reporter: it will all focus on the pressure on mike pence to take that unconstitutional action on january 6, 2021 to overturn the electoral certified votes of the states here on january 6, something of course that he rejected doing. but going to the genesis of how this theory first came about. looking at the trump attorney john eastman who is a prominent supporter of this and directly tie donald trump s words to the violence that occurred on january 6 as words about mike pence into exactly what happened here in the capitol. now, two people will be testifying who are very close to mike pence, we expect to hear from greg jake sob who is a former counsel for mike pence and as well as judge mike luttig, former judge and adviser of sorts to pence to understand what the vice president was thinking at the time. we do also expect to see video deposition from his former chief of staff marc short, who will be featured prominently in today s hearing. we ve gotten a copy of judge lutti
trump has lost all the lawsuits, states have all certified and the last gasp here is the counting of electoral votes so i think what the committee will lay out is this systemic effort sparked by john eastman, but picked up eagerly by donald trump to pressure mike pence. and when mike pence stood up and absolutely did the right thing, we saw the results of that. the hang mike pence cheers. the gallows that they set up outside the capitol. so look, donald trump s words i think speak quite loudly here and the fact that he reportedly was sympathetic to these cries to get mike pence tells us about his state of mind. ellie hoeie honig, thank you. new questions this morning also about a tour of the capitol the day before the snuinsurrect. footage shows that one of the men is heard making threats to members of congress the next day
his credibility is not great when we look at his actions. but if, so then i think it is important who is this back channel. we don t know. we know that there were emails and eastman clerked for thomas many years ago. but the bigger question is the substance of the emails. this is the first time we ve seen a direct link. the email, they are talking about if there is chaos, that will help our chances in the supreme court. that is a remarkably important connection. and you say that because of what we re learning about he s mann, eastman, that the committee needs to recommend changes to the electoral count act. yeah, that is what others try to exploit here. it is the federal law that tells us how the votes get counted in congress on january 6 and what they tried to exploit is i don t think that it is ambiguous, i
think that the law is pretty clear, that the vice president s only role is to count the votes and announce the votes, but eastman s local thwhole theory the vice president has the authority to throw out certain votes. so quite an easy fix. august you need to say is that the vice president s only job is to count and announce the votes. he can t decide to throw any out. so it is the language of the statute. yeah, the statute needs to be fixed. and let s keep in mind, the committee has said in court our purpose is not necessarily investigative, as legislative. and would not thing that one important here, we were talking about it yesterday in terms of intent, prove intent, what did he really believe. but for i don t john eastman, i critical. yes. and there is a critical line here between lawyers are allowed to and i will tell you first hand often do make arguments that are reaches, that are shaky. sometimes that are even
reporter: it will all focus on the pressure on mike pence to take that unconstitutional action on january 6, 2021 to overturn the electoral certified votes of the states here on january 6, something of course that he rejected doing. but going to the genesis of how this theory first came about. looking at the trump attorney john eastman who is a prominent supporter of this and directly tie donald trump s words to the violence that occurred on january 6 as words about mike pence into exactly what happened here in the capitol. now, two people will be testifying who are very close to mike pence, we expect to hear from greg jake sob who is a former counsel for mike pence and as well as judge mike luttig, former judge and adviser of sorts to pence to understand what the vice president was thinking at the time. we do also expect to see video deposition from his former chief of staff marc short, who will be