The Jan. 6 committee will convene its third public hearing of the month at 1 p.m. with members set to focus on how former Pres. Trump pressured then-Vice Pres. Pence with 'relentless effort' to intervene to help overturn the 2020 election.
The committee says it will detail efforts from then-President Donald Trump and his allies before and on Jan. 6 to get Pence to reject electoral votes Congress was certifying -- as part of what it says was a plot to overturn the presidential election.Thursday to focus on Trump pressuring PenceThe House select committee investigating the attack on the Capitol will convene its third public hearing of the month at 1 p.m.
"President Trump had no factual basis for what he was doing and he had been told it was illegal," Vice Chair Liz Cheney said in a teasing Thursday's hearing."Despite this, President Trump plotted with a lawyer named John Eastman and others to overturn the outcome of the election on Jan. 6."Vice President Mike Pence stands before Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, obtained exclusively by ABC News
A key component of evidence is never-before-seen photos of Pence and his family taken by an official White House photographer on Jan. 6 itself. In one -- ahead of the hearing -- second lady Karen Pence is seen hurriedly closing the curtains of the vice president's ceremonial office at the Capitol, apparently fearful the mob outside could see where they were.to this round of hearings, Cheney teased testimony to come around Trump's awareness of rioters'"hang Mike Pence" chants. Quoting from witness testimony, Cheney said Trump suggested as the attack was underway:"Maybe our supporters have the right idea.
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