Mike Pence

"As you will hear, President Trump engaged in a relentless effort to pressure Pence both in private and in public," Rep. Liz Cheney, the leading Republican ...

The pic shows Pence and his family seeking refuge in his ceremonial office -- not far from the Senate floor -- second lady Karen Pence shuts the curtains as ...

The photo was snapped just a few minutes after the Capitol was breached ... and as many started chanting "Hang Mike Pence." The Pence family was taken to a loading dock under the building not long after. A new photo has emerged from the January 6th insurrection, one that shows then-VP Mike Pence hiding away as rioters stormed the Capitol, chanting about killing him. Mike Pence New Photo Shows Him Hiding Out As Jan. 6th Rioters Chant 'Hang Mike Pence'

The House Jan. 6 committee turns its focus Wednesday to former President Donald Trump's attempts to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence.

"I heard this week that President Trump said I had the right to overturn the election," Pence said. He has visited the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire and challenged Trump in public remarks. Eastman would later ask longtime Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani to include him on a list of hopefuls for presidential pardons, according to an email presented by the committee. The committee aimed to show that Trump pushed the plan even though White House lawyers had told him it was against the law. Ivanka Trump was one of several family members and top aides who were present in the Oval Office with Trump during the call. “I said, ‘You’re going to cause riots in the streets,'" Herschmann recalled. In another clip, Eric Herschmann, a Trump White House lawyer, said he had discussed with Eastman the potential dangers of the plan. That turned Pence, who is widely viewed as a possible 2024 presidential candidate, into an unexpected hero for Democrats, anti-Trump Republicans and the republic. He knew it was wrong." He knew it was illegal. "Donald Trump wanted Mike Pence to do something no other Vice President has ever done: The former President wanted Pence to reject the votes and either declare Trump the winner or send the votes back to the states to be counted again," panel Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said before casting Pence, a longtime political adversary, in the role of democracy's champion. Thrust into the role of pivotal player in the key moment, Pence chose the Constitution over Trump — and over his own interest in remaining vice president — members of the panel said.

The third Jan. 6 hearing on Thursday focused on Trump's effort to have Pence block the certification of 2020 presidential election. Live updates have ended.

"The mountain of evidence that they are presenting to us, I think is conclusive to me personally," he said. "This false narrative that the Committee and Democrats continue to push, that Republicans, including myself, led reconnaissance tours is verifiably false," Loudermilk said in a series of tweets. Durbin said he watched the first hearing from "start to finish." "If he turns on them, they can lose their political office and they're not prepared to do that," he said. He put everyone's lives in danger at the Capitol that day," Kirschner said. What the president wanted the vice president to do was not just wrong. "There is no basis in the Constitution or laws at all for the theory espoused by Eastman," he said. They also demonstrated the pressure the former president placed on Pence to take "illegal action," she added. "And I grabbed a notebook, because I was heading into the meeting. It does not say that the vice president counts the votes. They will examine the pressure she said former President Donald Trump and his team tried to place on state officials to overturn the 2020 presidential election. He brought up a recent Department of Justice court filing, in which a confidential informant had told the FBI about the Proud Boys' plans for that day.

Greg Jacob, who was Pence's chief counsel, testified Thursday before the House committee investigating the January 6 riot.

He knew it was illegal. "Donald Trump wanted Mike Pence to do something no other vice president has ever done. After sharing Pence's "rubber room stuff" comment, Jacob was asked to clarify what he believed the former vice president meant.

Committee hearing details how Trump whipped up hostility towards Pence for refusing to overturn election.

Aguilar read tweets sent by Trump on 6 January in which he claimed Pence had the authority to reject electoral college results. Make no mistake, the vice-president’s life was in danger.” That bombshell came at the very start of televised hearings. USA demands the truth!” Bennie Thompson, the panel chair, said: “Mike Pence’s courage put him in tremendous danger. He said: “I’m telling you, if Pence caved, we’re gonna drag motherfuckers through the streets.

The former President reportedly berated Pence in a heated phone call on the morning of the insurrection.

And if you’re not, I’m going to be very disappointed in you,” Trump said in his remarks at the rally. After days of pushing Pence to reject the electoral votes — which Pence repeatedly refused to do — Trump called the vice president on January 6. According to the Constitution and the Electoral Count Act, the vice president’s role is to oversee the counting of the ballots and the announcement of the outcome.

The Jan. 6 committee used its latest public hearing to focus on the pressure that then-President Trump put on Mike Pence to delay or reject the ...

He said he “took great comfort” in the passage. Aguilar said the committee found that Trump had revised the speech to include criticism of Pence. The committee played videotaped testimony from Eric Herschmann, a White House lawyer, expressing incredulity at Eastman’s legal theory that a vice president could overturn an election. The committee showed video from that rally in which Trump said that if Pence doesn’t come through, “I won’t like him as much.” He said Pence, as the presiding officer, could reject the votes outright. The committee shed some new light on a phone call between Trump and Pence the morning of Jan 6. Retired federal judge Michael Luttig, who had spoken to Pence’s staff ahead of Jan. 6, also testified at the hearing. In other taped interviews, aides described snippets of the conversation, which they had only heard from Trump’s side of the call. While many White House aides made clear that they didn’t agree with the scheme, a conservative law professor named John Eastman increasingly had the ear of Trump. He wrote multiple memos suggesting Pence could reject electors or simply declare Trump the winner. WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Capitol insurrection used its latest public hearing on Thursday to focus on the pressure that then-President Donald Trump put on his vice president, Mike Pence, to delay or reject the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory on Jan. 6, 2021. But Trump kept up the pressure anyway. Pence, presiding over the certification in the vice president’s traditional ceremonial role, did not give in.

Neither former President Donald Trump nor former Vice President Mike Pence has declared he will make a run for the White House in 2024, but there has been ...

The New York Times recently reported that Pence was asked in April about a White House campaign in the next election cycle. The former president received 57 percent support from likely Republican primary voters in that survey, while Pence was supported by 11 percent. Meanwhile, Trump said in an interview last month he was "very disappointed" in Pence for not supporting his claims of election fraud, which are not backed by any evidence.

Vice President Mike Pence, preparing to withstand the final stage of a relentless campaign by President Donald J. Trump to force him to illegally try to ...

Lawmakers on the nine-member panel, and the witnesses who testified at the hearing, all described Pence's decision as having averted a constitutional ...

Before heading to the U.S. Capitol to preside over a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence undertook one last unpleasant task ...

The two have not spoken for about a year, aides said, and Pence does not have any plans to talk to Trump as he eyes a 2024 bid. In the speech, Trump declared that Pence needed to have the “courage” to act. He cannot follow, and he does his duty and consistent with his oath to God,” Jacob testified. Photographs newly released by the committee showed Pence in the garage well into the 4 p.m. hour, making calls to congressional and military leaders. The committee said the photo depicts Pence watching a video posted by Trump to Twitter at 4:17 p.m., in which Trump urged supporters to “go home” — but added, “We love you. He and others dutifully piled in but Pence refused, afraid the security detail might speed him to safety before he could object. Shortly after hanging up from berating Pence that morning, Trump headed to the Ellipse to address his thousands of supporters. Aides to Trump told the committee that they began agitating for the president to put out a tweet to try to calm the crowd. You can go back and watch the president’s video,” said one woman, in a clip played by the committee. The committee painted Pence as the hero of the day — but he was an absent one. Testimony and emails showed that Eastman acknowledged his theory would violate federal law and would likely be rejected by the Supreme Court on a 9-to-0 vote. Pence has said he does not plan to wage a scorched-earth campaign against Trump or to criticize him aggressively.

Jill Filipovic writes that while the January 6 hearings are painting a damning picture of what happened that fateful day -- and who bears responsibility ...

And it sets a person concerned about the future of American democracy on edge: If the person with the most power who knows so intimately how high the stakes are won't publicly name dangerous anti-democratic forces within his own party loudly and consistently, what hope is there for making sure that January 6 was a one-time event and not a harbinger of worse things to come? Pence did at times behave admirably, and even bravely, in the days leading up to January 6 and during the attack itself -- certainly his decision not to leave the Capitol is to be commended. The clear takeaway is that Trump wanted ultimate power, and he was willing to do anything -- including risk the life of his vice president and foment a potential coup -- to get it. According to Pence's lawyer and members of his staff, Pence did do the right thing: He rejected Trump's demands that he refuse to certify the election results. But, in telling this story, the committee made Pence out to be a hero, a kind of last man standing between a near-dictator and American democracy. an outlandish legal theory that Pence had the power to reject the results of the presidential election.

Mike Pence was described as the hero of the hour, the man who stood his ground to Donald Trump's coup plot and saved America from a violent “revolution”.

This week’s primary election results, however, suggest that the party remains “team Maga” and some still believe that Pence should hang. “Look, I’m Donald Trump but without the violence,” as Michael D’Antonio, a Pence biographer, has put it. Jacob recalled how Pence declined to leave, insisting that the world must not see the vice-president “fleeing the United States Capitol”. The implication was that Pence bravely alone stood between America and catastrophe. Computer graphics demonstrated how Pence was evacuated from the Senate chamber but was just 40 feet from the mob and in great peril. It heard how the president was told repeatedly that Pence lacked the constitutional and legal authority to meet his demands. In one strange example of sycophancy, he even seemed to imitate Trump’s actions in placing a water bottle on the floor. Witness Greg Jacob, who was the vice-president’s counsel, testified that Pence refused to yield to it. But the session could also prove a serious liability for Pence with the Trump base, hardening its view of him as a traitor. The president whined: “I don’t want to be your friend any more if you don’t do this.” But the panel came to praise Pence, not to bury him, or to hang him, for that matter – like some of Trump’s insurrectionists wanted. Pence was 500 miles away in Ohio to promote “American energy dominance”.

The third hearing on the attack on the Capitol revealed that the Proud Boys would have killed the Vice-President “if given the chance.”

A former aide to Trump’s own daughter Ivanka recalled Ivanka telling her that Trump had called Pence a “pussy.” When Pence rebuffed him anyway, Trump, a few hours later, tweeted his anger at Pence’s lack of “courage”—even as the mob stormed the Capitol. “It felt like he was pouring gasoline on the fire,” one of his White House officials, Sarah Matthews, testified regarding the tweet. And that, really, was the bigger point of Thursday’s debates about the language of the Electoral Count Act of 1887 and the powers vested in the Vice-Presidency. Trump remains not only an e-mail-fund-raising huckster but also the subject of historical inquiry. It was Trump who brought this buffoon into the White House, Trump who demanded that Pence attend repeated meetings with him, and Trump who charged ahead with the plot. He continues to be what retired the federal judge Michael Luttig, a conservative legal icon who advised Pence, called him at Thursday’s hearing: a “clear and present danger” to the nation. In a dramatic phone call from the Oval Office on the morning of January 6th, with his family arrayed around him listening, the President berated and castigated his Vice-President. Trump called him a “wimp,” according to one witness. But on January 6th, Pence finally did break with Trump, refusing to go along with the President’s absurd, illegal, and unconstitutional plot to have his Vice-President single-handedly overturn the will of the American people and block Congress’s confirmation of Joe Biden’s victory. When he debated Kamala Harris during the 2020 campaign, his most memorable moment was when a fly landed on his impeccably coiffed white hair and he did not react for the full two minutes that it sat on his head. Greg Jacob, Pence’s former counsel, testified that Eastman even acknowledged, at one point, that he knew his theory was unconstitutional and would likely be unanimously rejected by the Supreme Court—if it ever got there. The explosive ending of the Trump Presidency has always been a story about the rift between Trump and Pence—two of the most mismatched figures ever to be thrown into a marriage of political convenience. He was shown to be inconsistent, not on the level, and legally and historically shoddy in his work. No image is more memorable—and more disturbing—than that of the wooden gallows Donald Trump’s supporters erected on the Capitol lawn as rioters chanted “Hang Mike Pence! Hang Mike Pence!” The committee documented that those threats were real. He was famous during the Trump years for doing and saying almost nothing that would make news.

Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, right, joins Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine,. The U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection heard testimony ...

In Cincinnati, Pence did not talk about the Jan. 6 insurrection or the hearings. Pence has not testified before the Jan. 6 committee. But he's played a central role in the testimony about the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection. They sat in a nondescript boardroom at the Enerfab manufacturing plant in Cincinnati's Spring Grove Village neighborhood. Pence's refusal to support Trump's plan to stay in power drew Trump's wrath, according to testimony from the Jan. 6 committee. No talk of Jan. 6 insurrection during Mike Pence's stop in Cincinnati

Now the former vice president wants to have a political future in the Republican Party, which requires buying into the lie that the election was “stolen” from ...

Five people died on that day or in the immediate aftermath, and 140 police officers were assaulted. Charges: Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants have been charged with seditious conspiracy, joining Oathkeepers leader Stewart Rhodes and about two dozen associates in being indicted for their participation in the Capitol attack. Pence should have volunteered — should have demanded — to testify. Whisked to a secure location in the Capitol complex, he insisted on staying put until the riot could be quelled and he and Congress could finish performing their constitutional duty. It’s a sad sign of the Republican Party’s distorted values that Pence’s best moment is a millstone around his neck. Jacob testified that when the Secret Service tried to put Pence into a car, Pence refused because he worried that he would be hustled away. It will share it’s findings in a series of hearings starting June 9. Congressional hearings: The House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol has conducted more than 1,000 interviews over the last year. And he should know by now that Trump interprets silence as weakness. He made the right choice. Thursday’s droning testimony had all the fizz of an academic legal seminar, but it was important because it revealed the emptiness at the heart of Trump’s attempt to reverse his loss to Biden. One of the most respected conservative jurists in the nation, retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig, told the committee that Eastman’s ideas were dangerous and absurd. Perhaps he thought the Republican-passed tax cuts and the conservative judicial appointments were worth overlooking Trump’s misconduct.

A reader praises the former vice president; another reluctantly suggests pardoning Donald Trump. Also: Ukraine what ifs; Covid mandates; paid internships.

In 2020 I made a $5 million donation to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City that created a new class of interns, all paid. That means a more diverse work force in the future. Ron Lieber correctly identifies the endless cycle that keeps unpaid internships very much alive: Those who can afford them take them, and get a crucial first step in their careers. I am sure many travelers “breathed a sigh of relief” that the mandate to provide a negative Covid result before boarding an international flight back to the U.S. has been lifted. To the Editor: While nauseating to contemplate, a pardon might be the only way to avoid civil war and the overthrow of American democracy. To the Editor: To the Editor: To the Editor: To the Editor: Let us talk about courage and what it meant on that day, and thank Mike Pence for what he did. To the Editor:

Every villain story also needs a hero, and Democrats investigating last year's attack on the U.S. Capitol have found a most unlikely one: former Vice ...

At one point Mr. Pence was within a few dozen feet of crossing paths with the rampaging demonstrators. Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, chair of the panel, said the country was “fortunate” to have Mr. Pence in place that day. Others include former FBI Director James B. Comey, who in 2016 tripped up Hillary Clinton’s presidential run with revelations about her use of a secret email server to send classified material. “He will be forever remembered as someone who had the courage to stand up at a time of great violence and when his life was in danger.” He has instead been focused on strengthening the bond between traditional conservative thinking and the Make America Great Again movement. Mr. Pence is the latest figure from the Trump era to turn from heel to hero. He said he broke the law on several occasions and lied about it because Mr. Trump told him to do so. According to the committee, Mr. Pence hid in a parking garage to avoid the mob of Trump supporters that invaded the Capitol, disrupting the counting of electoral votes. “Mike Pence has been a constitutional conservative for more than three decades, so while it doesn’t hurt for people to recognize courage no matter what party, it’s also nice to see Democrats come around to the idea of upholding the Constitution,” said Pence spokesman Devin O’Malley “There is no center anymore in politics so it is hard to envision Democrats standing up and saying Mike Pence should be the next president and it is hard to see Republicans on the far-right say he should be president,” Mr. Sheinkopf said. For a party that had little good to say about Mr. Pence for two decades, getting the Superman treatment for standing up to Mr. Trump, Democrats’ praise is striking. “He is the enemy of their enemy and therefore he is their friend, which means everything else is forgotten until he runs for political office in which case he will become the enemy again, and no one loves him,” said Steve Mitchell, a GOP strategist.

On Thursday, committee members revealed in detail how Donald Trump knew his plan to overturn the 2020 election was illegal, but pushed his vice president, Mike ...

You’ll also hear that the president knew there was a violent mob at the Capitol when he tweeted at 2:24 p.m. that the vice president did not have the, quote, “courage to do what needed to be done.” You’ll hear from witnesses that Donald Trump pressured Mike Pence to adopt a legally and morally bankrupt idea that the vice president could choose who the next president can be. The Capitol was overrun, police officers lost their lives, and the vice president was taken to a secure location because his safety was in jeopardy. This witness, whom the FBI affidavit refers to as “W-1,” stated that other members of the group talked about things they did that day, and they said that anyone they got their hands on, they would have killed, including Nancy Pelosi. W-1 further stated that members of the Proud Boys said that they would have killed Mike Pence if given a chance. First, President Trump was told repeatedly that Mike Pence lacks the constitutional and legal authority to do what President Trump was demanding he do. REP. LIZ CHENEY: You will hear today that President Trump’s White House counsel believed that the vice president did exactly the right thing on January 6th, as did others in the White House, as did Fox News host Sean Hannity. Vice President Pence understood that his oath of office was more important than his loyalty to Donald Trump. He did his duty. CAPITOL RIOTER 1: And I’m telling you, if Pence caved, we’re going to drag mother [bleep] through the streets! REP. LIZ CHENEY: What the president wanted the vice president to do was not just wrong, it was illegal and unconstitutional. The president latched on to a dangerous theory and would not let go, because he was convinced it would keep him in office. As Vice President Pence prepared a statement on January 5th and 6th explaining that he could not illegally refuse to count electoral votes, he said this to his staff. We heard this from President Trump’s former attorney general, Bill Barr. We heard this from President Trump’s former acting attorney general, Jeff Rosen. And we heard this from President Trump’s former acting deputy attorney general, Richard Donoghue. We heard from members of President Trump’s White House staff, as well. On Thursday, committee members revealed in detail how Donald Trump knew his plan to overturn the 2020 election was illegal, but pushed his vice president, Mike Pence, to take part in what the committee has described as an attempted coup.

On Jan. 6, 2020, President Trump attempted to change the course of U.S. history forever. Rather than accept a loss, he asked me, Vice President Mike Pence, ...

The truth is, Mike Pence may seem noble, but deep down, he’s just in politics for the game. He sided with Biden. He sold out Donald Trump! How can we ever trust Mike Pence or anything that sad Christian robot says, ever again? Deep down, Mike Pence is a snake. As the American people are well aware, I chose the path of duty. That day, President Trump went too far. On Jan. 6, 2020, President Trump attempted to change the course of U.S. history forever.

“Vice President Pence understood his oath of office was more important than his loyalty to President Trump. He did his duty,” said Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, ...

That is not to say that Pence doesn't deserve credit. Or, at least, a man looking for a way out of a political corner. He was a man divided. But one aspect of the Pence-as-hero narrative pushed on Thursday doesn't seem to entirely hold up under scrutiny. "'I do know the position you're in,' Quayle responded. 'I also know what the law is.

WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump continued pressuring Vice President Mike Pence to go along with a plan to unilaterally overturn his election defeat ...

Why it matters: Trump's remarks at a gathering of Christian conservatives comes one day after the Jan. 6 select committee laid out the relentless pressure Trump ...

Of note: Officials with all four companies did not respond to requests seeking comment. Trump called Pence a "wimp" on "heated" Jan. 6 phone call - Trump also accused the Jan. 6 committee of "knowingly spinning a fake and phony narrative." - "He had a chance to be frankly historic, but just like Bill Barr and the rest of these weak people, and I say it sadly because I like him, but Mike did not have the courage to act." - The committee also released testimony from numerous Trump aides about a "heated" Jan. 6 phone call between Pence and Trump, with one former White House assistant testifying that he recalled Trump calling Pence a "wimp." Former President Trump said Friday that former Vice President Mike Pence "did not have the courage to act," referring to Pence's refusal to overturn the 2020 election results.