and we are following the money the grift and where the hundreds of millions of donated dollars went, or didn t go, in that sham election defense fund. plus, today s historic rate hike from the fed, as inflation stays red hot. with the move means for the midterms. all of it when the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle, live from the nation s capital. where tomorrow, the january six committee has its third public hearing, starting at 1 pm eastern. and this time, investigators are expected to focus on then vice president mike pence and the pressure campaign to get him to get joe biden out of the white house. committee aides say new evidence presented tomorrow will show how the efforts of his former boss, donald trump, led to the riot and put pence s life in serious danger. you ll remember the surveillance video of security rushing pence off the senate floor, as rioters chanted, hang mike pence. abc news has obtained new
stephanie ruhle, live from the nation s capital, where tomorrow, the january 6th committee has its third public hearing, starting at 1:00 pm eastern. and this time, investigators are expected to focus on then vice president mike pence and the pressure campaign to get him to get joe biden out of the white house. committee aides say new evidence presented tomorrow will show how the efforts of his former boss, donald trump, led to the riot and put pence s life in serious danger. you ll remember the surveillance video of security rushing pence off the senate floor, as rioters chanted, hang mike pence. and abc news has obtained new photos of the former vice president and his family in hiding, after the mob broke into the capital capitol. where we expect to hear from key pence advisors his former counsel greg jacob and retired federal judge michael luttig. their reports of closed door testimony from marc short, pence s one-time chief of staff, will also be included. earlier tonig
bring out pence! bring him out! bring out pence! bring mike pence! bring mike pence! [ chanting ] much of today s testimony centered around john eastman, an attorney whose theory that the vice president had the authority to nullify the election outcome so laughable that donald trump s own aides, allies and closest advisers described dismissing it outright. here s that evidence. made clear with mr. meadows about you and the vice president having a different view about the authority on january 6. i believe i did. did he explit sy or tacetly agree with you or say that makes sense or okay? i believe that that mark did agree. what makes you say that? i believe that s what he told me. but as i mentioned i think mark told so many people so many different things that it was not something that i would necessarily accept. that s okay why that s resolved. i see. tell me what he told you on this topic. you know the vice president doesn t have a broader role.
White House Press Secretary under president obama and msnbc political analyst. Adam pollock, and charles coleman, an msnbc legal analyst. Vaughn, i want to start with you. You have kind of lived all of this from the beginning to the end. As you watched what unfolded today, help us understand it, but also put all of that testimony by Hope Hicks Which was pretty dramatic in the context of what we knew at the time. Reporter exactly, its dramatic because hope hicks was somebody who testified today that she was intimately involved with donald trump in what was a very Small Campaign brass that included keith shiler and Corey Lewandowski and Michael Cohen, the outside personal lawyer voice who maintained a quasi role with the campaign, representing donald trump. In this, for hope hicks and for the jury here, is a key, crucial witness that knows donald trump so well, but also was a trusted adviser and aide, somebody whose words were never really highly scrutinized, somebody who donald trump ha
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