electors. make no mistake that the vice president s life was in danger. the committee is going to reveal the details of the pressure campaign. i am telling you, if it is coming we are going to drag him through the streets. [inaudible] remember the word wimp. he said that you are a win. when is the word i remember. it is a different tone tone that i heard him take with the vice president before. do you remember what s she said, if i recall. that the key word. good morning. it is saturday, a june 18th. i am michael steele sitting in for velshi. we begin this morning with a special hour on another stunning week of revelations from historic public hearings of the january 6th select committee. we have the clearest picture yet of a president donald trump s farfetched plot to overturn the 2020 election loss in a run up to the attack on the capitol and his role to induce violence. they presented evidence that trump was told numerous times that he had lost the el
illegal. they still proceeded to put the squeeze on pence. numerous testimonies from advisers and even from trump s daughter, ivanka, recounted how they riled in the morning of january 6th in an attempt to get him to comply with a scheme. the committee argues that because pence refused to bend knee that day, trump turned a crowd of supporters against his own vice president and sent the violent mob to the capitol to find him. they dispelled any doubts about whether the chance of, quote, hang mike pence, were genuine. approximately 40 feet, that is all there was. there was a 40 feet between vice president and the mob. make no mistake that the vice president s life was in danger. a recent court filing by the department of justice explains that a confidential informant from the proud boys told the fbi that the proud boys would have killed mike pence if given the chance.
also if they went to the supreme court to try to get the electoral count act overruled, they would lose nine to nothing. that concession was really important. it just shows the extreme lengths to which president trump and the chosen legal advisers were willing to go to try to overcome the probe. trump was surrounded by lawyers telling him that he lost and telling him that the steps you want to take were not okay. he basically lawyer shopped until he found the one person who was willing to say, actually, you won. we can push the vice president to make this happen. that is the rich, new picture that we got over the last hearing. that is the interesting a quirky part, joy s. one of the key things that the committee has highlighted is that john eastman was aware of the illegality, the total illegality of the plan. to have a pence overturn
surge or it would not come. i think he went into the situation knowing the risk and knowing the anger that was going to come this way. do i think that he thinks that the mob would be charged in his direction? likely not. i could see the chatter all nine. as i see the rhetoric, i went into hiding myself. i protected my own family because i knew what was going to be descending on the washington d.c. town. we have seen what donald trump s words are capable of when it comes to galvanizing his support groups. we have not heard from the vice president of all of this he is gone about his business and are as laying the grounds for the 2024 presidential run we are learning details about this a phone call between the president and the vice president. why has he not said anything? why has he not come forward and been more public about that
about what happened, or any details about what happened in the oval office that morning? that her dad had just had an upsetting conversation with the vice president. do you recall anything about her demeanor, either during the meeting, or when you encountered her in the office? i don t remember specifically. i think she was uncomfortable over the fact that there was obviously that type of interaction between the two of. them something to the fact of, this is the wording around, i made the wrong decision for or five years ago. and that the word that she related to the president call the vice president, i apologize for being impolite but to remember she said, her father called him. the p-word. coming up, more special coverage of this week s special hearings on january. six to this day, some lawmakers say that the attack on the capitol simply a protest that got out of. had really? here s a reminder of where the