pouring gasoline on the fire by tweeting that. the secret service couldn t control the situation and do their job to keep him safe. at 2:26 p.m., the secret service rushed vice president pence down the stairs. approximately 40 feet. that s all there was. 40 feet between the vice president and the mob. make no mistake about the fact that the vice president s life was in danger. the 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. that s just some of what we heard from yesterday s hearing into the attack on the capitol. as the committee detailed the close call for vice president pence, good morning and welcome to way too early. on this friday, june 17th. i m jonathan lemire. we re glad you re with us. the third day of testimony in the january 6th hearings focused on donald trump s efforts to pressure mike pence into overturning
buried in his hometown of san angelo, texas. all of this as a bipartisan group of senators tries to finish writing a bill aimed at reducing gun violence. with us to talk about this, sam brock in vestavia hills, alabama, capitol hill correspondent ali vitali. sam, how are people in that community processing what happened last night? i think it s very telling, jose next to this church behind me, there is an assisted living facility who said we are just disappointed at the world. we cannot process how it is possible we re talking about another shooting, another church shooting. right now investigators are going to be updating us within the next hour or so, jose. we re waiting on some details because we know that around dinner time last night the gunman, according to police, walked into the church and started firing, killing two people, one person is wounded and in a hospital. it s not clear what their condition is right now. you re talking about a neighborhood, jose, about ten
insurrection, the january 6th committee plans to focus on donald trump s repeated pressure on former vice president mike pence to block the certification of the 2020 election results. remember what trump told the crowd just hours before the attack on the capitol. mike pence, i will tell you right now, i m not hearing good stories. i hope that our great vice president, our great vice president comes through for us. he s a great guy. of course if he doesn t come through, i won t like him quite as much. hmm. the committee s going to make the case trump s pressure campaign directly contributed to that day s deadly violence. new photos obtained by abc news show pence and his family in hiding after the former vice president was rushed off the senate floor by secret service during the insurrection. let s begin our coverage with cnn s ma nu raju live on capito hill. walk us through exactly what we ll watch later today. reporter: the committee will try to lay out the time line
further inflamed the rioters as they were raging through the capitol hunting down the vice president and shouting, hang mike pence. in a preview video released this week, you saw liz cheney referencing a federal judge s ruling back in march that the former president probably violated federal statutes throughout that pressure campaign. a campaign conceived, in part, by lawyer john eastman, a character you will meet today. a big player inside that circle of election deniers working around the clock to try to keep donald trump in power. this hour, we will expand that inner circle with a look at ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas. bennie thompson saying that it is time for the committee to hear from thomas, quote, soon. this is a change in the committee s position and it comes after new bombshell reporting from the washington post on the emails between thomas and john eastman about overturning the election. we are going to talk about the new foc
talked about what has been thus far but also talked what is to come. what is to come. here s the quote, clark decided - it s like a movie. you know, like mussolini or something. yeah. sort of like al haig. no disrespect. you got to know whether you re a utility, infielder or cleanup like the justice department. he decided they re going to take over the justice department. they re going to wipe out everything. and trump. they call in rosen is it donahue yeah. some of these characters, like him and the other guy who said i don t want to hear two words out of you. we always talk about who should play these characters in the movie? who do you think? these guys should play the characters in the movie. listen to this, clark, i ve done a lot of very complicated environmental litigation, sir. donoghue, that s right, you re an environmental office, how about you go back to your office and we ll call you when there s an oil spill. makes a good point. b