reporter: it will all focus on the pressure on mike pence to take that unconstitutional action on january 6, 2021 to overturn the electoral certified votes of the states here on january 6, something of course that he rejected doing. but going to the genesis of how this theory first came about. looking at the trump attorney john eastman who is a prominent supporter of this and directly tie donald trump s words to the violence that occurred on january 6 as words about mike pence into exactly what happened here in the capitol. now, two people will be testifying who are very close to mike pence, we expect to hear from greg jake sob who is a former counsel for mike pence and as well as judge mike luttig, former judge and adviser of sorts to pence to understand what the vice president was thinking at the time. we do also expect to see video deposition from his former chief of staff marc short, who will be featured prominently in today s hearing. we ve gotten a copy of judge lutti
his credibility is not great when we look at his actions. but if, so then i think it is important who is this back channel. we don t know. we know that there were emails and eastman clerked for thomas many years ago. but the bigger question is the substance of the emails. this is the first time we ve seen a direct link. the email, they are talking about if there is chaos, that will help our chances in the supreme court. that is a remarkably important connection. and you say that because of what we re learning about he s mann, eastman, that the committee needs to recommend changes to the electoral count act. yeah, that is what others try to exploit here. it is the federal law that tells us how the votes get counted in congress on january 6 and what they tried to exploit is i don t think that it is ambiguous, i