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 congressman jamie raskin of maryland, a member of the select committee investigating january 6th. congressman raskin, thank you so much for being with us. i want to focus on the new revelations from the new york times starting with this email they report on between a pro trump lawyer and john eastman, who, of course, was working for donald trump and you focused on quite a bit. he writes, odds of action by the supreme court before january 6th will become more favorable if the justices start to fear tha
my memory, i remember hearing the word wimp, either he called him a wimp, i don t 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 the vice president, but revised it to criticize the vice president and further ad libbed. trump did not stop there, sending a sweet attacking his vice president after aides had told the president that there was violence at the capitol, where mike pence was. the tweet poured gasoline on the fire according to one trump white house aide. the mob surged in the minutes after that tweet and were able to overwhelm the police. two minutes later, pence was evacuated to a secure location underneath the capi
adviser to mike pence. in advance of that life testimony, nbc news has obtained exclusive new video ahead of today s hearing. highlighting how the events of the 6th were only the end of a pressure campaign against mike pence to overturn the election results that began much earlier with pence consistently pushing back according to testimony from his chief of staff mark short. was it your impression that the vice president had directly conveyed his position on these issues to the president not just to the world, through a deer colleague letter, but directly to president trump? many times. and had been consistent in conveying his position to the president. very consistent. okay. we ll see more on that coming up in the hearing. another angle to the january 6 story, we re getting new details on how protesters may have known their way around the capitol. now video from the january 6 committee raising questions about what happened the day before the riot on the fifth. the
send? i ll ask john kirby with the national security council. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, pressure campaign. the january 6th select committee revealing tonight it will make the case tomorrow that donald trump s pressure on mike pence to overturn the election d directly contributed to the deadly snushg insurrection. the hearing will focus on president trump s efforts to convince his vice president to subvert the election. those efforts happening behind closed doors, on twitter, and on the airwaves. mike pence, i will tell you right now, i m not hearing good stories. i hope that our great vice president, our great vice president comes through for us. he s a great guy. of course, if he doesn t come through, i won t like him as much. all that, despite the lawyers in the white house counsel s office telling trump clearly that pence could do no such thing. he didn t have the authority. and aides also say that the hearing will incl
trump s political strength is still evident at the polls. overnight south carolina republican congressman tom rice was defeated by a trump endorsed candidate. rice was one of ten republicans in the house who voted to impeach the former president and one of the first to face republican primary voters. another race in south carolina did not go trump s way, congresswoman nancy mace at times a trump critic survived a primary challenge. in another significant development republican mayor flores flipped a democratic house district in south texas, this is a pretty significant special election victory that builds on republican gains among latino voters in the region in the 2020 election. joining me now is cnn senior data reporter harry enten. harry, i think the marquee race last night was in south carolina, people looking to see what would happen to this republican that voted to impeach donald trump. looking to see what exactly would happen and here is what happened, look, it s