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happening on the hill, and it's something that i still struggle to work through. the emotions of that. >> joining us now is olivia troye, former top aide to vice president mike pence. she attended the hearing today. she is a former colleague of cassidy hutchinson. olivia, i just want to read for the audience the tweet that she was just talking about. it was donald trump tree tweeting at 20 4 pm on the capitol, and that was being televised, he was watching it. he tweeted, mike pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution, g...

Us capitol. maggie haberman: he was watching television and admiring what he saw. speaker: you want a fight, you better believe you got one! maggie haberman: he was happy that the certification was delayed. there were myriad efforts to get him to issue some kind of a statement. those did not work. he didn't make a single phone call to any member of his government. speaker: this is now effectively a riot. jake tapper: at 1:49 pm-- speaker: --49 hours declaring it a riot. jake tapper: --when d.c. police officially declared this a riot, trump tweeted out a link to his speech on the ellipse, the v...

Us capitol. maggie haberman: he was watching television and admiring what he saw. speaker: you want a fight, you better believe you got one! maggie haberman: he was happy that the certification was delayed. there were myriad efforts to get him to issue some kind of a statement. those did not work. he didn't make a single phone call to any member of his government. speaker: this is now effectively a riot. jake tapper: at 1:49 pm-- speaker: --49 hours declaring it a riot. jake tapper: --when d.c. police officially declared this a riot, trump tweeted out a link to his speech on the ellipse, the v...

Something to the effect of the rioters had gotten to the capitol mark. we need to go down and see the president now. and mark looked up at him and said, he doesn't want to do anything, pat. speaker: it's over! you better run, cops! jake tapper: right as the violence surged, trump tweeted, "mike pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution". sarah matthews: it was the last thing that was really needed in that moment. it pretty much painted a target on the vice president's back by tweeting that out. crowd: hang mike pence! hang mike p...

>> i remember pat saying to him something to the effect of the rioters have gotten to the capitol mark. we need to go see the president now. mark looked up and said he doesn't want to do anything, pat. >> it's over! you better run, cops. >> right as the violence surged, trump tweeted, mike pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and constitution. >> it was the last thing that was really needed in that moment. it pretty much painted a target on the vice president's back by tweeting that out. >> hang mike pence! hang mike pence! >> i remember pat say...