6th hearing, i have to say, i am struck by the enormously fruitful fact finding, that the committee has done so far, and continues to do. each day, there is new information, learning new things. so, most recently, the committee met with former overstocks eo, patrick byrne, that s the overstock guy, about the now infamous december 2020 white house meeting. he attended a, or a group of outside trump advisers tried to sell the president on the coup. that s just today, getting testimony from him. today, they got testimony from a former white house aide, named garrett ziegler. never heard of him before. who, reportedly, let the ragtag group of coup plotters, into the white house, for that crazy coup plotting december meeting. still, a year and a half after this happened, the committee, the new testimony, learning new things. additionally, the committee is also pulling on, another, i think, important threat. you may have seen things about this, we ve covered it a bit in the news to
good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, as we approach thursday s primetime, january 6th hearing, i have to say, i am struck by the enormously fruitful fact finding, that the committee has done so far, and continues to do. each day, there is new information, learning new things. so, most recently, the committee met with former overstocks eo, patrick byrne, that s the overstock guy, about the now infamous december 2020 white house meeting. he attended a, or a group of outside trump advisers tried to sell the president on the coup. that s just today, getting testimony from him. today, they got testimony from a former white house aide, named garrett ziegler. never heard of him before. who, reportedly, let the ragtag group of coup plotters, into the white house, for that crazy coup plotting december meeting. still, a year and a half after this happened, the committee, the new testimony, learning new things. additionally, the committee is also pulling on, another, i think,
the january 6th committee says. okay. the secret service connections to january six to go even deeper than that. we also know, and this is one of the crucial moments in this whole episode, from reporting by journalist karen atlantic, and philip rucker. that the people closest to mike pence on that day, the allies, of mike pence, were concerned that the secret service was, actually, in on trump s coup attempt. that they were fundamentally loyal to him, overall. when anthony ornato, the guy who had been in the secret service, who took a leave to work for donald trump personally. when anthony ornado told the pence advisor, keith kellogg, the secret service plan to evacuate pence from the capitol, where he was in a secure location, to joint base andrews, kellogg reportedly told him, quote, you can t do that, tony. leave him where he s at. he s got a job to do. i know you guys too well. you ll fly him to alaska, if you have a chance. don t do it. now, a lot of ways to interpret
service, who took a leave to work for donald trump personally. when anthony ornado told the pence advisor, keith kellogg, the secret service plan to evacuate pence from the capitol, where he was in a secure location, to joint base andrews, kellogg reportedly told him, quote, you can t do that, tony. leave him where he s at. he s got a job to do. i know you guys too well. you ll fly him to alaska, if you have a chance. don t do it. now, a lot of ways to interpret that. you guys are so worried about security, you will fly him as far as you can. a charitable reading. or, you guys are in on the coup attempt, and want to physically remove the man who has the power to occasion the peaceful transfer of power, and i don t trust you. we also know, pence refused to get in a car with a secret service detail, during the insurrection. is the secret service agents who, presumably, our reporting to trump s secret service agents, who are trying to spirit him off of the campus, and he said, i won t g