i m in an untenable position. the constitution is on my side on this. we ll see about that. next week the january 6th committee begins a month of hearings with the promise of revealing new witnesses and unseen documents. we re getting a new report from the new york times that chief of staff to vice president warned the secret service one day before the insurrection that trump could publically turn on pence and create a security risk for the vice president. the secret service disputes the account and said concerns about violence directed at pence by the president s actions were never communicated. still, the next day after pence moved to certify the 2020 votes and trump attacked him on twitter came this infamous moment. hang mike pence. hang mike pence. hang mike pence. cnn s ryan nobles has more on the moves by the justice department and what s ahead in the investigation. ryan? reporter: jim this news has to come as a disappointment to the january 6th select committ
to act on criminal contempt referrals for the former white house chief of staff and deputy chief of staff, a decision the january 6th committee calls puzzling. the committee will hold its first ever public hearing on thursday night. they plan to show previously unseen material documenting january 6th, call witnesses, and provide a summary of its findings so far. cnn has learned that two people directly tied to former vice president mike pence have received invitations to appear. this as a stunning report in the new york times says one day before pence certified the election, a top pence aide warned the secret service that trump was going to turn publicly against the vice president putting him in danger. the secret service disputes that account. of course we now know how january 6th unfolded. we want pence! we want pence! and joining me now is veteran democratic strategist james carville. great to see you. thanks for doing this. after the justice department made that ann
friday night news dump as always. i think, you know, it s still a little bit early to tell. the january 6th committee has this opportunity to really show the narrative, right, and we re going to get to see exactly what happened. we re going to hear probably some messages it sounds like. we re going to see a lot of evidence. and i think that, you know, it s people don t care about things until they do, right. things don t matter until they do. and i think that this is happening in prime time and people are seeing it. and liz cheney is extremely, you know, good in front of the cameras. as are the rest of the committee. so i think there s a real opportunity here to sort of get people to understand just what happened. this is always going to be about permeating that right wing media bubble and getting those people to see this hearing. and if that happens, i think that s going to be really important. steve, what about that?
that could complicate the efforts as they move forward. the committee has a busy week ahead of them. on thursday they hold their first public hearing since the investigation launched back in the fall. this is where they plan to layout, in specificity, what they have uncovered in the course of the 10-month investigation. it will kick off a series of hearings throughout the month of june and could be a very important part in the public effort this committee has in trying to convince the public that there was a serious problem leading up to and on january 6th and something that needs to be fixed. and then, of course, who is responsible for what happened here on january 6th. so a lot of work for the committee as the time goes on, jim. it all really kicks off in ernest on thursday. and joining me now is ellie honing, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york.
t wait one more day when people are dying on our streets. you re alive in the cnn newsroom, i m jim acosta, in washington the committee investigating january 6th is ready for prime time as they prepare to go public with new information next week. one of their criminal contempt referrals has resulted in a high profile arrest. a federal dgrand jury on friday indicted peter navarro for contempt of congress after he refused to cooperate with the january 6th committee. he joins the justice department s insurrection indictment list. alongside former trump adviser steve bannon. that list will not include mark meadows and dan scavino. the justice department declined