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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...

york, a live look of the hearing room, the vice chair of the committee, liz cheney giving a preview yesterday. she says the panel will examine a plot by former president trump and attorney john eastman to prevent former vice president mike pence from counting lawful electoral votes. >> john: the hearing is expected to feature two witnesses, greg jacobs. served as special counsel, chief counsel, rather, to vice president pence and former federal judge who also advised mr. pence. ludig i...

recorded testimony by former pence chief of staff mark short who was with vice president pence an january 6th. was a firsthand witness to trumps pressure campaign in the days leading up to it. were told house investigators will try to make the case that the pressure on pence directly distributed to the insurrection at the capitol and the continuing ongoing threat to the rule of law and democracy in the united states. many aides are promising new information about what the vice presiden...

further inflamed the rioters as they were raging through the capitol hunting down the vice president and shouting, hang mike pence. >> in a preview video released this week, you saw liz cheney referencing a federal judges ruling back in march that the former president probably violated federal statutes throughout that pressure campaign. a campaign conceived, in part, by lawyer john eastman, a character you will meet today. a big player inside that circle of election deniers working aro...

The committee's decision represents a significant step forward in efforts to hold Trump attorneys accountable for their willingness to use the courts to promote his unsubstantiated voter fraud narrative.

That one person would have that kind of authority. >> did vice president ever waver his position that he could not delay certification and send it back to the states? >> no, he did not. >> doctor eastman admit in front of the president, that it proposal would violate the electoral count act? >> so, during that meeting on the fourth i think i raised the problem, that both of mr. eastmans proposals would violate several provisions of the electoral count act. mr. eastman acknowledged that that was ...

Third and declared him to be a tyrant, there is no way that they wouldve broke in the hands of one person the authority to determine who was going to be president of the united states. and then we went to history. we examined every single electoral vote. that is happening congress since the beginning of the country. we examines the electoral count act. we examine the practice under the electoral count act. and critically, no vice president in 230 years of history had ever claimed to have that ki...

Conversation with the vice president about the 12th amendment in the electoral count act was in early december, around december 7th. the vice president called me over to his west wing office and told me that he had been seeing in reading things that suggested that he had a significant role to play on a january 6th. in announcing the outcome of the election. he told me that he had been first elected to congress in 2000, and that one of his earliest memories as a congressman was sitting in on the ...

Understand. >> judge luttig, another risk oversimplifying for the non lawyers who are watching, is it feel fair to say that the 12th amendment basically says that two things happen, the vice president opens the certificate, and the electoral votes are counted, is that straightforward? >> i would not want that to be my testimony before the congress of the united states. the language of the tournament is that sentiment. >> thank you, judge. mr., jacob i have a question for you. i believe that duri...

United states in joint session. it then says unmistakably not even that the vice president himself shall count the electoral votes. it clearly says merely that the electoral count votes shall then be counted. it was the electoral count act of 1887 that filled in, if you will, the simple words of the