Mike Pence reveals new details in Trump’s federal election interference case

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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New reporting reveals what former Vice President Mike Pence told special counsel Jack Smith about the days leading up to the Capital riot. This comes as Trump’s legal team challenges federal agencies’ findings that there was no widespread fraud in the 2020 election. Meanwhile, the anti-Trump political network backed by the Koch brothers endorsed Nikki Haley in the 2024 presidential race despite Haley averaging 30 points behind Donald Trump in primary polls in her home state. Katie Benner, Charles Coleman, Mary McCord, Ben Rhodes, Ben Hodges, David Plouffe, Tim Miller, and Mike Memoli join.

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0:00.0	Tonight Mike Pence's initial plan for January 6th, new reporting about what he told
0:06.4	Jack Smith's team about the pressure campaign from his former boss, and 12 more
0:11.8	hostages released from Hamas.
0:14.4	What happens now as the temporary truce is set to expire?
0:18.8	Then Nicki Haley scores a major endorsement, but first needs to clinch the nomination.
0:24.2	The state of the race with the first primaries quickly approaching,
0:28.0	as the 11th hour gets underway on this Tuesday night. Good evening once again, I'm Stephanie Rule.
0:40.0	Great to be back here at 30 Rockefeller Center and we're starting this evening's
0:43.7	broadcast with special counsel Jack Smith's and his election interference case
0:48.2	against Donald Trump which is headed to trial ready for this in just about three months. Now there's new
0:54.5	reporting about what Trump's former vice president Mike Pence told Smith's
0:59.0	investigators about the days after the 2020 election leading up to the riot at the Capitol.
1:05.0	ABC News reporting Pence gave Smith's team several details about how Trump quote
1:11.0	surrounded himself with crank attorneys who espoused un-American
1:15.1	legal theories and almost pushed the country toward a constitutional crisis.
1:19.6	ABC says Pence told the feds he was sure that days before January 6th he told Trump
1:26.2	he still had not seen significant election fraud but Trump was unmoved.
1:31.4	ABC also reports that at one point,
1:34.4	Pence had even decided to skip the January 6th certification vote
1:38.6	before his son convinced him not to.
1:41.2	The January 6th hearings revealed the pressure placed on Pence by
1:45.0	Trump and others to single-handedly overturn Joe Biden's 2020 victory.
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