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the january 6th committee presents new evidence as it tries to connect the capitol insurrection to trump s pressure campaign against his vice president. witnesses testifying trump knew the plan was illegal, but he went ahead with it anyway. there is so much to discuss with our senior political analyst, but first we want to get you to manu raju with the latest. mike pence has betrayed america! reporter: the pressure campaign was relentless. donald trump for months trying to get mike pence to do something no vice president has ever done, reject the will of the electorate and install him as president for a second term. right up to this heated phone call on the morning of january 6th, just before pence was presiding over a joint session of congress to certify joe biden s victory. he called him a wimp. it was a different tone that i heard him take with the vice president before. do you remember what she said? her father called him. the p word. trump revised his ....
the statement. the statement. he really wanted to make sure that it was just so. as president trump was, quote, pouring gasoline on the fire during the insurrection, we re now hearing how close to danger vice president pence was on january 6. plus we now have the first of the two captured by russiae reported missing. we re live in kyiv with the latest. and more than 65 million americans are in a heat alert with temperatures getting into the triple digits fahrenheit. we re live at the cnn weather center on how much longer this could last. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. thursday s hearing on the january 6 riot revealed more chilling details. and stuck in the middle was vice president mike pence, testimony showed that he came perilously close to being discovered and possibly killed as rioters ram pained through the capitol. committee members also zeroed in on the role of john eastman who happened the illegal scheme to thwart the 2020 ....
two missing americans in ukraine, on the back of a russian military truck, hands apparently tied behind their backs. where are they now? let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett, outfront tonight, donald trump was quote, pouring gasoline on the fire. how trump s former white house deputy press secretary describes trump s actions that put pence s life in danger on january 6th. this testimony showed at the january 6th committee this afternoon, rioters came within 40 feet, 40 feet of the vice-president at the capitol. committee showed these never before seen photos of the vice-president and these pictures are of pence at a secure loksz after rioters breached the capitol so when he s in that, you know, sort of rushed into that little back area of attempted safety. including this one that shows pence looking at the video trump tweeted, asking rioters to leave the capitol, the one sent many hours after the violence began, and hours after trump had repeatedly stok ....