good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it is friday, june 17th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. there are new questions about donald trump s legal exposure in the january 6th attempted and attempted coup. he and his allies new their scheme was illegal but continued with it anyway. putting vice president pence s life in danger as angry mobs vowed to hang him at the capitol. this was pence on january 6th sheltering in a secure location as rioters overwhelmed the capitol. they came within 40 feet of the vice president s evacuation route. we are learning more about a heated phone call between trump and pence on that morning of january 6th. here s what witnesses, including ivanka trump, said about the former president s demeanor. yeah. i remember hearing the word wimp. he called him a wimp. i don t remember if he said you are a wimp. you ll be a wimp. . it was a different tone i heard him take with the vice president before. so a major new piece
this morning about the former president s legal exposure. video we are seeing for the first time shows mike pence, the former vice president, sheltering in a secure location for nearly five hours, as rioters overwhelm the capitol, looking to hang him. we were told they came within 40 feet of the vice president s evacuation route. we re also learning new details about a heated phone call between trump and pence on the morning of january 6th. this is what witnesses, including ivanka trump, said about the president s demeanor on that call. yeah. i remember hearing the word wimp. either he called him a wimp. i don t remember if he said you are a wimp. you ll be a wimp. it was a different tone than i had heard him take with the vice president before. a major new piece of evidence revealed by the committee. that is john eastman, the conservative lawyer central to the plans to overturn the election results, asked for a pardon in the days after january 6th. and new this morning
sum belled. john, you must still be proud. what a turnaround. from 11th in the eastern conference to this. you should be proud for sure. . that s what i m clinging to, although it s not helping that much. coy, thank you very much. stop smirking at me. new day continues right now. good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. it is friday, june 17th. i m john berman with brianna keilar. we have new evidence that revealed the donald trump and his allies knew their scheme to overturn the 2020 election was unconstitutional and illegal but continued with it anyway. that s raising new questions
of his tour de france titles if everybody else was doping too? speaking of cycling, when women are together for awhile they start cycling together. oh jeez. i am talking about sport. as far as lance is concerned there is no way he will do this. stop smirking at me. there is no way he will do this. forget about the perjury charges. all of the things he promoted he already has a couple of them that are suing him right now. they will come out. he will end up dying broke if he says anything. it is not going to happen. people said a lot of things about him. he is a jerk, a bully, possible pour nothing graw fer, i have heard that. one thing they never said he was stupid. if he does this he is stupid. where did you hear about he was a possible pornogropher. you said it and then heard yourself say it. now we have all heard it. i bet sheryl crowe is loving this because she was devastated when they broke up as you know. she was so devastated she