Chapter 7.1 - "Reinsert the Mike Pence Lines" (The January 6th Report)
Government Unfiltered
Dan Williams
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🗓️ 11 April 2023
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Summary
Vice President Pence was critical to President Trump's plan for January 6th to delay the certification. He tried to reach the Vice President, but couldn't. Trump spoke with his speechwriter for about 30 minutes ahead of his planned rally and made changes that called out the Vice President by name. These late additions were the first time that Pence was named directly in the planned remarks. This section describes the timeline for the addition, the removal, and the ultimate reinsertion of these lines into the speech.
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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. |
| 0:18.5 | Chapter 7. |
| 0:20.0 | 187 minutes of dereliction. |
| 0:25.0 | 7.1. |
| 0:27.0 | Reinsert the Mike Pence lines. |
| 0:30.0 | President Trump tweeted three times on the morning of January 6th, repeating a false claim of election |
| 0:37.1 | fraud at 806 a.m. pressuring Vice President Pence to delay the electoral count at 8.17 a.m. and urging |
| 0:45.2 | Republican Party officials to do the same at 8.22 a.m. |
| 0:50.7 | He made calls to his Republican allies in Congress, many of whom were already committed to objecting to the electoral count. |
| 0:58.0 | And he dialed his lawyers and advisors, including Steve Bannon and Rudolph Giuliani, twice, both of whom had been counseling the president on how to stay in power. |
| 1:09.0 | There was one person critical to his plan, whom President Trump tried to reach but couldn't. |
| 1:16.0 | At 9.02 a.m. he asked the switchboard operator to call his Vice President. |
| 1:21.8 | Vice President Pence did not answer the call. |
| 1:25.0 | Instead, between 952 a.m. and 1018 a.m. the president spoke with his speech |
| 1:32.2 | writer Stephen Miller about the words he would deliver at the Save America rally just hours later |
| 1:39.0 | The former President's speech had come together over the course of 36 hours, going from a screed aimed at encouraging |
| 1:46.2 | congressional objections to one that would ultimately incite mob violence. |
| 1:52.1 | Only four minutes after the call concluded at 1022 a.m. |
| 1:56.0 | Miller emailed revisions to the speech writers, instructing them to start inputting these |
| 2:01.8 | changes ASAP. |
| 2:03.2 | That included red highlights marking PODS edits. |
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