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
this election. frankly, we did win this election. reporter: donald trump s false claim that he won the election before all the votes were counted, a lie he continues to peddle but one the january 6th committee didn t believe, like his attorney general. he had become attached from reality if he really believes this stuff. reporter: his campaign manager. i didn t think what was happening was necessarily i remember tell being him i didn t believe the dominion allegations. what they were proposing i thought was nuts. the theory was also completely nuts. reporter: trump s assertion that he won the election is at the core of the committee s argument that he purposely and criminally worked to prevent the i told him that the claims of fraud wiere bullshit. bill stepien was supposed to testify live but when his went into labor, he bowed out. did anybody who was a part of that conversation disagree with your message? yes. who was that? the president disagr
parents of one of the wounded who say their son is just not the same. and u.s. president joe biden promises to keep battling inflation as prices for everyday items continue to spiral upwards. there is a growing sense of urgency among some members of congress ahead of monday s second hearing on the january 6th investigation. the select committee has planned six more hearings this month to present its preliminary findings. they say their investigation paints a damning portrait of then president trump as the central figure behind that failed coup. one committee member previewed what s to come. well, we re going to go methodically through each of the major problem areas with the former president. for example, examining his claims of fraud. that was important because it was false. we know that he was told that it was false. and yet he continued to stir up the american people with false narratives. now the former president donald trump firing back after the panel used his own
w audio of what republican lawmakers were saying just day after. i want you to hear kevin mccarthy describing what happened and how he called the then president to tell him to call off the eye rioter. on the phone call to the president telling him what was going on. asking him to tell these people to stop, to make a video and go out. i was very intense and very loud about it. he did put a tweet out and later a video out. i told him i didn t like the video out later. the second day i wish the video was first. what they are saying then and what they are saying now. then it goes onto kevin mccarthy calls for a bipartisan to investigate the circumstances around the attack and to insist we cannot just sweep this under the rug. we cannot just sweep this under the rug, he says. this is from arkansas congressman french hill pleading with his fellow republicans to get the then president to do the right thing. all of you have such a great, wonderful, warm relationship with dona
that same judge issued a landmark ruling earlier this year finding it was more likely than not that trump and a conservative lawyer committed a crime and strikeategizing to overturn the election. trump is not charged with a crime and denied any wrongdoing. he continues to down play his involvement and bashing the committee s work as another quote witch hunt. january 6th. what a lot of crap, it s another con job like russia. reporter: committee members say trump was decar on his duty and republicans pleaded for trump to intervene and text messages to his white house chief of staff. i think mark meadows is the ms mvp for the committee. reporter: denver helped decode meadow s text among the 2300 messages obtained by cnn. donald trump junior texting he s got to condemn this shit asap. meadows responding, i am pushing it hard. i agree. it took trump over three hours to release this recorded video. so go home, we love you. you re very special. look at the totality of th