the committee scared new video from mark short saying pence pushed back against trump s pressure campaign. was it your impression the vice president had directly conveyed his position on these issues to the president, not just to the world, through a dear colleague letter, but directly to president trump? many times. and had been consistent in conveying his position to the president? very consistent. joining us now, nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent garrett haake, nbc news correspondent vaughn hilliard, luke broadwater from the new york times and joyce vance, professor at university of alabama school of law and msnbc legal analyst. garrett, you spoke with pete aguilar, who is taking a lead role today. what did he tell you about what we can expect? reporter: we can expect to hear that mike pence was both under more pressure and in more danger in the leadup to january 6th and on january 6th than has been previously reported. the committee plans to lay o
cameras and the country. what does he know, what is he willing to tell the committee? he is appearing under subpoena which adds a wrinkle of uncertainty and how much he will be cooperative. today s hearing will focus on trump s lies about election fraud and how they helped fuel the mob that attacked the capitol on january 6th. we ll hear evidence that trump knew the claims were baseless but spread the lies anyway. a member telling new day it could lead to the potential prosecution of trump. we are laying out a road map for the american people to understand all of the facts and, you know, i think the justice department is watching very closely, like the chairman said, all of the information to the committee as collected will be shared with the department of justice in a way they can evaluate it. and elaine loria says they will show with evidence with not just one congressman, but other congressmen sought pardons from trump. we ve been asked, is there hard evidence? t
hear that mike pence was both under more pressure and in more danger in the leadup to january 6th and on january 6th than has been previously reported. the committee plans to lay out the genesis of this scheme to make pence the de facto decider of the 2020 election that began in mid-december. that basically every court case the trump campaign lost, the pressure on pence to be the last option for trump grew and grew and grew. even leading up to the 6th itself with one final phone conversation between the vice president and the president, with president trump at the time leaning hard on pence on the morning of the 6th to make this unilateral decision to overturn the election results. then as he got here to the capitol and the crowd arrived, the mob coming closer to pence than we ever realized, triggered by a trump tweet after they had broken into the building. here s some of what aguilar told me about that moment in our interview. yeah, there would have been
wouldn t do it. he resigned. al schmidt, also a republican, he was overseeing the election in philadelphia. of course, as you know, trump was trying to zero in on pennsylvania, falsely saying there was election fraud there. we know there wasn t. and then ben ginsburg, a renowned conservative attorney, very respected. he s going to come out and talk about all these court cases the trump campaign lost. he ll come out and say, according to a source familiar, that there was no widespread election fraud. again, you re going to see the committee use words from republicans, from people inside trump world trying to use it against the former president. there are a lot of questions about what the campaign was doing, fund-raising, knowingly off of what was a lie, but the committee is really going to try to stay zeroed in on donald trump, right, what he knew, how much, how often he was told, no, you didn t win the election. yeah, i think both. pam s absolutely right about all