this morning about the former president s legal exposure. video we are seeing for the first time shows mike pence, the former vice president, sheltering in a secure location for nearly five hours, as rioters overwhelm the capitol, looking to hang him. we were told they came within 40 feet of the vice president s evacuation route. we re also learning new details about a heated phone call between trump and pence on the morning of january 6th. this is what witnesses, including ivanka trump, said about the president s demeanor on that call. yeah. i remember hearing the word wimp. either he called him a wimp. i don t remember if he said you are a wimp. you ll be a wimp. it was a different tone than i had heard him take with the vice president before. a major new piece of evidence revealed by the committee. that is john eastman, the conservative lawyer central to the plans to overturn the election results, asked for a pardon in the days after january 6th. and new this morning
Is so important not just to the hearings but to hear. it was comforting to learn he watched al gore certify his own election defeat. now, that was a close election, coming down to 537 votes in a single swing state. gore did his constitutional duty, swatting down a few attempts to question electors. pence drew on that honorable example 20 years later. that s the role of history. to guide us and inspire us to do the right thing even when it s difficult. that s why these hearings are hopeful despite the desperate attempts by trump not under oath to dismiss and diminish them. this is the process of law and order beginning to reassert itself after atrophy. the historical record is getting clearer because of the committee s investigative work. and that might help the vast majority of americans begin to agree on basic facts again. over time, the truth will loom larger than all the self-serving partisan lies and eventually we might just look back and say
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