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
further inflamed the rioters as they were raging through the capitol hunting down the vice president and shouting, hang mike pence. in a preview video released this week, you saw liz cheney referencing a federal judge s ruling back in march that the former president probably violated federal statutes throughout that pressure campaign. a campaign conceived, in part, by lawyer john eastman, a character you will meet today. a big player inside that circle of election deniers working around the clock to try to keep donald trump in power. this hour, we will expand that inner circle with a look at ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas. bennie thompson saying that it is time for the committee to hear from thomas, quote, soon. this is a change in the committee s position and it comes after new bombshell reporting from the washington post on the emails between thomas and john eastman about overturning the election. we are going to talk about the new foc
interfere with the media. excuse me! we have the responsibility to give the audience what it tuned in to see. the years of the 60s which end in a few hours have a bad reputation that is not entirely justified. some things got worse, obviously. but tv and other news coverage is better, not worse. we simply developed more demanding standards. when i think of tv, i think of the 70s. what is this world coming to? the american public was hungry for more. more was allowed that hadn t been before. it was the last decade where it was a campfire television, where there was one in the living room. i want to watch an all-black show for a change. oh, where are you going to find one? here s one the los angeles lakers against the milwaukee bucks. young people were interested in relevant things. and so television began to reflect that. this is cbs. really it was very simple. you had three channels plus pbs. when the decade turned over into the 70s, t
charges were leveled at the commercial television networks. congress has no right to interfere in the media. excuse me! we have the responsibility to give the audience what it tuned in to see. the years of the 60s which end in a few hours have a bad reputation that is not entirely justified. some things got worse, obviously. but tv and other news coverage is better, not worse. we simply developed more demanding standards. when i think of tv, i think of the 70s. what is this world coming to? the american public was hungry for more. more was allowed that hadn t been before. it was the last decade where it was a campfire television, where there was one in the living room. i want to watch an all-black show for a change. oh, where are you going to find one? here s one the los angeles lakers against the milwaukee bucks. young people were interested in relevant things. and so, television began to reflect that. this is cbs. really it was very
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