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