showing pence and his family in hiding inside the capitol as the building was being ransacked by rioters. pence s daughter on the left side. his wife on the right pulling the curtains closed for extra safety. pence has good reason to be hiding. some of the rioters brought a gallows to the capitol while chanting for pence to be hanged. hang mike pence. hang mike pence. hang mike pence. hang mike pence. hang mike pence. this is pence s former chief of staff will not testify in person tomorrow but clips from his video deposition are expected to be played. tonight, in an exclusive interview, short telling our very own wolf blitzer who he believes is responsible for the january 6th violence. i want to be clear, do you blame those surrounding the president for giving him bad advise or blame the then president himself? i think the buck stops with the president. he has responsibility to listen to advice or discard advice. i also think there were people around the president wh
schumer how one of the rioters got a tour of the capital capitol from a republican congressman the day of the insurrection. but no one in that group showed that type of aggression that day. committee member adam schiff is here on that, plus the planned hearing tomorrow focusing on vice president mike pence and the we live consequences of the big lie on a local election in new mexico. i have huge concerns with these voting machines. i really do. when all in starts right now good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. we now have a blueprint for the violent insurrection, from far-right gang the proud boys, and it uncannily matches up in specific detail with what actually transpired on january 6th. today, we got the first look at the document titled, 1776 returns, when the lawyer for the philadelphia president of the proud boys, included it in a federal court filing. we heard mention of this document in previous indictments against members of the proud boys, some
should have refused to count the electoral votes. and he should thereby have thrown out the results of the presidential election on january 6th at the u.s. capitol. that, i mean, bottom line that s why trump called for a rally in washington d.c. on january 6th. a rally he said would be wild. that s why he then told the people who showed up, when he called them to d.c., that today, that they should march down to the capitol. what was happening at the capitol at that moment? trump hoped, trump was trying to engineer, that mike pence would reject the votes of the electoral college and thereby throw the election results out, through the united states government in the chaos, thus allowing for the overthrow of the u.s. government and for trump to stay in power, even though he had been voted out. the vice chair of the january 6th investigation, liz cheney, put out a statement last night, which we covered here on last night show, in which he said, president trump was told that any
presidential election on january 6th at the u.s. capitol. that, i mean, bottom line that s why trump called for a rally in washington d. c. on january 6th. a rally he said would be wild. that s why he then told the people who showed up, when he called them to d. c., that today, that they should march down to the capitol. what was happening at the capitol at that moment? trump hoped, trump was trying to engineer, that mike pence would reject the votes of the electoral college and thereby throw the election results out, throw the united states government in the chaos, thus allowing for the overthrow of the u.s. government and for trump to stay in power, even though he had been voted out. the vice chair of the january 6th investigation, liz cheney, put out a statement last night, which we covered here on last night show, in which he said, president trump was told that any such effort to get pence to do that would be illegal. he was told it was illegal, but he did it anyway. we
actually transpired on january 6th. today, we got the first look at the document titled, 1776 returns, when the lawyer for the philadelphia president of the proud boys included it in a federal court filing. we heard mention of this document in previous indictments against members of the proud boys, some of whom were charged with seditious conspiracy last week. prosecutors revealed that an individual, whose identity is known to the grand jury, sent this blueprint to proud boys leader enrique tarrio on december 30th, 2020. one way to think about the attempted coup and i think the way that the committee is discussing it, and the way we discuss it on this program is sort of broadly two different efforts that merged on january 6th. there was trump and his circle of people around him, who were pro-coup, attempting to overthrow the rightfully elected president, joe biden, to keep donald trump in power. they were trying to use every government mechanism they had at their disposal