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
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
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 judge s 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 around the clock to try to keep donald trump in power. this hour, we will expand that inner circle with a look at ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas. bennie thompson saying that it is time for the committee to hear from thomas, quote, soon. this is a change in the committee s position and it comes after new bombshell reporting from the washington post on the emails between thomas and john eastman about overturning the election. we are going to talk about the new foc
this election. frankly, we did win this election. reporter: donald trump s false claim that he won the election before all the votes were counted, a lie he continues to peddle but one the january 6th committee didn t believe, like his attorney general. he had become attached from reality if he really believes this stuff. reporter: his campaign manager. i didn t think what was happening was necessarily i remember tell being him i didn t believe the dominion allegations. what they were proposing i thought was nuts. the theory was also completely nuts. reporter: trump s assertion that he won the election is at the core of the committee s argument that he purposely and criminally worked to prevent the i told him that the claims of fraud wiere bullshit. bill stepien was supposed to testify live but when his went into labor, he bowed out. did anybody who was a part of that conversation disagree with your message? yes. who was that? the president disagr
that is how trump insiders describe the former president election lies to the january 6th committee. it was all part of today s public hearing. cnn s ryan nobles has the highlights right now. we were getting ready to win this election. frankly, we did win this election. reporter: donald trump s false claim that he won the 2020 election before all the votes were counted. a lie he continues to peddle, but one that some of his closest advisers told the january 6th committee they did not believe. like his attorney general. he s become detached from reality if he really believes the stuff. reporter: s campaign manager. i didn t think what was happening was necessarily honest or professional. reporter: and several top campaign lawyers. i remember telling him, that, i didn t believe the dominion allegations, but they put were proposing, i thought was nuts. theory was also that s. reporter: trump s insistence that he won the election despite a wide range of evidence t