so, when will ginni thomas tell the committee all she knows about the insurrection? as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. today the, january 6th committee made a powerful case about the relentless pressure donald trump and his allies put on mike pence to unlawfully overturn the 2020 election results. this afternoon, the committee presented detailed evidence revealing the intensity of that effort and the real danger pence was in on the day of the insurrection. mike pence, i hope you are going to stand up for the good of our constitution and for the good of our country. and if you are not, i m going to be very disappointed in you, i will tell you right now. i m telling you what, i m hearing the pence, i m hearing that pence just caved no i m hearing reports that pence caved. i m telling you, if pence caved, we are going to bleep through the streets. [inaudible] bring him out! bring out pence!
investigation makes it case, day three, a losing presidential candidate, pressed to force his running mate, the vice president, to throw out the election results, to overthrow the u.s. government. when mr. eastman came in, he said, i m here to request that you reject the electors. new witness testimony today about how the president tried to force it to an end. did you hear any part of the phone calls? yeah, i remember hearing the word wimp. and i remember he said, you are a wimp. new information today on the danger the vice president faced as a result of the threats to his life, and the president knowing that that s what he had done. mike pence has betrayed the united states of america. new evidence today showing that people working with the president to enact the scheme. they knew what they were doing was illegal. doctor eastman s emails stated, quote, i ve decided that i should be on the parted lust, if that is still in the works. and a crucial warning abo
stephanie ruhle. today the, january 6th committee made a powerful case about the relentless pressure donald trump and his allies put on mike pence to unlawfully overturn the 2020 election results. this afternoon, the committee presented detailed evidence revealing the intensity of that effort and the real danger pence was in on the day of the insurrection. mike pence, i hope you are going to stand up for the good of our constitution and for the good of our country. and if you are not, i m going to be very disappointed in you, i will tell you right now. i m telling you what, i m hearing the pence, i m hearing that pence just caved no i m hearing reports that pence caved. i m telling you, if pence caved, we are going to bleep through the streets. [inaudible] bring him out! bring out pence! hang mike pence, hang mike pence! hang mike pence! [noise] hang mike pence, that s what they were chanting. today s star witnesses, two key republicans, pence s former w
Back on fondly over the next few years. it takes guts to run, it really does. and i said to my wife, you know, i m going to do it. i will never forget, standing on the famous escalator and we went down that famous escalator! the famous escalator, i took a deep breath, i went, let s go. has everyone seen a famous escalator coming down? i was coming down, it looked like the academy awards. it s the most famous escalator right now in the world, i will say. melania, myself and the place went nuts. and i made the speech, people coming into this country, everyone said, what is he now? what is he talking about? that big, big beautiful day when everybody said, oh, he s just doing this for fun. i m sure nobody saw this, when i came down the escalator, with melania and her white dress, i don t think anybody saw this. [inaudible] the escalator, right? that famous escalator ride led to two campaigns, a chaotic
Everyone said, what is he now? what is he talking about? that big, big beautiful day when everybody said, oh, he s just doing this for fun. i m sure nobody saw this, when i came down the escalator, with melania and her white dress, i don t think anybody saw this. [inaudible] the escalator, right? that famous escalator ride led to two campaigns, a chaotic presidency and not one but two impeachment trials. now, here we are, seven years later, and the january 6th committee is accusing donald trump of an attempted coup. think about it and on that note, we wish you all a very good and very safe night. from all our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late tonight with us, i will see you for a very special broadcast morrow. you the january 6th