happening now. new evidence connecting the capitol riot directly to former-president trump and his pressure campaign against his vice president. insiders swearing under oath that trump knew his scheme to get mike pence to overturn the presidential election was illegal but trump plowed ihead, anyway. the january 6th select committee also documenting pence s escape from that mob that was threatening his life with rioters at one point only 40 feet away. we are breaking down all the testimony, and where the insurrection investigation goes from here. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states, and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room . let s get right to the new testimony and evidence presented by the january-6th select committee during today s hearing. it ended just a couple hours or so ago. our congressional correspondent, ryan nobles, has been following it all up on capitol hill. mike pence is going to have to come through for us.
and we are following the money the grift and where the hundreds of millions of donated dollars went, or didn t go, in that sham election defense fund. plus, today s historic rate hike from the fed, as inflation stays red hot. with the move means for the midterms. all of it when the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle, live from the nation s capital. where tomorrow, the january six committee has its third public hearing, starting at 1 pm eastern. and this time, investigators are expected to focus on then vice president mike pence and the pressure campaign to get him to get joe biden out of the white house. committee aides say new evidence presented tomorrow will show how the efforts of his former boss, donald trump, led to the riot and put pence s life in serious danger. you ll remember the surveillance video of security rushing pence off the senate floor, as rioters chanted, hang mike pence. abc news has obtained new
reject any electorate votes! i m telling you, if pence game, we re going to drag mother [ bleep ] through the streets. you [ bleep ] politicians are going to get drug through the streets. hang mike pence. hang mike pence! hang mike pence! hang mike pence! this was real. this is the evidence. this has nothing to do with partisanship or how one might feel about how vice president pence conducted himself in government, his view, his ideology. that sometimes gets lost partly because of right wing lies. this was about america. a threat to the vice president pushed and organized by the president, and we re learning new details that people need to understand for our society and future, how close these rioters and criminals and would-be indicted insurrectionists came to locate pence as they plotted his assassination during what you have to remember then, no one knew how it would end, how long it would go, how bad it would get. as they got that close to him during that insu
in her video today, congresswoman cheney played a longer version of testimony we first heard some of yesterday from eric herschman, one of the white house lawyers, that eastman spoke with. it was the day after eastman i don t remember why, he called me or texted me, wanted to talk with me and said he couldn t reach others. and he started to ask me something about georgia and revealing something, potentially for appeal. and i said to him, are you out of your f-ing mind? i said, i only want to hear two words coming out of your mouth from now on. orderly transition. i said, i don t want to hear any more f-ing words coming out of your mouth other than orderly transition. repeat those words to me. what did he say? eventually he said orderly transition. g i said, good, john. now i m going to give you the best advice you ll ever get in your life. get yourself a good lawyer, you re going to need it. and i hung up on him. right now we want to take a closer look at another ke
i don t have a six figure job. i have to be careful. the president will meet with leaders across the world if it is in the best interests of the american people. the questions that i have, people believe that mbs is responsible for khashoggi s death. the president has spoken to that and i ll let his words stand. i have mixed feelings on this and if the president called me, i d say mr. president, you can t trust these people. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. welcome to the show. it is wednesday, june 15th. 9:00 a.m. here in london. and the federal reserve is planning bold action to try to keep the soaring inflation from getting worse. they are expected to raise interest rates by .75, the biggest in almost 30 years. the concerns that the economy is driving down financial markets. the s&p 500 finished lower for a fifth consecutive day pushing it further into bear market territory. president biden blames the russian president and his war in uk