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 campaign. but what does the vice president of the united states even have to do with the presidential election? the constitution says that the vice president of the united states oversees the process of counting the electoral college votes. the process that took place on january 6th, 2021. donald trump wanted mike pence to do something no other vice president has ever done. the former president wa
york, a live look of the hearing room, the vice chair of the committee, liz cheney giving a preview yesterday. she says the panel will examine a plot by former president trump and attorney john eastman to prevent former vice president mike pence from counting lawful electoral votes. john: the hearing is expected to feature two witnesses, greg jacobs. served as special counsel, chief counsel, rather, to vice president pence and former federal judge who also advised mr. pence. ludig is called the last ditch effort to keep trump in power incorrect at every turn. we are going to pause for one moment to let our fox stations join us now. and this is fox special coverage of the third public hearing in the house select committee investigation of the january 6th insurrection. we are going to pause right now. all right, this is fox news special coverage of the third public hearing in the house select committee investigation of the january 6th capitol riot. i m john roberts in washi
recorded testimony by former pence chief of staff mark short who was with vice president pence an january 6th. was a firsthand witness to trump s pressure campaign in the days leading up to it. we re told house investigators will try to make the case that the pressure on pence directly distributed to the insurrection at the capitol and the continuing ongoing threat to the rule of law and democracy in the united states. many aides are promising new information about what the vice president was doing during the riot, and where he was hiding as that mob chanted, hang mike pence, hang mike pence. the panel also will focus on the role of conservative lawyer john eastman in pushing the bo fgus unconstitutional theory that pence has the power to invalidate legal, lawful e electoral votes. let s go to ryan nobles on capitol hill right now. ryan, the chairman of the select committee congressman bennie thompson of mississippi just chaired a block buster new information about a potentia
further inflamed the rioters as they were raging through the capitol hunting down the vice president and shouting, hang mike pence. in a preview video released this week, you saw liz cheney referencing a federal judge s ruling back in march that the former president probably violated federal statutes throughout that pressure campaign. a campaign conceived, in part, by lawyer john eastman, a character you will meet today. a big player inside that circle of election deniers working around the clock to try to keep donald trump in power. this hour, we will expand that inner circle with a look at ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas. bennie thompson saying that it is time for the committee to hear from thomas, quote, soon. this is a change in the committee s position and it comes after new bombshell reporting from the washington post on the emails between thomas and john eastman about overturning the election. we are going to talk about the new foc
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