good evening. you are going to see a number of extraordinary things over the course of this next hour. it is very rare that we see history happening in realtime. we ve all seen the images of what happened to outside the capitol on january 6th, of the capital being breached. people wandering around, destroying property. that was historic, but it is even rarer to see what was happening behind closed doors, where the people in power were making decisions. that is what you are about to see tonight. in this hour ahead, one of the most consequential moments in living memory, in a way you ve never seen it before. footage from january 6th, 2021, obtained exclusively by cnn as the attack on the capitol unfolded, showing how congressional leaders, speaker, nancy, pelosi and others were forced to flee the capital from their offices and moved to a secure location where they frantically coordinated with then vice president pence and trump cabinet members to quell the insurrection and fini
selection loss, was a letter. mr. donahue, on december 28th, mr. clark emailed you and mr. rosen a draft letter that he wanted you to sign and send to georgia state officials. you testified that this could have grave constitutional consequences. can you tell us what you meant by that? i had to read both emails in the attached letter twice to make sure i really understood what he was proposing. it was so extreme to me, i had a hard time getting my head around it. i read it and i did understand it for what he intended. and i had to sit down and serve , compose what that was an appropriate response. i went next door to the acting ig s office. he was not there. we both had an email. he was not in his offers. i returned my office. . this is not the departments role. to suggest or dictate to state legislatures how they should select their electors. but, more importantly, this was not based on fact. this is actually contrary to the facts, as developed by the department investigati
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 don t agree on much. these are his words spoken a few months ago about donald trump s 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 second tournament office. today, the select committee is going to reveal the details of that pressure campaign. but what does the vice president of the united states even have to do with the presidential election? the constitution says that the vice president of the united states oversees the process of counting the electoral college votes. the process that took place on january 6th, 2021. donald trump wanted mike pence to do something no other vice president has ever done. the former president wa
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 is called the last ditch effort to keep trump in power incorrect at every turn. we are going to pause for one moment to let our fox stations join us now. and this is fox special coverage of the third public hearing in the house select committee investigation of the january 6th insurrection. we are going to pause right now. all right, this is fox news special coverage of the third public hearing in the house select committee investigation of the january 6th capitol riot. i m john roberts in washi
recorded testimony by former pence chief of staff mark short who was with vice president pence an january 6th. was a firsthand witness to trump s pressure campaign in the days leading up to it. we re 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 president was doing during the riot, and where he was hiding as that mob chanted, hang mike pence, hang mike pence. the panel also will focus on the role of conservative lawyer john eastman in pushing the bo fgus unconstitutional theory that pence has the power to invalidate legal, lawful e electoral votes. let s go to ryan nobles on capitol hill right now. ryan, the chairman of the select committee congressman bennie thompson of mississippi just chaired a block buster new information about a potentia