Chapter 5.4 - President Trump Endangers Pence's Life, Causing the Vice President, His Family, and Staff to Narrowly Miss the Rioters as They Flee the Mob Attacking the Capitol (The January 6th Report)
Government Unfiltered
Dan Williams
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🗓️ 16 March 2023
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This section describes the actions taken by Vice President Mike Pence on January 6th after rioters broke into the Capitol. The Vice President refused the Secret Service's first two attempts to evacuate him from his ceremonial office, but was ultimately forced to a more secure location. He decided he was staying in the building unless there was imminent danger to bodily safety, because he did not want to provide a win to the rioters.
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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 | 5.4. President Trump endangers Pence's life, |
| 0:30.0 | causing the vice president, |
| 0:32.0 | his family and staff, to narrowly miss the rioters |
| 0:35.7 | as they flee the mob attacking the Capitol. |
| 0:39.7 | As the debate over Arizona's legitimate electors took place on the Senate floor, the Vice President The Ceremonial Office, staffers witnessed the crowds swelling on the east side of the Capitol. |
| 0:57.1 | Then the rioters broke through security barriers. |
| 1:00.3 | Jacob told young staffers that they should stand back from the windows because the Vice President's office was not the most popular office on the block right now. |
| 1:10.0 | The Vice President was presiding over the Senate debate on the Arizona objection |
| 1:15.0 | when the noise from the rioters became audible, |
| 1:18.0 | and those in the Senate chamber realized the rioters had entered the Capitol. |
| 1:22.0 | The Secret Service evacuated Vice President Pence |
| 1:25.8 | from the Senate floor at 212 p.m. 12 minutes later at 224 p.m. President Trump tweeted that Vice President Pence |
| 1:36.0 | didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and |
| 1:41.0 | our Constitution. |
| 1:43.3 | By that time, the Secret Service had moved the Vice President to his ceremonial office across |
| 1:48.9 | the hall. |
| 1:50.5 | But the situation was spiraling out of control and they wouldn't stay there long |
| 1:55.8 | As Sarah Matthews, the deputy White House press secretary later explained |
| 2:00.8 | President Trump's tweet was like pouring gasoline on the fire. |
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