lot of evidence today about the danger that mike pence had. do you think tried to commit violence against mike pence? >> what you saw today was the evidence our committees put together. >> the department of justice sent you a letter saying they want you to share all of your transcripts to every witness you have spoken to and they have accused you guys have hampering their investigation, are you going to turn over the transcripts? >> we just got the letter yesterday. >> i asked you about it on tuesday. will you turn over the transcripts? >> listen to me, now. we got the letter yesterday, we are reviewing it, we will respond to it, but we are in the midst of conducting our hearing. we have a program to get over, we have to get the facts and circumstances behind january 6. we will work with them, but we have a report to do. we are not going to stop a we are doing to share the information that we have gotten so far with the department of justice. we have to do our work. >> so you're not going to turn over the transcript by the end of the week? >> no. >> what's your reaction when they said -- >> look, that does not mean that we are not going to cooperate. we got the letter yesterday. we've interviewed over 1000 witnesses, we've had a number of information. that means we had to stop what we are doing to them work with the department of justice. we will eventually cooperate with them, we have five more hearings to work through. we have a lot of other things to do. >> you are share any transcripts with them before the end of the hearing? >> no. >> what's your reaction when they say that it's tampering their investigation? >> we have not talked to them. we have one letter and there has not been any conversation with any member of the committee about what the department of justice is doing. we will cooperate with them, the committee has its own timetable and that's what we will do. >> they asked you weeks ago. >> the referral that donald trump may have committed -- >> our committee is working. we are working as hard as we can to get to the facts and circumstances around what happened. now, when we complete our work, then we will discuss, at that point we will do. i hope you understand, we can now, because of a letter read -- the letter we received yesterday, stop all this work and start responding to someone writing us a letter. >> they originally sent you a letter. >> wait, wait. this is not a back-and-forth. i want you to understand, we are doing our work, we have excellent staff, but we can stop our work because someone writes us a letter. we will put it in the system if we can cooperate we will work with them. nobody wants to get to the bottom of what happened more than our committee, and we will do that. but the question is, are we going to stop right now and go in another direction as a committee? i hope you understand, we are not going to do that. quite she said she's looking forward to clearing up the record. ginni thomas said she would be looking forward to clearing up the record in talking with you guys. i know that you said there's time to talk to her. >> when did she say this. >> during the hearing. >> i haven't heard it. >> her communications with john eastman. >> we have sent ms. thomas a letter asking us to come and talk to the committee. if weight you say is ok listen to me. what you said is she responded while the hearing was going on, that she wants to come, we look forward to her coming. >> i just want to make sure you already sent the letter. did you ask her publicly? >> to stay up-to-date with the january 6 committee, had to c-span.org/january 6. there you will find all the hearings to watch on demand as well as other events related to the u.s. capitol attack in the ongoing investigation. the january committee meets again tuesday at 1:00 p.m. eastern. live coverage on c-span3. eco-watch on the go with the free c-span now video app or on our website, c-span.org. a reminder that these hearings on the january 6 investigation and all our programming comes usa public service from the following television providers. >> c-span's washington journal, every day we take your calls live on the air on the news of the day and we discussed policy issues that impact you. coming up friday morning we will revisit the watergate break-in on its 50th anniversary with washington post chief correspondent dan bolles, who will join us to talk about the historical impact it had on trust in government and the former watergate assistant special prosecutor and jeff, the former deputy to the nixon administration special white house counsel will also talk about the watergate break-in. watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern friday morning on c-span or c-span now. join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, texts and tweets. >> friday on c-span, former president donald trump speaks to the faith and freedom coalition live from nashville at 1:00 p.m. eastern. historians and a former a to president richard nixon talk about the impact of watergate 50 years after the break-in. and just before 6:30, and in-depth look at the investigation and prosecution of watergate with those directly involved. also on c-span2, journalists bob woodward and carl bernstein speak to the washington post about their reporting on the scandal. that's at 1:00 p.m. eastern, everything streams live at c-span.org or on the free c-span now video app. the january 6 committee held another hearing focused on efforts to convince vice president pence to reject the electoral vote entering a joint meeting of congress during january 6. numbers presented taped depositions with vice president pence's former chief of staff and heard in person testimony