amy: that was january 6 committee member pete aguilar's opening statement. owing liz cheney and the chair of the house of the january 6 collect committee bennie thompson, mississippi democrat. congress member aguilar went on to question greg jacob, the top white house lawyer for former vice president mike pence. this was life questioning during the hearing. this is congressman aguilar. close testimony has made clear what the target of the rioters higher was, vice president mike pence. they breached the capital at 2:13 p.m. >> go. go. go. go. >> now let's take a look at what was going on at the white house at this time. we received testimony that the president's chief of staff mark meadows was notified of the violence of the capitol by 2:00 p.m. and likely earlier. the testimony further establishes that mr. meadows quickly informed the president and that he did so before the president issued his 2:24 p.m. tweet criticizing vice president for not having "courage to do what needed to be done." here is what the rioters thought. >> nothing but a traitor, and he de

joining us now is a member of the january 6th select committee, democratic congressman pete aguilar of california. congressman, thank you for being with us. let's start with those messages that vice chair liz cheney revealed to the country yesterday, to witnesses that were to appear before your committee for depositions. do you believe they constitute witness tampering? >> yes, i do. i think that's something that should be looked at by our committee and potentially by the department of justice. i don't think it's lost on anyone that, you know, the former president, you know, has behavior like we heard yesterday. but specific to our witnesses, we take incredibly seriously the safety and security of those individuals who have testified before us, and like the vice chair said, we asked witnesses routinely whether they have had outreach from other members of the former administration. >> you say you do believe it constitutes witness tampering. has it been referred to the department of justice? >> i'm not going to talk about the investigative steps that we have taken. but what i will say is

congressman pete aguilar. with standing by. he's gonna be joining us right after this break. ssman aguilar led the hearing today. he's gonna be joining us here live, right after this. stay with us. >> the president latched onto a dangerous theory, and would not let go, because he was convinced it would keep him in office. >> congressman pete aguilar, democrat of california, who led day three of the january 6th hearings today. joining us now, and i'm happy to say, it is congressman aguilar. congressman, i know it has been a long and intense day for you. thanks for being with us. >> thanks for having me, rachel. >> tell us about the significance of all the evidence you showed today, that john eastman and presumably, according to our evidence, the president himself, both knew that the plot that they were pursuing on january 6th, they knew it was illegal. why is that important? >> well, it's important to build off of the last hearing that we had, which established the president knew he lost the election. and so, now, he knows he lost the election. now, we are getting to november a

we'll talk with congressman pete aguilar about what we can expect to see and hear at tonight's hearing. >>> hours after testimony from families involved in mass shooting, the house passes a package. while those measures are not likely to pass senate, bipartisan negotiations on a different compromise are showing promise. president biden is urging voters to keep this issue in mind at the ballot box. >> here's what has to happen. all of you folks, and i hope -- i'm not being facetious when i say this, hope there are republicans here as well, you've got to make sure that this becomes a voting issue. >> here in los angeles, president biden is underscoring the importance of democracy at the summit of the americas as mexico's president chooses not to attend over the exclusion of three non-democratic countries and accuses senator bob menendez of pressuring the president. senator menendez, chair of the foreign relations committee, will join us live. >>> tonight the house panel investigating the attack on the u.s. capitol will hold its very first prime time hearing starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern/

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>> i'm joined now by a democratic member of the january 6 select house committee, congressman pete aguilarcalifornia. congressman, thank you for joining us. the "new york times" has new reporting about ivanka trump and what she told a film crew, according to maggie haberman who wrote the story. ivanka trump told that film crew that her father should continue to fight until every legal remedy was exhausted because a lot of americans were questioning the sanctity of the americans. this seems to contradict what she told the committee about how she took attorney general bill barr's announcement that there is no significant voter fraud. can you confirm this is true, and will we see any of this video from this documentary filmmaker at thursday's hearing? >> we're not going to talk about specific evidence that the committee has in its possession, but what i can tell you is that the investigative piece of this puzzle continues to be evolving. we've said that from the beginning, that as we learn new information and take in more evidence, that we're going to continue to adapt to that. what i can tel

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committee member pete aguilar said he took the fifth 100 times. we also learned yesterday that he told rudy giuliani, quote, i decided, i should be pardoned, put on the list of pardons. you make the point in a new piece in "the new yorker" that americans don't care about john eastman, nor should they. help us understand why. >> well, look, to your point, and your question about is donald trump going to face charges and accountability, one thing that the committee has started to do and i say started because we haven't heard a lot of the evidence that they gathered, but they started to document publicly extensive evidence that trump himself was personally orchestrating and at the heart of these, if there are conspiracies, it really was as a federal judge recently put it a coup in search of a legal theory. john eastman provided the bogus legal theory and it is remarkable that we heard sworn testimony yesterday to the effect he knew that it was a bogus legal theory, but pedaled it to donald trump anyway. but he furthered that, he used the legal theory

he is questioned by a committee lawyer as well as by pete aguilar. >> what was vice president pence's reaction when you showed him the email where dr. eastman, after the attack on the capitol, still asked that the vice president delay certification and send it back to the states? >> he said, that's rubber room stuff. >> i'm sorry? he said it's rubber room stuff? >> yes, congressman. >> what did you interpret that to mean? >> that that was certifiably crazy. >> we also saw, joyce, pete aguilar, the congressman, also questioning him, i believe. if we can play that and i will ask you about both. i'm sorry, i thought we had that. basically, the questioning of john eastman or of greg jacob about john eastman, who took the fifth, was that he was all over the place as to the legality that he was proposing. this was the president's lawyer. >> that final clip that you show is remarkable. january 6th has happened. it happened and ended. eastman still wants to go back for one more effort to make sure that people will go along with the plan to steal the election. sort of like, okay, all can be fo

i'm joined by a member of the house select committee, congressman pete aguilar.being here tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> i'm asking about what the end game is. it seems clear that there's a lot of information coming out the fact that the big lie was much larger in magnitude and scope than even people thought, but what is the end game for the committee? what is the legislative hook you want people to know? >> well, our responsibility, our task, and our job is to tell the truth and to find out what happened on january 6th in the lead-up to january 6th. that is our task and our responsibility. we will develop legislative recommendations as a part of that. changes, like you highlight, whether it's campaign finance laws or the electoral count act could be included as suggestions. but our job right now is to tell the story, specifically what happened on january 6th and what led up to it. >> and it's unfolding and how, congressman. the idea, one of the accusations, the notion of what's now gone from the big lie to the big ripoff, do you suggest that there has been

. >> member of the january 6th committee, democratic congressman pete aguilar of california, congressman, thank you so much for being with us. that's where i want to start right there, with what chairman bennie thompson said to our jake tapper last night. listen. >> there is people in the hallways outside. >> that describe actual conversations between these extremist groups and anyone in trump's orbit. >> yes. >> there will be? >> yes. obviously -- >> just to be clear about what that said right there, because we're get something audio bleeds here, jake asked chairman thompson flat out will there be evidence that there was communication from people within trump's orbit and the people who attacked the capitol, including the proud boys and oath keepers. chairman thompson said yes. can you expand on that, congressman? >> well, i'll let the chairman speak for the committee and the mountain of evidence that we have received. but what i can say is that all of that is consistent with what we have found in the evidence that we have found time and time again, individuals, near the president's orbi

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pete aguilar from southern california, taking part in the questions this week. r at the center of those hearings about mike pence. i asked him about what surprise to most. take a listen. you've talked to a whole lot of people and spent a lot of time on this. what's the biggest surprise? something you've learned from this? that maybe you didn't expect going into it think you know the evidence that we have found close we came to ending democracy and that's you know, it's not hyperbole. it's the truth, and we heard a lot of that. you are hearing this week. um, but you know, the mom not only was 40 ft from mike pence you know, there's a confidential informant who says the problem. boys would have killed him if they found me. um you know, we're going to hear testimony from other state republican officials in the days and weeks ahead as well. who exercised courage in doing their job and doing the right thing, and i think they should be commended for that, because our democracy is worth saving and protecting, and we need to do everything we can to protect it. if you thi

. >>> and next, we'll be joined by january 6th committee member congressman pete aguilar.committee's agenda? this is cnn's special live coverage. >>> this morning, the biden administration is ramping up its response to monkeypox with more vaccines for people most at risk in states with high case rates. cnn's dr. sanjay gupta is joining us now to talk about this move. tell us about this, sanjay. >> well, first of all, we dealt with monkeypox outbreaks in the past. this has become more widespread and larger than monkeypox outbreaks typically. it is confined to small regions, smaller numbers. so in the united states now, you have some 306 confirmed cases of monkeypox all around the country. that's in 27 different states. and d.c. around the world, 4700 cases and 49 countries. so this is spreading, you know. it is spreading wider and more rapidly than we have seen in the past. we also note within the united states there are several places where it is spreading the most. california, new york, illinois, florida, and d.c. and it is these areas where they're now focused on trying

. >> congressman pete aguilar joins me right. now welcome, congressman. we are going to talk about january 6th in just a moment. but at first, i want to talk about roe. today on meet the, press congresswoman ocasio-cortez, she suggested that there should be serious consequences for those supreme court justices who lied before the senate to be confirmed. i'm wondering if you agree. >> thanks for having me, and good to be with you. i think this is clearly an assault on the freedom that americans have. i've never lived in a non role world. and i think this is incredibly troubling that the rights of millions of women are at stake. and now our nieces and younger women have fewer rights than their parents. it's deeply, deeply troubling. what i can tell you specifically about the court, and i wasn't privy to those conversations where, clearly there were misrepresentations according to the new york times, notes from some senators meetings. i am not on that side. in that senate. but what i can tell you it is, this is incredibly trump-like -- troubling. that these

and congressman pete aguilar led the hearing that revealed the life-threatening pressure put on viceschiff that will lead the next hearing, we are told it will focus on the pressure on individual states that they should throughout their election results, as well as the plot to sense forged sense of fake trump electors to the electoral college. on the eve of that hearing tomorrow congress and made that shift a little show evidence of trump's personal involvement in the fake elector plot. he's also saying tomorrow's hearing will reveal new details about the white house chief of staff, mark meadows, and his role in the plot in georgia. congressman schiff also says it remains a possibility that vice president pence could still be subpoenaed to testify. joining us now is congressman adam schiff of california, -- chairman of the house intelligence committee, sir, i know that this is cramming night thank you for making time to be here, i really appreciate it. >> you bet. >> first, let me ask you for a on-air fact-check, am i correct in telling our audience tonight that the focus tomorrow wi

pete aguilar is buried in information about this pressure campaign on mike pence. and what we'll see today in the last hearing they talked about all of the legal cases that the trump campaign was putting out that kept getting dismissed, knocked downs, doors closed and every time a door closed. this idea that pence could be the person who bailed out trump kept getting more and more prominent. the pressure kept increasing through december and into early january. pence was the subject of it. as mark short laid out in the clip that we got our hands on. pence kept pushing back. kept leaning on other conservative scholars on his own faith and that he should or could do and then in the moment of the attack, the committee feels like this tweet from donald trump saying that pence was a coward was designed to maximize the crowd pressure on pence as congressman aguilar laid out to me in part of our interview. i want to play that for you now. >> this is a coordinated effort. donald trump started to focus his attention on january 6 and mike pence. and wanted him to violate the

california congressman pete aguilar will leave this hearing, two witnesses will testify today's hearing. they reported 12 advise president pence that he didn't have the authority to disrupt the election. those witnesses include former mike pence attorney, greg jacob, and retired republican judge, michael luttig. we are expecting a bank statements from the chair is benny thompson and liz cheney, congressman aguilar expected to outline the case and then question the witnesses. we want to let you know that the january six committee hearings that all c-span program is brought to you as a public service by the cable industry and these television companies, including dish network, comcast and charter communications. and also, don't forget that, if you have to leave your tv today, you can continue watching the hearing with c-span now, our free mobile video app.

democratic congressman pete aguilar is one of 9 lawmakers on the committee. he says the 2 previous hearing which featured recorded and in-person testimony for the president's former campaign manager's daughter, ivanka trump and former attorney general william barr show despite their warnings and the days after the 2020 election, donald trump refused to accept the election results and claimed the vote was stolen. despite there being 0 evidence of widespread fraud based on complete misinformation feel the committee found trump allies you the claim to raise 250 million dollars in donations forward to the continuing the work of the committee right now. many republicans on capitol hill remain opposed to the effort to can't say that. i've watched a single men. missouri republican senator josh hawley says he believes the entire investigation is politically motivated. this is an extended democrat campaign commercial. >> to try to change the subject from what americans actually care about, which is the fact that they can't afford gas. they can't afford groceries. >> t

it was pete aguilar, democrat from california, who led most of that yesterday. we are getting your thoughts on all of it this morning, day three of the january 6 hearings. we are expecting six or seven by the end of the month. there's two more scheduled. cliff in oceanside, california, republican. did you watch? caller: i certainly did. what a farce. that is what i have to deal with here in california. they keep voting democrat. they have been brainwashed, not realizing that trump has shown how bad the media truly is. when he says "fake news," my god, i have never seen the likes of it, never, and it is one-sided, i must say, one-sided, the democrats. but i must state also that with january 6, like the two impeachment trials, a waste of taxpayers money, and instead of doing what is right for the american people, these do-nothing democrats continue with that. you must ask yourself, are you better off when trump was the president? are you better off when biden is now president? you must be rational and think. host: heather out of milwaukee, democrat, good morning.

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congressman pete aguilar, a member of the select committee was pressed about this earlier today.ake a listen. >> it's very clear that some of my republican colleagues felt as well as members of the president's orbit and his former advisers and lawyers close to him in the campaign felt the pressure of what happened on january 6th and they sought pardons and they had conversations about pardons after january 6th. >> so that is something we are going to be looking out for in the weeks ahead, and it can be really problem attic for a house republican conference who has tried to ignore or deflect from this investigation and more broadly, the select committee is showing how trump carried out a sophisticated seven-part plan to try to stay in power and that included a pressure campaign on his own vice president, on his department of justice, on state level officials. so all of those and more will be the themes of the upcoming hearings, jim? >> many more to come, jessica schneider, melanie zanona, thanks so much. >>> the chairman of the january 6th select committee is warning that democrac

. >> pete aguilar says the committee's investigation shows that immediately after that tweet, the crowd in the capitol search. two minutes later, the secret service evacuated the former vice president from the chamber. coming within 40 feet, according to the committee investigation of the angry mob. the committee put out images today, the location that pence was later taken to a loading dock. where he was forced to shelter until control of the capital was restored. the photos are new, and so is a testimony that knowing what he knew, the former president still sent out a tweet that former white house press secretary testified was quote, like he was pouring gasoline on the fire. and the legal theory that was touted by john eastman, seen here whipping up the crowd at the january 6th rally that day. he argued that that they, he could've objected votes from states the trump teen was challenging. -- instead, this is what he mostly told the panel. >> i assert my fifth amendment right against the u.s. and against myself. fifth, fifth, fifth, fifth. >> according to committee member john eastman,

pete aguilar who will be handling much of the questioning tomorrow. thank you for joining us. i want to ask you about this. it says your committee, quote, obtained email correspondence from virginia ginny thomas and lawyer john eastman who played a key role in efforts to block the certification of president biden's victory, and that the email show that thomas's efforts to overturn the election were more extensive than previously known. can you confirm that? >> no, i'm not going to talk about specific individuals, but what i can tell you generally is that the metric that we used when we solicit more information from individuals is a standard barometer as to what they have to share with the committee, whether it's relevant to the committee work, and so that's the melt trick by which we reach out and talk to individuals about january 6th and the lead up to that. >> before we move on, i do want to ask one more question on this. this police report says committee members are debating whether or not to spend time on ginny thomas on her role or alleged role in any attempt to overturn

several of them as pete aguilar revealed another option. >> just a few days later dr. eastman e-mailed rudy giuliani and requested that he be included on a last of potential recipients of a presidential pardon. dr. eastman's email stated, quote, i've decided that i should be on the pardon list, if that is still in the works. >> after trump declined to give eastman that presidential pardon, eastman pleaded the fifth repeatedly when deposed by the committee. 100 times to be exact. joining me now, olivia troy, director of the republican accountability project and a former aide, top aide to vice president mike pence. dan yal goldman, former assistant district attorney. he's now running for congress in new york. and maya wiley, president and ceo of the leadership conference. thank you all for being here. i want to zero in on mr. eastman because it seems to me, i'm going right down the center of my panel here to mr. goldman, it seems to me that not only was what he was proposing unconstitutional. he knew it was unconstitutional. not only did it violate the law, the electoral

we'll talk with congressman pete aguilar about what we can expect to see and hear at tonight's

. >> brennan: pete aguilar is a number of the january 6 select committee and he joins us from new yorkngressman. >> good morning, margaret. >> brennan: and we also heard sworn testimony that the former president spoke to the justice department and homeland security about seizing voting machines. there was testimony that a pentagon official and the acting defense secretary were chasing a conspiracy about italian satellites changing votes. these are outrageous ideas, but how far did this actually get? >> well, i think what the testimony and what we have laid out clearly indicates that the president, you know, knew he lost the election, and then he continued to gravitate to these conspiracy theories along the way, and november and december calling the election corrupt. and then whenever legal door had closed and he lost over 60 lawsuits, then the pressure campaign to the department of justice, to his own vice president. that's what we saw. but there was no shortage of conspiracy theorists in his ear each and every time. the text messages to mark meadows laid that out, individuals bringing

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advice of john eastman, and we're also learning tomorrow's hearing will be led by congressman pete aguilaria, who is of course a member of the committee. jake. >> ryan nobles on capitol hill, thanks so much. >> here to discuss, cnn's special correspondent jamie gangel and george conway, conservative lawyer and contributing columnist for "the washington post." let me start with this clear contradiction. the january 6th committee wrote a letter to loudermilk about this footage. he's asking because the group is taking photos and recording areas of the complex that are not typically of interest to tourists including hallways and staircases and security checkpoints. i have been on capitol hill for decades and you don't see people taking pictures of staircases. and he also noted the group stayed for, quote, several hours. but u.s. capitol police said in a letter on monday that they, quote, did not consider any of the activities observed as suspicious. that seems interesting, that contradiction. >> i think there are semantics going on here. we hear about capitol complex and capitol. i think we ha

congressman pete aguilar read what he said was an email from eastman which seemed to show his concern. >> in fact, just a few days later dr. eastman emailed rudy giuliani and requested that he be included on a list of potential recipients of a presidential pardon. dr. eastman's email stated, quote, i've decided i should be on the pardon list, if that is still in the works. >> joining us now, conservative attorney george conway, contributing columnist at "the washington post." we got some questions for you. you have a great one on the legal ramifications. >> i wonder, george, if you think that former president trump is in more legal trouble today than he was 24 hours ago. >> yes. absolutely, without a doubt. this all wreaks of criminality. and, bob woodward put his nose right on it. you talked about section 371 of the criminal code, which forbids frauds against the united states, and this was -- it showed deceit. it showed an intent to deceive, to use deceit to impair a function of the lawful function of the united states government, by the fact that trump was told repeatedly that the

that's going to be led a adam schiff the same as we heard from pete aguilar being the lead in the otherrings. developing at the state level, again, all of this comes back to trump, andrea. >> and joy vance, we heard audiotape of donald trump pressuring brad raffensperger. how important is brad raffensperger as a witness tomorrow? >> rafensperger is important not only for the witness and the public opinion, because it's in georgia that everything comes to a head an an audiotape. it's been a long time, andrea, since we listened to that tape. i remember the first time i heard it, it was astonishing. it's clear from the tone of the president's comments that he's ultimately threatening and cajoing raffensperger to get engaged. in a crime. and bonnie willis, the district attorney in fulton county is clearly engaged. she's got a grand jury taking testimony right now but there are also possible federal crimes, there's conspiracy to violate federal rights and some very specific charges around failing to count legitimate votes and failing to certify false votes. lots of good information coming fr

earlier democratic congressman pete aguilar was asked by our team if there was enough evidence to movecriminal referral for the former president. here's his answer. >> that's not the task before the committee. the task before the committee is to tell the truth and to find out what happened on january 6th. >> i want to bring in joyce vance, former u.s. attorney and msnbc legal analyst. so, joyce, with all of this information that the committee has compiled, what do you expect is going on, right now in the last 24 hours of prep before primetime and what does the committee need to do right out of the gate to grab america's attention? >> the most difficult thing when you have as much information as the committee has is figuring out what you present to the jury, in this case to the american public, to compel them to understand the facts as a whole. so i suspect that there is still a little bit of scurrying going on to figure out just what they can get in, but thursday night the most important task in front of the committee will be to get the public's attention. of course, fox news won't be

democratic congressman pete aguilar is one of 9 lawmakers on the committee. he says the 2 previous hearing which featured recorded and in-person testimony for the president's former campaign manager's daughter, ivanka trump and former attorney general william barr show despite their warnings and the days after the 2020 election, donald trump refused to accept the election results and claimed the vote was stolen. despite there being 0 evidence of widespread fraud based on complete misinformation feel the committee found trump allies you the claim to raise 250 million dollars in donations forward to the continuing the work of the committee right now. many republicans on capitol hill remain opposed to the efforts. i can't say that i've watched a single men, missouri republican senator josh hawley says he believes the entire investigation. it's politically motivated. this is an extended democrat campaign commercial. >> to try to change the subject from what americans actually care about, which is the fact that they can't afford gas. they can't afford groceries. t

that's what democratic congressman pete aguilar said a few minutes later, as he began guiding the hearing, focusing on what vice president mike pence did, leading up to and during january 6th 2021, when a violent mob of trump supporters attacked congress, believing they were following donald trump's orders. in the end, mike pence did the right thing. the question not asked in today's hearing was, why did he wait till the end? aides to mike pence testify today that he never wavered in his belief, that the vice president had no authority to reject electoral votes, when they were counted by congress on january 6th. >> the device president ever waiver his position that he could not unilaterally decide which electors to accept? >> the vice president never budged from the position that i've described as his first instinct, which was, that it just made no sense from everything that he knew, and had studied about our constitution, that one person would have that kind of authority. >> and did the vice president ever wavered in his position that he could not delay certification, and sent it back to

january 6th committee, democratic lawmaker pete aguilar pointed to such alleged efforts as justification for charges being considered, and i think that that's something that should be looked at by our committee and potentially by the department of justice. meantime former president trump continues to deny any wrongdoing regarding last year's events, even as the latest testimony from former trump white house aide cassidy hutchinson included stunning allegations, claiming after the president's speech he demanded to be driven to the capital, even attempting to grab the wheel when told no by his own secret service. the president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. the 25 year old former aides said she was told of the altercation by white house security officials. and that bobby angle, the head of the detail was in the room and didn't dispute the account. senior secret service agents are reportedly prepared to testify that president trump did not lunge for the wheel or attack his own security detail. in washington. mike emanuel fox news six. california i

democratic congressman pete aguilar is one of 9 lawmakers on the committee.ys the 2 previous hearing which featured recorded and in-person testimony for the president's former campaign manager's daughter, ivanka trump and former attorney general william barr show despite their warnings and the days after the 2020 election, donald trump refused to accept the election results and claimed the vote was stolen. despite there being 0 evidence of widespread fraud based on complete misinformation feel the committee found trump allies you the claim to raise 250 million dollars in donations forward to the continuing the work of the committee right now. many republicans on capitol hill remain opposed to the effort to can't say that. i've watched a single men, missouri republican senator josh hawley says he believes the entire investigation is politically motivated. this is an extended democrat campaign commercial. >> to try to change the subject from what americans actually care about, which is the fact that they can't afford gas. they can't afford groceries. >> and wil

garrett, you spoke with pete aguilar, who is taking a lead role today. what did he tell you about what we can expect? >> reporter: we can expect to hear that mike pence was both under more pressure and in more danger in the leadup to january 6th and on january 6th than has been previously reported. the committee plans to lay out the genesis of this scheme to make pence the de facto decider of the 2020 election that began in mid-december. that basically every court case the trump campaign lost, the pressure on pence to be the last option for trump grew and grew and grew. even leading up to the 6th itself with one final phone conversation between the vice president and the president, with president trump at the time leaning hard on pence on the morning of the 6th to make this unilateral decision to overturn the election results. then as he got here to the capitol and the crowd arrived, the mob coming closer to pence than we ever realized, triggered by a trump tweet after they had broken into the building. here's some of what aguilar told me about that mome

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democratic congressman pete aguilar is one of 9 lawmakers on the committee.e says the 2 previous hearing which featured recorded and in-person testimony for the president's former campaign manager's daughter, ivanka trump and former attorney general william barr show despite their warnings and the days after the 2020 election, donald trump refused to accept the election results and claimed the vote was stolen. despite there being 0 evidence of widespread fraud based on complete misinformation feel the committee found trump allies you the claim to raise 250 million dollars in donations forward to the continuing the work of the committee right now. many republicans on capitol hill remain opposed to the effort to can't say that. i've watched a single men, missouri republican senator josh hawley says he believes the entire investigation is politically motivated. this is an extended democrat campaign commercial. >> to try to change the subject from what americans actually care about, which is the fact that they can't afford gas. they can't afford groceries. today'

>> congressman pete aguilar detailing how a trump tweet attacking pence sent the crowd into a frenzy. >> our investigation found that immediately after the president's 2:24 p.m. tweet, the crowds both outside the capitol and inside the capitol surged. >> reporter: and using a graphics' presentation showing that, at one point, the mob of rioters was only 40 feet away from the room pence was hiding in. jacob, who was with pence at the time, did not know the mob ended up that close. >> does it surprise you to see how close the mob was to the evacuation route that you took? >> the 40 feet is the distance from me to you, roughly. >> i could hear the rioters in the building while we moved but i don't think i was aware that they were as close as that. >> make no mistake about the fact that the vice president's life was in danger. >> reporter: a former-white house attorney testifying that eastman seemed to accept there would be violence stemming from their actions. >> cause riots in the streets and he said words to the effect of, there's been violence in the history of our country in order to

i do think last week with congressman pete aguilar, era in the hearing that he read, but there were certainly bombshells. john eastman explicitly, very clearly in the email, was asking rudy giuliani to be put on the pardons list, if that was still an option. i believe that was the phrasing. and it is these sorts of pieces of evidence that really, highly suggest that these people knew that there was something potentially criminal that's they were doing. but i think that even just a big pitcher standpoint, it is pretty remarkable to just see the strategy that the committee has taken in his putting to work. which is essentially bearing the former president in his own words, and in the words of his top advisors. people who are respected in the trump world, who for four years, with the exception of maybe those last few months, did the president's bidding. but when it came to this decided that it was a bridge too far, and had no trouble saying so behind closed doors, to investigators in those videos. and even some of them coming up live for the committee to testify to the american public. >> yes. i

january 6th committee, democratic lawmaker pete aguilar pointed to such alleged efforts as justification for charges being considered, and i think that that's something that should be looked at by our committee and potentially by the department of justice. meantime former president trump continues to deny any wrongdoing regarding last year's events, even as the latest testimony from former trump white house aide cassidy hutchinson included stunning allegations, claiming after the president's speech he demanded to be driven to the capital, even attempting to grab the wheel when told no by his own secret service. president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. the 25 year old former aide said she was told of the altercation by white house security officials. and that bobby angle, the head of the detail was in the room and didn't dispute the account. senior secret service agents are reportedly prepared to testify. the president trump did not lunge for the wheel or attack his own security detail. in washington. mike emanuel fox news. and even more fallout

something california democratic congressman pete aguilar believes is essential. >> that's what the house democratic caucus is concerned about. will this save lives of young people who are affected by gun violence? >> lawmakers emphasized that even though this framework does not address all concerns, some action is better than nothing. in the newsroom. grant lotus kron. 4 news back to you. >> all right. thank you. grant to step outside view from mount tam, a pious, a gorgeous shot looking down at the city in the bay bridge and alcatraz. and chief meteorologist lawrence karnow standing by with what will first be a warm up and then a cool down cool yeah. up and now for this last full week of spring. but here we go. looks like some nice weather around the bay area today. lots of sunshine out there all the way. the coastline, little haze out there. we may just see a couple patches of fog. >> form along the coastline overnight tonight into tomorrow morning. but yeah, the weather has been looking good out there as high pressure is overhead. temperatures still very comfortable this evening. 72 d

. >> i'm joined now by congressman pete aguilar of california, a member of the january 6th committeehis can for having me, ari. >> what was the most important new evidence in your view today? >> well, i don't think that there was -- it's tough to put my finger on one thing, but clearly in this hearing what was laid out very clearly by ms. hutchinson was that the president knew that this was going to be a violent attack. he and his top advisers knew there could be violence at the capitol and did nothing. not just during the 187 minutes while the attack was going on, but they knew that this mob was capable of this days in advance. >> yeah, congressman -- i'm only jumping in to say -- the funny part of your job is you've probably known much of this longer than everyone else, so we're actually asking to you predate your own mind. because it's new to the world as we've emphasized in our coverage, he was saying before the rally, get the armed people in here, and i'm going to go with them to the capitol. when did you first learn that, and what does that say about his liability? >> i think c

. >> january 6th committee member congressman pete aguilar, thank you very much.nk you very much for being here on a friday, thank you. with me is glen kirscher in, former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst. i want to go in the same direction with you, my friend. here's the thing. nothing that day can be characterized as spontaneous. donald trump was not fooled into thinking he won the election. we now know for sure he had been told many times, including by his sycophant attorney general that he lost so we know that. we know that he said after meeting with people like michael flynn who was saying seize the voting machines. he met with people like roger stop. he's meeting with the sidney powells of the world, he met with sean hannity saying don't let him be alone and within hours tweet come to the capitol, it's going to be wild and then he tweets that over and over and over again. january 6th was not at thing most people know b.most americans don't know all the civics that january 6th is significant. he made it significant. draws the crowd there and then yo

and congressman pete aguilar revealed new information about with a far-right extremist in that mob attended to do. >> recent court filing by the justice department explains, the confidential informant from the proud boys, told the fbi that the proud boys would have killed mike pence if given a chance. >> the committee also confirmed that donald trump knew the capitol had been breach when he sent a tweet condemning mike pence for not having the, quote, courage to do what needed to be done. and the committee showed video evidence of how the crowd reacted to trump's message. >> mike pence has betrayed the united states of america! >> you! >> bleep you mike pence! >> mike pence has betrayed this president and he has betrayed the people of the united states and we will never, ever forget! >> yeah! >> so, donald trump knew that mike pence was in danger when he sent that inflammatory tweet, intended for the rile up the crowd. one of his own aides described it has pouring gasoline on the fire. and all of these new details totally robot the narrative the right has been pushing for a year and a half,