about mike pence, that served to whip up the crowd. one of the rioters read it aloud. watch this. you just heard that mike pence is not going to reject any fraudulent elector votes! you re a traitor! that s right. you heard it here first. mike pence has betrayed the united states of america! [ bleep ] you, mike pence. it was clear it was escalating and escalating quickly. hang mike pence. hang mike pence. so when that tweet, mike pence tweet, was sent out, i remember us saying that that was the last thing that needed to be tweeted at that moment. the situation was already bad. and so it felt like he was pouring gasoline on the fire by tweeting that. the danger to pence was very real, and very close as we have now learned, that angry mob got about 40 feet away from the vice president. mr. jacob, you were there, seeing that for the first time, does it surprise you to see how close the mob was to the evacuation route that you took? 40 feet is a distance from me t
attorney john eastman and others, presented a clear and dangerous threat to american democracy. listen to this. had vice president pence obeyed the orders from his president, and the president of the united states of america, that declaration of donald trump as the next president would have plunged america into what i believe would have been tantamount to a revolution within a constitutional crisis. revolution within a constitutional crisis. the committee also revealing just how close to serious danger mike pence was on during the day of the insurrection. rioters coming within 40 feet of the former vice president. as the committee prepares to hold more hearings next week, it is also trying to speak to ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court court justice clarence thomas about her role in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election. let s take you to capitol hill and lauren fox is there for us. what were the main takeaways from thursday s hearings? reporter: well
bolduan. the january 6th committee building its case against former president donald trump, and his plot to overturn the 2020 election. but could the former president face charges? plus, inflation and the fight against it making the american dream unaffordable for some. i ll ask one of the president s top economic advisers what can be done to help those who need it most. and more than three weeks after the school shooting in uvalde, texas, a community is still waiting for answers. that s what we re watching at this hour. we begin with the january 6th committee laying out more evidence that donald trump knew his plan to overturn the 2020 election was illegal. he tried to do it anyway. that finding leading to a critical question, will the justice department criminally prosecute the former president? a former federal judge and conservative legal expert testified thursday that trump s plan promoted relentlessly by