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Donald trump tonight it. trump issued a statement claiming that the vice president had agreed that he could determine the outcome of the election. despite the fact that the vice president had consistently rejected that position. let's look at what the president said in his statement. >> quote, the new york times report regarding comments vice president pence supposedly made to me today is fake news. he never said that. the vice president and i are in total agreement that the vice president has the power to act. mr. jacob, how did the vice presidents team react to the statement from the preside...

President's general counsel. >> did john eastman ever admit, as far as you know, in front of the president that his proposal would violate the electoral count act? >> i believe he did on the fourth. >> that was january 4th. two days before the attack on congress. a second point. please listen to testimony today about all of the ways that president trump attempted to pressure vice president pence, including donald trump's tweet at 2:24 pm. condemning vice president mike pence when president trump already knew a violent riot was underway at the capitol. in the future hearings, you will hear from...

His justification which we will learn more about in our next hearing was that a group of trump supporters in arizona and other swing states decided to proclaim themselves the true electors for the state. creating two sets of electors. the official electors selected by the state and a group of fake electors. this document was ordered to be produced to the select committee by a federal district court judge. as you will see on the screen shortly, judge david carter wrote quote, the draft memo pushed a strategy that knowingly violated the electoral count act. the judge concluded that quote, the me...

12th amendment. in order to construct for the country a process for the counting of the sacred process. for the counting of the electoral votes, from the states. that's neither our original constitution, nor even the 12th amendment, had done. the irony, if you will, is that from its founding until 1887, when congress passed the electoral count act, the nation

And so here you have an amendment that says nothing about objecting or rejecting, and yet we did have some recent practice of the happening within the terms of the electoral count act. so we started with that text. we were called in that discussion with the vice president, who said, i cannot wait to go to heaven and meet the founding fathers and tell them, they work that you did in putting together our constitution is a work of genius. thank you. it was divinely inspired. there is one sentence that i would like to talk to you a little bit about. so then we went to structure. and again, the vic...