Happening now new evidence connecting the Capitol Riot directly to

former President Trump and his pressure campaign against his

vice president insiders swearing under oath that Trump knew his

scheme to get Mike Pence to overturn the presidential election was illegal

but Trump plowed ahead anyway. The January 6th Select Committee also documenting

Pence's escape from that mob that was threatening his life with riders at one point

only 40 feet away. We're breaking down all the testimony and where the

insurrection investigation goes from here. We want to welcome our viewers here in

the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer, you're in the situation

room.

Let's get right to the new testimony and evidence presented by the January 6th

Select Committee during today's hearing. It ended just a couple of hours or so ago.

Our congressional correspondent Ryan Nobles has been following it all upon

capital ill.

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.

The third day of public hearings from the January 6th committee

focusing on former President Trump's scheme

to convince his own Vice President to overturn the 2020 election.

If Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election.

The committee meticulously laying out the strategy concocted by Conservative attorney John Eastman and the pressure campaign to get

Pence to play along. All the attention was on what Mike would do or what Mike

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