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stephanie ruhle. today the, january 6th committee made a powerful case about the relentless pressure donald trump and his allies put on mike pence to unlawfully overturn the 2020 election results. this afternoon, the committee presented detailed evidence revealing the intensity of that effort and the real danger pence was in on the day of the insurrection. >> mike pence, i hope you are going to stand up for the good of our constitution and for the good of our country. and if you are not, i'm going to be very disappointed in you, i will tell you right now. >> i'm telling you what, i'm...

pouring gasoline on the fire by tweeting that. >> the secret service couldn't control the situation and do their job to keep him safe. >> at 2:26 p.m., the secret service rushed vice president pence down the stairs. >> approximately 40 feet. that's all there was. 40 feet between the vice president and the mob. make no mistake about the fact that the vice president's life was in danger. the recent court filing by the department of justice explains that a confidential informant from the proud boys told the fbi that the proud boys would have killed mike pence if given the chance. >> tha...

that is testimony from mike pence's former adviser regarding former president donald trump's repeated efforts to get pence to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. we will hear much more of the key moments from yesterday's january 6th hearing, including the vice president's close call with the mob, very close call that day. and the pardon request from the architect of the president's election scheme. plus, new reporting that the house select committee now wants to talk to conservative activist ginni thomas. she is, of course, the wife of supreme court justice clar...

the plan was illegal, or said in in front and trump did not care it was illegal. >> i think that was one of the biggest take-aways that eastman himself knew it was illegal and put it in an email, i want you to do a minor constitutional violation. chuck, back to you, we will build our way back to donald trump if we, can and specifically about his lawyer, that lawyer, john eastman, we even saw the email that he wrote to golden globe, saying, you know, having -- to rudy giuliani, saying you know, having thought about it, i think i do need a pardon here that understands his mind s...

>> the conversation was pretty heated. >> i remember hearing the word wimp, he called him a wimp. i don't remember if he said you are a wimp. >> it was a different tone that i had heard him take with the vice president before. >> these pictures of pence never seen before, the vice president being hidden by the secret service in an underground garage under the capitol, reading the president's tweet that said that pence lacked courage to overturn the election. that tweet helped inflame the mob, a mob that had come within 40 feet of the vice president when he was making his escape. mark...