capitol on his behalf. here were witnesses including jared kushner on what was behind that statement. i sat and spoke to miller about putting together for draft remarks for jan 7 that we were going to present to the president that we felt we had to call for further de-escalation. from what i understood at the time and from the reports coming in there s a large concern of 25th amendment potentially being invoked and there were concerns about would happen in the senate if the 25th was invoked so the primary reason that i had heard other than, you know, we did not do enough on the 6th and we need a stronger message to get out there otherwise this will be the legacy and think about what might happen in the final 15 days of your presidency if we don t do this. there are already talks about invoking the 25th amendment. so to be clear according to jared kushner and cassidy hutchinson, sworn testimony, it was concerns about the president s cabinet finally after years of talking
this would play out before the electorate and whether any opinions or any votes or legislation might change. we ve also been waiting for what the person who obviously seems to be at the center of the committee s attention, former president donald j. trump, wondering what he has to say about all the committee s assertions, and there are a lot of them. like that he was told his scheme was to told overturn the election was in fact illegal, but he pressured his vice president to go along with it anyway. things like he knew that mike pence s life was in danger at the capitol but kept publicly lashing out at him during the attack anyway. well, the wayit seems to be ove because today in his first public appearance since the hearing, he didn t really deny any of that exactly. instead, he admitted he did pressure pence to try to keep him in power. but he did deny one thing. never called mike pence a wimp. i never called him a wimp. mike pence had a chance to be great. he had a chanc
they re waiting to see how this is actually playing out before the electorate or whether any opinions let alone potential votes or legislation might actually change. we ve also been waiting for what the person who obviously seems to be at the center, former president donald trump, what he has to say about all the committee s assertions, and there are a lot of them like that he was told his scheme was to overturn the election was in fact illegal, but he pressured his vice president to go along with it anyway. things like he knew that mike pence s life was in arj at the capitol but kept publicly lashing out at him during the attack anyway. well, the wait seems to be over. in his first public appearance since the hearing he didn t deny any of that exactly. instead he admitted he did pressure pence to try and keep him in power, but he did deny one thing. i never called mike pence a wimp. i never called him a wimp. mike pence had a chance to be great. he had a chance to be, fran
forward to pressure vice president pence anyway. the committee outlining how close to imminent mortal danger the vice president was on january 6th, 2021. our investigation found that immediately after the president s 2:24 p.m. tweet, the crowds both outside the capitol and inside the capitol surged. mike pence has betrayed the united states of america! mike pence has betrayed this president and he has betrayed the people of the united states and we will never, ever forget! i m telling you, if pence came, we re going to drag the [ bleep ] through the streets. real simple, pence betrayed us, which apparently everybody knew he was going to, and the president mentioned it, like five times when he talked, you can go back and watch the president s video. make no mistake about the fact that the vice president s life was in danger. a recent court filing by the department of justice explains that confidential informant from the proud boys told the fbi the proud boys would ha
rioters. as trump pressured him to stop the vote certification of the 2020 election. it was a move trump knew was illegal as several witnesses revealed just yesterday. let s get to cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez. what more are you learning about next week s hearing? well, the committee, the january 6th committee is trying to nail down the list of witnesses that they have from the former justice department, former justice department officials under former president trump. and right now we know that they have slated they were key in standing up to the president. he was trying to essentially use the justice department to endorse his claims that there was vote fraud, and in the end, to try to overturn the election results. one witness that we don t know we know the committee was looking for, and it appears will not be showing up is pat sip pat cipollone. it would have been unusual to see a former white house counsel sitting before this committee. it appears