for nearly five hours as rioters overwhelmed the capitol, looking, chanting, to hang him. we were told they came within 40 feet of the vice president s evacuation route and we re also learning new details about a heated phone call between trump and pence on that morning of january 6th. this is what witnesses include ing ivanka said about trump s demeanor on the call. i remember hearing the word wimp, he called him a wimp, i don t remember, he said, you are a wimp, you ll be a wimp. it was a different tone than i d heard him take with the vice president before. also a major new piece of evidence revealed by the committee, john eastman, the conservative lawyer central to the plans to overturn the election results asked for a pardon after january 6th. and new this morning, the new york times obtained a copy of a letter sent by the house select committee to ginni thomas, the way of supreme court justice clarence thomas. they want to speak to her next month. they have emai
American history. carl, we had a staff sergeant who was badly injured on january 6th with us earlier, who has been at the hearings watching, who praised mike pence for not following donald trump s orders to overturn the election, but he said this also, he said if mike pence wanted to do what was right now, he would come forward and just tell us what happened. there is someone who knows everything donald trump was told directly, knows what happened in the conversations between mike pence and donald trump, and that s mike pence. i think it is a really good point. if we had mike pence s testimony and perhaps it is possible voluntarily he will come forward, we ll have to see, it would be an enormous addition to the record. but with even without that addition, it is an airtight case that this committee, which has really done its work, and in which the republicans in congress, with the exception of liz cheney and a couple of others have tried to subvert at every turn, there is the
Tremendous weight on his shoulders, because this is worse than watergate. and watergate we had a criminal president of the united states, who tried to undermine the electoral system. here we have a criminal president, donald trump, but not only tried to undermine the electoral system, tried to undermine the basic transfer of power from one president to another, and staged, attempted to stage a coup, a coup the likes of which you see in banana republics, in authoritarian dictatorships. there never has been anything like this in our history, so the justice department now has to make a decision because it is very clear that the president, donald trump, violated the law. no question. there is no question about his seditious actions. the last sedition we had in this country, on any kind of scale, was jefferson davis, the president of the confederacy.
Are more than just a nation of laws, that we are a nation that believes and requires the continuity of a president of the united states, above all else, because without that continuity, what donald trump attempted to do was to stop in its tracks democracy itself in this country. what also different is, you talk about nixon resigning, donald trump is deciding, as our reporting indicates, about not whether he should run, but when he should run. it is a different time, a different man. and bob, some things never change, which brings us to the new forward, the new edition of all the president s men and you re reflecting on this 50 years later. what are your thoughts? well, my wife, elsa, discovered went back and looked at george washington s farewell address. this is in 1796.
Wanted him to. why did eastman back off a theory one day and come back and try to get pence the next day to throw out electoral votes? because he must have had a conversation with donald trump. trump was pushing this. and trump and eastman were part of a criminal conspiracy. it takes just an agreement or just acting in concert to attempt to achieve an illegal end to establish a criminal conspiracy. so, their criminal liability is one and the same. john eastman has pleaded the fifth so far. so getting that link, that piece of evidence of conspiracy between trump and eastman would be something the committee and potentially prosecutors would need to do going forward to make this case. george conway, thank you for being with us this morning. thank you. we re going to be joined by a member of the white house counsel of economic advisers on the president s assertion that a recession is not inevitable. (mom allen) verizon just gave us all a brand new iphone 13. (dad allen) we ve been cu