a guy named gregory jacob. this was not gregory jacobs first stint in federal government. he worked in the george abiy bush administration previously. he had been a lawyer who worked on labor issues in the george w. bush administration. but when it came back to government service in march of 2020 he came back for a big time job and -- we chief legal counsel and of course gregory jacobs did not last a full year in that job because he started in march 2020 and the trump administration did not last till 2021 and they lost the election and the biden administration took over in january 2020. but even for less than a year then he was there, that was really an eventful tenure for gregory jacob especially during the last few especially,. on january 4th, 2021, two days before the attack on the capital, gregory jacob attended a meeting in the oval office. and they are in the meeting was the vice president, gregory jacobs boss, also the vice president chief of staff. and president trump had someone with him there too, a lawyer friendly to him and to his overturn the election cause, a

gregory jacob did more than just email with eastman that day. perhaps more importantly, he also took time to email himself. quote, after the unrest began on january six, gregory jacobs sent an email to memorialize his conversation with eastman from the day before. the day before january six was that two-hour meeting in the white house complex where eastman reportedly brow beat it pence, that he should throw out all the biden electors. gregory jacob apparently -- or near contemporaneous votes on that meeting and email them to himself, to save them, to memorialize them. while the capitol siege was underway on january six. so this guy, gregory jessica, the vice president pence's top lawyer, for the investigators trying to get to the bottom of donald trump's efforts to overthrow the u.s. government and prevent the newly elected president from being sworn in, for those investigators gregory jacobs is an interesting fact witness. i mean he was in the room with trump when this -- when trump in this foyer were pushing pants, that 30 to go along with thi

en a man named gregory jacob. now, this was not gregory is jacob's first stint in the federal government, he had worked before in the george w. bush administration. he was a lawyer who worked on labor arabs in the george w. bush administration. but when he came back in march 2020, he came back for a big time job, as vice president pence's chief legal counsel. that is a big time job. of course, gregory jacob did not last a full year in that job because he started in march 2020 and the trump administration didn't last until march 2021, they lost the election. and the biden administration took over in january of '21. but even for that less than a year that he was there, that was really an eventful tenure for gregory jacob, especially during the last few months of his time serving as vice president pence's chief counsel on january 4th, 2021, so, two days before the attack on the capitol, final days of the trump administration, right, gregory jacob attended a meeting in the oval office there for the meet was the preside

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what's also a big deal is the fact that gregory jacob who was counsel to vice president pence on january also answered questions for hours behind closed doors last week to the select committee. there's been a lot of discussion about whether or not the committee will ask former vice president pence to come in, whether they'll subpoena him, obviously huge, interesting news worthy questions. but the fact that the committee now has had at least to some degree cooperation from marc short and greg jacob means that they know a whole, whole, whole lot of what former vice president pence would tell them if he were to go in. those two men would have collectively just had so much visibility into all the efforts by the extremely unusual group of folks trying to throw legal advice at trump in the days leading up to january 6. they would have an extraordinary level of visibility into what type of legal arguments were being made, who was making them, how seriously they were being made, how much pressure was put on the vice president to defy federal law and overturn the election results. the fact that t