committee will be in order. gentleman from california, mr. aguilar, is recognized. i d now like to turn to the events of january 6th, 2021. which turned out to be a fateful day in our nation s history. donald trump continued to pressure the vice president publicly and privately stop as you will hear, things reached a boiling vice president both publicly and privately. as you will hear, things reached a boiling point on january 6th in the consequences were disastrous. in the middle of the night on january 5th, into the morning of the sixth, around 1 am, president trump tweeted at the vice president. meaning that the comments in response to the president s tweet would also show up on the vice president s twitter feed. the tweet stated that the vice president could, quote, come through for us and send it back to the states. then, around 8 am on january 6th, president trump again tweeted. this time to say that the vice president could send it back to the states and, quote,
committee of today, the cha committee will be in order. gentleman from california, mr. aguilar, is recognized. i d now like to turn to the events of january 6th, 2021. which turned out to be a fateful day in our nation s history. despite the fact that the vice president consistently told the president that he did not have and would not want the power to decide the outcome of the presidential election, donald trump continued to pressure the vice president both publicly and privately. as you will hear, things reached a boiling point on january 6th in the consequences were disastrous. in the middle of the night on january 5th, into the morning of the sixth, around 1 am, president trump tweeted at the vice president. meaning that the comments in response to the president s tweet would also show up on the vice president s twitter feed. the tweet stated that the vice president could, quote, come through for us and send it back to the states. then, around 8 am on january 6th, pr
investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capitol will be in order. without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. pursuant to house deposition authority regulation the select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capitol will be in order. without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee on resource at any point. pursuant to house deposition authority regulation, a tear an out of the committees approval, at least the deposition material representative of today s hearing. good afternoon, this is almost no idea more un-american in the notion that any one person could choose the american president. new idea more un-american which is unusual because former vice president mike pence and i don t agree on much. these are his words, spoken a few months ago about donald trump s attempt. to fort putting him into going along with an unlawful, unconstitutional scheme overturne
believe that, you re probably right. i think we thought would be something you have to consider if you re sitting on the bench. he probably come down. don t interpret it for sustain the albion long term. of course, the fact that mayor giuliani seemed to admit that the theory was wrong did not stop him from going before the crowd just a few hours later on january six and saying the exact opposite. here s mayor giuliani speech at the ellipse rally on january 6th. we are here very briefly to make a very important to points. number one, every single thing that has been outlined as the plan for day is perfectly legal. i have professor eastman here with me to say a few words about that. he s one of the preeminent constitutional scholars in the united states. it is perfectly appropriate given the questionable constitutionality of the election counting act of 1887 that the vice can cast it aside and he can do what a president called, jefferson did when he was vice president. you
committee will be in order. gentleman from california, mr. aguilar, is recognized. i d now like to turn to the events of january 6th, 2021. which turned out to be a fateful day in our nation s history. despite the fact that the vice president consistently told the president that he did not have and would not want the power to decide the outcome of the presidential election, donald trump continued to pressure the vice president both publicly and privately. as you will hear, things reached a boiling point on january 6th in the consequences were disastrous. in the middle of the night on january 5th, into the morning of the sixth, around 1 am, president trump tweeted at the vice president. meaning that the comments in response to the president s tweet would also show up on the vice president s twitter feed. the tweet stated that the vice president could, quote, come through for us and send it back to the states. then, around 8 am on january 6th, president trump again tweeted.