Chapter 5.2 - President Trump and His Allies Exert Intense Public and Private Pressure on the Vice President in Advance of the Joint Session of Congress on January 6th (The January 6th Report)
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🗓️ 9 March 2023
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5.2 - President Trump and His Allies Exert Intense Public and Private Pressure on the Vice President in Advance of the Joint Session of Congress on January 6th
- January 2, 2021: The Vice President Meets With His Advisors, Cementing His Intended Path for the Joint Session
- January 2, 2021: Eastman and Bannon Question the "Courage and Spine" of Vice President Pence
- January 3, 2021: Eastman Drafts Another "January 6 Scenario" Memo "Wargaming" the Ways That Vice President Pence Could Change the Outcome of the Election.
- January 4, 2021: President Trump and Eastman Meet with Pence and His Staff in the Oval Office.
- January 4, 2021: President Trump Publicly Pressures the Vice President During a Rally Speech in Georgia
- January 5, 2021: Eastman Pressures Pence's Staff in a Private Meeting While President Trump Tweets
- January 5, 2021: President Trump Again Pressures Vice President Pence in a One-On-One Meeting at the White House and Another Phone Call With Eastman
- January 5, 2021: An Accurate New York Times Article About the Vice President Prompts a False Statement in Response by President Trump
- January 5, 2021: Bannon Publicly Amplifies the Pressure on Vice President Pence
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| 0:00.0 | This is a reading of the December 22nd, 2022 final report from the select committee to investigate the January 6th attack on the United |
| 0:16.2 | States Capitol. |
| 0:18.7 | Chapter 5 A Koo in Search of a legal theory. |
| 0:27.0 | 5.2. President Trump and his allies exert intense public and private pressure on the Vice President |
| 0:32.3 | in advance of the joint session of Congress on January 6th. |
| 0:37.0 | January 2, 2021, the Vice President meets with his advisors, cementing his intended path for the joint session. |
| 0:46.0 | On January 2, 2021, Vice President Pence met with his Council Greg Jacob, Chief of Staff Mark Short, and met |
| 0:55.4 | Morgan to discuss the joint session. Morgan was the Trump campaign's general |
| 1:01.1 | counsel and had previously served as counsel to Vice President Pence. |
| 1:06.3 | At this point, the Vice President already had a clear understanding of what his role would |
| 1:11.1 | be in the electoral count. |
| 1:13.4 | Vice President Pence was concerned that most people did not understand how the certification |
| 1:18.3 | of the electoral votes worked. |
| 1:21.0 | So Jacob began drafting a statement for the Vice President to issue on January 6th. The statement was intended to provide a civic education on the joint session, explaining to the American people his actions, |
| 1:34.4 | including why the Vice President didn't have the authorities that others had suggested that he might. |
| 1:41.0 | The men discussed the various points of pressure being applied to the Vice President, including Eastman's theories, the Gomer's suit, Ellis's arguments, as well as how the electoral count process should work. |
| 1:54.0 | They also discussed allegations of irregularities and |
| 1:58.0 | maladministration of the election, |
| 2:00.0 | concluding that none of the allegations raised was sufficient to reverse President Trump's defeat. |
| 2:06.0 | While Vice President Pence recognized Congress's authority under the Electoral Count Act |
| 2:12.0 | to raise objections to the certification, neither he nor his staff were aware of any evidence of fraud that would have had a material effect on the outcome of the election in any state. |
| 2:24.0 | Because of President Trump's repetition of election fraud allegations, |
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