![]() ![]() MARGARET BRENNAN: New York Times was first to report, CBS has confirmed, that Mike Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, actually warned the Secret Service and the lead agent protecting the vice president the day before January 6 that he thought the president would turn on the vice president and that it would pose a direct security risk. None of this is protected by privilege and the idea that you can simply refuse to show up rather than show up and say as to this question, I’m going to exert a privilege, that just invites others to be in contempt of Congress or be in contempt of judges around the country, in other courtrooms, and I think it’s a very dangerous precedent to set. They both have documents that they could offer. They were both involved in campaign matters. SCHIFF: That- that shouldn’t be the explanation here because of course there are great many things these witnesses can testify with no even plausible claim of executive privilege. MARGARET BRENNAN: Is it because these two men had such close proximity to President Trump? Is the executive privilege argument actually applying here? ![]() We hope to get more insight from the Justice Department, but it’s a- I think, a grave disappointment, and could impede our work if other witnesses think they can, likewise, refuse to show up with impunity. And when the statute requires the Justice Department to present those cases to the grand jury, they don’t, is deeply troubling. ![]() These witnesses have very relevant testimony to offer in terms of what went into the violence of January 6, the propagation of the big lie, and the idea that witnesses could simply fail to show up. And it is very puzzling why these two witnesses would be treated differently than the two that the Justice Department is prosecuting. Is it your understanding that- that these men are immune from all prosecution? We know the committee said that was puzzling. The Justice Department, as you know, on Friday decided not to prosecute the former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, or social media director, Dan Scavino, for refusing to cooperate with your committee. MARGARET BRENNAN: You wear a lot of hats, but I want to ask you about the January 6 committee that you serve on. Of course, the DC Democrats also know their subservient media stenographers will never call them out on their nonsense, so they do it more openly. Then again, Democrats must pretend in order to retain the false premise of their ideological arguments. Meanwhile while Hollyweird/DNC activists put genitalia on their heads and screamed around town. Shifty Schiff calls the 2020 election, “the first non peaceful transfer of power in our history,” pretending not to know that President Trump’s inauguration day in Washington DC, January 20 2017, consisted of a full-scale riot of DNC and Democrat activists including looting, arson and destroyed property. ![]()
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