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
remember what trump told the crowd at the elipse hours before the attack. mike pence, i will tell you right now, i m not hearing good stories. i hope that our great vice president, our great vice president comes through for us. he is a great guy. of course if he doesn t come through, i won t like him quite as much. [ chanting ] trump s public push contributed to the riot which included threats against pence s life. and two pence aides will appear live this morning. counsel to the vice president and a retired judge and informal adviser. and also expect to see video from the deposition of marc short who appeared yesterday, telling wolf blitzer how he warned the secret service the day before the riot. it became clear that the disagreements that had been discussed i think between the president and vice president? and the staffs were about to become far more public. and i think with thousands of people dekrscending upon washington, i thought it would be important.
bring out pence! bring him out! bring out pence! bring mike pence! bring mike pence! [ chanting ] much of today s testimony centered around john eastman, an attorney whose theory that the vice president had the authority to nullify the election outcome so laughable that donald trump s own aides, allies and closest advisers described dismissing it outright. here s that evidence. made clear with mr. meadows about you and the vice president having a different view about the authority on january 6. i believe i did. did he explit sy or tacetly agree with you or say that makes sense or okay? i believe that that mark did agree. what makes you say that? i believe that s what he told me. but as i mentioned i think mark told so many people so many different things that it was not something that i would necessarily accept. that s okay why that s resolved. i see. tell me what he told you on this topic. you know the vice president doesn t have a broader role.
stepian s recorded deposition to try to establish key facts about today s theme, the big lie, that donald trump knew he lost election, but continued anyway to rally his supporters around the false claim that he had won. we re also moments away from the supreme court releasing new decisions possibly on the key mississippi abortion case. we ll bring you any of the big cases as we learn about them. let s start with today s hearing because this missing stepian throws a wrench into the committee s plans after laying out how this would play out during the first prime time hearing last week. indeed, it does. because as we ve seen before, in-person testimony is so much more powerful even than the clips they showed of ivanka trump, for instance, on thursday night as we were showing on friday in the hearings. so the appearance in person would have been much more impactful. of course we re excited for them and his wife and their impending new baby, but that is the reality of what ha
The hunter biden probe. Where we have the highest levels of, your government being used to protect both hunter and joe biden at all costs. And in just moments, espn host our budd y stephen smith. He will be here with more on why he thinks Joe Biden Witshould not be our next president. Apparently supporting gavin thin. E wh anyway, hes not alone in terms of not liking joe. Far from ident. T. L stre all right. Look at this. According to a new Wall Street Journal Pollet , 73 of you, the American People, you believe biden is tooe e old to run for reelection. Now, the samm foe poll found tho two thirds of democrats, they also think joe biden is too oldbide old, for another. Right on cue today, the president got confused cue e and dazed and, well, he walked out during a Medal Of Honor ceremonyazed before the event we even over. Please, somebody help this guy. Take a loo ik , ladies and please join me for the benediction. Can someone show me where the Ice Cream Machine is anyway, by the way,