so, when will ginni thomas tell the committee all she knows about the insurrection? as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. today the, january 6th committee made a powerful case about the relentless pressure donald trump and his allies put on mike pence to unlawfully overturn the 2020 election results. this afternoon, the committee presented detailed evidence revealing the intensity of that effort and the real danger pence was in on the day of the insurrection. mike pence, i hope you are going to stand up for the good of our constitution and for the good of our country. and if you are not, i m going to be very disappointed in you, i will tell you right now. i m telling you what, i m hearing the pence, i m hearing that pence just caved no i m hearing reports that pence caved. i m telling you, if pence caved, we are going to bleep through the streets. [inaudible] bring him out! bring out pence!
stephanie ruhle. today the, january 6th committee made a powerful case about the relentless pressure donald trump and his allies put on mike pence to unlawfully overturn the 2020 election results. this afternoon, the committee presented detailed evidence revealing the intensity of that effort and the real danger pence was in on the day of the insurrection. mike pence, i hope you are going to stand up for the good of our constitution and for the good of our country. and if you are not, i m going to be very disappointed in you, i will tell you right now. i m telling you what, i m hearing the pence, i m hearing that pence just caved no i m hearing reports that pence caved. i m telling you, if pence caved, we are going to bleep through the streets. [inaudible] bring him out! bring out pence! hang mike pence, hang mike pence! hang mike pence! [noise] hang mike pence, that s what they were chanting. today s star witnesses, two key republicans, pence s former w
former hedge fund ceo dave mccormick. their positions have been flip-flopping all night long. thousands of votes still left to be counted. as things stand this race will almost definitely trigger an automatic recount. in the governor s race in pennsylvania trump backed candidate doug mastriano with a clear lead, cnn projects he has won the republican nomination. he is pennsylvania s leading far right figure. he has championed efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. he will face democrat josh shapiro the state s attorney general. shapiro is the first nonincumbent to run unopposed in a gubernatorial primary since 1930. also in pennsylvania john fetterman easily won the democratic senate primary, he might be the first candidate to do so from a hospital bed. he is out of surgery this morning after suffering a stroke and receiving a pacemaker just hours before the polls closed yesterday. we will hear from his wife on his condition in just a bit. meanwhile, north carol
mcconnell. he s a mcconnell loyalist too. so i think it is kind of funny particularly on this endorsement to see team trump touting it as a win considering he s the establishment candidate and trump prides himself on being anti-establishment. i just thought that was kind of an interesting dynamic with that endorsement. you know what s funny also, there s this article in newsweek suggesting that desantis backs a lot of losers. his candidate for mayor of jacksonville lost. and trump is pushing this article on truth social, in press releases. there s this list of 16 candidates desantis endorsed. but if you look at the list, 11 of the 16 trump also endorsed and in fact was a much more prominent endorser of mastriano in pennsylvania, kari lake in arizona, herschel walker. trump basically picked herschel walker. i mean, it is bizarre for trump
emulate him. it seems like the party is heading down the pass how does it stop and go th other way? that s a great question i wish i had a good answer for you. it does seem like there was solid start in the midterm elections where you had some o the republican candidates wh are most associated with trump s most authoritarian ideas. like mastriano in pennsylvania and lake, in arizona i think some of the othe republicans who had been inclined to support them and endorse them or saying now wait a second, this is costing us at the polls. this is an electoral liability we re not going to be able t gain power in the first plac and we put these people up for office i think, if you can inflict if you are defeats like that on the party and punish these authoritarian moves, i think you might make the rest of the public reporting flu lik there s a heavy cost to goin down this route. that s not a foolproof plan, plus the best i can come u with coming up, the state of ohi