the idea of mike pence, as his staff, gets into cars, pence says we re not leaving here, we are going to stay, and i m going to do my constitutional duty as vice president of the united states. get out of the cars, get back into the capitol. i mean, that s a very moving scene. and good for mike pence. and to see those pictures of him at this loading dock, wherever that was. you mean, this was a moment in american history that could have gone either way. i think that s, you know, so reinforced. i mean, there could have been a lot more deaths. there could have been a constitutional crisis. it was bad enough as it was. but it could have been worse. and mike pence deserves a lot of credit for the resolution was as good, if that s the word, as it turned out to be. i was a little surprised. i think it was the first hearing that the evidence came out from members of the committee that i think it was liz cheney said that when this question of hang mike pence got back to trump
i m jake tapper. aides say this second hearing will drill down on evidence that president trump knew he lost the election but spread false claims of fraud anyway, ignoring court rulings, ignoring the will of the american people. lead-off witness, bill stepien, who has firsthand knowledge about what trump knew about the election numbers. stepien tells cnn he is appearing under subpoena. also testifying today, former fox digital content director chris stirewalt. he was fired after his accurate call of arizona for joe biden. we ll hear directly from republicans who investigated and rejected claims of election fraud in the key states of georgia and pennsylvania, and felt trump s anger for it, former u.s. attorney bijay . . ak and al schmidt and ben ginsburg will testify there was no widespread fraud in 2020 and discuss the trump team s failed challenge to the election results. the select house committee is aiming to connect more dots between the insurrection and its allegation
The jordan forces wanted him to do. They wanted him to vote present but he voted for mccarthy. That is essentially a no vote on jordan. The next vote that were going to be dipping in for will be Congressman Ken Buck, another nay on jordan. His issue also different, kasie hunt, again, not a moderate against jordan, ken buck a very conservative republican from colorado, his issue is elections and whether or not joe biden actually won the election fair and square. Big picture, jake, i just think we are watching the formal installation of donald trump. There have been so many ways in which this has happened, but this is a moment crystallizing it for me, as the current Singular Entity republican the Republican Party, this is an institution whose glass doors were broken. There were gun shots fired outside this chamber. The members had to evacuate in gas masks on january 6th of 2021, when a protrump mob stormed the place and as we were discussing before, jim jordan was and jamie reported abou
This is cnns special live coverage of an historic vote on capitol hill. Im jake tapper. This has not happened in more than 100 years. But facing a revolt from a small but powerful group of republican hardliners, mccarthy says he will bring up a motion to vacate in the first series of votes today that is just minutes away. I truly believe, though, the institution of the house, at the end of the day if you throw a speaker out that has 99 of their conference, that kept government open and paid the troops, i think were in a really bad place for how were going to run congress. Speaker mccarthy says he thinks he will survive the vote and that he will not make a deal with democrats to keep his job but that may not even be an option anyway. Heres the speaker earlier today. Democrats have been huddling today. Democrats are signaling they will not be coming to Speaker Mccarthys rescue. Lets get right to the action on capitol hill. Cnns manu raju and lauren fox join me now. Manu, ill start with y
over and over again. holds three words, finish the job. ethey made clear this is a literal prime time opportunity for him to run through a laundry list of accomplishments they believe have transformed the u.s. economy, but they are also keenly aware many of those accomplishments either haven t been felt by the american public or still in the process of being implemented. that is where those three words will be critical. the president wanting to lay out why he believes the state of the union in this moment and injury strong but in the years ahead will be even stronger based on what he has laid into place during the course of those first two years. talking to white house officials they understand the importance of this moment both in telling the american public what the president has done but laying out that groundwork keenly aware this isn t just about tonight or the year ahead, there s certainly an election campaign looming. let s go to manu raju on capitol hill right now. and what s