Welcome to The Beat, everyone. I'm Ari Melbourne tonight. We're tracking this investigative news that really rocked Trump world when it first broke last night.

Actually, it was in this hour and across every major network at cable news channel, you heard the bomb go off.

Mike Pence subpoenaed by special counsel Jack Smith. It's driving headlines today as the legal and political world makes sense

of this very pointed escalation in what has largely been a mysterious probe, not a ton of leaks.

Pence is the highest ranking Trump world official to be subpoenaed in the January 6th probe. And

right now, we look at the evidence. We look at where this is headed in our special report for you.

We start with one reason this looms large. Mike Pence is not just another witness. He's not

just a high-ranking official in the attempted coup conspiracy. This is very important. We touched

on it only a little bit last night in the breaking coverage, and our special report, we get into it for

you right now.

The coup plotters viewed Pence as their desired MVP, their needed collaborator, their attempted co-conspirator. The remedy was for Vice President Pence's, the quarterback in the Green Bay sweep, to remand those votes back to the six battleground states.

The vice president's got a lot of power, and that's very important to recognize.

Are we to assume that this is going to be a climactic battle that's going to take place this week about the very question of the constitutionalality of the Electoral Count Act of 1877?

Well, I think a lot of that depends

on the courage and the spine of the individuals involved.

Vice President Mike Pence?

Yes.

I don't want to...

If Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election.

This is from the number one,

or certainly one of the top constitutional lawyers in our country.

He has the absolute right to do it.

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