good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it is friday, june 17th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. there are new questions about donald trump s legal exposure in the january 6th attempted and attempted coup. he and his allies new their scheme was illegal but continued with it anyway. putting vice president pence s life in danger as angry mobs vowed to hang him at the capitol. this was pence on january 6th sheltering in a secure location as rioters overwhelmed the capitol. they came within 40 feet of the vice president s evacuation route. we are learning more about a heated phone call between trump and pence on that morning of january 6th. here s what witnesses, including ivanka trump, said about the former president s demeanor. yeah. i remember hearing the word wimp. 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 i heard him take with the vice president before. so a major new piece
the fbi informant said they would have killed him. that s a hell of a wakeup call. how much did trump know that, use that, how much did people around him was it just the fog of things this got out of hand. he sends out a pence tweet at the exact wrong time. it was pretty clear to everyone around him and it wasn t this fog of things developing and getting out of hand. there seemed to be an understanding, as we learned yesterday from john eastman, that maybe violence was okay. he felt it had been used before in the past. there was an understanding what that tweet would do at that moment. they knew what the situation was at the capitol. the focus on eastman yesterday is an interesting wakeup call and warning to attorneys everywhere. don t get too wrapped up in the possible criminal screaming of your client. in an urge i good else to try and serve donald trump and sort of advance his interests, he