hello, and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. historic testimony. the former vice president pns pensacola faces a federal grand jury looking into donald trump s efforts to steal the 2020 election. the testimony marks a pivotal moment in the special counsel investigation. plus taking a stand. conservative-led legislatures in south carolina and nebraska say no to stricter abortion laws. it s the latest whiplash moment as republicans wrestle with their roe era promises to one day ban abortion in the post roe world are where they can. and a heavy weight showdown now brewing in west virginia. jim justice announces his run for joe manchin s seat. how in the world do you think we re perireceived with our allies. look what happened in afghanistan. look what s going on at the border and with inflation and look what s going on with energy. it s just all over the park. we re going to have to do something about it. w
orders on the u.s. capitol grounds on january 6th. listen, you just hang in there, donald trump told the woman, who was found guilty on a misdemeanor charge of resisting police efforts to clear grounds. you guys are going to be okay. trump, who is campaigning in new hampshire, then agreed to sign the backpack she said she carried to the capitol complex on the day of the interruption of the congressional proceedings to certify trump s loss in the 2020 election. just hours before the ex-president and gop front-runner literally embraced an insurrectionist, you can t make that up territory now, a member of the mob that chanted hang mike pence a watershed moment took place someplace else. as we reported yesterday during this hour, the former vp mike pence testified before a federal grand jury. the new york times posted, it s not clear what testimony he provided thursday, but prosecutors were surely interested in pence s accounts of his interactions with trump, and trump ad
doesn t necessarily reflect another or the whole, footage of soldiers during a pause in battle doesn t mean there s to war. the zapruder film before jfk is shot doesn t make it a parade. pretending otherwise is conning people. pretending otherwise when you know better is something else and enabling that con when you re a high-ranking elected official accountable to the public directly in line to the presidency is hard to imagine. or so you might think because that s just what house speaker kevin mccarthy has done. he enabled this. the crowd was enormous. a small perjury of them were hooligans. they committed vandalism. you ve seen their pictures again and again but the overwhelming majority weren t. they were peaceful. they were orderly and meek. these were not insurrectionist, they were sightseers. fox s tucker carlson cherry-picking from 40,000 hours of footage that speaker mccarthy released to him and only him of the january 6th attack. the fox host attempted to con hi
on the stand? plus, after yesterday s horrific shooting in nashville, tennessee, renewed calls for gun safety legislation while kevin mccarthy is not saying a word. so how can we get anything done? the 11th hour gets under way on this tuesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle coming to you live from our nation s capital, where former president trump s number two has lost his bid to testify under oath. a federal judge has now ordered former vp mike pence to appear before the grand jury investigating january 6th. pence, of course, has been fighting special counsel jack smith s subpoena. he argued his role as president of the senate shielded him from testimony. but the judge said he can be questioned about alleged illegality on trump s part. tonight, pence hinted this thing ain t over. i have nothing to hide. i have a constitution to uphold. i upheld the constitution on january 6th. i believe we did our duty that day under the constitution of the unite
american mainstream. i m talking about main street americans in their millions. they come in all sizes, shapes and colors. blue collar workers, blacks, hispanics, shoe keepers, scholars, service people, housewives and professional men and women, they re the backbone of america. we can t move america without moving their hearts and minds, as well. they want all electric stoves all over the country. but we don t have the electric power for that. we want electric stoves, but we also want gas stoves. it s april fools . why do they want that? cpac then and now. the conservative conference has shifted in recent years to grievance politics. those two speeches 41 years apart. now, led by former president donald trump who delivered a dark speech, telling a sparse crowd at cpac, quote, i am your retribution. we ll have more of his remarks and what they mean for the 2024 presidential race just ahead. plus, we ll get a live report from springfield, ohio, where another norfolk south