forward to pressure vice president pence anyway. the committee outlining how close to imminent mortal danger the vice president was on january 6th, 2021. our investigation found that immediately after the president s 2:24 p.m. tweet, the crowds both outside the capitol and inside the capitol surged. mike pence has betrayed the united states of america! mike pence has betrayed this president and he has betrayed the people of the united states and we will never, ever forget! i m telling you, if pence came, we re going to drag the [ bleep ] through the streets. real simple, pence betrayed us, which apparently everybody knew he was going to, and the president mentioned it, like five times when he talked, you can go back and watch the president s video. make no mistake about the fact that the vice president s life was in danger. a recent court filing by the department of justice explains that confidential informant from the proud boys told the fbi the proud boys would ha
attorney john eastman and others, presented a clear and dangerous threat to american democracy. listen to this. had vice president pence obeyed the orders from his president, and the president of the united states of america, that declaration of donald trump as the next president would have plunged america into what i believe would have been tantamount to a revolution within a constitutional crisis. revolution within a constitutional crisis. the committee also revealing just how close to serious danger mike pence was on during the day of the insurrection. rioters coming within 40 feet of the former vice president. as the committee prepares to hold more hearings next week, it is also trying to speak to ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court court justice clarence thomas about her role in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election. let s take you to capitol hill and lauren fox is there for us. what were the main takeaways from thursday s hearings? reporter: well
the p-word. new details show how trump was told over and over and over again his plot to overturn the election was not legal. plus a rare interview president biden shares a gloomy outlook with the associated press. americans are confused, upset and worried, but he blames covid caution and politics, not his policies. and the search is on for three americans missing in ukraine, three feared taken by russian forces. the plot that donald trump knew it was illegal and kept pushing his agenda. panel picks up the public work next week. hearing four will detail the campaign against people in areas where he lost. they walked through the country s badgering of the. the committee detailed how trump shopped for lawyer after lawyer and scheme after scheme. it led him to john eastman, and an election plot witnesses say was without constitutional merit and without a doubt, illegal. i said are you out of your f ing mind. no, that was pretty blunt. i said you re completely crazy. y
rioters. as trump pressured him to stop the vote certification of the 2020 election. it was a move trump knew was illegal as several witnesses revealed just yesterday. let s get to cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez. what more are you learning about next week s hearing? well, the committee, the january 6th committee is trying to nail down the list of witnesses that they have from the former justice department, former justice department officials under former president trump. and right now we know that they have slated they were key in standing up to the president. he was trying to essentially use the justice department to endorse his claims that there was vote fraud, and in the end, to try to overturn the election results. one witness that we don t know we know the committee was looking for, and it appears will not be showing up is pat sip pat cipollone. it would have been unusual to see a former white house counsel sitting before this committee. it appears
my memory, i remember hearing the word wimp, either he called him a wimp, i don t remember if he said wimp is the word i remember. something to the effect this is the wording is wrong. i made the wrong decision for our five years ago. and the word that he repla the word, do you remember what she said her father called anymore the p word. our investigation found that early drafts of the january 6th ellipse speech prepared for the president, include nod d no men of the vice president, but revised it to criticize the vice president and further ad libbed. trump did not stop there, sending a sweet attacking his vice president after aides had told the president that there was violence at the capitol, where mike pence was. the tweet poured gasoline on the fire according to one trump white house aide. the mob surged in the minutes after that tweet and were able to overwhelm the police. two minutes later, pence was evacuated to a secure location underneath the capi