attorney john eastman and others, presented a clear and dangerous threat to american democracy. listen to this. had vice president pence obeyed the orders from his president, and the president of the united states of america, that declaration of donald trump as the next president would have plunged america into what i believe would have been tantamount to a revolution within a constitutional crisis. revolution within a constitutional crisis. the committee also revealing just how close to serious danger mike pence was on during the day of the insurrection. rioters coming within 40 feet of the former vice president. as the committee prepares to hold more hearings next week, it is also trying to speak to ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court court justice clarence thomas about her role in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election. let s take you to capitol hill and lauren fox is there for us. what were the main takeaways from thursday s hearings? reporter: well
the p-word. new details show how trump was told over and over and over again his plot to overturn the election was not legal. plus a rare interview president biden shares a gloomy outlook with the associated press. americans are confused, upset and worried, but he blames covid caution and politics, not his policies. and the search is on for three americans missing in ukraine, three feared taken by russian forces. the plot that donald trump knew it was illegal and kept pushing his agenda. panel picks up the public work next week. hearing four will detail the campaign against people in areas where he lost. they walked through the country s badgering of the. the committee detailed how trump shopped for lawyer after lawyer and scheme after scheme. it led him to john eastman, and an election plot witnesses say was without constitutional merit and without a doubt, illegal. i said are you out of your f ing mind. no, that was pretty blunt. i said you re completely crazy. y
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
in a far-right speaker of the house. with the interparty war over house leadership resolved, the idea is that those emergencies would finally be dealt with, at least that was the idea. today, it became painfully obvious that the republicans new speaker, congressman mike johnson, it s not really going to deal with any of it. this evening, speaker johnson put every republican on the record, voting for a bill that did not include any aid to ukraine s, and which would provide aid to israel, only on the condition that congress defunded the irs, to allow billionaires to cheat on their taxes. we have obligations, and we have come. it s and we want to protect and help and assist our friend israel. what we have to keep our own house in order as well. so you are saying you will not pass in israel aid bill, unless it is off, that is that the correct interpretation of your? that s voter going to do. i did not attach that for political purposes, okay i attach because again, we re tr
national security nightmare in the senate is doing great damage to our military. i object. a national security suicide mission. i object. vote individually on this american hero reserving the right to object. tonight, dysfunction in the age of the maga minority, and then, as a massive new air salt on gaza, senator chris murphy on his call for israel to change course. and why was a particularly bad day for the republican front runner as his other adult son snaps on the witness stand, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. when the lone solitary republican in the senate is actively undermining the military readiness of the entire country, as the country finds itself in the midst of some of the most intense and acute global crises in recent memory. two wars, one between israel and hamas, and the russian invasion of ukraine. and it is incredibly important and precarious moment, we have an unprecedented absence of the