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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...

how the former president donald trump put pressure on the then vice president mike pence to overturn the election results. today is the third day of hearings from presenting the findings of the committee investigation and two men are appearing before todays hearing. the older man blue shirt you can see is a retired judge who was an informal adviser to mike pence. the younger gentleman is greg jacob and he is a former legal counsel to the vice president. the session his life now. has al...

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...

>> the idea of mike pence, as his staff, gets into cars, pence says were not leaving here, we are going to stay, and im going to do my constitutional duty as vice president of the united states. get out of the cars, get back into the capitol. i mean, thats a very moving scene. and good for mike pence. and to see those pictures of him at this loading dock, wherever that was. you mean, this was a moment in american history that could have gone either way. i think thats, you know, so rein...

then be heard saying on capitol hill. the committee pointing out they were directly reacting to what they were hearing from the president. and even after the horrific violence, another late message to mike pence. the lawyer working with trump saying there was still time to do this, to not certify the election. jonathan karl standing by with the testimony. also at this hour, the severe storms were watching in the east at we come on the air. a tornado watch now in effect for parts of p...

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...

actually transpired on january 6th. today, we got the first look at the document titled, 1776 returns, when the lawyer for the philadelphia president of the proud boys included it in a federal court filing. we heard mention of this document in previous indictments against members of the proud boys, some of whom were charged with seditious conspiracy last week. prosecutors revealed that an individual, whose identity is known to the grand jury, sent this blueprint to proud boys leader en...

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...

>> bring out pence! >> bring him out! >> bring out pence! >> bring mike pence! bring mike pence! [ chanting ] >> much of todays testimony centered around john eastman, an attorney whose theory that the vice president had the authority to nullify the election outcome so laughable that donald trumps own aides, allies and closest advisers described dismissing it outright. heres that evidence. >> made clear with mr. meadows about you and the vice president having a different view about the...