good afternoon. this is almost no idea more un-american then the notion that any one person could choose the american president, no idea more un-american. i agree with that. which is unusual because former vice president mike pence and i don t agree on much. these are his words spoken a few months ago about donald trump s attempt to pressure the former vice president pressure him into going along with an unlawful and unconstitutional scheme to overturn the 2020 and give dawn trump a second tournament office. today, the select committee is going to reveal the details of that pressure campaign. but what does the vice president of the united states even have to do with the presidential election? the constitution says that the vice president of the united states oversees the process of counting the electoral college votes. the process that took place on january 6th, 2021. donald trump wanted mike pence to do something no other vice president has ever done. the former president wa
son in. tonight, the disturbing history, from the fringe he could turn his thumb black as if he were possessed. to making a fortune. truth doesn t matter, it s like a far-right qvc. threatening democracy. 1776! i m donald trump now. interviews with former employees. we made up the stories. we lied. alex will not stop. his victims every day i get a death threat. and those trying to stop him. how would you describe him to people who don t know him? how do you explain to folks whoever never seen something this crazy? if they want to fight, they better believe they got a fight. megaphone for conspiracy: alex jones. this is alex jones infowars studio in austin, texas. are you guys ready? it it looks like a professional news set, but the similarities end there. i ll drink your blood, you understand that? i will i will hang your ass up and cut you into cut lets. the globalist age of corruption. the official story of sandy hook has
illusions. i do not have the power to throughout the election results, nor does any individual american as our forefathers said. and we look forward to seeing you tomorrow, and america forever. but i m not gonna do that. i mean, the chief of staff, calls up the trump guy and complains about it. but why don t you just put out the vice presidential statement immediately? yes, a very good point. and they re not showing us every single thing they ve obtained and every question and answer with everyone. and maybe, the congressman schiff could tell us that they did have some exchanges about why did the vice president didn t make a statement that they. they might have that in their. we ll see what congressman schiff have to say. go for it, lawrence. thank you rachel. he did his duty. that s what liz cheney said today about mike pence, at the beginning of the january six committee hearing. he stayed true to his oath. that s what democratic congressman pete aguilar said
recorded testimony by former pence chief of staff mark short who was with vice president pence an january 6th. was a firsthand witness to trump s pressure campaign in the days leading up to it. we re told house investigators will try to make the case that the pressure on pence directly distributed to the insurrection at the capitol and the continuing ongoing threat to the rule of law and democracy in the united states. many aides are promising new information about what the vice president was doing during the riot, and where he was hiding as that mob chanted, hang mike pence, hang mike pence. the panel also will focus on the role of conservative lawyer john eastman in pushing the bo fgus unconstitutional theory that pence has the power to invalidate legal, lawful e electoral votes. let s go to ryan nobles on capitol hill right now. ryan, the chairman of the select committee congressman bennie thompson of mississippi just chaired a block buster new information about a potentia
schumer how one of the rioters got a tour of the capital capitol from a republican congressman the day of the insurrection. but no one in that group showed that type of aggression that day. committee member adam schiff is here on that, plus the planned hearing tomorrow focusing on vice president mike pence and the we live consequences of the big lie on a local election in new mexico. i have huge concerns with these voting machines. i really do. when all in starts right now good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. we now have a blueprint for the violent insurrection, from far-right gang the proud boys, and it uncannily matches up in specific detail with what actually transpired on january 6th. today, we got the first look at the document titled, 1776 returns, when the lawyer for the philadelphia president of the proud boys, included it in a federal court filing. we heard mention of this document in previous indictments against members of the proud boys, some