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>> the statement. >> the statement. he really wanted to make sure that it was just so. >> as president trump was, quote, pouring gasoline on the fire during the insurrection, we're now hearing how close to danger vice president pence was on january 6. plus we now have the first of the two captured by russiae reported missing. we're live in kyiv with the latest. and more than 65 million americans are in a heat alert with temperatures getting into the triple digits fahrenheit. we're live at the cnn weather center on how much longer this could last. >> live from london, this is "cnn n...

And their top advisers ever since the gop's resounding losses in the 2018 midterms. remember those. in the week afterward, trump asked aides about replacing pence on the ticket. he asked again for their thoughts on pence during his august vacation at his golf course in bedminster, new jersey. in particular, rumors that kushner and ivanka trump wanted to consider replacements for pen pence, specifically trying to find a woman running mate to help win back the suburbs in 2020 have worried the vice president's camp. last month, as trump was leaving the aforementioned resort in bedminster, trump b...

Ass. i won't go to the white house, and i won't go because i don't think somebody like me would be welcome there. i know what it's it's like to go a room and feel like you're not wanted there. >> the first real showdown at the winter olympics may be between figure skater adam rippon, the first openly gay u.s. athlete to qualify for the winter games, and vice president mike pence who is leading the u.s. delegation in south korea. after rippon criticized pence's anti-gay policies and his support for gay conversion therapy, pence reached out to invite rippon to a conversation, when he declined.

Politics, as i often do. mike pence is crying fake news on the idea that adam rippon doesn't want to meet with him. he tweeted at him, "i want you to know we are," all caps, "for you. don't let fake necn distract you. i am proud of you." the suppopokespeople denied tha was ever for conversion therapy, but that was on his campaign website. >> good for adam rippon for calling out mike pence, who is a bigot and a fool. >> why do you think he tweeted him? >> it goes to what we were talking about earlier. i think what they do, the trump administration, is they use twitter as pence is using, to

Pen pence's office now says the invitation was not extended. we're joined by brian boitano, tell us what you think about adam rippon's refusal to meet with the vice president. >> what adam is doing is extraordinarily brave. olympic athletes have been working their lives for this moment. for adam to send this message and be talking about this, it creates a distraction for him that could take away from his performance. but these are things that he feels passionate, that need to be talked about. and they do. and he has no better platform than being in the olympic games. and so there are two reall...