all right, lieutenant general keith kellogg, please stay right there.rising tensions between russia and ukraine and the iran nuclear talks that resume tomorrow when we come back. jason: the u.s. and other world leaders meeting in vienna tomorrow to resume talks with iran on restoring the 2015 nuclear deal. but some critics have low expectations, particularly after a u.n. atomic watchdog was denied access to a plant that makes equipment for tehran's nuclear program. we're back with lieutenant general keith kellogg. general, thank you for joining us. some things matter and some things matter a whole lot. iran with nuclear weapons matters a lot. this idea that we would re-enter this agreement with iran, what's a your take on that? >> it's not going to happen. the iranians know that. and we should know that as well. look, they're heading towards a breakout, jason. i think it's a matter, within a year they're going to have a breakout. when this plan was first put in place, and remember, it wasn't a treaty, it was a plan. it was going to expire in 2025 anyway

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and finally, among the group, keith kellogg, former national security adviser to pence who actually wasrump most of the day on january 6th because national security adviser robert o'brien was out of town. kellogg observed firsthand exactly what trump was saying and doing during the capitol insurrection. the committee really wants to talk to him, and he was just subpoenaed. >> is this problematic, all this excellent reporting of yours, for pence's political future? >> no question. this is a political tightrope. look, it's no secret that mike pence wants to run for president or is exploring that. but any public cooperating with the january 6th committee is not going to be popular with trump's base. so what we're seeing here in pence world is clearly they are engaging with the committee, and there's no question the committee wants to talk to them, but they don't want it to be public, wolf. >> i want you to stay with us and bring in jeffrey toobin, the author of true crimes and misdemeanors, the investigation of donald trump. also maggie haberman, the washington correspondent for "the new y

keith kellogg, vice president pence's national security adviser, steven miller, kayleigh mcenany, kathy hutchinson and kennic kwiatkowski and geoffrey clark has been called in front of the select committee already. i don't know if kelly o'donnell is with us. i want to see if we can get her back to i acamera. she and i covered the figures for many years in the trump administration but chuck, let me go to you. this is another batch of subpoenas, not all together unexpected we would be seeing some of these names called to the carpet in front of the select committee. when you take this batch of names, and again, stephen miller that's his picture. chuck, talk about the significance of the names out now and what this says about the investigation. >> these folks are near and around the president. the committee tries to develop the most historical and accurate record it can of what the president did, what he knew and when he did it, to quote howard baker, former tennessee senator, they need to talk to these people who were in the white house around the white house, talking to trump, feeding him

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in moments, retired three-star general keith kellogg, former national adviser to mike pence joins methis. this continues to get worse in afghanistan. first, alex hogan live in london. alex? >> hi, march that in three months this report found that in only four provinces, 100 people have either come missing or been killed. these are former police officers, members of the military. these are also intelligence service members. the report detailed the targeting of their family members. during this investigation, the human rights watch interviewed more than 60 people about life under the taliban. afghans share their stories of raids, public beatings, disappearances and revenge killings. when the taliban first took over, they vowed to give amnesty to former authorities and really anyone who surrendered. since then, taliban officials denied that their fighters are behind any killings. this weekend taliban prime minister said that there's been no forms of retaliation. well, today's investigation paints a very dark picture of a very different reality in those provences and the report calls it

you mention keith kellogg, who was just subpoenaed.ted in. former-chief of staff, mark short, who was at the capitol that day with pence. former-chief counsel greg jacob, who was the person who pushed back on john eastman in that memo. and keith kellogg, who you mentioned, who has significant firsthand knowledge because he was actually with donald trump in the oval office on january 6th. he saw everything trump did. um, cnn reached out to the aides who, it won't surprise you to know, didn't respond or declined to comment. i think they really do not want any publicity that they're engaging with the committee. the house committee chairman, bennie thompson, did go on the record and confirm that the committee was getting some cooperation. but bottom line, anderson, these are witnesses who have significant firsthand knowledge. and for the first time, we're hearing that they are engaging with the committee. >> it's fascinating to hear that. in terms of the standoff between pence's staff and then-president's staff on january 6th, how might th

one of them, keith kellogg, was subpoenaed by the committee on tuesday.include greg jacob and marc short. what might these people in pence's inner circle know that they could provide to the committee and does it tell you anything about where the investigation is heading? >> first, i think these are three individuals in the very inner circle. kellogg also a very, very loyal person to trump. it will be interesting to see if he honors his oath to the military when answer questions about what were the dynamics of what was being warned about. it is my understanding he was in the oval that day. what happens when the vice president is in the capitol, what is the back and forth going on between the president and the vice president's staff? for the other people on the staff, i would be interested in asking, mike pence put out this statement before he gets in a motorcade to head to the capitol, it's a very public statement saying i'm about to head to the capitol to do my constitutional duty, there's nothing else i can do. what was the lead-up to putting that statem

what is your expectation what they can learn from keith kellogg and whether he will tell them somethingry close to president trump. as a reporter, my assessment would be low expectations about kellogg. he is someone with trump on january 6th. he witnessed the president in the oval office. but this is someone who many pence allies would say privately and publicly is very cozy with trump politically and personally. >> at the time, though, those around pence, those who would be more loyal to pence than to trump, were very upset with the president for not intervening, right? >> they're over at the capitol. and there's still some confusion among pence associates why kellogg, pence's national security adviser, stayed at the white house january 6th instead of the capitol with most of the pence advisers. . >> i wonder if you are seeing this. but after this election in virginia where the governor distanced himself somewhat astutely from former president trump, some republicans seem to be a little emboldened, like chris cancer christi who said this, and obviously he may be considering a run. he s

and keith kellogg. this name is interesting. the former national security adviser to the vice president, mike pence. this is one of the first individuals that we've seen with specific ties to the former vice president that the committee has issued a subpoena for. jake? >> ryan nobles on capitol hill with the breaking news. thanks. >>> let's discuss this with gloria borger and kim. it's been about two weeks since a majority of the house of representatives, a bipartisan vote, voted to refer criminal contempt of congress charges against bannon to the department of justice. attorney general merrick garland has not yet weighed in. how long do you think it's going to take before he makes a decision one way or the other? >> gloria and i were talking off air. there's a new u.s. attorney and that's the person that would make this decision. and so it could be a matter of days. could be a matter of weeks but this has to happen really soon or we are going to see a break down of congress itself. and its ability to do these kinds of investiga

including pence's former chief counsel greg jacob, keith kellogg who was subpoenaed by the committeee former chief of staff, mark short who, of course, is familiar to many of you. appeared many times on this program. ryan nobles is out front. and, ryan, i know you are learning some of these pence aides are actually appearing like they are going to cooperate with the committee. they are going to come in. there's no steve bannon here. um, so tell me about what you know and why they could be so significant. >> reporter: yeah, you know, erin, i talked to the chairman of the select committee, bennie thompson about this last week and asked him specifically about their engagement with pence aides and he said it was a mixed bag. there were some that were willing to talk to them on some level and others they were having a difficult time with and that was reflected in the subpoena of keith kellogg which we saw yesterday, who is of course pence's former national security adviser who was actually thought to be a little more close with the former-president donald trump than he is with mike pence,

general keith kellogg is standing by. at the 2:00 eastern time our and trey yingst on russia's latest move. >> john: but first jacqui heinrich. >> president biden has often boasted that he knows or spent more time talking to the world leader but with the white house is sort of tried to put down in a perception that he's gone too easy on his chinese counterpart because of their friendly relationship. there was some wonder from critics following president xi's mention of biden as an old friend, if she was trolling biden with that one yesterday. speak of the president knows that the chinese communist party are massively unpopular in the united states, not just for unleashing this plague on the world but for decades of stealing jobs and factories, intellectual property and he doesn't want to be associated with xi jinping. >> the three and a half hour call covered more than a dozen major topics in president biden raise concerns about human rights abuses and unfair economic practice and maintaining a free and open end of pacifi

vladimir putin will make any decision to launch an invasion but attorney general keith kellogg believes to send a message, not expand the war. >> is causing a lot of problems but i don't think he will going to ukraine. if he does it would be the eastern part of ukraine. >> russia and ukraine held military exercises this weekend the russians say they are not planning to invade but we heard similar claims before military action in the past. carley: a group of bipartisan lawmakers, stationed in south korea many soldiers haven't been home, their families visit since the start of covid as part of their official visit the bipartisan delegation visited joint security area of the korean demilitarized zone and they headed to taiwan for an informative trip, the delegation refused to back down when china's embassy demand they cancel the trip. carley: tackling the supply chain crisis head on as they for a price as part of the holiday season, the organization planning to spend millions on books and toys to make up for a downturn in donations. here to discuss toys for tots foundation president ceo li

and the region, i want your reaction to something lieutenant general keith kellogg said, regarding president build up and threats to taiwan. >> south chinese sea is important to u.s. because of all sea lanes of commerce that go through there he is expanding his geegraphical reach, he will push on taiwan, he is a very authoritarian leader, he has a plan to go long range, 10 to 20 years. molly: playing the long game, what does that mean when we talk about taiwan that teams have been involved in this long game for a long time. >> you know listening to some of the taiwanese legislators and political activists, it is their view it is not a long game, many are expecting to see a chinese takeover of their country in their lifetime, i agree with general kellogg, but i would add we need to spend more time understanding the sensitive dynamics of taiwanese politics, president of taiwan oversees a party ha that is -- that is leaning toward independence. there are an overwhelming number of people committed to a sovereign taiwan. in addition to when china is dying to encircle taiwan and much of the world

the oval office a few times, three times actually on january 6 at the encouragement of general keith kellogg and otherstr working with president trump and tells her father to calm it down, to let it go she says, let it go. but we are careful in our reporting telling what we confirm to happen or not making a conclusion about whether this even matter to president trump. as a reporter when veronica says generally six, let it go, let it go, just let this defeat go. go back tomorrow lago and enjoy political winter run the gop from the outside in some kind of informal way. he brusheded off and said i could never concede my people do not want me too quit. based on our reporting the conversation was pretty similar on january 6 with his daughter ivanka. jared kushner working on middle eastern issues throughout the.ne transition. his children, along with others around the president, many of the president's critics called the enablers. it times to try to enable his behavior often times they are turning away not doing too much to corral them. when you talk to sources just nod and go along with what's in

they've describing keith kellogg's subpoena. a participation in the january meeting with the former meeting and pat sip loney. his name has come up in a few of the letters and i believe he's reported by carol lentic and phil rutger saying he thought donald trump would be arrested ond january 6th. you also read about people like the deputy secretary of the state of georgia. i wonder how much of the investigation does before we see these big bursts of public facing evidence of what they've got. how much is happening below the surface? >> you are completely right and that's a good reminder for us to not jump to conclusions. it isn't the committee's best interest to protect them and keep the potentially news worthy items that these witnesses have been giving to the committee as quiet as possible and that's why you have seen very few leaks from this committee. vice chairman liz cheney told reporters last week that over 150 people have so far voluntarily cooperated with the committee from providing documents to providing depositions o

general keith kellogg is subpoenaed. as well as trump adviser steven miller. he will be remembered in history for being the architect of the policy that arranged for the u.s. government to take thousands of little kids away from their moms and dads indefinitely. but he's been summed now to testify about his efforts to spread false information about election results and to persuade states to overthrow the results and proclaim trump the winner even in states that trump lost. a number of other people who are accused of participating in that pressure campaign targeting republican-controlled state legislatures in states they lost, telling state legislates that she should send to washington, even though he lost. the number of people who participated in those efforts, white house deputy chief of staff, also trump's personal assistant, also another guy who served as trump's body man while the first guy got promoted to run the government while trump was tweeting january 6th. they all got subpoenas today. each passing day, of course, is more proverbially pregnant with w

for example, in today's batch, keith kellogg, the committee said the reason they're interested in him is because he urged donald trump as the attack was going down to send a tweet to his followers to call him off. so there may be some people here who may be willing to provide important information. >> we'll find out soon. andrew, some of these officials were at the rally this morning. some were at the white house on january 6th. how important is it for the committee to get a firsthand account of what former president trump did on that day? >> well, wolf, i think it's absolutely essential. as eli was just saying, you have a real focus now on people who were in physical proximity to the president on the day of the events in question. maybe not necessarily people who were engaged in substantive discussions with them about those events, but who would have seen others engaged in those discussions who could testify about what they saw the president doing or who he might have been talking to or other interactions he might have had. those are essential pieces of evidence. it's essential for i

book where ivanka goes into the office a few times on january 6 at the encouragement of general keith kellogg and others working with president trump and tells her father to calm down. to let go she says. but we are careful in our reporting to not lean into anything. we're just telling you what we confirmed as happened. we're not making a conclusion about whether this even mattered to president trump because there's another scene in the book that i think as reporter is more revealing that old text, his longtime advisor after the election says to him essentially what ivanka trump says weeks later on january 6. let it go. let this defeat go. go back to mar-a-lago, run the gop from the outside. he brushes it off and says i can never concede, my people don't want me to quit and based on the reporting the conversation was similar on january 6 with his daughter ivanka. jared kushner working on middle eastern issues through the transition. this children along with others around the president, many of the president's critics called then and enablers. it's true at times they seemed to be enabling his

keith kellogg, the war by other means. a general in the trump white house. it does give you a good view, sort of right close to the powers that be view of life in that white house and some of the things you think you know that you really don't know. i urge you to read it. in the meantime giving you an update right now on these markets, we're not only moving forward here but inflation is the big bugaboo here, as is the selloff in tesla's stock. it resumed with indications that elon musk is inclined to sell more stock. he sold more stock but he had a very, very pithy, some would call it very rude response to one bernie sanders. i will tell you all about it after this. ♪ [gaming sounds] [gaming sounds] [gaming sounds] just think, he'll be driving for real soon. every new chevy equinox comes standard with chevy safety assist, including automatic emergency braking. find new peace of mind. find new roads. chevrolet. what's strong with me? what's strong with me? what's strong with me? what's strong with me? with me! with me! what's strong with me? with me! with me.

there are two people, keith kellogg and cassidy hutchinson. both were in the white house during the events. one was pence's national security adviser, one was legislative affairs assistant to trump. and they were there watching trump's actions and inactions. and i think they will, therefore, have important testimony, and testimony that could box in mark meadows who also was there and who has not yet agreed to testify. they're boxing around what he'll say, what the scope of that deposition will be. also ken klutowski, who was special counsel to assistant attorney general jeffrey clark. remember, clark was subpoenaed. he refused to testify. he is the one who theoretically was hatching a plan to get rid of a.g. rosen so he could step in, announce there was fraud, and give credence to the trump stop the steal. so those three are of particular interest to me. >> i should also mention all these subpoenas are not happening in a vacuum. this committee is moving forward with its investigation despite radio silence from the justice department on the pro

bottom reboot will make any final decision to launch an invasion but you tired army lieutenant keith kelloggwar. >> i think is causing a lot of problems by messing on the border but i don't think is going to go into ukraine. i think if he goes into ukraine and it will be in the eastern part of ukraine. >> both russia and ukraine held military exercises this week and the russian say they are planning to invade, we heard similar claims before military action in the past. mike. >> mike: trey yingst, thanks a lot. up next, the panel on president biden's health and observing thanksgiving and a return to normalcy. first, beyond her borders tonight, russians military says it is tracking an american warship in the black sea. the guided missile destroyer entered the black sea to patrol with nato allies. the pentagon says the ship is on routine patrol to ensure security and stability in the area. russian news agencies say a fire in a siberian coal mine has killed 52 miners and rescuers. officials previously so that rescuers found 14 bodies and the search for 38 people missing was halted for safety rea

the former trump bag man turned white house personnel director and keith kellogg, the former nationaly advisor to vice president pence. according to the committee, seven of those subpoenaed were at the white house on january 6th and most interacted with trump throughout that day giving them firsthand knowledge of trump's actions as the capitol was under siege. in this bach of subpoenas that comes a day after the committee expanded the investigation with its demand to hear from six others close to trump. last week, committee chairman bennie thompson told nbc news he signed about 20 subpoenas that, which means that there are more to come in the days ahead. joining me now is "new york times" washington correspondent michael schmidt and former acting solicitor general. gentlemen, thank you for coming back to "the reidout." michael, could you talk about the significance of john being subpoenaed by the select committee? >> john mcentee was at the bottom of the campaign with not a lot of political experience but really thrived in a trump white house that did not have a lot of order and found

. >> really quickly before we let you go, keith kellogg, who was vice president mike pence's former national security adviser, he is one of the people who was subpoenaed this week. just curious, what would your main questions be for him? >> people have a lot of questions with respect to why kellogg was in sort of the trump inner circle during the time of the attack and why he wasn't actually with mike pence at the capitol during those times. i think that, you know, the call logs and really some of these memos that were written by mark meadows that will be turned over really soon will shed some light on those questions. >> carolyn palisi, thank you so much for helping clear so much up for us. >> thanks for having me. >>> more testimony after a consequential day in kyle rittenhouse's double homicide trial. kyle rittenhouse taking the stand claiming he acted in self-defense when he killed two people, shot another during protests that followed the police shooting of jacob blake. this in wisconsin last year. >> rittenhouse has pleaded not guilty and faces a mandatory life sentence if convicted on

former national security adviser keith kellogg was with trump at the white house january 6th and former white house chief of staff mark short was with the vp leading up and on the capitol hill january 6th. these are all critical fact witnesses. >> absolutely. the john eastman memo is short but from a constitutional law perspective really stunning. the plan was to have mike pence as president of the senate basically cancel or ignore the electoral college certifications from seven states. that means all of the votes in those seven states that went to the electoral college for joe biden, every human being voter in america would have been canceled in that moment. and then there would have been a contingent of 26 republican-led states that would then hand the election through a series of maneuvers to donald trump. and it was mike pence who standing alone said no to that. it is a pretty stunning thing that he did frankly given that they were hanging gallows outside the capitol shouting for his assassination. yes i think his loyalists probably want to tell his side of the story and have him ha

. >> christopher little, john mcentee, keith kellogg, kayleigh mcenany, stephen miller, ben williamson, molly michael, nicholas luna. there they are up on your screen. always a pleasure, andrew. thank you, sir. i appreciate it. >> thanks, don. have a good night. >>> i want to turn now to cnn's senior political analyst mr. john avlon. john, good evening to you. thanks for helping us out on this breaking news. let me read a little bit more from the judge's ruling. it says, presidents are not king and plaintiff is not president. he retains the right to assert that his records are privileged, but the incumbent president is not constitutionally obliged to honor that assertion. presidents are not kings. that's a line first written by a different judge in the case over don mcgahn. give me your reaction to this. >> i'm so glad you read that line because it's so important. presidents are not kings, and the plaintiff is not president. presidential privilege exists for the benefit of the republic, not any particular individual. that gets to the heart of this case in effect, and this judge's decis

keith kellogg actually reportedly asked donald trump as january 6th attack was happening to issue a tweet or statement to call off his followers. christopher liddell almost resigned and had to be talked about it. there could be interesting testimony coming out of some of the witnesses who might be willing to cooperate. >> i think the big question with all these people who have been subpoenaed now is what will this guy decide about this guy. what will the attorney general of the united states decide to do whether to charge or prosecute steve bannon. . >> it is such an important decision, john. merrick garland has had this case for three weeks. some people have said, look, the wheels of justice grind slowly. i work at the justice department. i understand that. but this case doesn't seem to be all that complicated. they subpoenaed steve bannon. he said no. to this date he has never formally offered up any good reason. there is a legitimate question of what is merrick garland waiting for? here's why it is so important? the other bana wanna-bes who are going to defy the subpoena, are starting

among them, former national security advisor keith kellogg who was with former president trump most of day of the insurrection. joining me, cnn political analyst carl bernstein. carl, you think this is potentially significant. why? >> it's very significant. first of all, let's look what's happening here. we're talking about a conspiracy like none other in the united states, to undermine this election, led, this conspiracy, by the president of the united states. there are some people who work for mike pence who indeed are angry about the conspiracy and that pence was brought into it indirectly. finally pence did the right thing. he certified the election, presided over the election of the duly elected president of the united states, joseph biden. we have a year to go to find out what happened, until the republicans in all likelihood take over the congress, they're going to try to shut down this investigation. the press particularly, the committee, one year to go to find out what happened in the most grieve rouse assault on democracy since the confederacy and the civil war. >> you say th

. >> keith kellogg, who you mentioned, was then-vice president pence's national security adviser, washe day on january 6th. based on your reporting, what could kellogg have been privy to from that day? >> we know he was in the oval office. as trump is updated about pence, about the insurrection on capitol hill, he is a witness who has firsthand knowledge of what happens. you see the committee with these subpoenas, trying to get people who are firsthand participants in events, as well as what we call satellite witnesses. those who had tangential roles in that day. >> what about john mcentee? i mean, he was the president's body man. a lot of people don't know his name but he was the president's body man, who then became the director of presidential personnel office which is extraordinary. um, how much influence did he have over the president? >> enormous influence. a former-college football player who became close to trump, jonathan carl has a strong piece in the atlantic about mcentee tonight. someone who is a total loyalist. in the final days, trump wanted only loyalists around him. h

former chief of staff mark short, keith kellogg, former general counsel greg jacob.to all of them and others on the list. people either did not return our call or declined to comment. one person did comment, and that's the chairman of the committee, bennie thompson. we asked if people were being cooperative. he hedged a little bit. he said, well, yes and no. i don't want to just say yes when there have been some people who clearly have said no. so we've had, you know, people on both sides. but bottom line, jake, the committee really wants to speak to these people. and we are getting the sense for the first time that inner circle of pence world is engaging with the committee. >> you know, let's take a step back. people may not know these individuals. marc short, jacob and kellogg, but some of them are very close to pence. >> marc short, chief of staff. critical fact witness. obviously he was with the former vice president in the days leading up to january 6th. he was up on capitol hill on january 6th with him. you can see him walking there. he knows exactly what was g

let's bring in keith kellogg the co-chair of the center for american security at the america first policyional security adviser to vice president mike pence. general, thanks for being here. your assessment of what is happening on that border with ukraine? >> >> thanks, bret, thanks for having me. i think it's a gigantic head fake. i really do. i think is he causing a lot of problems by massing on the border. i don't think he is going go into ukraine. if he does, it combat eastern part of ukraine. the reason i don't think he is going to do it. the european union, half of their trade is with russia. most of their investments with russia, if he goes into ukraine, then they will cut off the economic ties they have in russia. massive economic blow. is he sending a long-term message to us. and here's the message he is sending. ukraine will not become part of nato. and that's the message he is making loud and clear. we get so fixated on russia. we forget what our biggest threat, which is china. >> bret: which you are going to say is china i'm sure. >> yeah. >> bret: let's go back and put up this

let's bring in general keith kellogg. the center for american security and u.s.ng with us today. hope you had a wonderful thanksgiving. i want to read to you something the iz look he officials said to the "wall street journal." they said israel is very concerned that the u.s. is setting the stage for a less for less agreement. it would only benefit the iranian regime. a gift to the radical affiliated regime. when president biden joined the campaign talking about strengthening the deal. this seems to be watering it down if it goes ahead. what do you make of it? >> thank you, benjamin. we're heading forward a break out. the prime minister of israel talking to president biden raised those concerns. we know they are heading towards a break-out. when you look at the enrichment of uranium if they get to 90% they're record grade. they're at 60%. they have been rebuffing everybody along the way for this enrichment trying to cut it back. last week director grossy from the international atomic energy agency was rebuffed in vienna when he talked about putting people in ther

general keith dell ago on what to make of them -- kellogg. what do you think's going on here?neil: yes. what do you make of this? >> thanks for having me, neil. they're testing the united states of america, and they see a very weak leader we have. it's a feckless leader in our president, and they understand and see that. just this week when president biden was talking to president xi, he didn't even bring up covid, origins of covid. we've lost more people to covid than we lost in world war ii. didn't bring that issue up, kind of sat back a little bit when they pressed the taiwan issue. people look to the chief executive internationally and see what kind of individual he is and his temperament out there. when i was with president trump, there were times in the oval office all of us would take a deep breath. i've seen him hang up on a foreign leader, talk harshly with a foreign leader, but he also represented the united states in a forceful fashion. putin sees it, xi sees it, macron sees it. they all look at the president and say, okay, what is the temper of this guy, what kind