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they're waiting to see how this is actually playing out before the electorate or whether any opinions let alone potential votes or legislation might actually change. we've also been waiting for what the person who obviously seems to be at the center, former president donald trump, what he has to say about all the committee's assertions, and there are a lot of them like that he was told his scheme was to overturn the election was in fact illegal, but he pressured his vice president to go along with it anyway. things like he knew that mike pence's life was in arj at the capitol but kep...

the january 6th committee kicking off its next public hearing just hours from now, and we're told that they're going to focus on the former president's efforts to pressure mike pence to overturn the election and how it, quote, directly contributed to the insurrection. this coming as we're getting new video of a capitol tour led by a republican congressman right before the riot. cnn's ryan nobles has the latest now. >> reporter: there's no escape, pelosi, schumer. >> reporter: new video released by the january 6th select committee showing a man outside the capitol directing threats at...

People hearing about consistently the spouse of a supreme court and thinking, hey, i thought even a hint of impropriety forced a judge to recuse him or herself -- you're laughing because those rules don't really apply to the supreme court. what are the parameters? >> it's really in the hand of each individual justice. remember each of these nine justices are appointed for life. they do have ethics guidelines. they do -- they are part of a federal -- they fall under a federal law that says if there's an appearance of impropriety or a conflict of interest or a reasonable person could suspect the...

And the former vice president had to go into hiding because that mob was so whipped up into a frenzy, and while he was hiding and we just saw these pictures, he actually watched trump praise that mob, telling them he loved them and they were very special, really one of the most surreal snapshots in american history. and today the ex-president even floated pardons for some of those rioters if he ever gets back into the white house. so there's, of course, no backing down from the election lies he's spoken of. and we're going to dig in more tonight just how those lies are still putting democracy ...

Certify the election results. what do you think of him testifying tomorrow? >> i think it's a very smart move on the part of the committee. you know, don, i've said all along that part of the job of this committee -- i think the primary job, actually, is to try to reach the american people to give them the facts about what happened. an independent review of the facts very, very straightforward. and i think judge lutting's testimony, in fact someone ted cruz worked for at one point, that is speaking to a lot of people out there. that is not speaking to the democratic side, necessarily. this is ...