The select committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol

would be in order.

Without objection, the chair's authorized to declare the committee in recess at any

point.

But soon to house deposition authority regulation 10, the chair announces the committee's approval

to release the deposition material represented during today's hearing.

Good afternoon.

This is almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose

the American president.

No idea more un-American.

I agree with that, which is unusual because form of ice president Mike Pence and I don't

agree on much.

These are his words spoken a few months ago about Donald Trump's attempt to pressure the

form of ice president.

Pressure him into going along with an unlawful and unconstitutional scheme to overturn the

2020 election and give Donald Trump a second-term in office that he did not win.

Today, the select committee is going to reveal the details of that pressure campaign.

But what does the vice president of the United States even have to do with the presidential

election?

The Constitution says that the vice president of the United States oversees the process

of counting the electoral college votes, a process that took place on January 6, 2021.

Donald Trump wanted Mike Pence to do something no other vice president has ever done.

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