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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...

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...

unilaterally subvert democracy. >> also this morning, new photos obtained by abc news show vice president pence and his family in hiding on january 6th, after pence was rushed off the senate floor. youll remember by secret service as rioters broke into the capitol. >> i think the public probably is not aware of how close a call this was. the rioters came very close to capturing the vice president and i think there is very good evidence that they would have done harm to him, perhaps eve...

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...

>> my memory, i remember hearing the word "wimp," either he called him a wimp, i dont remember if he said -- wimp is the word i remember. something to the effect this is the wording is wrong. i made the wrong decision for our five years ago. >> and the word that he repla -- the word, do you remember what she said her father called anymore >> the "p" word. >> our investigation found that early drafts of the january 6th ellipse speech prepared for the president, include nod d no men of t...

this administration has failed. >> the far left pro abortion group is now reportedly clairing, quote, open season on pro life americans. >> its been a week and joe biden still has not condemned the attempted murder of a sitting supreme court justice. >> mayra flores flipping the district in texas. >> the democratic party has gone so far left and they dont represent our values. ♪ >> a little bright thing to wake you up. theres someone running. >> theres some people surfing right now. ...

>> odonnell: plus our bob costa tonight with new reporting about vice president mike pence ahead of our live coverage of tomorrows hearing. dr. fauci tests positive for covid. hes the face of americas pandemic response. pandemic tonight, the treatment hes taking. plus, a key f.d.a. panel endorses the moderna and pfizer vaccines for kids as young as six months old. severe weather. life-threatening heat and devastating floods. fords major recall. nearly three million vehicles in danger o...

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...

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...