll help you take care of the how. so tell us - what s your why? i m katy tur, back for another hour here on msnbc. we start in illinois where mike pence is making a political appearance. this will be his first opportunity to respond to new criticism from his old boss, donald trump. the former president used his father s day weekend to confirmed he pressured his vice president to break the law, saying pence did not have the courage to overturn the results of the 2020 election. on capitol hill, the january 6th committee readies for the hearing tomorrow, to lay out the evidence it has on trump to pressure state officials to change election results. especially in georgia, with the secretary of state and his deputy expected to testify. also on capitol hill this hour, the fast-moving developments on gun reform. sources tell nbc news that senators ....
talk to us about this new development as it relates to the january 6th committee and this intent to respond to this doj request for transcripts. it was something the department of justice had to ask for twice to this point. yeah, had to ask for twice. and you saw in the letter that came yesterday, as hearings were ongoing, that the justice department said that by not having this, it could also be hampering some of the investigations that they are already ongoing with. that s something that i posed to chairman bennie thompson yesterday after the hearings were over. he said, basically, it wasn t a question of if they were going to comply, but went. although, now, we do have a better sense that that compliance is happening. i can throw up for you on the screen there a statement from a committee spokesperson who says, the select committee is engaged in a cooperative process to address the needs of the department of justice. they re not inclined to share the details of tha ....