Documentary writer and producer talks about her new pbs film about evictions during the coronavirus pandemic. You can join the conversation with your text, calls and tweets. Host schedule d. C. On the same day. Former President Trumps first return to the capital. Yesterdays speech at the Heritage Foundation was postponed, but it is one of a series of events that mike pence has been using testate his vision and clarify his purpose in the Republican Party in 2020 beyond. Good morning. Welcome to washington journal. The lines to use for democrats, republicans, independent and others, and you can always text us. Make sure you include your name and where you are texting from. We would love to hear from you on twitter or instagram. That speech last night was postponed because of serious weather issues. It is going to be rescheduled. We will show you some of the recent comments by the Vice President and tell you about a speech he is giving today and an event at the America First policy conference that we will cover later today. We will talk about the actions of the Vice President during january 6 that have been a prominent part of the evidence presented by the committee. First, lets go to the reporting of politico. It is trump versus pentz mike pence. Mike pence, who is scheduled to speak speaks at 9 00 a. M. At the National Conservative conference. Donald trump will speak at 3 00 p. M. And we will stream that on our cspan now mobile app. An already much discussed drama. There is new drama over the choice of venue. Peter navarro is asking trump not to go forward with the event because he believes that the America First policy institute is insufficiently devoted to trumpism or what navarro believes it should be. You can read that at politico. Com. That piece that was referenced is published this morning on the american greatness website. You can read that there. A tweet from politico. Mike pence is trying to put forward a new narrative about the Republican Party. Here is that piece. Mike pence is trying to send a message is the headline. You may not have predicted that mike pence, a man who praised donald trump 13 times in the span of a minute would defy his boss. It is a brave new world in politics. He is campaigning, and essence, against trump. Yesterday last friday, the manmade appearances in the grand canyon state. Trump headlined a rally in prescott valley. Here is the former Vice President at one of the political events in arizona. Some of what he had to say. There are those who want to make this election about the past. Arizona knows that. When you get out and vote for this republican team, you can say yes to a future of freedom for arizona. You can say yes to our most cherished values, life and liberty. Safe borders, safe streets and great schools. Make no mistake about it. When you get out and vote, you can send a deafening message that will be heard all across america that the Republican Party is the party of the future. Host is the role of mike pence in todays replicant party the line for democrats and for independence. A couple of comments on social media and some texts. One says, i like mike pence, but what will he do about donald trump . Trump is finished. He stabbed us in the back when he did not question the election fraud. That is james sending that message. This is from cnn politics and they are writing about the speech that mike pence was sent to give yesterday. There were some flight delays last night. This is from politico. They write that former president mike pence was looking to lead his party beyond former President Donald Trump when he touts his freedom agenda. He will deliver remarks about a proposed agenda. The trip, though originally slated to take place monday evening, before trump made his first visit to that capital since leaving office in january 2021 was postponed after mike pences flight was diverted, due to storms. It will be rescheduled for another day. The freedom agenda provides a clear roadmap for leaders looking to connect with the American People on their top priority. According to prepared remarks, it is built upon the belief that americans want to create more opportunity, restore American Leadership on the world stage and are proud of traditional culture and they want to preserve it. The prepared remarks touch on a lasting majority. Some people may choose to focus on the past. I believe that conservatives must focus on the future. Your thoughts on the former Vice President and his role in the party. Lets hear from greg on the democrats line. Go ahead. Caller hello and thank you to cspan. It is interesting. Mike pence is only slightly better than trump. Thank god that he did his job when trump wanted him to not do his job. My opinion is that both of these people just need to go away. They lost the election fair and square. They divided our country more than any other politician that we have ever had. There has always been divisions between republicans and democrats, but not since it not like it has been since trump. I found it very interesting with the republican only collars, calling in with the majority of them who did not want to see trump run again. I must agree with them. These two people got lucky that they were in the white house in the first place and now they lost, they need to go away, please. Host richmond, indiana. Caller good morning. The big problem i have with mr. Pence is that in light of all the solid evidence that is abounding, concerning the elections, they broke their own laws the list goes on and on. The whole election was a big fraud. Im wondering if that makes mr. Pence a fraud as well. Host do you think he could have done anything on january 6 with the accounting of the electoral votes . He has said over and over that he did his constitutional duty. Caller what has he done since then . I have not heard him talk about fraud since then. Where has he been through all of this, if he is such a hardcore, rightwing republican. Host next up, mary kay on the republican line. Go ahead. Caller what i am really upset about is that cspan is giving a voice to the Republican Party under it is making me angry. Cspan is amplifying hate, betrayers and why are you giving them a voice,. . A voice period . There are more voices that are more important than what the republicans are doing. There are so many things that Kamala Harris is doing, and he would rather cover those in the washington journal. I am really upset at cspan for highlighting and having republicans call in to talk about what mike pence should have done. Joe biden won the election, period. Stop amplifying what the republicans are saying. Thank you. Host we covered both the president and the White House Briefing like we do almost every day. We cover president s of all stripes all year round on the network. Mike pence spoke at the federal society and laid out his vision on the accounting of the votes on january 6 and his reflections on that. There are those who believe that as the presiding officer that i possess unilateral authority to reject Electoral College votes. I heard this week that President Trump said i had the right to overturn the election. President trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election. The presidency belongs to the American People and the American People alone. There is no idea more unamerican than the notion that one person could choose the american president. Kamala harris will have no right to overturn the election when we beat them in 2024. Host we are asking about the role of mike pence and the Republican Party. Just an update on our live coverage plans. Coming up on cspan, a cspan hearing on the safety of Law Enforcement officers, including the impact of gas and gun laws here on cspan. The Senate Health committee, we will do we will look at that. That is streaming on the free cspan now at. Donald trump will speak this afternoon as we mentioned his first trip back to washington since the inauguration of joe biden. That is coming up at 2 15 eastern. Back to your calls. Good morning. Republican line. Caller mike pences future is like so many others. They are all never trumpeters. I am in pennsylvania and i have seen it. The election was stolen in pennsylvania. I was here. I sighed live on the tv. If there was fraud, mike pence should have sent it back to the states to be reviewed. Im telling you this now. The first caller talking about how donald trump divided this country . Are you kidding . Joe biden is the worst president to sit in that oval office. I have seen nothing but devastation to the small business, letting these Corporate Giants how come joe biden did not put out the profits that the Companies Made in their Second Quarter . How come we have not seen the profits . Tyson the food manufacturer. All of these other big corporations. These people are ripping the American People off. Joe biden is just sitting there, watching it happen and you have these dummies calling in, blaming donald trump, saying he is the one who destroyed this country. Are you kidding me . Caller thank you for having me on. I think that mike pences role is the role that Vladimir Putin decided for this country, that 1 was more beneficial to society then a meritbased democracy, coming off of president obama. But why people did not like him because he was black. We had communists on the left. Bernie sanders has been a communist since he was 19 years old. His Campaign Manager was partners with Paul Manafort in ukraine. Paul manafort was convicted for taking bribery money. So was michael flynn. He was at the dinner table. We had marxists in the left. We did not make them our nominees. You guys nominated trump. The woman was right about the media being controlled by the richest 1 who own the media. Host do you think the republicans will nominate mike pence in 2024 active caller no. And they are not going to vote for trump. They are still stumping for trump, so they are not going they will split the vote. Joe biden becomes president and if he does not make it, host we are going to go to texas. Republican line. I cannot believe caller i cannot believe what i am hearing from these democrats. Mike pence will never make it. Republicans will not vote for him. He is a nice man but a little bit weak in my view. We need a good, honorable man, not like joe biden. It is a socialist, communist party and they need to stop what they are doing. They are hurting their own citizens. Host back to your point about mike pence. He is a nice man but you will not vote for him. Why, politically would you not support him . Caller i just think that he is kind of a rhino. I think you have to be able to talk to the people and the democrats are indecent and their platform is disturbing. Education, introducing sexual everything to our babies is insane. The whole country is crazy right now. Host you are assuming that the former President Donald Trump will not run either in 2024 . Caller i like his platform. Democrats will always try to hurt him and stop him because they are socialist communists. They do not want the American Dream anymore. A lot of democrats are not voting democrat. They will be voting republican. Host he was donald trump earlier this year, talking about his former Vice President , mike pence. Mr. Trump i never called him a wimp. He had a chance to be great. He had a chance to be his story, but just like bill barr and the rest of these weak people, i say it sadly because i like them, but mike did not have the courage to act. Bill barr was afraid of certain things. Do you know what they worry . Please do not impeach me. I said, what is wrong with being impeached . I got impeached twice. I do not want to be impeached, sir. The election was perfect, sir, it was so good. The election was perfect, and the democrats are back there sitting like, no way we are going to impeach this guy. It is terrible, but he was afraid of whatever he was afraid of, but as you heard, year and a half ago, mike pence had no choice but to be a human conveyor belt. Even if the votes were fraudulent, they said he had to send the votes, could not do anything. What happens when you have more votes than you have voters . Does it matter . Host the former President Trump at the freedom conference. If the former president decides to run in 2024, Yahoo Finance you point out some of the financial implications of that. They write that as head of the Save America Political Action Committee he controls 103 million, making him the kingmaker. Once he declares a possible run, federal law puts the money beyond his reach. He will make an he will make another white house bid. When he announces, he is limited to taking just 5000 of his leadership pack money which began with a starting balance of zero. At the same time, trump has shown that he can raise money quickly. Three weeks after losing the election, he joined the committee to raise 207. 5 million. Your thoughts on the role by mike pence in the Republican Party. For others on twitter, kevin says this. Retire and enjoy your pension with mother. If it is a lets go to john in johnstown, pennsylvania. Good morning. Caller im afraid of the u. S. Becoming a theocracy. These ultrareligious hitlers. The biden versus trump mentality, after four years of trump, how could anybody criticize his mental acuity . The guy who had delusions of grandeur or whatever. The guy from pennsylvania called and there was only one case of fraud involving a republican, his wife and motherinlaw. He voted twice. That was the only case of fraud that they came across in pennsylvania. That is why i called today. Host thank you. Sophia is in new york city, manhattan. Caller thank you for taking my call. I definitely enjoyed and kissed the ground when mike pence saved our democracy, but for him to run as a president i see adam kissinger, liz cheney, paul ryan. On the left, they need to get back to save the Republican Party. I changed to independent last month. I could not take it anymore. I voted for trump and 2016. I cried the whole four years. When he left, i kissed the ground again. 7 34 a. M. , january 7, when when they banned him, i said, thank you. Only 25 now. They will not change their mind. They are going to speak. It was their holiday, their victory. They needed a big leader. They wanted to do this. They use each other so the only thing i want to say is we are going to be fine. I am going to get back to being a republican again. After all of this. We will go next host we will go next to the republican line. Caller thank you for taking my call. Mike pence might have had some role in the gop, but i do not believe he can go against trump in a primary. I do not think he would win. During his name in would take votes from governor desantis. When you look at the Election Results from he got 70 million votes. 70 Million People out there is a big number. As far as what is going on in todays world with joe biden, i do not think this man knows what day of the week it is, what is going on with the gas prices President Trump had all of that under control. The respect we are getting from other nations is amazing. Germany is not given what they should be giving in the ukraine. If President Trump was there, this war would have never started and they would have given their fair share. Everything has been put on us and President Biden is destroying us. Thank you for taking my calls. Host next in orange park, florida. Go ahead. Caller on the issue of mike pence, he pretty much to character assassination. He had a light. Now mike pence does not have a role. He is just trying to rebuild his character. These people are willfully ignorant. He is emotional. The committee has deliberately ignorant people deliberately ignore facts. This guy talking about respect from other countries . These other countries laughed at us. They laughed at us. Thank you, sir. Host headline from politico. Mike pence appears before the grand jury. Mark schwartz served as chief of staff and appeared before a federal grand jury, investigating matters connected to the 2021 attack on the capital. His appearance was under subpoena, according to the person. Short is one of the most significant witnesses to face questions related to january 6. He was at mike pences side, helping Donald Trumps number to fend off pressures. The january 6 committee hearing, they showed never before seen video footage of mike pence and his security detail during the attack on the u. S. Capitol. The National Security staff was listening to these developments and tracking them in real time. On the screen, you can see excerpts from the chat log among the president s National Security council and staff. At 2 13, they learned that the rioters were kicking in the windows at the capital. Three minutes later, the staff said that the Vice President was being pooled, which meant agents evacuated him from the floor. The secret Service Agents at the capital did not sound good right now. Earlier on january 6 with access to relevant information and a responsibility to report to offic