republicans there. you know, i spent 27 years as a law enforcement officer. and i could not tell you the political party of the overwhelming majority of men and women that i worked with. we had a mission to fulfill and we were laser focussed on that mission. and in the worst of times, that s when we are supposed to come together. so to see no republicans there, when we are commemorating one year after the most vicious attack on american soil since 1812 was absolutely shameful. and the first segment tonight i showed how a year ago senator mitch mcconnell blamed donald trump personally for the attack on the capitol. kevin mccarthy did, too, a year ago. kevin mccarthy was silent today. but let s listen to what kevin mccarthy said last year. some say the riots were
president. i don t want to be your friend anymore. you ve betrayed us. i made you. your career is over. and another point in all of this, trump said to pence, i picked the wrong man four years ago. and then you did the you re going to wimp out. and so, i mean, think about it, put yourself in pence s shoes. here he is, the loyal man for four years doing everything i remember being in the oval office with interviewing trump and he had, you know they always bring people in. and there s pence standing there at attention, almost eyes glazed over. and this was the routine. so here trump says these things
supporters investigated and ran it to ground as they say. lindsey graham of all people had his chief counsel investigate rudy giuliani s memos. i brought them here. it s half inch thick packet of allegations and none of them check out. and at the end, somebody said to senator graham, well, look they re making these allegations. and graham, who can at times have sense of humor, look, i can get a sign and sworn affidavit today declaring that the world is flat. and so that s what trump had. that s what his lawyers
robert costa, donald trump was asking mike pence nothing less than to commit a televised federal crime for donald trump and for mike pence s own benefit to retain the vice presidency. and mike pence, of course, refused to do that. in washington, apparently that can be portrayed as heroism, refusing to commit a federal crime on tv? i m not here to declare heroes or villains, but what we see at the end of the day in this story is donald trump was trying to use mike pence to weaponize a lie, a lie about the election. and this took pence to the brink on january 5th in the oval office. and when trump didn t get what he wanted there, he called up bannon and giuliani and said let s issue a statement and say pence agrees with us, even though he didn t.
to pence and is pushing him in a way rarely i think and perhaps never a president has pushed a vice president. and then pence, the wobbly at a number of points here, he no doubt you know, we lay it out. it is a pretty you could almost write a book and somebody suggested there should be a broadway play written about pence from our book and what s on the record and what else can be found out. and it would be the story of an internal, political and moral struggle, which pence went through. and as we see in polls, nothing has made mike pence more unpopular with republicans than doing what he was legally required to do on january 6th.