the conversation was pretty heated. i remember hearing the word wimp, he called him a wimp. i don t remember if he said you are a wimp. it was a different tone that i had heard him take with the vice president before. these pictures of pence never seen before, the vice president being hidden by the secret service in an underground garage under the capitol, reading the president s tweet that said that pence lacked courage to overturn the election. that tweet helped inflame the mob, a mob that had come within 40 feet of the vice president when he was making his escape. markets are mixed today after thursday s disastrous day on wall street and president biden gets defensive about economists predicting a recession. two american veterans fighting in ukraine have gone missing, along with a possible third who volunteered to fight the russians. we will have the latest from kyiv. follow the money, nbc justice correspondent pete williams retracing the steps of the watergate bre
president trump, partly out of concern it would give the appearance of pressure on the attorney general. politico argues that the first three hearings essentially did that for them, laying out stark evidence that trump and his allying now the election was not rig, but they pushed the big lie anyway. there s new evidence that the department of justice may be growing frustrated against the committee as well. we learned of a strongly worded letter by the doj, in which the department accuses committee members of complicating investigations by withholding transcripts of witness interviews, it says, quote, are not just potentially relevant to the overall communications, but likely relevant to specific prosecutions that have already commenced. however, committee chairman bennie thompson made it clear he is not rushing to help out. we ve interviewed over 1,000 witnesses, that would mean we have to stop what we re doing to then work with the department of justice. we will eventually
keilar. and a flurry of new developments overnight surrounding the january 6th insurrection, just hours before the next hours gets under way. the new york times reports previously undisclosed emails from trump lawyer john eastman claiming he was aware of a, quote, heated fight among supreme court justices over whether to take up a case on the 2020 election. but even more than that, the times reports a response from another pro-trump lawyer, quote, odds of action by the supreme court before january 6 will become more favorable if the justices start to fear that there will be wild chaos on january 6 unless they rule by then either way. this was about two weeks this email before the insurrection. the times says this raises questions about a link to the idea of the violence that ultimately took place. much more on this in just a moment. but first cnn is learning exclusively what an adviser to former vice president mike pence will say at today s hearing which focuses on th
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