remember what trump told the crowd at the elipse hours before the attack. mike pence, i will tell you right now, i m not hearing good stories. i hope that our great vice president, our great vice president comes through for us. he is a great guy. of course if he doesn t come through, i won t like him quite as much. [ chanting ] trump s public push contributed to the riot which included threats against pence s life. and two pence aides will appear live this morning. counsel to the vice president and a retired judge and informal adviser. and also expect to see video from the deposition of marc short who appeared yesterday, telling wolf blitzer how he warned the secret service the day before the riot. it became clear that the disagreements that had been discussed i think between the president and vice president? and the staffs were about to become far more public. and i think with thousands of people dekrscending upon washington, i thought it would be important.
keilar. and a flurry of new developments overnight surrounding the january 6th insurrection, just hours before the next hours gets under way. the new york times reports previously undisclosed emails from trump lawyer john eastman claiming he was aware of a, quote, heated fight among supreme court justices over whether to take up a case on the 2020 election. but even more than that, the times reports a response from another pro-trump lawyer, quote, odds of action by the supreme court before january 6 will become more favorable if the justices start to fear that there will be wild chaos on january 6 unless they rule by then either way. this was about two weeks this email before the insurrection. the times says this raises questions about a link to the idea of the violence that ultimately took place. much more on this in just a moment. but first cnn is learning exclusively what an adviser to former vice president mike pence will say at today s hearing which focuses on th
more favorable if the justices start to fear that there will be wild chaos on january 6th unless they rule by then either way. this was about two weeks before january 6. the times says this raises questions about a possible link to the idea of the violence that ultimately took place. cnn s katelyn polantz live in washington. explain to us about these revelations involved in all of these emails. reporter: hi. so this new story from the new york times describes emails between two lawyers who were working with donald trump and the trump campaign after the election. they appear to reveal that one lawyer, john eastman, he is well connected among conservatives, former supreme court clerk, that east man had insight into the internal deliberations of the supreme court and another lawyer was using that information with him to look at ramping up their legal battle with an expectation of chaos on january 6. so in these emails the new york times says that eastman on christmas eve
senate chamber. retired republican federal judge j. michael luttig is expected to condemn trump for instigating as he is expected to put it a war on democracy so that he could cling to power. judge luttig is expected to say had the vice president of the united states obeyed the president of the united states, america would immediately have been plunged into what would have been tantamount to a revolution within a paralyzing constitutional crisis. joining us now is democratic congressman jamie raskin of maryland, a member of the select committee investigating january 6th. congressman raskin, thank you so much for being with us. i want to focus on the new revelations from the new york times starting with this email they report on between a pro trump lawyer and john eastman, who, of course, was working for donald trump and you focused on quite a bit. he writes, odds of action by the supreme court before january 6th will become more favorable if the justices start to fear tha
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