that was the moment i decided that i was going to resign. i simply did not want to be associated with the events that were unfolding on the capitol. for him to tweet out the message about mike pence, it was him pouring gasoline on the fire. it made it worse much worse. she looked directly at me and not hushed tone shared with me that the president did not want to include any sort of mentions a piece in that tweet. on january 7th, president trump still could not say that the election was over. this election is now over, if it is, congress has certified the results. i do not want to say the election is over. i just want to say congress has certified the results. we have much work yet to do. we will see you all in september. do we will see you all in september. good morning, saturday, july 23rd. i am sam stein in for my friend, the one and only, ali velshi. the senior special hour on this week s explosive hearing from the january 6th select committee. this week, commit
this morning about the former president s legal exposure. video we are seeing for the first time shows mike pence, the former vice president, sheltering in a secure location for nearly five hours, as rioters overwhelm the capitol, looking to hang him. we were told they came within 40 feet of the vice president s evacuation route. we re also learning new details about a heated phone call between trump and pence on the morning of january 6th. this is what witnesses, including ivanka trump, said about the president s demeanor on that call. yeah. i remember hearing the word wimp. either he called him a wimp. i don t remember if he said you are a wimp. you ll be a wimp. it was a different tone than i had heard him take with the vice president before. a major new piece of evidence revealed by the committee. that is john eastman, the conservative lawyer central to the plans to overturn the election results, asked for a pardon in the days after january 6th. and new this morning
and we are following the money the grift and where the hundreds of millions of donated dollars went, or didn t go, in that sham election defense fund. plus, today s historic rate hike from the fed, as inflation stays red hot. with the move means for the midterms. all of it when the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle, live from the nation s capital. where tomorrow, the january six committee has its third public hearing, starting at 1 pm eastern. and this time, investigators are expected to focus on then vice president mike pence and the pressure campaign to get him to get joe biden out of the white house. committee aides say new evidence presented tomorrow will show how the efforts of his former boss, donald trump, led to the riot and put pence s life in serious danger. you ll remember the surveillance video of security rushing pence off the senate floor, as rioters chanted, hang mike pence. abc news has obtained new
stephanie ruhle, live from the nation s capital, where tomorrow, the january 6th committee has its third public hearing, starting at 1:00 pm eastern. and this time, investigators are expected to focus on then vice president mike pence and the pressure campaign to get him to get joe biden out of the white house. committee aides say new evidence presented tomorrow will show how the efforts of his former boss, donald trump, led to the riot and put pence s life in serious danger. you ll remember the surveillance video of security rushing pence off the senate floor, as rioters chanted, hang mike pence. and abc news has obtained new photos of the former vice president and his family in hiding, after the mob broke into the capital capitol. where we expect to hear from key pence advisors his former counsel greg jacob and retired federal judge michael luttig. their reports of closed door testimony from marc short, pence s one-time chief of staff, will also be included. earlier tonig
hearing takes new turns. the january 6 committee accusing donald trump of scamming his supporters out of $250 million. laying 0 out the case that trump solicited money from backers by using lies as a fundraising tool. adding that he sent up to 25 emails a day, soliciting donations for illegal funds that simply didn t exist. but is it potentially criminal and will attorney general merrick garland pursue or prosecute it as such? those are the key questions emerging from the hearings overall. and there seems to be a new rift emerging from the january 6 committee itself on the very subject. whether they will make a specific criminal referral to the justice department. as for witnesses, some of the most stark testimony is coming from trump s former attorney general william barr who offered a line-by-line debunking of some of trump s ongoing lies about fraud. and he calls trump detached from reality after the election. cnn is live with the new reporting, trump s supporters, kai