Today’s 1/6 hearing focused on Trump’s attempts to pressure Pence

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🗓️ 16 June 2022

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The House select committee investigating the Capitol insurrection on Thursday detailed how former President Donald Trump tried to pressure his vice president to join in his scheme to overturn the presidential election. Two witnesses testified at Thursday's hearing who advised Pence that he did not have the authority to subvert the election. 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	You're watching the lead after this hearing.
0:05.9	We're joined now by a member of the House Select Committee who played a leading role
0:09.6	in today's hearing at California Democratic Representative Pete Aguilar.
0:13.2	A congressman, thanks so much for joining us today.
0:15.7	We heard numerous Trump insiders admit that John Eastman's legal theory didn't hold
0:22.8	water in any way.
0:25.0	One of them, Eric Hirschman, even said to Eastman, are you out of your effing mind?
0:30.6	John Eastman, according to testimony, himself admitted that such an argument would lose
0:35.6	nine to zero at the Supreme Court, although originally he said seven to two.
0:40.8	Why is it important for the committee to establish for the public that they all understood, including
0:48.3	Trump and Eastman that this was not legal, this was not constitutional?
0:54.8	Well, it's important to build off of the second hearing, and then the second hearing we heard
1:00.0	very clearly that the president knew he lost the election.
1:03.5	And so what we wanted to establish in this third hearing was that not only did he know
1:07.2	he lost the election, but he knew that these theories, these legal, purported legal
1:12.4	theories had no basis in law.
1:15.3	We needed to establish that because it's so important that the campaign is the pressure
1:20.2	cooker of a campaign on Mike Pence gets closer to January 6th.
1:25.7	It's only because every possible remedy has been extinguished.
1:30.6	He loses 62 cases in state and federal court.
1:34.2	The timeline and the calendar is not helpful.
1:36.9	And so he gravitates to this crazy theory.
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