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Post by Admin on Jun 16, 2022 17:50:35 GMT
Exclusive photo shows Mike Pence, family hiding during Jan. 6 Capitol riots l GMA 5,911 views Jun 16, 2022 A new photo obtained exclusively by ABC News shows then-Vice President Mike Pence and his family in hiding after rioters broke into the Capitol on Jan. 6 and he was evacuated from the Senate floor. READ MORE: abcn.ws/3xSSSwDA new photo obtained exclusively by ABC News shows then-Vice President Mike Pence and his family in hiding after rioters broke into the Capitol on Jan. 6 and he was evacuated from the Senate floor. ABC News is publishing the image for the first time on the eve of the House Jan. 6 committee's hearing Thursday focused on former President Donald Trump's pressure campaign against Pence. In it, Pence can be seen with members of his family -- second lady Karen Pence, his brother, Rep. Greg Pence and his daughter -- in the vice president's ceremonial office just steps from the Senate floor. Taken just minutes after the mob had breached the Capitol and as Pence and his family were evacuated from chamber by his Secret Service detail, the photo shows Karen Pence hurriedly closing the curtains in the room, as her daughter looks on with fear. According to a source who was in the room, the second lady could see rioters outside the Capitol, so she closed the curtains, worried that the attackers would see her and her family. The photo was taken after the mob had already breached the Capitol, some of them chanting "Hang Mike Pence."
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Post by Admin on Jun 16, 2022 19:52:05 GMT
Sean Hannity Texted Meadows Doubts On Pressuring Pence To Halt Election Process 1,520 views Jun 17, 2022 Texts presented at the third public hearing of the Jan. 6 committee from Fox News host Sean Hannity to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows shows his concerns that pressuring former Vice President Mike Pence to halt the election certification process could cause the entire White House counsel office to resign.
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Post by Admin on Jun 16, 2022 21:59:26 GMT
Jan. 6 Committee Shows Timeline Of How Close Pence Came To Encountering Rioters 569 views Jun 17, 2022 The January 6 committee played a video that outlined how rioters breached the Capitol and where former Vice President Pence was moved throughout the building. Their investigation shows the vice president was within "40 feet" of encountering the group.
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Post by Admin on Jun 17, 2022 1:07:34 GMT
Jan. 6 Committee Focuses On Trump's Pressure On Pence To Overturn Election 1,696 views Jun 17, 2022 In a newly revealed testimony, close aides and advisers detailed a private phone call between former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence on the morning of January 6th. Rep. Bennie Thompson said Pence relied on advice from his legal team and faith to stay firm against the pressure while the insurrection took place. The committee says the plan to have Pence reject the election results began with a lawyer named John Eastman, who later asked for a presidential pardon. Eastman repeatedly pleaded the fifth when questioned by the committee.
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Post by Admin on Jun 17, 2022 22:17:15 GMT
On Jan. 6, 2021, then-President Donald Trump berated Vice President Mike Pence on a phone call shortly before he addressed his supporters at the Washington rally prior to the riot that unfolded at the U.S. Capitol, witnesses from his administration told the Jan. 6 select committee. Videotaped testimony about the contentious phone call given to the committee was played at the public hearing on Thursday. The subject of the call, according to those who testified, was Pence’s refusal to go along with the president’s plan to simply turn the Electoral College results back to the states when Congress was scheduled to meet later in the day. Pence refused to do so, citing the overwhelming legal consensus that he lacked the legal authority to do so. Trump, according to witnesses, was furious. White House lawyer Eric Herschmann was in the Oval Office during the call and testified that “at some point it started off as a calmer tone and then became heated.” Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter, agreed with that assessment and testified that she was taken aback when she overheard the tone her father was using with Pence. “It was a different tone than I had heard him take with the vice president before,” she told the committee. Herschmann noted that Ivanka Trump, who was also present in the Oval Office during the call, was affected by it. “I think she was uncomfortable over the fact that there was obviously that type of interaction between the two of them,” he testified. Former assistant to Trump Nicolas Luna also testified about the phone call. “I remember hearing the word ‘wimp.’ Either he called him a wimp, I don’t remember if he said, ‘You are a wimp,’ ‘You’ll be a wimp.’ ‘Wimp’ was the word I remember,” he told the committee. Trump, according to those who were in the room, told Pence that he had made the wrong decision by picking him to be his vice president. Asked what Ivanka Trump later relayed that her father had called Pence on the phone, her chief of staff Julie Radford told the committee, “the P-word.”
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