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we have breaking news tonight on the investigation into the january 6th attack on the capitol. the house select committee sending a letter to fox host sean hannity, requesting his voluntary cooperation, saying it has dozens of text messages with the trump white house indicating that he had, quote, advance knowledge regarding trump and his legal team's planning for january 6th. and more breaking news. the committee saying it also wants to hear directly but voluntarily from former vice president mike pence on what he witnessed during the insurrection. also tonight, senator joe manchin signaling he might be open to some changes in the filibuster. will there be possible movement on voting rights legislation? we'll talk about all of that this evening. i want to get straight to cnn's senior legal analyst elie honig and also laura coates. lau good evening to both of you. elie, i'm going to start with you.

this text from hannity on january 5th says it all right here. i am very worried about the next 48 hours. what do you think hannity knows? >> well, don, what's clear from these texts is sean hannity was right in the mix here. he was serving as an adviser, as an interested party, as a cheerleader really for the president and his administration. and i think it makes perfect sense that the committee wants to ask sean hannity just that question. what did you miean by this text? who did you speak to before this text? what did you do after? one interesting thing the committee does in its letter to sean hannity, is they show him, we have the receipts. we have dozens of texts you're in, and they quote him to sean hannity. they make very clear why they are and should be interested in talking to him. >> laura, hannity texted this to mark meadows on december 31st, and i quote. we can't lose the entire white house counsel's office. i do not see january 6th happening the way he is being told. after the 6th, he should

announce, we'll leave the nationwide effort to reform voting integrity. go to florida and watch joe mess up daily. stay engaged. when he speaks, people will listen. this seems to suggest that january 6th wasn't unexpected after all. but i want to unpack this text with you because he's acting, it seems as an adviser here, right? is the committee correct that the hannity is indeed a fact witness who they need to hear from? >> absolutely. let's unpack it a little bit, don. first of all, he's essentially saying that in advance of the actual january 6th occurrence, he has some information about how the president was briefed on how it might go. the idea of laying out some sort of strategy or thinking about how this might actually come to fruition. that's advance notice, number one. number two is the discussion about how he's essentially conceded that president trump lost to the incoming president, joe biden, now the current president of the united states. so he's saying, listen, the jig

is up essentially. go to florida because you have influence there to then talk about voting reform. talking about a concession at that point in time. but also you have the very real statement about the notion of, listen, if sean hannity had advance notice, if he's having a communication with mark meadows or anybody else at this point in time, it shows you that there was some basis for them to know that maybe not everything was going to happen, but that january 6th was a planned event, not something that had a spontaneous notion to it. that's very important for the select committee to talk about here because it's being prefaced and the narrative is that, oh, people just showed up on the lawn. it happened to happen. finally the point about the white house counsel. remember there was a plan in place, a now infamous memo outlining how you could essentially rely on one person in the justice department to try to overturn the election, to try to give advice and counsel of how to do it. he, himself, did not see that as a viable, let alone a moral or

ethical plan, but a viable plan of action. all this is corroborative of what we've already learned from this committee. >> elie, the committee hasn't subpoenaed hannity. they just asked for him to talk voluntarily. do you think there's any chance that he's going to cooperate with this, at least voluntarily? >> no, i don't, don, and i thought it was really interesting in your prior segment with representative jamie raskin. you asked him, what will you do? what will the committee do if sean hannity does not comply? and representative raskin said, well, we have a panoply of options. i know he can't commit at this point. but he doesn't really have a panoply. he has two options. one, if hannity defies this request is let him go. that's it. two is subpoena him. there's really no complexity about it. so the committee's going to have to decide, are they going to serve these informal requests and follow them up with subpoenas, or if empeople say, , thank you, then go on your way. >> hannity's attorney jay

sekulow telling cnn they are reviewing the letter and will respond as appropriate. do you expect hannity is going to try to use the first amendment as a defense even though hannity, himself, said he is not a journalist. and you heard jamie raskin saying we're not asking for notes or who his sources are. we're asking as if -- you saw the analogy. he said, you know, if you witness a car crash, right? that's what he wants to know. you're still a witness. >> yeah. i think sean hannity and his attorney will certainly hide behind the first amendment, but there's a distinction there. i think representative raskin made the perfect example, don. if you witness a crime on your way to work, you're a witness, right? no one's going to ask you about your sources or your reporting or your personal opinions. the committee goes out of its way in this letter. they're cognizant of that. they say, mr. hannity, we're not going to ask you about your reporting methodology, about your sources, about your personal beliefs. you're just a witness. you're like somebody who witnessed a robbery or a car crash. they will try to cloak themselves in the first amendment, but i really think

it's misdirection. >> the committee wants to speak with the former vice president, mike pence. we know that top aides on pence's team are already cooperating. i mean how should the committee approach this elie? >> well, you know, you want to get your base of information from the advisers, from the people who were around mike pence. if i'm on the committee and i can get mike pence to talk, you bet i want that opportunity. and, again, yes, he was the vice president of the united states. but in this case, he also is a fact witness. i don't know that he's entitled to any greater treatment. now, i do think it's unlikely mike pence voluntarily speaks to the committee although i can see a middle path here where they work out some specific topics that mike pence might be willing to talk to them about. i think it's unlikely they'd go so far as to subpoena him, though. >> i want you to weigh in on this, laura, because pence is such a key figure in all of this. if you were on the committee, what would you ask him?

>> i'd be champing at the bit to ask him. one reason is of course i'm wondering if his defiance that he held on to the day they were supposed to certify the election will actually carry through here. remember one of the things that's so unexpected and so shocking is just how fragile our democracy was, that it came down to one person, the vice president's decision to essentially hold the democratic line while members of the police force and the capitol police were holding the physical line outside. many were shocked to find that he was the only person who refused to defy or refused to go along with the actual campaign, the big lie campaign of the former president, donald trump. and so i would want to know if he was at a complete departure from that essential party line there. i would also look at him and ask the questions about who did he call? did he try to reach out to the president of the united states, the person to whom he is second in command? when he reached out, was he rebuffed? was there an actual conversation? now, of course, the discussion

between himself and trump would more likely be privileged than anything else. but remember here, if he tried to reach out to other people who were not the president, if he was thwarted in some way, was he denied? how did he learn about this? what were his concerns? were other people trying to contact him in lieu of the president, being unable to reach him? all of that is fodder for trying to understand what other members of congress were looking to, what people who were not having direct contact with the president of the united states. on the idea of the subpoenas, we've already seen that people among his own team have been more likely to be compliant because there has been this great divide, as you've seen, from trump and beyond. but i'm most interested in the person for whom gallows were constructed. what is his actual take, not the political diatribe or the talking points or talking about they'll never see eye to eye? when you attempted to speak mouth to ear that day, what did you learn? that is fact-based, and we need

to know about it because, remember, if he had been attacked in some way, if they had, god forbid, actually found the vice president of the united states or the speaker of the house, you're talking about the presidential succession line. that's very important to our democracy to know just how fragile it was, which is why i ultimately think the supreme court should yield the conclusion of in this cost-benefit analysis of whether to be transparent and have records be forthcoming, or to honor a prior president's claim of privilege, which is nonexistent, they have to lend themselves towards transparency, and vice president pence's testimony could be the very conduit they need. >> that's what you think. you know what i think, laura? i think you're the only other person that i've heard -- some other people -- who use the term "champing at the bit" correctly. that is my pet peeve when people say chomping at the bit. i'm like, it's not chomping. it's champing. thank you for getting it right. >> and i don't even ride horses.

thank you so much. you're welcome. you know what? a little google goes a long way in this thing that we call the lexicon of the english language. thank you. >> thank you. >> thanks, don. >> joining me now, political analysts ron brownstein and kirsten powers and stuart stevens. they always have perfect grammar. good evening to all of you. stuart, let's start with you, and let's start with the hannity texts and the committee wanting more information from him. this is what he was saying behind the scenes, not to his audience, that whole time. what do you think of this? >> look, i think the problem we have is that we fall back on thinking about this under the way that our sort of political societal structure has existed before, which isn't the right one. hannity's not a journalist. fox is not a news outlet.

fox are prop gandists. the history of how this works is pretty clear. you can look at germany. you can look at hungary. you can look at venezuela. it is a pattern here, and we have to just accept that the republican party is an authorityian force. it has financiers, and it has prop gandists. and the prop gandists are formed by fox. it's that simple. he's not a ron brownstein here. >> so fox is an arm of the republican party. it's basically they use fox -- the republican party uses fox to push out their propaganda. >> yeah. he's not a white house staffer, but he's more important than 99% of the white house staffers. >> yeah. ron, what did you want to say? >> no, i agree. i think that it's not exactly an arm of the republican party in the sense it has independent agency itself, but it is kind of a force in the conservative movement that isolates its

viewers in kind of, you know, an artificial world. and the success -- the overwhelming numbers of republicans who believe, despite no evidence, that biden was elected only because of massive fraud, three-quarters and polling a year later after every court in the country laughed out the supposed evidence is testimony to how powerful this is. and it really does create kind of a nation within a nation and an enormous centrifugal pressure on republican elected officials to avoid cooperating with a democratic president on pretty much anything. so, you know, it's not only a subservient kind of, you know, arm of the party. it drives kind of a conservative movement agenda to some extent on the party. either way, it is just an enormous force for polarization of american society. >> kirsten powers is sitting here going, look, guys, you

know. you guys are sitting here guy-splaining everything. you'r you worked there oftentimes with sean hannity. you were on his show. what is your read on him having such a close relationship with the white house, with the administration, to be saying things like this, i mean, pretty much behind trump's back, saying one thing on text messages behind trump's back and another thing on television. are you even at all surprised by this? talk to us. >> well, at this point i'm not surprised. i mean it's obviously a very different place than when i left there, i think, five years ago. so i don't think that this kind of -- these kinds of things would have been so accepted. i don't even think anybody over there seems to care about this. the language he was using even in these text messages, the "we," right, like they're all part of the same thing. there isn't even -- they're not even pretending that there's any

kind of distance between them. now, hannity has said before he doesn't consider himself a journalist. he's a talk show host. so i don't know how he's now playing a journalist, invoking the first amendment even though they're not -- they're not going after sources and methods here. that's not really what's going on. this is not in any way -- doesn't really have anything to do with him being a journalist or a talk show host frankly. it has to do with what did you know leading up to january 6th? and it looks like you knew a lot. and that -- you know, even if he was a journalist, that wouldn't protect him in this situation because, again, it's not trying to reveal sources and methods or anything like that. it's just trying to understand, what did you know about what the president was expecting to happen, wanted to happen, and what he was thinking about it? >> so you don't think this would have happened pre-trump over at the fox propaganda network? >> i have vague memories of people getting in trouble.

>> he was onstage at a campaign rally. they called him up and sean -- >> no, this is pre-trump, and he got in trouble for it. i do think there is a difference. i will say also the arm of the republican party -- i actually think it works in the other direction. i think they have much more power over the republican party than the republican party has over them. so they drive everything that's happening. even if we look at what's happening in terms of voter fraud, how supposedly, you know, democrats stole the election, well, that story that fox news has been pushing for as long as i can remember. so all of these seeds are planted and pushed out through fox news through what they call their entertainment hosts, and that would be hannity would be an example of that. "fox & friends," they consider that an entertainment show. so that's how they kind of play

the game. but it has gone to a completely different level, i think, in its current iteration. >> one more question. do you think that -- do you remember the text messages came out before i think it was laura -- what's her name? laura ingraham and sean hannity. there was a whole thing about text messages before, and then this. have they been exposed as actors because they're always -- they get so pearl clutching about what happens on the so-called liberal media, which they consider liberal media anybody other than them. you have them actually trying to influence what happens at the white house. there's receipts of it, and then now they want to be -- you know, they want them to come and talk about an investigation. have they been exposed as the actors and the frauds that they are? >> i -- i mean i guess there are people out there who believe that they're sort of on the up and up. that's really hard for me to

believe. but i guess for those people who were believing they were on the up and up, they've been exposed, though those people will probably never hear about it. that's the thing. they live in an alternate universe where all they know is what sean hannity tells hem and what laura ingraham tells them. they've shown their willingness to do one thing behind the scenes and then turn around and go on tv and say something completely opposite to that if it's going to keep them in good stead with their viewers and if it's going to please you know who, donald trump. >> okay. hold your thoughts. we have another -- i'm going to keep you guys over the break. the committee wants to talk to the former vice president mike pence as well. so we'll hear from ron, kirsten, and stuart right after this break. we'll be right back. simply add finish jetdry 3in1 to rinse, dry and shine your dishes. solve 3 problems at once with finish jetdry 3in1.

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vice president, do you actually think this is good for sean hannity? >> i think it's great for sean hannity. his speaking fees will go up. he wants to be a martyr and a leader of an authoritarian movement. what better proof than someone who's so close to the president of the united states, he's helping direct events on 1/6. >> wow. >> he has an inside channel. look, this is a dream come true for sean hannity, which doesn't mean they shouldn't subpoena him. of course they should. >> not good for democracy. ron, what did you want to say? >> i think this really shows what democrats are up against in this momentous choice they face in the next few weeks on whether to roll back the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation. you know, the last time the senate reauthorized the voting rights act, republicans were in control of the senate and it passed 98-0. but you see in a fox world how difficult it is to get republicans to kind of cross the

line that fox is laying out there, as we were talking about, that there's this systemic fraud rotting american elections for years. when they brought up the voting rights act, forget the broader democratic election bill. when they brought up just the voting rights act a few weeks ago, only one republican even voted to -- lisa murkowski -- voted to open the debate. i think what this says to joe manchin and kyrsten sinema is what they're asking for is completely unrealistic in this world. the idea that there will be large numbers of republicans willing to kind of step across this very deep channel that fox and all the other conservative media has created to support any effort to shore up voting rights. it's just unrealistic. so the choice they're going to face in a couple weeks on martin luther king day or around then is do they act alone or not act because i think what we're seeing is why it's so hard to get any meaningful number of republicans to resist what trump and fox and others are doing.

>> i think we know the answer, and that will probably be to not act. stuart, now to the vice president. the committee -- the chair of the committee also saying that he wants to hear directly from the former vice president, mike pence. pence has been slowly distancing himself from the big lie. we don't have to play the sound bite. we know. so what do you think? has he distanced himself enough to cooperate with this committee? >> i doubt he will. look, i resist this idea that we're going to praise vice president pence because he actually didn't go along with overthrowing the government of the united states and ending peaceful transition of power. that's a pretty low bar. i mean pence saw all of this. if you go back and read all these books about what happened post-election, i mean pence was like calling up dan quayle saying, like, isn't there a way i can do this? pence is no hero here. i mean he's someone who stood for his entire life for this

whole idea of morality, someone who went on the radio station and ranted against adultery, and then he teamed up with donald trump. i can't think of a more perfect phony in american politics than mike pence. >> nobody has said that. i've been waiting for someone to say that now for five years. this guy ran on -- he was such the perfect, oh, adultery and family and anti-gay and all of this, and then he ran with like the guy who, you know, had the affair with a porn star and have you. i've got to run, but i'm going to give kirsten the last thought here. go ahead, kirsten. >> on what? >> whatever you would like to say. that's dangerous, i know. >> yeah. i know, yeah. >> do you think pence -- pence is not going to cooperate, though, right? >> i don't think so. the truth is he doesn't really

have much to lose. he doesn't have a bright future basically because of him not going in 1,000% with the whole plan. so this would be a good opportunity for him to do the right thing, but i don't think that we should expect that to happen. and i agree, you know, we shouldn't be lowering the bar for people that if they just do the minute mally decent thing, that we somehow treat them as heroes. >> we're so happy that you're here at cnn, kirsten powers. >> i am too. >> instead of at that other place. you are probably much happier for it. >> yes. >> i was waiting for the yes. thank you all. have a good evening. i appreciate it. i'll see you soon. happy new year to you. the senate majority leader chuck schumer wants to get voti rights passed. we'll talk to congressman james clyburn. we'll ask him what he thinks after this.

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a lot to discuss with representative james clyburn, democrat of south carolina, who is the house majority whip. thank you, sir, for joining. >> thanks for having me. >> let's talk about senator manchin saying he doesn't want to make any changes that would divide the country further. this is what he said this morning. watch this. >> i think these are things republicans and democrats both could and should agree on. so we want to talk to everybody. i want to engage everybody. i'm just not doing it from one side. i think that for us to go it alone, no matter what side does it, it ends up coming back at you pretty hard. >> so he says his absolute preference is not to change the rules unless there's republican buy-in. isn't that completely out of touch with where the senate gop actually is? they've been repeatedly blocking democrats' attempts to pass voting bills. >> that's quite true. the fact of the matter is that's my preference as well. that was our preference years ago when we got 100% of

republicans voted in favor of reauthorizing the voting rights act. now we have no republicans in favor of reauthorizing. so if they can make a shift in their position, maybe it's time to make a shift in ours. now, i don't understand why senator manchin feels that we ought to hold on to the position we had when they have changed their position. so when we're all together and we're doing this irrespective of party and talking about voting as being an american issue to maintain this democracy, then we're all together. that is my preference. he's talking about what should be, and, yes, i agree. that's what should be. but that is not what is. so we have to govern ourselves accordingly. >> this is -- he's also proposing rather than requiring

60 votes to overcome the filibuster, he's open to making it three-fifths of those present, meaning if there are absences, that the threshold would be reduced. would that be an acceptable compromise? >> i don't think so. i think that we ought to just decide that voting and other constitutional issues ought not be subjected to the filibuster. that's just the way it ought to be. we do it for the budget. we do this reconciliation process so that no one person can filibuster the full faith and credit of the united states of america, and the same should apply when it comes to constitutional issues. >> yeah. >> so i think that nibbling around the edges, that's not the thing to do. if the republicans are not going to be supportive of everybody having an unfettered vote, then

let's move on without them. >> what about -- you know, a lot of people have been talking about this, the so-called talking filibuster which some have proposed. the president mentioned it in an interview with me a couple times. if senator manchin would support that, would that be substantive in terms of on voting rights? >> well, you know, it all depends how you write the rules. if you say that one person has to keep the floor, that's one thing. if you say that one person can hand the floor off to another person and they keep doing that and get up to 50-some-odd people, that's another thing. so if you're going to modify the filibuster, go back to what it used to be, that would not be anything new. strom thurmond broke the record back in 1957, it was a talking filibuster. so if you go back to the talking filibuster, that's one thing. but how would the rules be

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or dangerous weapon. that includes at least four people accused of bringing guns on capitol grounds, and that includes things like knives, like batons, like tasers, baseball bats, axes. the list goes on and on. whether you're using arms to refer specifically to guns or more broadly talking about weapons, the claim is completely and utterly inaccurate. >> another lie that some supporters of the former president love to spread is that the insurrection was a false flag. can you tell us about that? >> yeah. this claim is so completely nonsense, it's almost an insult to americans' intelligence. we know for a fact that this insurrection was orchestrated and perpetrated by supporters of former president trump. not only did we see them and hear them that day, the fact that they support trump has been exhaustively confirmed in their own social media posts, in their own comments to media outlets, and in their own admissions in

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the omicron variant spreading so fast, the cdc estimating it now accounts for 95% of all new covid infections, up from just 8% a month ago. and with the spike in covid cases, at least 113,000 americans are now hospitalized with the virus and hospitals are overwhelmed. i want to bring in now dr. robert wachter. he's the chair of the ucsf department of medicine where researchers identified the first omicron case in the u.s. i'm so happy to have you here. good evening to you. dr. wachter, let's start with the new guidance from the cdc, shortening the isolation period

for someone with a positive test but no symptoms to five days. but there's no required test at the end of those five days to end the quarantine. is this the best message, knowing how contagious omicron is? >> yeah, i don't think they got this one right, don. i think there is an imperative to try to shorten the length of time that people are in isolation, particularly for hospitals and clinics and airplanes and all sorts of reasons. but most people will not be infectious at five days, but some people still will. so i think the better message would have been five days and then a rapid test or, better yet, two days in a row to have negative rapid tests before you come out of isolation. they also need to strengthen the message about wearing a mask. the idea is you come out of isolation, but you should still wear a very good mask. and i'd say an n95 for another five days just to be absolutely sure you're not infectious. >> we've heard everything from, you know, n95s are the best and recommended to cloth masks are still okay.

what is your choice for the best given the spread that we are seeing right now? is it n95? >> yeah. i don't think there's any question the n95 is a better mask or the kn95 or any variations of that theme. it filters out far more virus the cloth mask does very, very little. so for much of the pandemic, i was wearing a surgical mask with a cloth mask on top, which isn't bad and gets you maybe 70% of the way there. but since omicron became the thing, i figure the virus has upped its game in terms of its ability to infect me. i need to up my game in terms of my ability to keep it at bay. when i'm wearing a mask, which is pretty much every time i'm indoors, unless i'm in my bubble, i'm wearing an n95 for the equivalent. >> i want you to look at this public plea from e.r. doctors and nurses in massachusetts asking people not to come in with mild covid symptoms or.

it says our emergency departments are at a critical capacity and things will get worse. waiting rooms are overflowing and hospital admission beds are limited throughout massachusetts. in the coming days and weeks, we will see more nurses, doctors, and support staff become infected and stay home to isolate and get well. this situation will challenge our emergency departments and hospitals even more. the people and facilities are at a breaking point now. >> that they are, and this is now two years into it. the thrill is very much gone. i think we also know that a fair number of people that are coming in very sick have made some bad choices. they need the care. they deserve the care. but still it didn't have to happen. much of that was preventable. and we're facing a different kind of crisis than we faced a year or two ago. we never really had the challenge where we had a lot of nurses and docs and other health care workers who were out sick as well. and it's also happening at the peak of winter when hospitals

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hello and a very warm welcome to our viewers join you us in the united states and right around the world. i'm isa soares and here's what's on "cnn newsroom." >> the united states capitol police as an organization is stronger and better prepared, but we've got to keep working at it and making it safer and safer and safer. >> i would hope that he would do the right thing and come forward. anchor sean hannity's call by the house committee t