January 6 Committee: Third hearing will show Trump pressure campaign on Pence “directly contributed” to Capitol attack

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🗓️ 16 June 2022

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The House select committee investigating the attack on the Capitol says the third June hearing will show how former President Trump’s pressure campaign on his vice president “directly contributed” to the insurrection. A source familiar with the committee’s investigation says they have emails between conservative attorney John Eastman and Ginni Thomas, a conservative activist and the wife of sitting Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Democratic Rep. Pete Aguilar is a member of the committee and confirmed to Anderson Cooper that they do have the emails but wouldn’t say whether the select committee plans to add Thomas’ role in overturning the election results to the upcoming hearings. Plus, Bunny Drueke’s son, Alexander John-Robert Drueke, and Joy Black’s fiancé, Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh, are two Americans who have been voluntarily fighting alongside Ukrainian forces north of Kharkiv. They’ve both been missing for nearly a week and their families fear they may have been captured. Drueke and Black join AC360 to give an update on their loved ones. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening.
0:01.0	Thanks for joining us.
0:02.0	When the House January 6th select committee reconvenes tomorrow afternoon, the focus will be
0:06.3	on pressure Mike Pence may have been under from the former president to do his bidding on
0:10.2	January 6th.
0:11.2	We begin with a new photo of him from that day under immediate threat from the mob calling
0:16.0	for his hanging.
0:17.4	The photo was obtained by ABC News.
0:19.6	It was taken in his ceremony al-Office just moments after he and his family were evacuated
0:24.1	from the Senate chamber, according to ABC.
0:27.2	Along with the former vice president, he's brother Congressman Greg Pence, his daughter
0:31.0	Charlotte and his wife Karen, who's closing the curtains.
0:34.4	According to ABC, the photo was taken after the attackers had already breached the Capitol.
0:38.3	Some of them chanting hang Mike Pence.
0:40.4	Again, this comes a day before the select committee is set to focus on Mr. Pence in just a
0:44.7	few hours after it weighed in on the question of whether some in the January 6th crowd were
0:49.5	aided by information gathered during tours they got from Republican House members.
0:54.1	This allegation that these were really reconnaissance tours is not, repeat not yet, substantiated.
0:59.8	But today, the committee released a video of a tour of the Capitol Georgia Republican
1:04.1	Congressman Barry Lautermilk gave on the 5th of January.
1:08.1	In the video, one man has seen snapping pictures of security checkpoints, staircases, and
1:12.7	hallways which, in the words of the committee chairman, Benny Thompson are quote, not typical
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