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☆ Live updates: Trump sent target letter in January 6 probe
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Shawna Mizelle | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The witnesses, several of whom appeared under subpoena, range from low-level aides to Trump’s own vice president. Both Pence and Trump asked for the subpoena to be thrown out, but trial and appellate judges rejected that request. Mark Meadows: Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff, appeared before the grand jury in June. As chief of staff, Meadows was in the middle of Trump’s efforts to overturn the election in the two months between Election Day and Joe Biden’s inauguration. Marc Short: Marc Short, former chief of staff to Pence, testified to the grand jury about the fake elector scheme and the role of Trump lawyers John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani.

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☆ FBI searching Pence's home in classified documents probe -Justice Dept official
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Sarah N. Lynch | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - The FBI on Friday conducted a consensual search at the Indianapolis residence of former Vice President Mike Pence, after classified documents were discovered at his house last month, a Justice Department official told Reuters. The search comes just a few weeks after Pence's attorney Greg Jacobs notified the National Archives in a Jan. 18 letter about the discovery of records with classified markings. The search of Pence's home comes as former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden face investigations by two special counsels over the retention of classified records. Biden had an office there after he served as vice president under Barack Obama and before his presidential election. A third search of Biden's Delaware beach home earlier this month did not find any additional documents.

In addition to locating one page with classified markings, the FBI also recovered "six additional pages without such markings that were not discovered in the initial review by the vice president's counsel," he added. The search of Pence's home comes as former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden face investigations by two special counsels over the retention of classified records. The FBI conducted a court-approved search of Trump's Florida estate on Aug. 8, where they collected about 13,000 records, about 100 of which contained classified markings. Biden had an office there after he served as vice president under Barack Obama and before his presidential election. Since then, additional records were also found at Biden's residence in Wilmington.

☆ FBI to search ex-U.S. VP Pence's home, office for classified records
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence tours the U.S.-Mexico border in Cochise County south of Sierra Vista, Arizona, U.S., June 13, 2022. REUTERS/Rebecca NobleWASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) - The FBI is soon expected to search former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence's Indiana home and Washington, D.C., office for classified material, U.S. media reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. CNN reported Pence's Washington office was also expected to be searched. CNN, citing a source, reported that Pence's team does not believe there are classified records at either his home or his office. FBI agents searched Biden's Delaware beach house on Wednesday, but no classified documents were found, the president's attorney said.

☆ Mike Pence says he takes responsibility for documents found at home
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Jan 27 (Reuters) - Former Vice President Mike Pence said on Friday he had not been aware that classified documents were at his Indiana home and said he takes "full responsibility" for the security breach. Pence, speaking at Florida International University in Miami, said a review was conducted of his personal records after classified documents were found at President Joe Biden’s home in Delaware. "Let me be clear: those classified document should not have been in my personal residence," Pence said. Classified documents have also been found at the Florida home of Pence's former boss, former President Donald Trump. During a presidential transition period, the records from each administration are supposed to be turned over to the legal custody of the National Archives.

☆ Former U.S. VP Pence says he takes responsibility for documents found at home
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

☆ California authorities want to disbar John Eastman for trying to help Trump overturn the 2020 election results
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

California legal authorities want to disbar John Eastman for trying to keep Donald Trump in power. Following Trump's loss in the 2020 election, Eastman, a former professor at the Chapman University School of Law, drafted legal memos that purported to offer avenues to keep him in office. The former law professor is one of many lawyers allied with Trump who has faced professional consequences for pursuing false conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. Giuliani has also been sued by election technology companies he implicated in false conspiracy theories about the election results, and has lost his ability to practice law in New York. Jeffrey Clark, a former Trump Administration Justice Department official who tried to overturn the election results, is also facing charges from the DC bar.

A "small number" of classified documents were discovered last week at former Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana home, according to two letters Pence’s counsel sent to the National Archives obtained by NBC News on Tuesday. Pence's team “immediately” secured the classified documents in a locked safe, Jacob said. The transfer was facilitated by Pence’s personal attorney, who has experience in handling classified documents and was involved with the Jan. 16 discovery. Pence spokesman Devin O’Malley later told NBC News that “no potential classified documents” were found at the offices of Pence’s organization Advancing American Freedom after Pence’s team searched the offices and the former vice president’s home in Indiana. In a statement Tuesday, Comer said Pence reached out to the panel about classified documents found at his Indiana residence.

☆ When were Pence classified documents found in his Indiana home?
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Mike Pence found documents marked classified at his Indiana home this month which were taken by the FBI, a lawyer for the former Vice President said in letters to the National Archives. Here's how the situation unfolded, according to the letters:Jan. 16: After seeing reports that President Joe Biden had classified documents in his Delaware home, Pence engaged lawyers to review records in his Indiana home. They found "a small number of documentsthat could potentially contain sensitive or classified information," which were locked by Pence in a safe. Jan. 19: The Department of Justice requested "direct possession" of the documents, the Jan. 22 letter says. FBI agents arrived at his Indiana home at 9:30 p.m. to collect the documents, which were secured in his safe.

☆ Classified documents found at former U.S. Vice President Pence's home
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Jeff Mason | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Documents marked as classified were discovered at former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence's Indiana home last week, and he has turned those classified records over to the FBI, his representative said in letters seen by Reuters. Pence's representative sent a letter to the National Archives notifying them of the documents and in a separate letter said the FBI came to the former vice president's home to collect the documents. The discovery puts Pence in the company of his former boss, former President Donald Trump, and President Joe Biden after documents with classified markings were found at their residences. "Vice President Pence immediately secured those documents in a locked safe pending further direction on proper handling from the National Archives," he said. With agreement by the former vice president, FBI agents came to his Indiana home at 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 19 to collect the documents stored in the safe, Jacob said.

☆ Trump lawyer John Eastman referred for prosecution by Jan. 6 committee
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Christina Wilkie | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Eastman is the author of a two-page memo that outlined what he said was a plan for then-Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to certify the presidential electoral count on Jan. 6. "In the days before January 6th, Eastman was warned repeatedly that his plan was illegal and 'completely crazy,' and would 'cause riots in the streets.' Eastman was subpoenaed by the committee in late 2021, but he asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and refused to appear. Eastman and Trump repeatedly attempted to convince Pence to comply with the scheme, but he ultimately refused. "But he thought that we could do so, because in his view, the Electoral Count Act was unconstitutional," the aide, Greg Jacob said.

☆ How to watch the final House January 6 committee hearing on the Capitol attack
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Grace Panetta | Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack is holding its last public meeting. The panel has held nine public hearings since the beginning of June. The committee held nine blockbuster public hearings, including one in primetime, over the course of the last seven months. Here's when and how to watch the hearings:When are the next January 6 Committee hearings? And that even though he knew full well he had lost the election, Trump fought it anyway because he was embarrassed about losing Biden.

☆ John Eastman’s Bad Defense Gets Worse
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

John Eastman took the Fifth Amendment 100 times when he was before the House Jan. 6 committee, per a hearing this summer. Given Mr. Eastman’s reluctance to discuss his role in those events, his letter to the editor nearby adds to the public record, and it’s worth a final word. Mr. Eastman denies advising that Vice President Mike Pence could reject electoral votes on Jan. 6, 2021. Mr. Pence’s legal counsel, Greg Jacob , testified under oath that on Jan. 5 Mr. Eastman explicitly asked for the VP to do that. Mr. Eastman now says Mr. Jacob “either misconstrued something I said (in a meeting several hours long covering many complex issues) or bore false witness.”

☆ Jan. 6 committee to release transcripts of interviews along with report, expected before Christmas, Thompson says
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Rebecca-Shabad-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Rebecca Shabad | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON — The House Jan. 6 committee will release transcripts of interviews investigators conducted in the course of their investigation into the attack on the Capitol, the panel's chairman, Bennie Thompson, said Wednesday. "We plan to make available transcripts and other materials," Thompson, D-Miss., told reporters on Capitol Hill. The chairman did not say whose interviews would be provided or specify the number of transcripts that would be released. A House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the Capitol hearing in Washington, D.C. on June 13. Since it formed in 2021, the committee has conducted more than 1,000 interviews and depositions and has received hundreds of thousands of documents.

☆ Justice Department looks to question Pence regarding their criminal probe into Trump's efforts to overturn 2020 election: NYT
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( John L. Dorman | C. Ryan Barber | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The DOJ is looking to question Pence in their criminal probe of Trump's efforts to stay in office, per the NYT. The former VP views the Justice Department's criminal probe as apart from the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, which he declined to testify before. But Pence has a different view of the Justice Department inquiry because it is a criminal investigation, the New York Times reported, citing people familiar with the former vice president's thinking. After making initial appearances before the grand jury, Short and Jacob both returned to testify after the Justice Department contested Trump's executive privilege claims in a closed-door court proceeding. The former vice president cooperating in the investigation would be a remarkable development, as Trump has already announced a 2024 presidential campaign and Pence is considering a campaign of his own.

☆ Pence says he won't testify before the Jan. 6 panel because it would set a 'terrible precedent' for Congress to ask a vice president to remark on deliberations held at the White House
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Mike Pence said he was "closing the door" on testifying before the House January 6 committee. On the CBS News show "Face the Nation," Pence argued that Congress had "no right" to his testimony. "We have a separation of powers under the Constitution of the United States. And I believe it would establish a terrible precedent for the Congress to summon a Vice President of the United States to speak about deliberations that took place at the White House." The former vice president then reaffirmed that he was "closing the door" on appearing before the panel.

Share this -Link copiedCommittee votes to subpoena Trump The committee voted on Thursday unanimously to subpoena Trump. Trump would not be the first president to be subpoenaed, nor would he be the first former president subpoenaed by Congress. "Even before the networks called the race for President Biden on Nov. 7th, his chances of pulling out a victory were virtually nonexistent, and President Trump knew it," Kinzinger said. “At times, President Trump acknowledged the reality of his loss. “What did President Trump know?

That's based on a Secret Service email from 9:09 a.m. "The head of the President’s Secret Service protective detail, Robert Engel, was specifically aware of the large crowds outside the magnetometers," Schiff said. A Secret Service report at 7:58 a.m. said, "Some members of the crowd are wearing ballistic helmets, body armor carrying radio equipment and military grade backpacks." On Dec. 26, a Secret Service field office relayed a tip that had been received by the FBI, Schiff said. Trump would not be the first president to be subpoenaed, nor would he be the first former president subpoenaed by Congress.

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