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Megaphone shouting, hang mike pence. so theyre drawing a link between the two as one of the causes of the violence and the harm of the day. something thats getting buried today from the conservative judge that testified today, making the case that this isnt just about january 6th but the underlying causes that led to the kinds of things that were in your question, don, this violence and this sort of unrest hasnt gone away. >> right. >> and sort of what got us here could continue to plague the 20...

The january 6th committee sending an official request to ginnie thomas asked her to speak with them in her role about the overturning of the 2020 election. it appears justice thomas is open to the idea. tom foreman has the latest now. tom, what is the committee hoping to learn. >> hey, don. a source familiar with the testimony confirmed to cnn the january 6th committee has e-mailed between ginnie thomas and john eastman who took the fifth 100 times. he is the conservative lawyer who argued that ...

I would not ask you that question otherwise if we didnt have an insurrection and so much violence going on. thank you for your candor on that. lets play more. heres what else the committee said about the danger to mike pence. >> vice president pence and his team ultimately were led to a secure location where they stayed for the next four and a half hours, barely missing rioters a few feet away. >> approximately 40 feet. thats all there was. 40 feet between vice president and the mob. >> mr. atto...

Wants to do. and just when we heard the other day rudy giuliani, and you thought there couldnt be more of a clown in this situation, enter john eastman who goes to continue to provide inaccurate information to the president, giving him advice that as we heard greg jacobs say today there was no justifiable legal theory for what eastman was telling trump. yet, he went ahead and did it any way. this is despicable what happened. and the more we hear what happened, it just defies reality. im glad to ...

Announced it would increase rates by three-quarters of a percentage point, the largest since 1994. making this move in hopes of cooling down inflation, causing americans to pay more for essentials like food and gas. lets bring in now business journalist mark stewart. good to see you. the president says that a recession is not inevitable. whats going on here? the market is indicating that a recession is on the way. >> well, the honest answer is that no one really knows. i wake up every morning wi...

As heroes. its better they came to their senses at the end. in terms of mike pence, i dont think he had a lot of choice. what was he going to do? he didnt have the power to try to overturn the election. good for him. but you know -- he went along for all of the years, don. when you enable, at the end, you have a problem. thats what the committee has found here. >> i am saying he could have held things up. he could have tried to send it back. >> yeah. >> it would have extended the process. youre ...

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Were glad to have her. thanks so much. okay. so trump and everyone around him knew their plan to have pence overturn the election. they knew it was illegal. but he pushed it anyway, even as the mob descended on the capitol. is this the state of our democracy now, lies and violence? >> well, thats a cheery opening question there, don. i dont have a crystal ball. in terms of the judge who testified today who was looking forwards at 2022 and 2024 and seeing trump unequivocally as a clear and presen...

In the beginning, many of them supported him. but in the end, they said the evidence was too much. its something we have to ask yourselves. i think also, don, despite -- >> i didnt know it was rhetorical. >> you dont think? >> this is in 1973. and mucking up the process -- >> i think it was truly bipartisan. them -- she offered them an opportunity to put sensible republicans on the committee, and he refused. she offered him the opportunity to do whatever he wanted to accept. she did not want to ...

Is that both al gore and george w. bush accepted the results and urged the country to come together around the outcome. and that is a huge difference. you have a candidate in trump who has gone to war against any outcome that did not have him as a winner. that is someone who fundamentally doesnt believe in the american system. to your point, why did pences lawyer bring that up today? whats so revealing, i found it fascinating, we highlight this in our book thats going to come out in the foul, is...