MAJOR GARRETT: What is the probability former Vice President Pence testifies? But we'd like to hear from Gingrich and we'd like to hear from her too. RASKIN: I, speaking as one member and only as one member, I would say she has a relevant testimony to render, and she should come forward and give it. MAJOR GARRETT: There were disclosures this week that she was in email conversation with people in Wisconsin about that topic. Let's not lose sight of what we're talking about here– RASKIN: Look, what we're interested in getting testimony from anyone who has relevant evidence about the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election. MAJOR GARRETT: Does the committee still have interest in obtaining testimony from Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas? The Stalinist are on their side, and they should keep them on that side of the aisle because our side is fighting for democracy in America. But it's interesting that he invoked Stalinism, when all of the Stalinists are on Donald Trump's side, like Vladimir Putin, the former head of the KGB who said that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century, or the dictator of North Korea who Donald Trump writes love letters to. RASKIN: Well, he- he has appeared at numerous times in- throughout the investigation about the attempt to propound "the big lie", and to keep things going long after the election had been settled. MAJOR GARRETT: What's his relevant evidence and testimony? RASKIN: Well, we're inviting in only people who have relevant evidence and testimony– How do you respond to that remark- those remarks? And what would be the value of him coming in talking to the committee? He has described this committee as a "Stalinist show trial'' earlier this year, he said under a Republican led Congress, members of this committee might be arrested. There is conversation about having Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House come in. MAJOR GARRETT: Let's talk about the January 6 committee. And I think that's why President Biden was right to sound the alarm this week about these continuing attacks on our constitutional order from the outside by Donald Trump and his movement. Two of the hallmarks of a fascist political party are one, they don't accept the results of elections that don't go their way and two, they embrace political violence. It was rejected in the states and he lost the election. He's had the benefit of more than 60 courts, including eight courts, where he appointed the judges to office, look at all those claims and they were all rejected. And look, more than 60 courts rejected every claim of electoral fraud and corruption which Donald Trump advanced. There is no procedure for the military just to seize the election machinery and run a new election, which is one of the things that his disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was pushing and we know was part of the January 6 plot. RASKIN: Well, first, if he's saying that the election should be rerun, which is something he's been asserting from the beginning, that's totally outside of the Constitution. He said the 2020 election should be rerun, or he should be reinstated in office, and that if reelected in 2024, he would provide apologies and full pardons to those charged and or convicted for storming the Capitol on January 6, evaluate that. So let's review what the former president said this week earlier. MAJOR GARRETT: So, former President Trump says that MAGA Republicans are trying to save democracy, they want to be taken seriously on this issue.
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