showing pence and his family in hiding inside the capitol as the building was being ransacked by rioters. pence s daughter on the left side. his wife on the right pulling the curtains closed for extra safety. pence has good reason to be hiding. some of the rioters brought a gallows to the capitol while chanting for pence to be hanged. hang mike pence. hang mike pence. hang mike pence. hang mike pence. hang mike pence. this is pence s former chief of staff will not testify in person tomorrow but clips from his video deposition are expected to be played. tonight, in an exclusive interview, short telling our very own wolf blitzer who he believes is responsible for the january 6th violence. i want to be clear, do you blame those surrounding the president for giving him bad advise or blame the then president himself? i think the buck stops with the president. he has responsibility to listen to advice or discard advice. i also think there were people around the president wh
pence. the white house council said pence did not have any authority to throw out the results. trump s pressure on pence, and i quote, directly contributed to the violent insurrection. let s take a look at this photo. it s obtained by abc news, showing pence and his family inside hiding, as the building was being ransacked by rioters. pence s daughter on the left side of the photo, his wife on the right, pulling the curtains closed for extra safety. and pence had good reasons to be hiding. some of the rioters brought gallows to the capitol while calling for pence to be hanged. hang mike pence. hang mike pence. hang mike pence. hang mike pence. pence s former chief of staff will not testify in person. but clips from his video deposition are expected to be played. tonight, in a short, telling wolf blitzer, who he believes is ultimately responsible for the january 6th violence. well, to be clear, do you blame those surrounding the president for giving him bad advice? or do
focus. the january 6th tour taking pictures of hallways, tunnels and staircases inside the capitol complex, clearly not normal tourist fare and there s more. the committee has also released video of that same man you saw there near the capitol on january 6th issuing violent threats against house speaker nancy pelosi. senate majority leader chuck shumer and other democratic members of congress. we re coming in like white on rice for pelosi, nadler, schumer, even you, aoc. we re coming to take you out and pull you out by your hairs. how about that, pelosi? we re coming to take you out. we ll pull you out by your hair. we made the decision to play the video to you at all, not to amplify the threats, but to present the powerful evidence in the hands of the committee that refutes congressman loudermilk s previous forceful denials that he was not involved with tours of any insurrectionist in the run-up to january 6th. today loudermilk doubled down denying once again that he was
election result. it s a pressure campaign that came incredibly and alarmingly close to actually working. it could have completely changed the game for trump and his allies on january 6th if and only if it had succeeded. washington post is out with stunning new details on efforts by doj official jeffrey clark to essentially take over the justice department, efforts which culminated in a january 3rd meeting previously reported on by the post, the new york times and other outlets inside the oval office between clark, the man who would become the acting a.g. and his deputy richard donahue and of course one donald j. trump from the post reporting. clark had outlined a plan. in a letter he wanted to send to the leaders of key states that joe biden won. it said the justice department had, quote, identified significant concerns about the vote and that the state should consider sending a separate slate of electors supporting donald j. trump for congress to approve. in fact, clark
january 6th hearing reveals that trump knew he lost but tried to steal the election anyway while cheating his maga supporters out of their hard-earned money. plus, some are calling the gun reform framework a good first step. that suggests more is coming. color me skeptical. we ll talk about all that have and more with karine jeanpierre in her first live primetime interview since she made history, become the new white house press secretary. but we begin with day two of public hearings by the house january 6th committee today showing how donald trump deliberately launched the big lie to convince his own voters that he won an election he lost using claims of nonexistent fraud and then seeking to corrupt the justice department, his own campaign team, his donors and our court system in an effort to cling to power. if you think he cooked up that plan after the election as a hail mary simply because he couldn t accept defeat understand that donald trump went into the election alread