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Invited him to testify or expressed his interest in the vice president testifying, but i don't know if that has been memorialized in writing at this point. >> what are you waiting for? >> well, it will be a decision for the committee when the time is right. we are trying to sequence our interviews so that we -- you know, before we get to central figures like mike pence, we interview all those around that person who may have relevant information so that we can inform the questions that we ask of those other witnesses. it's a pretty standard investigative practice and one i think we've been usin...

That's what happens in banana republics, not in the united states of america. >> let's talk more about the d.o.d. because we're seeing these draft orders that would have pressured the d.o.j. and the dhs. he had allies in the doj to do his bidding. he was telling pence to overturn the election in congress. was there any part of the government that he didn't want to use to overturn a democratic election? >> no. in fact, he's the head of the federal government. we have a federal system in this country. you have the federal government, then you have state and local governments. there's also eviden...

Andrew, i -- it -- i don't know. every time, it just seems to get worse. when you hear that trump was prepared to seize voting machines with draft orders or with -- with these draft-executive orders to use the power of the government to overturn the election. i mean, it -- it's what we have seen from tinpot dictators. what if he had signed them? >> don, this is the slide of democracy into fascism. i mean, that's what we are loo looking at here, right? and the -- and the irony, or maybe i should say hypocrisy of this coming from the conservative -- um -- you know, side of our political life and...

Heard from my top guy. i'm not willing to go in? that still really remains to be seen. >> maybe the top guy can be perhaps a little bit more frank than pence might want to be. they now have people. they also have papers. let's talk about that scoop from paula reid and zakharchenko hen on the draft executive orders. we knew that certain advisers to the president, people on the fringes like mike flynn, had been advocating actively to seize voting machines. we now know that there were actually two draft orders here. what's the significance? >> reporter: right. laura, what we learned yesterday, th...

That any one person could choose the american president. >> the ayes have it. >> reporter: in a vote that seemed to sym among republicans, the r.n. today censured adam kinzinger and liz cheney for serving on the january 6 com innsne t "ts isotegitimate political discourse." more than 225 people have been charged for assaulting law enforcement. three weeks before the capitol attack, emails and draft orders obtained by cbs news show president trump's outside advisers considered authorizing the secretary of homeland security to seize all machines. another draft order looked to grant similar power...