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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...

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...

senate chamber. retired republican federal judge j. michael luttig is expected to condemn trump for instigating as he is expected to put it a war on democracy so that he could cling to power. judge luttig is expected to say had the vice president of the united states obeyed the president of the united states, america would immediately have been plunged into what would have been tantamount to a revolution within a paralyzing constitutional crisis. >> joining us now is democratic congres...

insurrection, the january 6th committee plans to focus on donald trumps repeated pressure on former vice president mike pence to block the certification of the 2020 election results. remember what trump told the crowd just hours before the attack on the capitol. >> mike pence, i will tell you right now, im not hearing good stories. i hope that our great vice president, our great vice president comes through for us. hes a great guy. of course if he doesnt come through, i wont like him q...

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...

schumer -- >> how one of the rioters got a tour of the capital capitol from a republican congressman the day of the insurrection. >> but no one in that group showed that type of aggression that day. >> committee member adam schiff is here on that, plus the planned hearing tomorrow focusing on vice president mike pence and the we live consequences of the big lie on a local election in new mexico. >> i have huge concerns with these voting machines. i really do. >> when all in starts righ...

we will be here, doing a primetime recap of tomorrows january 6th hearing, starting at 8 pm eastern. so if you are used to seeing me or msnbc prime, tune in an hour early tomorrow for that primetime recap of the next january 6th hearing. i wish you a pm eastern tomorrow night. now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. good evening, lawrence. >> in other words, msnbc audiences are going to get even more rachael tomorrow night. >> im quoting myself right now. >> and you will...

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...

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...

opportunity to hear testimony about the events leading up to the insurrection, and donald trumps possible role in fomenting and pushing known election lies. known because even his family members and top republican aides were learning were adamant there simply was no there there. now, trump is not on any of these ballots. but the connective tissue is a platform that echoes his sentiments. but as much as the committee has tried to convey that what we saw on january 6th is a continued thr...