the january 6th committee presents new evidence as it tries to connect the capitol insurrection to trump s pressure campaign against his vice president. witnesses testifying trump knew the plan was illegal, but he went ahead with it anyway. there is so much to discuss with our senior political analyst, but first we want to get you to manu raju with the latest. mike pence has betrayed america! reporter: the pressure campaign was relentless. donald trump for months trying to get mike pence to do something no vice president has ever done, reject the will of the electorate and install him as president for a second term. right up to this heated phone call on the morning of january 6th, just before pence was presiding over a joint session of congress to certify joe biden s victory. he called him a wimp. it was a different tone that i heard him take with the vice president before. do you remember what she said? her father called him. the p word. trump revised his janua
possibly a crime. they knew, and according to a testimony today, they do it anyway. and the testament knew that. he also in new in realtime that the actions that he was taking, or about to take with his 2:24 pm tweet the he had been told exactly how that it was at the capitol. although the presidents chief of staff, mark meadows, is refusing to testify before the committee. mr. meadows aid, ben williamson, and white house press secretary, sarah matthews, testified that mr. meadows went to the dining room near the oval office to tell the president about the violence of the capitol before the president s 2:24 pm tweet. it was clear that it was escalating, and escalating quickly. [noise] so then, when that we, than mike pence s tweet was sent out. i remember saying that that was the last thing that needs to be tweeted at that moment. pete aguilar says the committee s investigation shows that immediately after that tweet, the crowd in the capitol search. two minutes lat
they said they wanted to come home safely and share their military skills with other fighters. the news continues. let s go over to laura. thank you, anderson. i am laura coates and this is cnn tonight. it seems that everyone told trump that the emperor had no clothes on, even behind closed doors but the vice president counsel, the vice president, they all told him that the plan to have vice president mike pence not certify the election was an american. in the words of the prosecutor, illegal. even the top prosecutor, attorney general bill barr could not support the play to stay in office. tonight we have two former attorneys general here. both are going to give us their take on whether the emperors wardrobe might be treated for prison guard. it is being watched very closely and we are wondering what his predecessors think and what might they have done differently. day three has had quite a theme. it is called pressure. persistent, relentless, unyielding pressure. all targe
what was it? [ sighs ] i can t remember. top of the hour on cnn newsroom. good to have you along. i m victor blackwell. we re starting this hour with the questions of potential legal jeopardy for former president donald trump and his attorney john eastman. the january 6th committee made its most forceful case yet that trump was responsible for the capitol insurrection. this was their third hearing and the committee revealed evidence that trump and eastman knew that their plot to push then vice president mike pence to delay the certification of the election results was not legal but kept unrelenting pressure on pence anyway, with trump berating and cursing at him on the phone. listen to former trump white house lawyer eric herschmann on his conversation with john eastman. i said are you out of your effing mind, and that was pretty blunt. i said, you re completely crazy. you re going to cause riots in the streets. and he said words to the effect of there s been violence in
january 6th, 2001, which played out this way after the disputed results in florida. it is the objection in writing and signed by member of the house and a senator? the objection is in writing and i don t care that it is not it is not signed by a member of the senate. the chair will advise that the rules do care. now we all remember what happened next. george w. bush s election was certified by al gore, the vice president at the time and bush was the president. vice president al gore did not stop that. no one suggested he had constitutional authority to do so since, in fact, that was never a thing despite a history of multiple disputed american presidential elections including the one which also hinged on disputed florida results back in 1876 which led to the creation of the elect oral count act. during today s hearing gregory jacob who was lead council to vice president pence was asked if he confronted eastman s interpretation and this is what he said. back in 200