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insurrection, the january 6th committee plans to focus on donald trump s repeated pressure on former vice president mike pence to block the certification of the 2020 election results. remember what trump told the crowd just hours before the attack on the capitol. mike pence, i will tell you right now, i m not hearing good stories. i hope that our great vice president, our great vice president comes through for us. he s a great guy. of course if he doesn t come through, i won t like him quite as much. hmm. the committee s going to make the case trump s pressure campaign directly contributed to that day s deadly violence. new photos obtained by abc news show pence and his family in hiding after the former vice president was rushed off the senate floor by secret service during the insurrection. let s begin our coverage with cnn s ma nu raju live on capito hill. walk us through exactly what we ll watch later today. reporter: the committee will try to lay out the tim ....
recorded testimony by former pence chief of staff mark short who was with vice president pence an january 6th. was a firsthand witness to trump s pressure campaign in the days leading up to it. we re told house investigators will try to make the case that the pressure on pence directly distributed to the insurrection at the capitol and the continuing ongoing threat to the rule of law and democracy in the united states. many aides are promising new information about what the vice president was doing during the riot, and where he was hiding as that mob chanted, hang mike pence, hang mike pence. the panel also will focus on the role of conservative lawyer john eastman in pushing the bo fgus unconstitutional theory that pence has the power to invalidate legal, lawful e electoral votes. let s go to ryan nobles on capitol hill right now. ryan, the chairman of the select committee congressman bennie thompson of mississippi just chaired a block buster new information about a po ....