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simultaneous joy and despair. it will be hard to bridge the gap, but we must try. we're about to be tested. soon we'll learn can our democracy recently strained in the aftermath of our most recent presidential election with stand the new pressures to come? can controversial laws be enforced in a country as diverse as our's? not without reconciliation. those who are grieving need to recognize the sincerity of neighbors with deeply held beliefs who dreamed of seeing this day. and the many who are celebratory would be well served to recognize the heart break and devastation of citizens ...

about why they wanted to stop those kind of maga attacks on trump democracy and the loss after the insurrection. but we have the receipts from those you see on your screen today, including senator graham, a loyal trump supporter then criticized what trump was leading on the insurrection on the night of january 6th. but now as he faces legal pressure to testify in georgia for his own role in helping a trump effort that he claimed was over when he gave his famous enough is enough speech after trump fans stormed the capitol, clambering to kill mike pence. >> i hope he runs again. if you...

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 ...

the framers of the constitution who divided power and authority, who separated it out, who had broken away from george the third, and declared him to be a tyrant. there was no way that they would've put in the hands of one person the authority to determine who is going to be president of the united states. >> was it your present impression that the vice president had directly conveyed his position on these issues to the president, not just to the world through your colleagues letter, but directly to president trump? >> many times. and he had been consistent and conveying his position...

with his 2:24 p.m. tweet condemning mike pence directly endangered his vice president's life. he'd been told exactly how bad it was at the capitol. >> although the president's chief of staff, mark meadows, has refused to testify before this committee, mr. meadows' aid, ben williamson and white house press secretary sarah matthews testified that mr. meadows went to the dining near the oval office to tell the president about the violence at the capitol before the president's 2:24 p.m. tweet. >> it was clear that it was escalating and escalating quickly. so, then when that tweet, the mi...