According to testimony released by the January 6 committee, a former White House lawyer told John Eastman to get a criminal defense lawyer after the January 6 riot.
John Eastman testified on Capitol Hill. In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, a person poses.
A short video clip of testimony from Eric Herschmann, a former White House lawyer, is available on the committee's website.
Herschmann demanded that he only talk about the orderly transition to the next administration and encouraged him to find a defense attorney.
The January 6 committee will scrutinize Trump's "relentless effort" to pressure Pence at its next hearing on Thursday at 1 p.m., according to Rep. Liz Cheney, the vice chairwoman of the January 6 committee.
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"I'm going to give you the best legal advice you'll ever get in your life," Herschmann said. You will need a good criminal defense lawyer.
The committee has held two hearings over the past week that focused on the actions of rioters storming the Capitol and Trump's insistence that he won the election. After the election, Trump elevated several people to his inner circle based on their support for his claims of voter fraud. The judge ordered Eastman to turn over more than 150 documents to the committee detailing the Trump legal team's plans to block the certification of the election. The memo that was forwarded to Trump was about January 6 being the "hard deadline" to prevent Biden from winning.
According to Cheney, Trump told White House staffers he had no problem with his supporters calling for the vice president to be lynched on January 6. The comment was denied by Trump.
Riot defendants say Trump asked them to storm the capitol.
The hearing shows rioters repeating Trump's baseless election claims.
The Trump attorney was ordered to turn over more emails to the committee.
A federal judge says that Trump is likely to have tried to obstruct the election.
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