hold accountable those who target public servants with violence. the case against the texas man is actually the first following the creation of a doj task force focused on threats against election officials. evan perez is out front and, evan, the justice department making clear that this indictment, while the first and while, you know, more than a year after the election itself, is likely just the beginning? it really does seem like it s just the beginning, erin. we heard from justice department officials today that they have gotten about 850 referrals of threats just like this one, and in this case, this man s name is chad stark. he was arrested today in texas. prosecutors in atlanta are bringing this case and what they say he did was on january 5th, 2021 a day before the capitol attack he posted a message on on craig s list offering to pay $10,000 to anyone who
the road, and thousands of flights have already been canceled. we will have an update on the blizzard warnings later this hour. but we begin tonight with the latest subpoenas from the january 6th committee s shoe just this afternoon. they reveal more details about an apparently well organized effort to try to keep joe biden from entering the white house. panel members confirmed they want documents, on a deposition next month from trump white house deputy secretary judd deer. lawmakers are interested in his potential first hand knowledge of what the president was doing before, and while the capitol was under attack. they also want to talk with him about the january 5th 2021 oval office meeting he attended, in which trump is said to have asked about getting, so-called republicans in name only, to not certify the election. he may have also played a role in how trump responded when the capitol riot was underway. we think he had a hand in formulating the strategy and
we begin tonight with the latest subpoenas from the january 6th committee s shoe just this afternoon. they reveal more details about an apparently well organized effort to try to keep joe biden from entering the white house. panel members confirmed they want documents, on a deposition next month from trump white house deputy secretary judd deer. lawmakers are interested in his potential first hand knowledge of what the president was doing before, and while the capitol was under attack. they also want to talk with him about the january 5th 2021 oval office meeting he attended, in which trump is said to have asked about getting, so-called republicans in name only, to not certify the election. he may have also played a role in how trump responded when the capitol riot was underway. we think he had a hand in formulating the strategy and some of the media discussions on the day of january 6th, and the presidents response to that.
shared and is there any indication pence himself will voluntarily appear? all the signals are that folks within pence s, both closer and broader orbit, have been candid and cooperative with the committee. so we can assume that they re sharing detailed, firsthand descriptions of what happened that day, the vice president s movements, likely the vice president s communications. of course, the terror that ensued as this mob of rioters surrounded and then broke into the capitol building and how pence decided to, you know, not disappear but rather to make sure that he was able to ride through that peaceful transition of power that ended up happening. the important thing to remember about pence and all of his aides, sort of two fold. first, no one arguably was more loyal to trump up until january 5th, 2021, than mike pence. he was loath to criticize the president during the entirety of
and one of the biggest unsolved mystery of the person who placed pipe bombs. one of them came dangerously close to the vice president. tom foreman has the latest. reporter: who is this person caught on security cameras blocks from the capitol on the evening of january 5th, 2021? federal investigators believe they left a pair of pipe bombs outside democratic and republican party headquarters, not discovered until early the next afternoon as the capitol er erupted. if these went off, they could have caused serious arm or death. reporter: even crude pipe bombs can be enormously powerful. on that day, i was not only vice president-elect, i was also a united states senator.