possibly a crime. they knew, and according to a testimony today, they do it anyway. and the testament knew that. he also in new in realtime that the actions that he was taking, or about to take with his 2:24 pm tweet the he had been told exactly how that it was at the capitol. although the presidents chief of staff, mark meadows, is refusing to testify before the committee. mr. meadows aid, ben williamson, and white house press secretary, sarah matthews, testified that mr. meadows went to the dining room near the oval office to tell the president about the violence of the capitol before the president s 2:24 pm tweet. it was clear that it was escalating, and escalating quickly. [noise] so then, when that we, than mike pence s tweet was sent out. i remember saying that that was the last thing that needs to be tweeted at that moment. pete aguilar says the committee s investigation shows that immediately after that tweet, the crowd in the capitol search. two minutes lat
thing, we win the election. i remember hearing the word wimp. he called him a wimp. wimp is the word i remember. it was a different tone than i d heard him take with the vice president before. do you remember what your father called him? the p word. the hearing included testimony that even after trump was informed violence was breaking out on the capitol, he tweeted an insult saying that pence lacked courage which the committee says led to a surge in the crowd. then i remember getting a notification on my phone and i was sitting in a room with roma and ben and we all got a notification so we knew it was a tweet from the apresident and w looked down and it was a tweet about mike pence. it was clear that escalating quickly. the committee also walked through right wing trump attorney john eastman s relentless effort to advance his legal theory that vice president pensz oi pence could on his own block certification of the election. and that theory was rejected by
attorney john eastman and others, presented a clear and dangerous threat to american democracy. listen to this. had vice president pence obeyed the orders from his president, and the president of the united states of america, that declaration of donald trump as the next president would have plunged america into what i believe would have been tantamount to a revolution within a constitutional crisis. revolution within a constitutional crisis. the committee also revealing just how close to serious danger mike pence was on during the day of the insurrection. rioters coming within 40 feet of the former vice president. as the committee prepares to hold more hearings next week, it is also trying to speak to ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court court justice clarence thomas about her role in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election. let s take you to capitol hill and lauren fox is there for us. what were the main takeaways from thursday s hearings? reporter: well
the results was illegal. but they pushed anyway. listen to former trump white house lawyer eric herschmann on his conversation with eastman. i said are you out of your effing mind. i was completely blunt. i said you re crazy, you re going to cause riots in the streets. and he said words to the effect of, there s been violence in the history of our country to protect the democracy or protect the republic. testimony revealed even after the capitol riot, eastman pushed for delay in certifying the election and later asked for a pardon. [ crowd chanting ] the committee also outlined just how close rioters were to the then vice president and pointed out that some of them had seen president trump s tweet at 2:24, saying that pence lacked courage. recent court filing by the department of justice explains the confidential informant from the proud boys told the fbi the proud boys would have killed mike pence if given a chance. some of those rioters came within just 40 feet of
so, when will ginni thomas tell the committee all she knows about the insurrection? as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. today the, january 6th committee made a powerful case about the relentless pressure donald trump and his allies put on mike pence to unlawfully overturn the 2020 election results. this afternoon, the committee presented detailed evidence revealing the intensity of that effort and the real danger pence was in on the day of the insurrection. mike pence, i hope you are going to stand up for the good of our constitution and for the good of our country. and if you are not, i m going to be very disappointed in you, i will tell you right now. i m telling you what, i m hearing the pence, i m hearing that pence just caved no i m hearing reports that pence caved. i m telling you, if pence caved, we are going to bleep through the streets. [inaudible] bring him out! bring out pence!