coverage of today s public hearing from the january 6th investigation, a hearing that focused on the intense pressure put on vice president mike pence to pretend he had some fictional power to personally overturn the election and hand the election to trump, specifically on january 6th last year. that targeting of pence, that fantasy that pence himself had the power or could pretend to have the power to himself, throughout the election results, that s the reason the attack on the capitol happened on january 6th. that was the day of pence s ceremonial role at the capitol and counting the electoral votes. that is why the event was circled on the calendar. that is why the trump rioters targeted the capitol, specifically, on that day. and let s focus, for a moment, on the safety of the vice president that day. a lot of what we learned today, from the investigation, from
targeted the capitol specifically on that day. and let s focus for a moment on the safety of the vice president that day. a lot of what we learned today from the investigation, from this hearing of the january 6th investigation was about president trump and his cohort knowing that this plot, targeting the vice president, was illegal. that illegality of the plot being intrinsically linked to the expectation of violence on january 6th and violent threats directed toward mike pence and then we got a lot of new detail about the impact of those violent threats toward mike pence that day. the impact of president trump telling his supporters that mike pence was the problem. that trump would be able to stay president if only pence with throughout the results and he s the reason that trump wouldn t be able to stay. it s one thing to have an angry guy screaming at you, calling you names, it s another thing to have an angry mob targeting you. but it is another thing altogether to have an angry
greene and louie gohmert are invoking rosanne in these political spaces they now occupy? hum. it s a way to sow distrust in the government. ayman, i hear that was our correspondent leigh ann caldwell. sorry. go ahead, john. no, no. what i was going to say go ahead. okay. so that was leigh ann caldwell picking it up and what she is saying is they are trying to sow distrust in the process. the sound bite from louie gohmert while he was interviewing or questioning attorney general merrick garland, he is making the conclusion she was beat on her head. that is not what the evidence suggests. there is no video evidence to suggest that is not what the autopsy said. he is using that to advance the narrative as they have with other trump rioters who died that day that they were martyrs of this cause. and so he is trying to beat the drum for his base for the right
there is a couple of things the committee did focus on, he did meet in the white house repeatedly with this guy who was overturning the federal election results and at the same time was talking about this national guard, the national guard would protect that trump rioters. that s the most important questions that needs to be answered. why did the national guard let the trump rioters tear congress to shreds and put the vice president and the speaker s life in danger for so long. i wonder if mark meadows is talking about the national guards, the day before? what we are beginning to see at this point is a paper trail of treason. it s clear piece by piece that what happened on january 6th was not spontaneous and this was not inside the white house. it s spontaneous wish by donald
The statements by McFadden were a major departure from the other federal judges who have sentenced rioters so far in the insurrection, including other Trump appointees.