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♪ ♪ ♪ good to be with you. i'm ayman mohyeldin in new york. thursday's hearings of the january six committee was basically the mike pence show, revolve around the pressure campaign by donald trump's allies to get the vice president to use his constitutional, ceremonial role, on january the 6th, to change joe biden's electoral votes, or set them aside for donald trump. the panel may know -- about painting pence as a man of courage, who stood up against trump's plan. >> we are fortunate for mr. pence's courage on january 6th. our democracy came dangerously close to catastrophe. t...

does she feel like she owes an apology? >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt good evening. as riveting as the stories were, it was who was telling them that gave way to chilling testimony before the january 6th committee today about donald trump's pressure campaign on his vice president, mike pence, to stage an illegal one-man attempt to overturn the presidential election results one pence adviser calling it constitutional mischief another warning it risked the election being settled in the streets. members of pence's inner circle testifying about the president...

Deflect the whole thing. it's such a particular way. it almost seemed scripted. here's a good example of this talking point. on the day of the first -- tweeted out, gas is $5 a gallon people. genuinely can't imagine giving a crap about the january 6th hearings. it's not just him's. there's an obsession on many right-wing outlets, with this idea that the left, democrats and mainstream media, are talking about inflation. all democrats care about is january 6th. >> people are talking about food prices going up and the democrats are solely focused on trying to change their political narrative. >> ...