bill barr. during his deposition, the former attorney general told the committee that he repeatedly told trump that there was no credible evidence of election fraud. i made it clear that i did not agree with the idea of saying that the election was stolen. i told the president this was dumb. i did not want to be a part of it. this is what led me to decide to leave when i did. even though a number of his own top administration officials debunked election fraud conspiracies, trump hospice persisted. weeks following the election, he lashed onto the idea that pence would be able to overturn the results of the election by choosing to certify the votes of certain states. this was an illegal plan that was spearheaded by john eastman, who also played a role in the pressure campaign to get the vice president to delay the certification of the 2020 presidential election. this pressure campaign and intense focus on what the vice president would do on january 6th, resulted in the viol
thing, we win the election. i remember hearing the word wimp. he called him a wimp. wimp is the word i remember. it was a different tone than i d heard him take with the vice president before. do you remember what your father called him? the p word. the hearing included testimony that even after trump was informed violence was breaking out on the capitol, he tweeted an insult saying that pence lacked courage which the committee says led to a surge in the crowd. then i remember getting a notification on my phone and i was sitting in a room with roma and ben and we all got a notification so we knew it was a tweet from the apresident and w looked down and it was a tweet about mike pence. it was clear that escalating quickly. the committee also walked through right wing trump attorney john eastman s relentless effort to advance his legal theory that vice president pensz oi pence could on his own block certification of the election. and that theory was rejected by
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
illusions. i do not have the power to throughout the election results, nor does any individual american as our forefathers said. and we look forward to seeing you tomorrow, and america forever. but i m not gonna do that. i mean, the chief of staff, calls up the trump guy and complains about it. but why don t you just put out the vice presidential statement immediately? yes, a very good point. and they re not showing us every single thing they ve obtained and every question and answer with everyone. and maybe, the congressman schiff could tell us that they did have some exchanges about why did the vice president didn t make a statement that they. they might have that in their. we ll see what congressman schiff have to say. go for it, lawrence. thank you rachel. he did his duty. that s what liz cheney said today about mike pence, at the beginning of the january six committee hearing. he stayed true to his oath. that s what democratic congressman pete aguilar said
so, when will ginni thomas tell the committee all she knows about the insurrection? as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. today the, january 6th committee made a powerful case about the relentless pressure donald trump and his allies put on mike pence to unlawfully overturn the 2020 election results. this afternoon, the committee presented detailed evidence revealing the intensity of that effort and the real danger pence was in on the day of the insurrection. mike pence, i hope you are going to stand up for the good of our constitution and for the good of our country. and if you are not, i m going to be very disappointed in you, i will tell you right now. i m telling you what, i m hearing the pence, i m hearing that pence just caved no i m hearing reports that pence caved. i m telling you, if pence caved, we are going to bleep through the streets. [inaudible] bring him out! bring out pence!