stephanie ruhle. today the, january 6th committee made a powerful case about the relentless pressure donald trump and his allies put on mike pence to unlawfully overturn the 2020 election results. this afternoon, the committee presented detailed evidence revealing the intensity of that effort and the real danger pence was in on the day of the insurrection. mike pence, i hope you are going to stand up for the good of our constitution and for the good of our country. and if you are not, i m going to be very disappointed in you, i will tell you right now. i m telling you what, i m hearing the pence, i m hearing that pence just caved no i m hearing reports that pence caved. i m telling you, if pence caved, we are going to bleep through the streets. [inaudible] bring him out! bring out pence! hang mike pence, hang mike pence! hang mike pence! [noise] hang mike pence, that s what they were chanting. today s star witnesses, two key republicans, pence s former w
denver riggleman join me tonight. then, myself, i m comfortable with the framework. it s a big endorsement for the bipartisan gun proposal. senator chris murphy is here on that. plus you have the chance to dump these grandstanding losers and replace them with two rock-solid america first champions! it s election night in america, another big test of the trump brand win all in starts right now good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. one of the biggest, most overwhelming themes of the january 6th committee s first two public hearings is that everyone knew the election was not rigged. all of the people around donald trump, other than a select, tiny little few, they all knew there was no big lie. or that the big lie was a big lie, that there was no fraud. they talked about it amongst themselves. some of them even send it directly to trump. but the other big theme is that nobody really did anything about it. none of them stood up and spoke the truth publicly.
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
we will ask him. a shocking arrest in idaho. a u-haul truck filled with members of the extremist group, patriot front. one witness said looked like was heading toward. pastured right near a pride event. we are looking ahead to a busy week in the january six investigation. three public hearing scheduled tomorrow. the first heard last thursday though, aimed directly at his big lie from donald trump. i will speak with mark taylor the former trump administration official once known as anonymous. that is all coming up for you back to the breaking news where we start this hour. it is on capitol hill the u.s. senate issuing a statement saying they have struck a bipartisan deal over gun safety and it comes one month at the massacre in uvalde, texas. president biden issuing a statement just a short time ago praising the deal as potentially, quote, the most significant gun safety legislation in decades he also knows it does not include everything he would like to see. let s go up to ab
that same judge issued a landmark ruling earlier this year finding it was more likely than not that trump and a conservative lawyer committed a crime and strikeategizing to overturn the election. trump is not charged with a crime and denied any wrongdoing. he continues to down play his involvement and bashing the committee s work as another quote witch hunt. january 6th. what a lot of crap, it s another con job like russia. reporter: committee members say trump was decar on his duty and republicans pleaded for trump to intervene and text messages to his white house chief of staff. i think mark meadows is the ms mvp for the committee. reporter: denver helped decode meadow s text among the 2300 messages obtained by cnn. donald trump junior texting he s got to condemn this shit asap. meadows responding, i am pushing it hard. i agree. it took trump over three hours to release this recorded video. so go home, we love you. you re very special. look at the totality of th