reporter: it will all focus on the pressure on mike pence to take that unconstitutional action on january 6, 2021 to overturn the electoral certified votes of the states here on january 6, something of course that he rejected doing. but going to the genesis of how this theory first came about. looking at the trump attorney john eastman who is a prominent supporter of this and directly tie donald trump s words to the violence that occurred on january 6 as words about mike pence into exactly what happened here in the capitol. now, two people will be testifying who are very close to mike pence, we expect to hear from greg jake sob who is a former counsel for mike pence and as well as judge mike luttig, former judge and adviser of sorts to pence to understand what the vice president was thinking at the time. we do also expect to see video deposition from his former chief of staff marc short, who will be featured prominently in today s hearing. we ve gotten a copy of judge lutti
insurrection, the january 6th committee plans to focus on donald trump s repeated pressure on former vice president mike pence to block the certification of the 2020 election results. remember what trump told the crowd just hours before the attack on the capitol. 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 s a great guy. of course if he doesn t come through, i won t like him quite as much. hmm. the committee s going to make the case trump s pressure campaign directly contributed to that day s deadly violence. new photos obtained by abc news show pence and his family in hiding after the former vice president was rushed off the senate floor by secret service during the insurrection. let s begin our coverage with cnn s ma nu raju live on capito hill. walk us through exactly what we ll watch later today. reporter: the committee will try to lay out the time line
All of this coming as the candidates blitz battleground states making their final pitch to voters. Cnn is covering all angles of the story from washington to the campaign trail. We begin, though with senior Political Correspondent brianna keilar. Good morning. Good morning, carol. This is quite the october surprise. Never before has a candidate been going into a major Party Candidate been going towards the election with Something Like this hanging over them. An fbi investigation. So Hillary Clintons campaign is concerned, but theyre also trying to change the narrative and take aim at the fbi director. Its pretty strange to put Something Like that out with such Little Information right before an election. Reporter shockwaves through Hillary Clintons Campaign Following a surprise letter friday from fbi director james comey. If she never heard the word email, do you think shed be a very happy woman today . Reporter comey notifying members of congress that the bureau discovered emails that
Backed up the whistleblowers account. Now theyre labeled as crooks the man who, through Rudy Giuliani, helped stoke the giuliani ukraine obsession. What it tells us about the company Rudy Giuliani keeps and how it factors into the impeachment case against the president. Just this is headsnapping. The president s own Justice Department indicting clients of his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. Those clients were arrested at Dulles Airport outside of washington yesterday. Spent the night in jail. Are due in federal court later today. They are accused of violating Campaign Laws by laundering foreign money through a u. S. Entity and illegally into american campaigns. They are accused of violation in ukraine. Now the Justice Department alleges they are criminals. Rudy giuliani telling cnn today he cannot comment at this point. Kaitlan collins is live at the white house. Shocking. Whats the word at 1600 . Reporter they have not said a word on this so far. Weve asked them for comment. Nothing
Unnamed congressman. He has not been charged with any wrongdoing as of this point. Our Jessica Snyder is at the courthouse in virginia where the two men are set to appear. Jessica, they were arrested last night in Dulles Airport. Pick it up from there. Where do we go now . Reporter they were, boris. These two Close Associates of Rudy Giuliani, lev parnas a and igor fruman were arrested at Dulles Airport. They are set to appear in court at 2 00 this afternoon. This is an indictment from the Southern District of new york, but theyll appear here first before facing those charges in new york. The indictment alleging conspiracy and also Illegal Campaign contributions. It says that these two men helped funnel foreign money into u. S. Elections here, and the two men did give hundreds of thousands of dollars to a trumpaligned superpac. According to the indictment, it says this, that these contributions were made for the purpose of gaining influence with politicians so as to advance their own p