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the january 6th committee kicking off its next public hearing just hours from now, and were told that theyre going to focus on the former presidents efforts to pressure mike pence to overturn the election and how it, quote, directly contributed to the insurrection. this coming as were getting new video of a capitol tour led by a republican congressman right before the riot. cnns ryan nobles has the latest now. >> reporter: theres no escape, pelosi, schumer. >> reporter: new video relea...

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pence. the white house council said pence did not have any authority to throw out the results. trumps pressure on pence, and i quote, directly contributed to the violent insurrection. lets take a look at this photo. its obtained by abc news, showing pence and his family inside hiding, as the building was being ransacked by rioters. pences daughter on the left side of the photo, his wife on the right, pulling the curtains closed for extra safety. and pence had good reasons to be hiding....

keilar. and a flurry of new developments overnight surrounding the january 6th insurrection, just hours before the next hours gets under way. "the new york times" reports previously undisclosed emails from trump lawyer john eastman claiming he was aware of a, quote, heated fight among supreme court justices over whether to take up a case on the 2020 election. but even more than that, the "times" reports a response from another pro-trump lawyer, quote, odds of action by the supreme cour...

unilaterally subvert democracy. >> also this morning, new photos obtained by abc news show vice president pence and his family in hiding on january 6th, after pence was rushed off the senate floor. youll remember by secret service as rioters broke into the capitol. >> i think the public probably is not aware of how close a call this was. the rioters came very close to capturing the vice president and i think there is very good evidence that they would have done harm to him, perhaps eve...

>> reporter: it will all focus on the pressure on mike pence to take that unconstitutional action on january 6, 2021 to overturn the electoral certified votes of the states here on january 6, something of course that he rejected doing. but going to the genesis of how this theory first came about. looking at the trump attorney john eastman who is a prominent supporter of this and directly tie donald trumps words to the violence that occurred on january 6 as words about mike pence into e...

>> my memory, i remember hearing the word "wimp," either he called him a wimp, i dont remember if he said -- wimp is the word i remember. something to the effect this is the wording is wrong. i made the wrong decision for our five years ago. >> and the word that he repla -- the word, do you remember what she said her father called anymore >> the "p" word. >> our investigation found that early drafts of the january 6th ellipse speech prepared for the president, include nod d no men of t...

reject any electorate votes! >> im telling you, if pence game, were going to drag mother [ bleep ] through the streets. you [ bleep ] politicians are going to get drug through the streets. >> hang mike pence. >> hang mike pence! hang mike pence! hang mike pence! >> this was real. this is the evidence. this has nothing to do with partisanship or how one might feel about how vice president pence conducted himself in government, his view, his ideology. that sometimes gets lost partly b...

send? ill ask john kirby with the national security council. lets go "outfront." good evening. im erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, pressure campaign. the january 6th select committee revealing tonight it will make the case tomorrow that donald trumps pressure on mike pence to overturn the election "d "directly contributed to the deadly snushg insurrection." the hearing will focus on president trumps efforts to convince his vice president to subvert the election. those efforts happenin...

in her video today, congresswoman cheney played a longer version of testimony we first heard some of yesterday from eric herschman, one of the white house lawyers, that eastman spoke with. >> it was the day after eastman -- i dont remember why, he called me or texted me, wanted to talk with me and said he couldnt reach others. and he started to ask me something about georgia and revealing something, potentially for appeal. and i said to him, are you out of your f-ing mind? i said, i on...