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
there is no mass fraud that would change the outcome. we learned yesterday over and over again the actions you re contemplating are illegal, unconstitutional. and so that just begs the question, if something is illegal, where is the accountability? because there s got to be accountability. whether it s conspiracy or something else. that s for the doj to decide. but donald trump knew he was lying and breaking the law. that seems to be proven by unanimous consent among people who testified under oath from his own administration. this tweet that was sent out by donald trump. and jason miller confirmed that trump dictated it to him. where he lied, just lied, according to the testimony about what he had and pence had talked about. we are in exact agreement as to what the vice president can do in throwing out the electoral college, and it just wasn t true yeah. that had to be an awkward conversation. they testified about pence