the january 6th committee kicking off its next public hearing just hours from now, and we re told that they re going to focus on the former president s efforts to pressure mike pence to overturn the election and how it, quote, directly contributed to the insurrection. this coming as we re getting new video of a capitol tour led by a republican congressman right before the riot. cnn s ryan nobles has the latest now. reporter: there s no escape, pelosi, schumer. reporter: new video released by the january 6th select committee showing a man outside the capitol directing threats at democratic members of congress. pelosi, nadler, schumer, even you aoc, we re coming to take you out and pull you out by your hairs. reporter: that same man seen the day before on a tour of the capitol complex with republican congressman barry loudermilk, snapping pictures the committee believes are suspicious. chairman benny thompson righting to loudermilk, quote, individuals on the tour photog
ginni thomas did play a direct role in all of this, and i don t know that she did, it could be a distraction. on the other hand, it does raise substantial issues about whether justice thomas should ever be hearing any cases that hereafter involve january 6th. he ll possibly recuse himself, right? yes. i want to turn to this new video. this is the video the select committee released of congressman loudermilk giving a tour the day before the insurrection. loudermilk talking about that video today. here he is. they re not interested in the truth. they re only interested in creating a narrative for you guys. there s nothing there. the capitol police looked at it, said there is nothing suspicious because the capitol police know when visitors come, they take pictures. my question is if you look at the video and the kinds of things they re taking pictures of, listen, maybe it s nothing.
the january 6th committee kicking off its next public hearing just hours from now, and we re told that they re going to focus on the former president s efforts to pressure mike pence to overturn the election and how it, quote, directly contributed to the insurrection. this coming as we re getting new video of a capitol tour led by a republican congressman right before the riot. cnn s ryan nobles has the latest now. reporter: there s no escape, pelosi, schumer. reporter: new video released by the january 6th select committee showing a man outside the capitol directing threats at democratic members of congress. pelosi, nadler, schumer, even you aoc, we re coming to take you out and pull you out by your hairs. reporter: that same man seen the day before on a tour of the capitol complex with republican congressman barry loudermilk, snapping pictures the committee
certify the election results. what do you think of him testifying tomorrow? i think it s a very smart move on the part of the committee. you know, don, i ve said all along that part of the job of this committee i think the primary job, actually, is to try to reach the american people to give them the facts about what happened. an independent review of the facts very, very straightforward. and i think judge lutting s testimony, in fact someone ted cruz worked for at one point, that is speaking to a lot of people out there. that is not speaking to the democratic side, necessarily. this is speaking to people that have questions about the committee s motives. it has questions about what happened on january 6th and whether or not someone they supported for president was guilty of any kind of crimes. i think he s a very, very important witness to kind of go through everything. and the country s very fortunate
that mike pence had him as a lawyer during that time. he brings that kind of credibility and gravitas to this committee hearing. george, this is a reminder of what trump was saying about pence leading up to the attack on the capitol. here it is. i hope that our great vice president our great vice president comes through for us. he s a great guy. plus if he doesn t come through i won t like him quite as much. you think the committee is going to be able to prove that trump s pressure campaign directly contributed to the january 6th attack and put pence s life in danger? i think so. i think he was he was he tweeted a lot about pence during that period of time, and he tweeted about pence in the middle of the riot. and i think that had an effect on the crowd. there was somebody with a megaphone reading the tweet attacking mike pence about mike pence, you know, failing to act