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 wind. and i remember he said, you are our wind. new information today on the danger of the vice president faced as a result of the threats to his life, and the president know that that s what he s done. i am 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 departments list, if that still in the works. and a crucial warning about the enduring threat to the country. donald trump and his allies and supporters are a clear and present danger to american democracy. tonight, the member of the investigation who like today s hearings, congressman pete aguilar. plus, nicole wallace, joy reid, chris hayes, lawrence o donnell, ari melber, stephanie r
waged by the former president, and how pence would not go along with this illegal scheme. the committee showed us never before seen footage of mike pence in a loading dock, hiding in a safe location as reuters entered the capitol building, refusing to get in the car. we saw the infamous vade owes of trump supporters chanting hang mike pence. as for testimony from the former vp himself, he now says the committee, quote, has no right to it. take a look. i served for 12 years in the congress. it s inconceivable to me that one party would appoint every member of a committee in congress. that s antithetical to the whole idea of the committee system. that being said, i never stood in the way of senior members of my team cooperating with the committee and testifying. but congress has no right to my testimony. you re closing the door on that entirely? i m closing the door on that. . because running for president? pence s answer conveniently leaves out the fact that it was
republican leader kevin mccarthy is responsible for the committee being what it is. a point which the committee was quick to point out, releasing a statement last night, which read in part, quote, the select committee has proceed respectfully and responsibly in our engagement with vice president pence. so it is disappointing that he is misrepresenting the nature of our investigation while giving interviews to promote his new book. every member of the select committee supported the creation of an independent bipartisan commission after initially supporting such a commission, leader mccarthy withdrew his support, and the bipartisan plan to rate the commission was defeated by republicans in the senate. the select committee was only formed after the proposal for an outside commission was defeated. the select committee has consistently praised the former vice president s refusal to bow to former president trump s pressure to illegally refuse toe count electoral votes on january 6th. but his
have had that power. but we should do this today. so he didn t meet the vice presidency was the portal. he meant this one guy, and that if we can weaken him. i was struck by the relentlessness of eastman. he keeps coming back to greg jacob over and over. how about this doing? how about that way of doing it? they knew that these were uncertified electors. you can just say i declare these electors. maybe this group here were electors. we decided, they re not certified. but they were relentless, and they were trying to break pence. and you re absolutely right. we were one mike pence away from a coup. at that point about the relentlessness of this, i think eastman has made it eminently clear, even since this is all happened, as he s confining with a committee, that he s not acting on his own behalf. that he is the lawyer of the president of united states. the president was trying. that is why he was doing this. that is where the relentlessness comes from. yeah, you can tell in the way,
with p. and it s used in an infection way to talk about cats. that was the morning of january 6th. congressman aguilar than explains the committee has evidence that when president trump received a draft to the speech was due to get the general sixth rally, later on that day, and the draft that he received contains no reference to mike pence at all. but the president himself changed that and wrote in multiple references to pence. and then, we saw from the investigation today how that targeting by the president laid out, as they say, in the streets. i m telling you all, i m hearing that pence just caved. is that true? i m hearing reports that pence caved. i m telling you, if pence caved, we re gonna drag [bleep] to the streets. you [bleep] politicians are gonna get track to the streets. i guess the hope they show a force here that pence will decide to do the right thing. [noise] bring him out!