donald trump. the panel also playing harrowing never-before-seen footage of congressional leaders sheltering from the mob during during the attack. also tonight the u.s. supreme court deals another legal blow to trump s defense in the mar-a-lago investigation, rejecting his plea to intervene in the fight over classified documents seized by the fbi. plus, a gut punch for the families of the parkland school massacre victims. a florida jury recommends gunman nikolas cruz not receive the death penalty and instead spend the rest of his life in prison without parole. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s dive straight into the very dramatic developments up on capitol hill today. former president donald trump now facing a subpoena from the january 6th select committee. our chief congressional correspondent manu raju has a closer look at all the latest news from today s hearing. those in favor
does she feel like she owes an apology? announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. as riveting as the stories were, it was who was telling them that gave way to chilling testimony before the january 6th committee today about donald trump s pressure campaign on his vice president, mike pence, to stage an illegal one-man attempt to overturn the presidential election results one pence adviser calling it constitutional mischief another warning it risked the election being settled in the streets. members of pence s inner circle testifying about the presidential tweets, public taunts, and angry phone calls any they say pence was subjected to the panel releasing never-before-seen photos of vice president pence sheltering during the capitol riot reading a trump tweet as rioters roamed the grounds above him. pence praised by the committee for refusing to go along with the plan to reject the electoral votes. garrett haake is at the capitol with details. [
constituents demanding an end to mass shootings. as negotiations continue, cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju pressed lawmakers about ar-15s and why people need them and he got a range of responses. here it is. why do you think that people need to have ar-15s in this country in. you re talking about a constitutional right to keep and bear arms. people who are law abiding citizens are in good mental health and aren t a threat to the public. in my state, they use them to shoot prairie dogs and other types of varmints, so i think there are legitimate reasons why people would want to have them. that s used for sporting events, for sporting activities all the time. why not raise the age to 21 for people buying semi-automatic rifles? we re talking about a lot of things, and what we re talking about most are background checks, juvenile records, the areas where we can get consensus, that came into the discussion. but right now we re trying to work on things w
garrett haake is at the capitol with details. [ crowd chanting ] reporter: tonight the january 6th committee presenting new evidence of what was happening behind the scenes as the mob surged into the capitol. what they say is a culmination of a failed pressure campaign by former president trump designed to force mike pence to overturn the election results in newly revealed testimony close aides and advisers detailing a private phone call between the president and vice president the morning of the 6th. the conversation was pretty heated. i remember hearing the word wimp, either he called him a wimp i don t remember if he said you are a wimp. like you re not tough enough to make the call it was a different tone than i had heard him take with the vice president before do you remember what she said her father called him? the p word. reporter: pence relying on advice from his legal team stayed firm, even after coming within 40 feet of the rioters
our thanks to ron klain for speaking to us tonight. also this evening for the first time the committee investigating the attack on the u.s. capitol is requesting testimony from a member of the trump family garrett haake now with that story. reporter: tonight the january 6th committee formally requesting testimony from ivanka trump, a senior adviser to the president. heated oval office phone call they say ivanka overheard between her father and the vice president and in, quote, any other conversations you may have witnessed or participated in regarding the president s plan to obstruct or impede the counting of electoral votes. is she uniquely well positioned to talk about president trump s state of mind on that day? well, i think there were certainly some interactions that she had with him just her and her father and so that no one else can really tell us about that other than the former president. reporter: the committee particularly interested in one interaction. we have f