the january 6th committee presents new evidence as it tries to connect the capitol insurrection to trump s pressure campaign against his vice president. witnesses testifying trump knew the plan was illegal, but he went ahead with it anyway. there is so much to discuss with our senior political analyst, but first we want to get you to manu raju with the latest. mike pence has betrayed america! reporter: the pressure campaign was relentless. donald trump for months trying to get mike pence to do something no vice president has ever done, reject the will of the electorate and install him as president for a second term. right up to this heated phone call on the morning of january 6th, just before pence was presiding over a joint session of congress to certify joe biden s victory. he called him a wimp. it was a different tone that i heard him take with the vice president before. do you remember what she said? her father called him. the p word. trump revised his janua
vice president. mike pence is going to have to come through for us, and if he doesn t, that will be a sad day for our country. the rioters echoing the president s remarks. i m telling you, if pence came, we re going to drag [ bleep ] through the streets. trump still attacked pence on twitter, just as the mob was 40 feet away from the vice president. the vice president s life was in danger. trump had been told repeatedly that pence had no authority to take such an unconstitutional action. was with it your impression that the vice president had directly conveyed his position on these issues to the president, not just to the world through a dear colleague letter but to president trump? many times. and he had been consistent in conveying his possession to the president. very consistent. the committee focussing on the role of trump attorney john eastman who pushed the theory that the vice president could