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simultaneous joy and despair. it will be hard to bridge the gap, but we must try. were about to be tested. soon well learn can our democracy recently strained in the aftermath of our most recent presidential election with stand the new pressures to come? can controversial laws be enforced in a country as diverse as ours? not without reconciliation. those who are grieving need to recognize the sincerity of neighbors with deeply held beliefs who dreamed of seeing this day. and the many w...

about why they wanted to stop those kind of maga attacks on trump democracy and the loss after the insurrection. but we have the receipts from those you see on your screen today, including senator graham, a loyal trump supporter then criticized what trump was leading on the insurrection on the night of january 6th. but now as he faces legal pressure to testify in georgia for his own role in helping a trump effort that he claimed was over when he gave his famous enough is enough speech ...

good afternoon. this is almost no idea more un-american then the notion that any one person could choose the american president, no idea more un-american. i agree with that. which is unusual because former vice president mike pence and i dont agree on much. these are his words spoken a few months ago about donald trumps attempt to pressure the former vice president pressure him into going along with an unlawful and unconstitutional scheme to overturn the 2020 and give dawn trump a seco...

the framers of the constitution who divided power and authority, who separated it out, who had broken away from george the third, and declared him to be a tyrant. there was no way that they wouldve put in the hands of one person the authority to determine who is going to be president of the united states. >> was it your present impression that the vice president had directly conveyed his position on these issues to the president, not just to the world through your colleagues letter, bu...

with his 2:24 p.m. tweet condemning mike pence directly endangered his vice presidents life. hed been told exactly how bad it was at the capitol. >> although the presidents chief of staff, mark meadows, has refused to testify before this committee, mr. meadows aid, ben williamson and white house press secretary sarah matthews testified that mr. meadows went to the dining near the oval office to tell the president about the violence at the capitol before the presidents 2:24 p.m. tweet. ...

possibly a crime. they knew, and according to a testimony today, they do it anyway. and the testament knew that. he also in new in realtime that the actions that he was taking, or about to take with his 2:24 pm tweet the -- he had been told exactly how that it was at the capitol. >> although the presidents chief of staff, mark meadows, is refusing to testify before the committee. mr. meadows aid, ben williamson, and white house press secretary, sarah matthews, testified that mr. meadow...

thing, we win the election. >> i remember hearing the word wimp. he called him a wimp. wimp is the word i remember. >> it was a different tone than id heard him take with the vice president before. >> do you remember what your father called him? >> the p word. >> the hearing included testimony that even after trump was informed violence was breaking out on the capitol, he tweeted an insult saying that pence lacked courage which the committee says led to a surge in the crowd. >> then i ...

attorney john eastman and others, presented a clear and dangerous threat to american democracy. listen to this. >> had vice president pence obeyed the orders from his president, and the president of the united states of america, that declaration of donald trump as the next president would have plunged america into what i believe would have been tantamount to a revolution within a constitutional crisis. >> revolution within a constitutional crisis. the committee also revealing just how ...

the results was illegal. but they pushed anyway. listen to former trump white house lawyer eric herschmann on his conversation with eastman. >> i said are you out of your effing mind. i was completely blunt. i said youre crazy, youre going to cause riots in the streets. and he said words to the effect of, theres been violence in the history of our country to protect the democracy or protect the republic. >> testimony revealed even after the capitol riot, eastman pushed for delay in cer...

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, im 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 penc...