reporter: it will all focus on the pressure on mike pence to take that unconstitutional action on january 6, 2021 to overturn the electoral certified votes of the states here on january 6, something of course that he rejected doing. but going to the genesis of how this theory first came about. looking at the trump attorney john eastman who is a prominent supporter of this and directly tie donald trump s words to the violence that occurred on january 6 as words about mike pence into exactly what happened here in the capitol. now, two people will be testifying who are very close to mike pence, we expect to hear from greg jake sob who is a former counsel for mike pence and as well as judge mike luttig, former judge and adviser of sorts to pence to understand what the vice president was thinking at the time. we do also expect to see video deposition from his former chief of staff marc short, who will be featured prominently in today s hearing. we ve gotten a copy of judge lutti
think that the law is pretty clear, that the vice president s only role is to count the votes and announce the votes, but eastman s local thwhole theory the vice president has the authority to throw out certain votes. so quite an easy fix. august you need to say is that the vice president s only job is to count and announce the votes. he can t decide to throw any out. so it is the language of the statute. yeah, the statute needs to be fixed. and let s keep in mind, the committee has said in court our purpose is not necessarily investigative, as legislative. and would not thing that one important here, we were talking about it yesterday in terms of intent, prove intent, what did he really believe. but for i don t john eastman, i critical. yes. and there is a critical line here between lawyers are allowed to and i will tell you first hand often do make arguments that are reaches, that are shaky. sometimes that are even
notice, it says you have 60 days to clear it up. in my experience, day to day, you can go to a court, cite hardship, make arguments, et cetera. shannon: you re talking 100 days total from the time of the judgment, or the license is gone for good if you haven t made any reparations. when i put this case out to social media, and our viewers who are the jury in these cases, there was a lot of tough love out there. people saying, if you can t handle this, don t drive a car, don t break the law, don t break the fines, or use public transportation. eric, how do you respond? shannon, this is not necessarily someone who is a drunk driving, these are speeding violations. a lot of people simply can t afford it. yeah, doug makes interesting points. but when you have so many people, for example on social security, who make only $1,200 or $1,400 a month, they can t pay it. what the courts are not doing is offering some other type of like community service or some other
and i ll tell you why. i m a gun owner. what i m saying is this. this is the specific instance we re dealing with what they are dealing with these kids. that s the state of playwright now. that s what needs to be called out. don t create a false equation. deal with this and just say my people, people on my political perspective, don t dough did he mondayize the kids. make arguments. don t insult these kids. they have been through enough. look, i absolutely agree that the demonization of opponents is wrong. when we do it, it frustrates me more. i actually believe we have the evidence on our side. if we had a discussion on what the evidence is, we win. if we have a discussion on how bad you are because you don t agree with my position, that diverts away from the truth. rick santorum, you are always welcome to make your case to the american people. thank you. and i appreciate you doing so. appreciate it, chris.