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 newsroom with max foster. thursday s hearing on the january 6 riot revealed more chilling details. and stuck in the middle was vice president mike pence, testimony showed that he came perilously close to being discovered and possibly killed as rioters ram pained through the capitol. committee members also zeroed in on the role of john eastman who happened the illegal scheme to thwart the 2020 electi
heard him take with the vice president before. do you remember what he said your father called him? the p word. trump even revising his january 6 speech at a rally of his supporters to take aim at the vice president. mike pence is going to have to come through for us. and if he doesn t, that will be a sad day for our country. reporter: rioters echoing the president s remarks. i m telling you, if pence cave caves, we ll drag [ bleep ] through the streets. the vice president s life was in danger. reporter: trump had been told repeatedly that pence had no authority to take such an unconstitutional action. was if your impression that the vice president had directly conveyed his position on these issues to the president not just to the world but directly to president trump?